Posted on January 17, 2006 10:42 am by Shel Holtz | Web
Let’s face it: Most of the uses to which companies put Flash suck. Take a look at the incredibly lame series of Flash introductions on the Fry Steel website. What benefit would anybody get from sitting through these if what they really want is get the company’s catalog? (That’s right; refresh the page and you’ll get a different insipid Flash intro every time.)
I’m…
Posted on January 17, 2006 10:29 am by Shel Holtz | Web
I’m a keyboard guy.
This probably is a combination of having learned to type in junior high school (a revelation; I started typing everything, and this was back in the days when your only choice was a manual typewriter) and having jumped into computers when your only option was working with a command line.
Which was fine with me. I still relish the…
Posted on January 12, 2006 4:31 pm by Shel Holtz | Web
The Million Dollar Home Page was a great idea. As I mentioned before, I assumed it was a great idea once and couldn’t be duplicated. Then, along comes Pixels That Rock. Okay, so maybe you can use this concept to sell space to niche marketers. Now it turns out you can give the pixels away, too. “Send a Message for Arik” employs exactly…
Posted on January 10, 2006 12:46 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology | Web
From all quarters you can hear the pronouncements of the death of Microsoft Office. Steve Gillmor insisted that Office is dead in a podcast conversation with Robert Scoble. The subject also came up on This Week in Tech. Bill Gates, the consensus goes, should be quaking in his boots since so much of Microsoft’s business is wrapped up in sales of…
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…
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