If you are a website owner looking to increase your websites’ social interaction, you should checkout Google Friend Connect. Google Friend Connect allows visitors to your website to instantly post comments to your site using their existing Google or GMail Account. This eliminates the need for them to register on your site. In a nutshell, […]
Archives for December 2008
Target Lawsuit Update
I was in a meeting the other day with a client and my business partner, Greg Smart, was giving our usual spill about standards compliance to the client and brought up the Target Lawsuit filed a few years back by the National Federation for the Blind. This lawsuit is of particular importance to those of […]
Facebook Connect Issue in IE
If any of you have installed the Facebook Connect plugin by Javier and had issues w/ the connect graphic not displaying in your sidebar not showing correctly in IE, here’s the fix for it. Just add the following line of code to your header.php file: <span style="color: #606060"> 1:</span> <html xmlns=<span style="color: #006080">"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"</span> xmlns:fb=<span style="color: […]
Zeldman’s 20 Reasons to Bail…
Jeffrey Zeldman is awesome, not to mention a leader in our industry. The thing that I like the most about him is that he is hilarious! I follow this guys twitters just get a laugh from time to time. He recently posted this “20 signs you don’t want that web design project” and I have […]
Facebook Connect Push
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch posted an article about Facebooks recent push of their Connect platform announcing that today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services […]
Facebook Extends it’s Reach
There was a great article in the New York Times today about Facebook Connect. In case you missed it, I have quoted it below. To check out the article in it’s entirety on the New York Times website, click here… PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook, the Internet’s largest social network, wants to let you take […]
WordPress 2.7 RC1
If you are feeling brave, WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download by the general public. As many of you are aware 2.7 features a redesign of the backend user interface. I have been following the progress of this project on an almost nightly basis and it’s pretty nice. I am not […]
Wal-Mart Website Issues
I was out of state visiting family over the holidays but still managed to catch wind of this one on CNBC black friday. It appears that Wal-Mart’s website went down due to heavy traffic and slow pageload times. There are no estimates as to how much revenue was lost during the outage but with wal-mart.com […]
Cyber Monday
Did you know that 84% of online retailers will be running major promotions today (the Monday following Thanksgiving)? Due to the economic downturn we find ourselves in this holiday season some of these retailers are depending on strong holiday sales for their mere survival. It is for this reason I think that this years online […]
MySpace Profile 2.0
This weekend I took the opportunity to play with MySpace Profile 2.0 and I have to admit it’s not half bad. MySpace is still a far cry in terms of social networking compared to Facebook in my opinion but the innovations that I have seen in Profile 2.0 could help it earn a little bit […]