It seems appropriate to start today’s stormy SXSW Day Three by stealing Matthew’s thunder (har har) at being the only DW staffer actively blogging the conference. I only caught the tail end of Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons. But like most other internationalization-themed panels, articles and conversations, it’s a difficult topic. We can continue to lecture to ourselves about the benefits and strategy of internationalization (and agree with each other across the board), but without business momentum it will remain a rarified field in web design/development.
Mar
11
As with many milestones in history, people tend to remember them in the context of their own life. Since we now know (or at least believe) that Photoshop 1.0 shipped on February 19, 1990 (and Lightroom shipped on the same day of February 2007), Jeff Schewe asked a few friends “where were you”? Here are their answers…
In the order in which they responded:
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On 2/14/08 2:02 PM, “Christopher Sanderson” wrote:
Dec
25
There’s a lot of talk floating around about the future of open source with Microsoft threatening to sue organizations with a whopping 235 violations of their patents. The free and open source software communities behind many projects are worried and they should be, unsurprisingly a huge number of these violations have been breached by Linux Kernel. But should we be worried about our prized open source software and is it right to have software licensing and software patents, is this not against the whole ethos of the open source Internet?
Dec
25
I am happy to announce that Matthew Pennell, one of Digital Web Magazine’s unsung heroes, has accepted the position of Editor in Chief. For those who don’t know, Matthew has been the guy behind the curtain — dealing with getting new authors on board, working with them to refine their articles, and managing all of the logistics that go with getting articles published, not to mention blogging a bunch. He does all of this from his home near Cambridge in the UK. If you wish to read more of his work, I would highly recommend you check out his personal blog The Watchmaker Project. Needless to say, Matthew has been a huge help around here and I am happy to see him take on the role of Editor in Chief. It won’t be easy to follow in the footsteps of Carolyn Wood, but I am sure he will make a great editor and we will see some great things come out of him steering the ship, so please welcome him into his new role. Matthew, we cleared out a virtual corner office for you here, hope it’s to your suiting.
Dec
25
To celebrate design-bit’s 1 year birthday I have re-designed; adding features, white space and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, hopefully you’ll like the changes. The designs not quite finished yet, lets call it a beta version, I just had the urge get the design out here and get to the blogging.
New Features
with a re-design comes features:
Gravatar
I have been following Gravatars (globally recognized avatars) progress for quite some time and now that the plugin / technology has been bought up by Automatic I feel more confident that the servers and resources can handle the load. Gravatar simply associates an image you upload to their servers with your registered email address so that every time you post a comment blog with that email address your image appears next to your comment.
Oct
22
Ideas can become a buzz
Nonsense / cool phrases can become a buzz
Brands receive a buzz,
Why not you?
Joseph Jaffe, a marketing professional (and my facebook friend) proved his talents not only on his recently published book “Join the Conversation”, but also in a brilliant marketing campaign. Jaffe used few selected social tools to help him promote his book. He controlled the buzz by directing his potential readers to buy his book, all at a single day on amazon.?
Aug
21
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I’m going to back up a bit here today and cover social bookmarking again. During the last week I received an email from one of my team members from the thirty day challenge chastising me for leaving the team. In fact he was down rite insulting. It appears that the only thing that the other team members and myself are good for is to help him pawn his wares. He must have assumed that I would bookmark his content regardless of whether the content was good or not. Well this person has missed the boat completely. This is NOT what social bookmarking is all about and it appeared to me that he just wants to game the system. In my opinion if you game you loose.
Jul
6
PliggCSS, Web 2.0, PHP, MySQLJuly 7th, 2007
What is Pligg?
Pligg is an Open Source Web 2.0 CMS. The main features that make Pligg unique are collaborative bookmarking, social networking, folksonomy and blogging. Each of the News links, unit of pligg content, has a vote button, URL and optionally a short description of news. Here Visitors are supplier, consumer and judge of the content. Every visitor has right and freedom to vote and veto any news item. At the end of the day, depending on count of vote news are either promoted to main site,or move or remains in incoming queue, or permanently removed from site. Being a collaborative CMS, Pligg sites grow very fast in terms of traffic and popularity.
Jun
22
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In my endeavors across the net to find great social site that you can use to promote yourself I see many users that do not use tags properly. Normally I see only a handful of tags that a user has placed to describe the content the he or she is trying to get noticed.
For those of you who don’t know what tags are, basically they are keywords and phrases that best describe the content you are publishing. Tags are a way of teaching the web how to categories your information and if used correctly will accurately help in describing your website content.