Google has just updated their indexing machine, calling the new system Caffeine. This has been in the works since last summer. To honor its name, the index is refreshed much faster than before. Or should I say more often, since the word fast is a bit relative when it comes...
I've had the good fortune to try the new iPad on two separate occasions during the past week. One of these locations was a rooftop in Madrid, but I'll put the stunning settings aside and mention the ups and downs of this hyped product in an almost objective way. First...
Three years ago, my company NetRelations arranged the first Geek Meet in Gothenburg, inspired by the Stockholm Geek Meet arranged by Robert Nyman. It was a success and now we return with another one! This time it will be held at our shiny new office at Norra Hamngatan 32 (in...
One of the things I love about the web is the crazy stuff that pops up all the time. The latest buzz is Chatroulette where you can have a video chat with random people. The site was founded four months ago by a 17 year old Russian. It started with...
Today the new Ipred law will go into action. I really wish it was just a tasteless April's fool joke, but unfortunately it is the bitter truth. It was initially a directive from the European Union made in 2004, now interpreted and transformed into a Swedish law. The short short...
A few years ago, a site called Lunarstorm was the largest social network in Sweden. About eight years ago even I spent some time there, before moving on to communities with far more interesting people. During the previous week, Lunarstorm had over 244000 unique visitors. This may feel like a...
45 years ago, a man named Martin Luther King stood in front of the Lincoln memorial and spoke to 250 000 people. He said "I have a dream" and today a part of this dream come true as the first non-white president swears the oath on the opposite site of...
If you happen to be in Stockholm on January 22, why not visit the mini-conference Webb.09. It is arranged by Antrop and my company NetRelations at Hotel Rival. The topics include search engine optimization, internet markering and mobile services. Related posts Thoughts on Connection07...
PDC08 kicked off today with the expected keynote by Ray Ozzie. He presented Azure, a web platform hosted in data centers all over the world. It will host web applications in "the cloud", supposedly the best thing since sliced bread if we are to believe Ozzie. Just deploy your application...
These days, Wikipedia seems to be one of the cornerstones of online information. Google is happily expanding their empire every day and this morning saw the birth of Google Knol, a service quite reminiscent of Wikipedia where the term Knol refers to a unit of knowledge. I usually try to...
This afternoon I went to Elite Plaza and attended a session with Fredrik Hallberg, internet analyst (whatever that means) at Bright Media. The theme was how communication and markering has changed after the arrival of the internet, and he covered a lot of topics during a few hours. I'm usually...
Even though I generally loathe the commercialized term Web 2.0, I believe social interaction on web sites is most often a very good idea. We create a lot of digital content today and it's a fun thing for others to view and explore. We upload photos to Flickr, connect with...
Craig Ulliott is a web developer from Philadelphia. About a month ago, he developed an addon for the popular site Facebook. Facebook is the second most visited social networking website on the web with over 28 million members. However, Craig didn't quite expect the success of his creation. Attracting over...
Once upon a time, the so-called Nigerian letters were adopted to online versions by devious spammers. They were basically email versions of advance fee frauds and I suppose that a few people fell for these traditional scams delivered by snail mail. Unfortunately but quite naturally, the spammers have evolved along...
This is the night when the iPhone is released in America. Are you dying to get your hands on one? Well, get in line. Literally. People are lined up outside the Apple stores, doing live coverage through blogs and podcasts. As expected, it's more like a show than a sales...
Today it was announced that the next version of well-known blog authoring tool Movable Type will be available as open source. This may be a good move, since competitors such as Wordpress and ExpressionEngine has culled a fair amount of MT users during last years. The new features of version...
It's the day after the bomb and the dust has just settled. Yesterday, the front page of Digg was cluttered with articles related to the HD-DVD key story. On the surface, it was nothing new there. Someone posted a hacked key which was discovered months earlier without getting any attention....
A while back I mentioned the new set of icons for the CS3 family. Today the suite is launched and it contains several goodies. Scoble has made an interview with the Flash team about what's new in the CS3 suite, which includes a demo of Flash CS3. Flash CS3 features...
Twitter has come a long way since its first incarnations in Jack Dorsey's notebook. Even though it may be ignored by the most, it is still extremely popular with over 11 000 requests per second. As anyone with technical sense would guess, this leads to massive scaling issues. It is...
I just read an article by Paul Graham entitled Microsoft is dead. He claims that Microsoft is no longer a threat to other companies and mentions four things that supposedly killed the company: Google, Ajax, broadband and Apple. Even though I find the article interesting, I don't subscribe entirely to...
Connection07 was held at Stadsmuseet, one of the very few web conferences held in Gothenburg. Of course, compared to the large global conferences such as MIX and @media, this is a bit smaller. On the other hand, I've often felt that the large conferences tend to turn a bit towards...
In the wake of SXSW 2007 there has been complaints in the blogosphere raising the question whether large computer conferences have played out their role. I mentioned some of it in my previous post, Celebrities of the web. For me, the biggest reason to attend these things is the enormous...
What is it that make someone famous in the computer world? I don't speak about "famous" as in Bill Gates or Steve Jobs here, but rather normal people who for one reason or another gets recognition for their work. To be recognized in the developer community twenty years ago meant...
As mentioned in last post, Report from Microsoft Live 2007, Microsoft will be releasing full versions of WPF and WPF/E during the year. But don't think that the competition is sleeping. Have a look at the freshly released Apollo by Adobe, a cross-platform runtime for bringing RIAs to the desktop....
