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July 1

Google learns to crawl Flash Posted by Ron Adler and Janis Stipins, Software Engineers

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners,…

June 30

The new internet traffic spikes

Theo Schlossnagle, author of Scalable Internet Architectures, gave a great explanation of how internet traffic spikes are shifting:

Lately, I see more sudden eyeballs and what used to be an…

June 25

BBC Rejects hCalendar Microformat Because Of Accessibility Concerns

The BBC have announced that they’ll be removing hCalendar microformats from their online programme listings, because of the accessibility issues with the ABBR design pattern.

To…

June 23

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June 19

Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 typography showdown

Ralf Herrmann’s typography blog has a great post up comparing the type handling of Safari 3, which doesn’t support kerning or OpenType layout features, with Firefox 3, which does in theory….

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FriendFeed and The Future Of Distributed Conversations Interview with FriendFeed
Steve Gillmor and I did a video interview with Bret Taylor from FriendFeed. There are some interesting responses and content in here and it expands on a few points that…

June 16

Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work [From Enterprise 2.0 June 2008] I gave a presentation at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, entitled Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work. The text below are the slide notes I developed prior to the presentation, but…

May 30

The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters

[I gave this talk at the Next08 conference a few weeks ago, in Hamburg.]

What is the web worth?

How would you go about valuing it, if you had to? Is it worth all the tea in china? If…

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Urban Research: Shibuya vs. Marunouchi

Shared by Rainer
ah, shibuya.

Last September we compared Sugamo and Harajuku and found so many interesting differences in the urban design for young people and the elderly. Today, PingMag…

May 4

Microsoft Bails, Yahoo's Google Threat Appears to Have Worked

Posting what I was just sent:

Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!

REDMOND, Wash. — May 3, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal…