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PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags "web 2.0" & internet

2011

Kickstarter Best Practices For Getting Startup Seed-Money

Startups fail often because they create a product or service that no one really wants in mass. To mitigate Startup failure you can test your Idea at Kickstarter - A cool place to not only test interest in your idea, but also a great place tp obtain croudsourced funding for your Startup. A good idea, communicated well on KickStarter can spread fast and wide, and the large Kickstarter community can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.

2009

Combine JSONP and jQuery to quickly build powerful mashups

Discover how you can combine an obscure cross-domain call technique (JSONP) and a flexible JavaScript library (jQuery) to build powerful mashups surprisingly quickly. This article reveals a same-origin policy work-arround, and the full potential of JSONP to enable Web applications.

Implementing Enterprise Web 2.0

Enterprise 2.0 is not a cutting edge phenomenon. The technologies surrounding it are certainly not new, and the concepts behind it have been prevalent in Web 2.0 consumer-oriented services for a number of years now. This article investigates the underlying concepts of Enterprise 2.0, its relationship with Web 2.0, and the various tools and services that apply to it.

Speed up your Web pages 80% for dial-up users

Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed Internet connection. Even if everyone were, there can be hundreds of reasons why your Web application seems slow and sluggish. In this age of ever-increasing broadband speed, don't think that you shouldn't pay attention to page load times. Learn how to Shave off valuable seconds of your page load times and even more valuable milliseconds of your request and response times. This article provides over twenty tips that will help you create a faster and better experience for your visitors.

Building a 21st century Web user interface

Today's Web designer has to face a pretty scary fact: they can't design for themselves, or even someone that's mostly like themselves. Instead, applications must be built based on the consumer, who comes loaded with expectation and pre-disposition. This article helps you Understand what your apps are competing against, how do you build applications that feel usable, intuitive, and satisfying to today's typical Internet user, and how to take the upper hand.

Supplement Creative Commons with open standards

This article explains how you can protect your piece of digital content—whether it be documents, audio tracks, video clips, or cropped images that end users can download with their favorite browser. It will show you what you need to know about the DRM technology to achieve DRM interoperability from device to device, and I'll explain the different user impacts based on whether your company is using the DRM technology or standard for commerce, privacy, or non-commercial use.

The easiest Ajax and DOM scripting with jQuery

After learning jQuery, I've had a lot more fun programming in the JavaScript language. All the boring stuff is taken care of, so I can focus on coding the juicy stuff. With jQuery, I can barely remember the last time I wrote a for loop. I even cringe at the thought of working with other JavaScript libraries. jQuery has honestly and truly changed the way I look at JavaScript programing forever. Learn about the jQuery philosophy, discover its features and functions, perform some common Ajax tasks, and find out how to extend jQuery with plug-ins.

2008

Real Web 2.0: Battling Web spam, Part 2

Harness the power of community to fight spam. In this second installment of anti-spam techniques, learn about content analysis, the problem with spam in linkbacks, and more.

Web developer can't afford to ignore Web 2.0 Spam

Real Web 2.0 means harnessing the power of social groups to improve information systems. This will invariably attract nasty people who look for the crackes to take advantage of you and me. Part 1 of this series shows you how to assess visitor behavior and control workflow to reduce Web 2.0 spam.

Build Ajax-based Web sites with PHP

PHP has been around for quite a few years. It's commonly used as a server-side scripting language to develop Web-based applications fairly quickly and with good results. This article provided you with an introduction to writing Ajax-based front-end code with back-end PHP scripts faster than if you write all of the code yourself.

Avoid bad PHP designs with these patterns

By using these 5 established PHP patterns, you benefit from common design constructs that allow you and others to avoid the hard lessons of design ideas that don't work out. They also makes your code more readable and maintainable.

XML 2007 a year in review

2007 was a productive year for XML. The most sound and fury focused around the standardization of office document formats. But if I had to pick the most important story of the year, I'd be hard pressed to choose between the continuing growth of XQuery, APP, and XForms. All have the potential to radically alter the software infrastructure that underlies the Web. This article looks at the significance of XML in 2007 and peeks forward at what the big stories will be in 2008.

2007

Groovy shortcuts, Project Zero, and the Flickr API

Flickr provides a very useful and flexible API to developers who want to incorporate elements of the site into their own applications, but you can make things even simpler using Groovy scripting and a few lines of Project Zero code. Additionally, the techniques in this article can be applied to other popular sites that combine social networking and data sharing, such as with YouTube, Blogger, and so on.

Is XHTML V2 a valid successor to HTML5?

Some prominent HTML specialists outside the W3C—browser vendors, Web developers, authors, and other stakeholders—disagree with the direction of XHTML V2. Uncover the bigger picture behind the details of the XHTML V2 and HTML V5 competing standards and learn about their appeal to different audiences.

Learning from Ajax's best

This article looks at some of the best of the new breed of Web applications to show what you can learn from them -- the proud tradition of imitating the best. I'm sure the sites won't mind, after all imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. It's important to consider how the best use Ajax features along with Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to create a compelling user experience.

Ten predictions for XML in 2007

2007 is shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc, and GRRDL are all promising new power. Some slightly older technologies like XForms and XSLT are having new life breathed into them. 2007 will be a very good year to work with XML. See what's in store for XML this year.

Hot Web 2.0 user interface technologies

We're entering an unprecedented period of user interface innovation, as Web developers are finally able to build Web applications as rich as local PC-based applications. This article covers the Web 2.0 user interface technology innovations of Flex, OpenLaszlo, Ajax and other Rich client and Rich Web application development.

2006

Try Lotus Domino Ajax instant messaging

Learn how the power of IBM Lotus Domino and Ajax can add awareness to your Domino Web applications. One reason we love this technique is that it doesn’t load Microsoft ActiveX controls, instantiate a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance, or require a flash animation player. It is a lightweight, low-tech solution for most clients.

A step-by-step demonstration of using RSS and Atom

The oldschool way of manually managing e-mail subscribers, and publishing the news on your website doesn't cut it anymore. This article shows you the modern way with a step-by-step demonstration of implementing a general news publication architecture using RSS and Atom syndication formats. This will diffinetly ease the process, minimize human error and streamline the approach to news feeds.