Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 20th, 2009
While these are not software problems (mainly because my attempts to downloaded were thwarted) these show a serious lack of foresight on the behalf of the behemoth.Problem 1 - If you run Firefox, you can download itI went to the download site, chose my country and operating system and waited ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Here is a video from WebProNews about the new Google Friend Connect API
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With this, it allows you to integrate many social style interactions (Comments, votes etc) into your site. Google have created some Open Source plugins for Wordpress, Drupal and PHPBB.
I will look at adding the Wordpress plugin ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
In an interesting use of the internet, a NZ court has allowed the serving of court papers via a Facebook profile.It follows a similar Australian rulingYou can read more about it hereBut this shows how the internet can be used as a great communication medium.So be careful when you accept ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
When Google bought DoubleClick last year, there were plenty of concerns from privacy advocates about what this would mean.Well this new initiative seems to be the logical conclusion.Google is now using DoubleClick cookies to track users browsing habits and serve up ads relating to that browsing history.From a web developers ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Blogging is rife, every one is doing it, I advise my clients to do it, you should do it (if you are, well done)But the majority of us bloggers do not have any formal training. some blogs I read are written very badly, but the content saves them.So what value ...
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