There's clearly a tonne of excitement in Australia (and elsewhere) about the imminent release of the iPhone. Personally, I think it is a beautiful device, and in particular it revolutionizes the user experience for the mobile web. In the US and elsewhere is has driven up the adoption of mobile ...
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Via our good friend Dan Cederholm (we'll get him out to Australia to speak one day soon we promise!) here's a whole section at Business Week, the venerable US business magazine, on Web Design. Aussie web super success story, Remember the Milk get a nice mention as ...
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Via Slashdot (described cruelly but amusingly as "women's weekly for geeks" by one mart young developer I know), we find this article at CIO magazine - 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless.
Having been the CIO and main developer most of the time at westciv, I ...
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BuilderAU has been a media partner, supporter since the first Web Directions conference, providing us with much appreciated publicity, and covering the conferences in no small detail - with audio, video and text based stories, interviews and more. You can find all their coverage of our past events here.
While ...
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We've just added another session to the dev track at the conference this year. Additional to sessions on Ajax Security, Javascript Libraries, Web App Frameworks, Oauth and OpenID and Web Vector Graphics, we now have Mike Smith of the W3C HTML Working Group, who will ...
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Aussie Web 2.0 startup 99designs.com is looking for a front end specialist - this is a great opportunity for someone who really knows their stuff to work in a fast paced, fun environment with a highly motivated, switched on team.
99designs.com is the latest project from the SitePoint guys ...
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According to this Kevin Kelly article the number of hyperlinks on the web is fast approaching the number of synapses in a human brain. Lots of implications of this, but it's comforting that he also points out
Just as the One Machine's hardware is assembled from our myriad devices, its ...
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Further to my little Friday afternoon rant, BuilderAU has a more detailed and thought out piece on the new Arbitrary TLD issue.
Read more at BuilderAU.
I still think it is a stupid idea.
Various news outlets are breathlessly reporting that ICANN (the organization responsible for managing internet domain names) will effectively allow any top level domain (TLD) (for example ".com" and ".org" are TLDs).
Am I alone in wondering why anyone gives a rat's? In fact, in thinking that this is a usability ...
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This is the hard part right? All of us have got the social media bug and can think of dozens of great projects we could implement this afternoon, if only our boss, or client, would go for it. This really clear headed article over at Digital Web, Integrating Social ...
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