Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Effect on OpenID
The takeover of Yahoo! by Microsoft is almost a foregone conclusion (see our initial reaction). Barring a bid from another suitor, such as...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Website Design & Development

Amazon Web Services: Bigger Than Amazon
Web retailer Amazon announced their fourth quarter earnings today and included some interesting figures on the state of their distributed computing products.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Website Design & Development

Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash
A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Website Design & Development

Introducing Prologue
We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Website Design & Development

Facebook Extends Platform to the Web
I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/27/2008 | Website Design & Development

Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org
Chris Saad, Chairman of the Data Portability Working Group, confirmed to me this morning that Microsoft's David Treadwell, a VP at Windows Live, will be ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Website Design & Development

Yahoo Puts Its Heft Behind OpenID 2.0
Yahoo said Tuesday that it plans to support the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework and bring its 248 million users to the Web’s interoperability party.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Website Design & Development

Sun To Fork Out $1 Billion for Open-Source Firm MySQL
Sun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said Wednesday that it will pay about $800 million in...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Website Design & Development

End of Support For Netscape Web Browsers
AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online. Throughout its lifetime, it has been involved with a number...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/28/2007 | Website Design & Development

Introducing Weave
As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences ...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/23/2007 | Website Design & Development

Digg’s Design Dilemma Redux
Digg continues to improve their interface to counteract gaming. The evolution of the site over the last year is a good design lesson for anybody working on social web apps.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

Color and Typography in Good Design
Typography is a significant issue for designers. On many projects, finding just the right font, size, spacing, etc. can require considerable time and attention.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

IE8 Goes On An Acid2 Trip
Since getting Internet Explorer 7 out the door in October 2006, Microsoft has kept mostly silent on the topic of its successor.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/20/2007 | Website Design & Development

Amazon Web Services Launches SimpleDB Beta
Amazon continues to expand its web services (cloud computing) offerings. They have just introduced Amazon SimpleDB, a new kind of data base that will help transform...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/14/2007 | Website Design & Development

Facebook to License its Social Networking Platform
The company will license its tags and APIs to other social networking sites, so they can run apps designed for Facebook.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

Designing For Flow
In web design, when we think about flow we usually think about “task flows” or “flow charts” but there’s another type of flow that we should keep in mind.
eBusiness Information | Posted 12/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/29/2007 | Website Design & Development

Widgets Make a Big Splash on The Net
For nearly a decade, GarageBand.com was the quintessential struggling Web company, barely hanging on as it burned through $17 million.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/27/2007 | Website Design & Development

User Experience Of The Future
Over decades we’ve used to adapt our habits, behavior and mindset to technology. We’ve improved our productivity by using tools and devices designed especially...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/27/2007 | Website Design & Development

10 Absolute "Nos!" for Freelancers
When I first started freelancing as a college student, I was eager to do any website and would say "Yes" to anything, regardless of my skill set or the time involved.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/25/2007 | Website Design & Development

TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service's Risks
The link shortening and redirection service TinyURL went down apparently for hours last night, rendering countless links broken across the web.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/19/2007 | Website Design & Development

Will a MySpace Re-Design Fix It?
MG Seigler over at ParisLemon spoke today about a rumored MySpace re-design in the works. MG likes to refer tocoffee-spill-keyboard.jpg MySpace as “designed by...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/18/2007 | Website Design & Development

Netflix Offers $1M Coding Prize
Netflix Inc.'s system for recommending movies to its subscribers is proving tough to beat, as thousands of engineers and statisticians have discovered after long...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/14/2007 | Website Design & Development

Cache it! Solve PHP Performance Problems
In the good old days when building web sites was as easy as knocking up a few HTML pages, the delivery of a web page to a browser was a simple matter of having...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/11/2007 | Website Design & Development

Adobe: Online Photoshop Coming This Year
Adobe Systems has committed to shipping a beta version of its online image-editing tool, Photoshop Express, this year, and said it will be complete in 2008.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/09/2007 | Website Design & Development

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance ...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/08/2007 | Website Design & Development

