Aug12
Filed under: Usability, Web Design, Web Tech, WordPress
It seems the search engine market is becoming competitive again. In response to the recent release of Microsoft’s ‘decision engine’ Bing, Google is stepping up their game.
Competition breeds innovation, proof that capitalism works.
This week, Google released their new sandbox search engine, nicknamed ‘Caffeine’. In my initial tests, it seems Caffeine results are focused more on articles and web pages, not video or news results. Youtube and news items are typically still on the first page, but they are further down instead of always sticking to the top.
It seems you can’t saturate your Youtube video description with keywords anymore. Content is king.
Jan28
Filed under: Web Tech
SitePoint has released FireScope, a browser plugin for Firefox that puts an HTML and CSS reference only a click away.
After installation, just do the typical ‘inspect element’ action and you’ll see the new ‘Reference’ tab. Click the tab and you’ll see information about the element you chose plus any attributes that are defined for that element. You’ll see information about the element, what browsers support it, and a ‘more’ link to the reference section on SitePoint’s website.
I have always respected SitePoint for being a leader in almost everything related to web development. They have published books on a wide variety of internet technologies and continually push out new content. I’m sure this new plugin will help spread their knowledge to more web developers.
Jan22
Filed under: Web Tech
Kevin Sherman over at BubbleTweet has come up with an innovative way to add video to your own Twitter page. Enter a Twitter username on their home page and you get a prompt to add a video with your webcam. Notice I didn’t say ‘your’ username. Check out Housegirl’s page for an example of promoting someone else. Jer979 gives us an idea of what to expect if you follow him.
