Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results – and denies it

This is from the official Google blog! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html#

Wirify lets you turn any web page into a wireframe

http://www.volkside.com/2010/12/introducing-wirify-the-web-as-wireframes/

Surfing The Web With Kinect

DepthJS on Vimeo on Vimeo via DepthJS on Vimeo.

WordPress Wins CMS Award

I was just informed that WordPress, in head-to-head voting against Joomla and Drupal, has won this year’s Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award. We have to be careful because if this trend continues people might think WordPress is a real CMS, useful for more than just a blog. This would ruin our stealth campaign [...]

Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive

Microsoft just launched the Beta for IE9 today http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ Looks like it doesn’t work with Windows XP though?

The New Video Ad Format

Hulu is going to be rolling out a new ad format for video which allows a user to select which ad they want to watch from a selection of related ads. Seems like a win-win for everyone, I think we can expect to see this format rolling out across other similar sites. I can’t think [...]

Youtube Releases New Embed Code And 4k Resolution

Google owned Youtube is testing new code for playing/embedding videos. The new code uses an iframe and actually embeds the video using HTML 5, meaning it doesn’t require flash, or any other plugins at all. Pretty cool! Here’s an example of using the new embed code: <iframe type=”text/html” width=”640″ height=”385″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID” frameborder=”0″></iframe> The video will [...]

Wolfram | Alpha

I remember reading about this a long time ago and only just saw that it has gone live: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ The idea is that you ask a question, and unlike Google where you are (usually) presented with a list of potentially relevant resources, you are given an answer. It still doesn’t understand a lot of things [...]

Initial Online Conversion Rates For The iPad Are Very Promising

Thus far the iPad is performing particularly well as an E-Commerce device. Online stores which are not optimized for mobile devices have an average conversion rate of 0.37% but the iPad is converting up to 2.04%. For some online stores the iPad is converting at double the standard PC rate. This increase could at least [...]

Google Search With SSL

Google has released a beta SSL encrypted version of the Google search engine: https://google.com Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html