No, I don't own it. But with you help together we can win it. blogs.asia domain name received more than one application (one of them was mine) during .asia landrush period and will be auctioned via dotasia.pool.com site soon (most likely in couple weeks). This will be a closed auction ...
I was doing some Web popularity research and found very cool data set collected by Philipp Lenssen back in 2006 and 2003. This is basically Google page count for 27000 English vocabulary words. I decided to repeat the process on a wider word set via at least two search engines ...
I was writing about a pilot the Library of Congress was doing with Flickr. I measured also number of tags, notes and comments and repeated the process several times during last 2 months. Here are some numeric results: As expected, while tags, notes and comments still coming, in general the ...
The Library of Congress has launched an interesting pilot project with Flickr, which can be characterized as a crowdsourcing experiment. They have uploaded 3115 copyright-free photos from two of the most popular collections and in return they hope the Flickr community will enhance the collections by labeling and commenting images ...
Do you realize that PDF documents can contain embedded Javascript code? Yes, it can. Adobe Acrobat Reader supports Javascript 1.5 extended by Adobe and it allows such sweet things as dynamic PDF content and appearance manipulation, database-driven PDF documents, multimedia, layers, 3D, Flash in PDF (!) etc. We've seen fancy PDF ...
So far to let Google know about your sitemap you had to submit it through Google Webmaster tools. Now, according to the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog you can just reference it in your robots.txt file: Specifying the Sitemap location in your robots.txt file You can specify the location of ...
As you know W3C woke up recently and restarted HTML activity. WHAT Working Group, who was working independently on HTML5 since 2004 now proposes W3C to adopt HTML5 as starting point and to put their Google guy to be in charge of new W3C HTML 5. By the way, the need to annotate ...
Amazon has launched Context Links Beta program. The idea is that you insert a little Amazon script into your pages and when the page is open in a browser the script identifies words and phrases it thinks are relevant and makes them links to whatever Amazon products. I enabled the script ...
In ASP.NET when you building a server control that includes an HTTP handler you have this problem - the HTTP handler has to be registered in Web.config. That means it's not enough that your customer developer drops control on her Web form and sets up its properties. One more step is ...
I was cleaning up my backyard and found this control I never finished. So I did. Here is Word 2003 XML Viewer Control v1.0 just in case somebody needs it. It's is ASP.NET 2.0 Web server control, which allows to display arbitrary Microsoft Word 2003 XML documents (aka WordML ...
This is not particularly new, but I didn't know about it before today and it did save my ass when I needed to browse non-mobile-friendly site on my phone really bad this morning. It's http://www.google.com/gwt/n - Google mobile proxy service. It allows to browse to any web site using your mobile ...
After years wasted in XHTML and XForms development and before WHATWG totally taking over HTML, W3C woke up and restarted their HTML activity. Just about time. Yes, believe it or not, but after HTML 4.01, which was finished back in 1999, W3C did nothing to improve HTML. Meantime Google, Apple, Mozilla ...
Google launches Premier Edition of the google.com/a - Google Apps. It's: Gmail (10Gb mailbox), Google Talk, Google Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets, Page Creator and Start Page 99.9% uptime guarantee for email (only for email?) opt-out for ads in email - doh! Shared calendar Single sign-on User provisioning and management Support for email ...
Microsoft decided to shut down GotDotNet site by July 2007. The official announcement goes like this: Microsoft will be phasing out the GotDotNet site by July 2007. Microsoft will phase out all GotDotNet functionality by July 2007. We will phase out features according to the schedule below. During the ...
According to the Official Google Reader Blog Google feed crawler, Feedfetcher, started to report subscriber counts. "The count includes subscribers from Google Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage, and in the future may include other Google products that support feeds." What I found it interesting is that they do it ...
Google somehow seems to be inaccessible (down?) from my place for at least 15 minutes now and I already feel uncomfortable if not desperate. I want my mail, news and search back! Seriously, WTF? How come can I be so dependent on google? Ok, great, who else does search on the ...
This is disturbing story. An evil person doing phishing collected 56,000 MySpace user names and passwords and posted them to the "Full-Disclosure" mail list, which is open "unmoderated mailing list for the discussion of security issues" everybody can subscribe to. Now, of course the mail list is open and is archived ...
I'm finally decided to switch web hosting. I'm currently on webhost4life, but I'm really not up to that "4life" part. It's getting slower and slower while people seem to be runnig away from them. So I'm looking for ASP.NET hosting recommendations. I need to host at least 3 domains with DotnetNuke, CommunityServer, MS ...
W3C presented Planet Mobile Web site aggregating multiple blogs that discuss Mobile Web. It's hosted by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. Really interesting reading. Subscribed. I skimmed some posts and it looks like the million dollar question every mobile blogger now think about is "how the hell we can get AJAX ...
W3C announced the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 as Proposed Recommendation: Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems, these guidelines describe how to author Web content that works well on mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved consensus and encourage adoption and implementation ...
Just one morning topics: Wikipedia Used To Spread Virus "The German Wikipedia has recently been used to launch a virus attack. Hackers posted a link to an all alleged fix for a new version of the blaster worm. Instead, it was a link to download malicious software. They then sent ...
SPI Dynamics has published a whitepaper "Ajax Security Dangers": While Ajax can greatly improve the usability of a Web application, it can alsocreate several opportunities for possible attack if the application is notdesigned with security in mind. Since Ajax Web applications exist on both theclient and the server, they include ...