Posted on January 3, 2006 9:51 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | RSS | Technology | Web | Wikis
A lot of voices are rising up to proclaim the death of the traditional website. For example, in a list of “10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006,” the Google Blogoscoped blog suggests...
I hope in 2006, major companies who are still on the web 1.0 train will upgrade to the world of blogs, podcasts, RSS, etc., and replace their ???homepages??? with…
Posted on January 3, 2006 9:16 am by Shel Holtz | Technology | Video | Web
There are a lot of ways to share files. You can email them. You can upload them to services like Flickr or YouTube. You can use software like FolderShare (recently acquired by Microsoft). But if AllPeers turns out to be more than just vaporware, it could not only revolutionize the way people share pictures and videos, it could motivate the…
Posted on December 19, 2005 9:24 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Technology
A lot of Typepad users are wondering if they should switch and, if so, to what. You’d be hard-pressed to find a hosted blogging service that provides functionality on par with the SixApart offering. Certainly Blogger comes nowhere close.
The solution might be to pony up a few bucks for some shared server space and install your own blogging software. If you’re looking…
Posted on December 16, 2005 10:07 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Technology
Search is an unholy mess. Even with advances from Google and others that represent quantum leaps over the days when HotBot and AltaVista sat atop the heap, search is still a frustrating and inefficient way to find what you’re looking for. Say you’re going to Sausalito and you want to find some reviews of hotels in the seaside town. So you hit Google…
Posted on December 14, 2005 3:45 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
A few years back, I included an item in my monthly email newsletter about a study on typefaces for the web. It was a small item, nowhere near the top of the newsletter, and I took no position on the result of the study. The study, if I remember it correctly, came out of a Texas university and concluded that serif…
Posted on November 30, 2005 9:55 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Just in case you haven’t heard it anywhere else, Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5, the first major upgrade since 1.0 was unveiled. The new iteration of the popular alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (I’ve been using it almost exclusively since it was in beta) offers improved navigation, usability, and RSS discoverability.
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