Fear Among Facebook Developers
Travel back in time six months to Facebook’s last big event, at a warehouse in an artsy part of San Francisco, where scrappy independent developers were the apple...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/08/2007 | Website Design & Development

Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps
This tutorial takes a practical, example-based approach to implementing those rules. It's targeted towards web developers with a small budget, who are most likely...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

A Spider's View of Web 2.0
Many webmasters have discovered the advantages of using Ajax to improve the user experience on their sites, creating dynamic pages that act as powerful web applications.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

Top Facebook App Developer Sizes up OpenSocial
Blake Commagere is a top third-party developer on Facebook, having built or worked with others to build popular applications like Causes, Zombies, Vampires...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/03/2007 | Website Design & Development

12 Javascript Image Galleries
There are a large number of Flash image galleries but sometimes Flash is not required or cant be used so we turn to Javascript and CSS.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/02/2007 | Website Design & Development

65 Excellent Flash Designs
With Flash you can do more than just displaying videos. You can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/31/2007 | Website Design & Development

YouTube Getting a Redesign, Sunglasses Needed
The YouTube team has a surprise in store, a YouTube redesign is in the works. Please get your sunglasses ready though, it tends to be a little hard on the eyes.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/27/2007 | Website Design & Development

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers - Part 7
Every web designer finds it handy to have a collection of code snippets such as javascript effects, pieces of html and widgets that they incorporate into their designs.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/27/2007 | Website Design & Development

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Sales 'On Fire'
Creative professionals are buying the most recent version of Adobe's flagship product, released in April, much faster than the previous suite, according to retail data...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/25/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Google Way: Give Engineers Room
It sounds obvious, but people work better when they’re involved in something they’re passionate about.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/21/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Future of Software Development
In 1975, Frederick Brooks wrote a classic book on software project management called The Mythical Man-Month.
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

I'm Majoring in Facebook, How About You?
Stanford teaches students how to develop Facebook applications, but is it worth the $2,500 in tuition? Fortune's Lindsay Blakely attends class and reports.
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/09/2007 | Website Design & Development

30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
You don’t have to agree upon everything. As a professional web developer you are the advocate of your visitors’ interests and needs; you have to protect your understanding...
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/08/2007 | Website Design & Development

Tagged Platform will mimic Facebook Platform APIs
Shortly after Facebook launched the Platform in May of this year, LinkedIn announced that would be offering its own platform in “9 to 12 months”...
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/07/2007 | Website Design & Development

25+ Tools & Tutorials For JavaScript
JavaScript is one of the most often used languages on the web, and it seems to be gaining in popularity each day.
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/05/2007 | Website Design & Development

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries
One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries...
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/03/2007 | Website Design & Development

Adobe Flashes More Looks at Online Photoshop Express
Adobe Systems gave a public viewing Tuesday night of an online version of Photoshop, its popular image-editing application.
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/03/2007 | Website Design & Development

Introducing YUI - The Rising Giant
Web developers may already have heard of Yahoo’s new AJAX and DHTML framework. Maybe not - Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) has yet not gained popularity similar to...
eBusiness Information | Posted 10/02/2007 | Website Design & Development

Learn Apache mod_rewrite: 13 Real-world Examples
Apache's low-cost, powerful set of features make it the server of choice for organizations around the world.
eBusiness Information | Posted 9/28/2007 | Website Design & Development

Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test?
Software developers do love to code. But very few of them, in my experience, can explain why they're coding. Try this exercise on one of your teammates if you don't believe me.
eBusiness Information | Posted 9/27/2007 | Website Design & Development

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
Sometimes you just want to get the information you’re after, save it and move along. And you can’t. Usability nightmares — which are rather the daily routine than an exception...
eBusiness Information | Posted 9/27/2007 | Website Design & Development

If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure...
Let's face it, images are a pain in the ass. Okay, well, maybe the images themselves aren't the problem, but laying out images consistently within a design ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 9/25/2007 | Website Design & Development

Why 'Total Geeks' Build Businesses Faster
A recent survey of business leaders' attitudes toward IT showed an owner's level of tech savvy is linked to growth in revenue and employee count.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/25/2007 | Website Design & Development