Friday, January 22, 2010
Tim Bray proposes a new definition. A site which is designed as the primary Web property for a person, place, or thing is a power site if the person, place, or thing has a Wikipedia entry but, in popular search engines, the site ranks above that Wikipedia entry. There aren’t very many.
(Via ongoing.)
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. This initial public beta release works with Flash Builder 4 for an integrated designer-developer workflow. Learn more….
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
According to Nielsen Online’s June report on Internet usage, people now spend more time, on average, on Facebook than on the other 9 top web brands.
When it comes to time spent on site, Facebook is followed by May’s leader Yahoo, whose visitors spend an average of 3:15 hours on various Yahoo properties. AOL is third with 2:43 hours, followed by Google with 2:31 hours and Microsoft with 2:12 hours.
Read the whole thing here from Mashable!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of their content to Scribd’s community free of charge. Publishers have begun to add an array of content to Scribd’s library, including full-length novels as well as briefer teaser excerpts.
Read the whole thing here from TechCrunch
Monday, February 23, 2009
PediaBooks are now offering a service whereby Wiki pages (could be WikiPedia) can be gathered together and printed (POD) as a book.
The book is printed POD by Lightning Source. Interesting that the book does not have an ISBN, because, I suppose this is a one-off unique item. Having said that, though, they do have a catalog of shared books, so you are likely to buy something that others have bought too.
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
March 17, 10 - 09:23 am
Unless Pageflakes removes this 'Flirt Now' sponsored link, I will have to stop using it! I don't mind advertising but this is just too much!
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