Technology, media, architecture & strategy
An article from boxesandarrows:
What’s your social object? Make sure there is a “there” there. Give users a reason to rally. Why would someone come to your site?
Give people a way to identify themselves and to be identified.
Give people something to do.
Enable a bridge to real life (groups, mobile, meetings, face-to-face).
ently Moderate. Let the community elevate [...]
From smh.com.au:
Fairfax Media and APN have agreed to a deal that will combine Fairfax’s online ads with the classified sections of 90 publications in regional Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
Under the alliance, APN newspapers’ local ads will appear under the Drive.com, Domain.com and MyCareer.com brands. Customers will also be able to [...]
Far too simple for anyone involved in enterprise web development, but maybe a good start for others:
The two primary reasons for using web caches are:
Reducing latency: Because an intermediate cache (which is closer to the client than the web server) can serve the content, it takes less time for the resource to reach the [...]
It sings, it dances. Oh whatever, I will read it anyway:
This e-guide offers expert insight into the agile development lifecycle and how to implement effective agile testing. This compilation of agile development tips will assist organizations in planning and executing software tests during agile development. Read this E-Guide to learn how to maintain test consistency [...]
Taken from computerworld:
In a move that perhaps seemed inevitable as the one-time strong partners began to butt competitive heads more and more in the data centre, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) have ended the last vestiges of their partnership.
By James Thomson on smartcompany.com.au:
Listed franchisors Domino’s Pizza has laid claim to having Australia’s most successful iPhone apps released by a business, after revealing that its pizza ordering app has generated $2 million worth of sales in just 12 weeks.
The success of the iPhone app, released in November 2009, was announced as Domino’s posted a [...]
I have been watching Puppet roll out for Production purposes. Nice to watch a professional team do great work.
About Puppet:
Following a client-server model, and with its own declarative language, Puppet tries to solve one of the challenges of server systems administration: how to reliably automate server configuration management and distribution, an essential requirement in large [...]
Well this was on the cards:
If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5. We’re not there yet, but we are getting closer.
Extracted from the Gears API Blog
From smh.com.au:
Australia is on the top 10 list of countries on Hulu’s international expansion plans, its director of international business development, Simon Gallagher, said at the Media 2010 event.
The web TV service has had explosive growth since it launched in 2007, delivering popular shows to American homes via broadband. A collaboration between Fox and NBC [...]
Odd. Interesting. Not enough. Nostradamus was truly a man ahead of his time.
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