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December, 2005

Some fine Mac enthusiasts have written a little application called the Safari Standardized Feed Icon Installer that replaces the default RSS icon with the new standardized one …More...

Internet Retailer posted a story today that revealed huge gains for online shopping volume in November of 2005 over the same period a year ago: Shopzilla.com…up 48% …More...

While plenty of nerds, geeks and techheads around the world appreciate the beauty of RSS, it’s having trouble gaining the type of mainstream acceptance necessary to change …More...

A great example of “Web as Platform” — one of the foundational concepts of Web 2.0 — is Writely, an online word processor. The site doesn’t have …More...

The fractionalization of former mass media empires continues as evidenced by what is happening in the radio industry. It is no longer just the local antenna-based signal …More...

Some marketing pundits have predicted decreased effectiveness for email and email marketing. Not so, according to DoubleClick’s Sixth Annual Consumer Email Study. The study reveals that 78 …More...

WordPress released version 2.0 of it’s amazing and popular open source blogging platform over the holiday weekend. With a focus on easy installation, usability and web standards, …More...

BlockRocker takes free online classifieds to a new level with the inclusion of Google Maps to let you shop geographically. Basically it’s like Craigslist with Google Maps …More...

An unnofficial survey of how well high-profile tech sites meet Web standards by forevergeek results in somewhat surprising results. Of the 20+ sites currently listed, Microsoft has …More...

It appears that users of instant messaging technology really do use it for work. A study released last week by AOL indicated that 58 percent of those …More...

Computers and the Internet have improved the speed and efficiency of so many tasks – buying groceries, applying for a job, writing letters and sharing information; but …More...

37signals have announced an upcoming project named Sunrise that will be a “CRM-ish tool for small businesses” on it’s Signal vs Noise blog. Previous projects include Backpack …More...

It seems that every day another dozen web2.0 sites arrive in alpha or beta form, Google on it’s own releases one or two ‘beta’ products a month. …More...

OK…we are going to have high definition television, the question, as always, is when. According to a story in the New York Times, the House of Representatives …More...

AJAX is still kicking around as a buzz worthy topic and along comes AHAH trying to steal some of it’s thunder. AHAH is a simpler …More...

Microsoft is advising Mac users of IE5 that they should move to alternative browsers such as Apple’s Safari or the open-source Firefox as they are formally ending …More...

At this time last year, the world had over 800 million Internet users and according to a December 26, 2004, press release from Internet World Stats we …More...

Cell phones and PDAs have begun to blur the lines between our work lives and personal lives, but they still don’t provide the full functionality of a …More...

Search engine giant Google posted another double digit increase in search queries according to Nielsen/NetRatings. The Nielsen survey compared search engine queries from June through October 2005 …More...

There is a good article in the latest issue of strategy+business magazine/enews. There is a discussion of conceptual breakthroughs in business going back ten years to 1995. …More...

As much as I’m in love with del.icio.us, I’ve found it’s a hard concept for people to immediatly understand what it is that you’re talking to them …More...

I thought the power of the Interent as a political tool was clearly demonstrated during Howard Dean’s campaign to become the Democratic Party’s candidate during the last …More...

Wish-O-Matic can help you figure out what to get for those people on your list that don’t have an Amazon wishlist or GiftBox account.

Two equally interesting articles surfaced last week making predictions of where Web design and development could be headed in 2006.

Yahoo! has bought one of my favorite sites del.icio.us, which means in the course of a few months Yahoo! managed to snag the two hottest tagging sites. …More...

Don’t you just hate it when someone is always right. Continuing what appears to be a long line of good decisions, Jobs decided to move forward with …More...

A new review of the online sector by Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst Safa Rashtchy predicts that internet advertising will grow at an annual rate of 27 …More...



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