Yahoo recently released Pipes, a tool for managing and manipulate RSS feeds. The name choice is obvious for all UNIXers out there. UNIX Pipes is a great command line way of routing output of one tool as input for another tool. Yahoo pipes is doing the same thing with RSS...
While people are struggling with understanding most of .NET Framework 2.0, the confusingly named .NET 3.0 came along and added interesting stuff to the neverending pile of things to read. Well, it doesn't stop there. You think that Web 2.0 is hotter than Jenna in a flaming sambuca? Well, I...
So, the CS3 icons are out. The idea here is to use colors as information carriers and group the icons into families. Ryan Hicks, Experience designer at Adobe says "Their elegance comes from how the entire desktop brand system works as a whole. The more Adobe apps you have, the...
Yesterday the final version of Expression Web Designer was released. I had a look at the CTP version seven months ago and it is finally time for the real thing. I thought of going on about the importance of generating clean code, but I've grown weary from fighting millwheels. When...
I held a presentation yesterday about Web 2.0, the technology involved and some of the social aspects of it. Fortunately, the most reoccurring question from the audience was how all this fit in with the real world. That is a very good and perfectly valid question. As developers we may...
If Ajax was the most overused and misunderstood web term of 2005, I would guess that Web 2.0 is the equivalent for 2006. I see it everywhere and I hear everyone talk about it, but most seems to miss the point anyway. There are Web 2.0 companies popping up everywhere...
Five years ago, the world changed forever and the web changed with it. Remember what Google looked like on that day? It is a reminder of the crippled state of the web on that fatal day, when the large news sites were down due to unprecedented traffic. The sites adopted...
Today's coolest session at SIGGRAPH in Boston features Photosynth, a sneak preview held by Microsoft Live Labs. Simple put, it's about assembling a lot of digital photos and then applying algorithms to extract distinctive features and link these together in a big kind of 3D-model, by calculating 3D positions from...
During the last years, feeds have gone from nerd stuff to essential channels of information. Among other, I've been using the excellent web application Bloglines every day for several years now to keep track of my favourite news sources out there. My current subscription list includes about 100 feeds that...
I recently wrote about naked design, but this is a step even further. Ever wondered what your web site structure looks like? Well, now you can. Sala has written an applet that creates a graphic map of the elements on your site. Try it! This is what the start page...
For all wine lovers out there, there is a new site in town. Cork'd is created by Dan Cederholm and Dan Benjamin, two well-known design profiles in the blogosphere, and done in Ruby on Rails. It is a community, note book and shopping list for people who like wine. Simple...
Hatched two weeks ago, Vitamin is a resource for designers and developers, with several well-known names in the ranks. For starter, have a look at Dave Shea's excellent article Stop CSS Hacking, or be Stopped. Another one that's been around for some months now is Bite Size Standards, the brainchild...
Today, the SXSW conference is wrapping up and the crowds are leaving the Austin sun. For those of you who doesn't have the time, need or greed to read hundreds of reports and presentations, I have selected a few of them for your bedtime reading. How to Be A Web...
I usually don't write about site redesigns, but this is an exception. Veerle has done a major redesign of her blog and the result is absolutely stunning! A perfect example of how one can skip common design rules such as "dark text on light background" and achieve something truly awesome....
The San Francisco-based company Balthaser Online has been granted a patent on "Methods, systems, and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the internet". They claim it covers tools such as Flash, Ajax and XAML when they are accessed over the net. Interesting, since Balthaser was formerly...
Grown tired of the ancient ICQ web client but doesn't have the time or need to setup a Sharepoint server? Have a look at the brand new Campfire tool. The ever cool 37signals has released another great tool along the lines of Basecamp and Backpack. Simply speaking, it's like a...
Adaptive Path has sold Measure Map, a tool for blog statistics, to Google, even though it is only in beta state. This will be a great addition to Google Analytics. I wonder what they will do with them, perhaps a merge to get a swiss army knife for stats analysis?...
I have read a lot of blog entries concerning web development and more during the last year, most likely over several dozen each day. It sums up to quite a lot of hours invested, and since I unfortunately don't have unlimited time on my hands, rather the other way around,...
A few days after the launch of Google Analytics, the web is buzzing all over about it. Due to an unexpected amount of users the service was temporarily crippled, but now it seems to be up and running. The good stuff? Well, it's free! It also contains the basic functions...
It had to come to this. With the explosive growth of the world-wide net we all love and hate, sooner or later we would have a conflict regarding the control of it. The issue, in short, is that George W Bush would prefer to remain the sheriff of the internet....
It's quite fascinating, really. The last ten years has seen the web transform from a geek amusement to vital channel for public service. At that time almost no one knew what a web page was, let alone had one. I remember searching for Jean Michel Jarre links for my humble...
One of my favourite personalities on the web, Jason Kottke, has recently decided to quit his daytime job and focus on writing for his site kottke.org. This is a bold step and should be encouraged. He's asking for donations to make this possible. Support your local writer today!...
Sorry, this is not an entry dissecting the movie Gladiator, but there is a sort of connection. Every day millions of people write about very personal issues on the public internet. Their dreams, joys and sorrows - all in a splendid mix of human expressions. People have been keeping daily...
Every operating system worth the name has a built-in feature which enables the user to search for files in the file system. Good old Windows 2000 had a search function that worked in a predictable way, so the one in XP should work at least as good as the W2K...
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