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Prepare To Be Socialized For Profit
The fast moving wave that is social computing swept through Davos on Thursday in a session titled “Organizing the Unorganizable: Social Computing and the Enterprise.” The interactive workshop assembled such luminaries as Paulo Coehlo, Jim Schwartz, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Jimmy Wales, Matt Cohler, and Reid Hoffman, among others. The…
What do we do next? (Part 1)
In a software company, deciding which one of a big pile of conflicting priorities to work on next is one of the hardest things to get right. And it is critical to the business: If your process for doing this works, you end up with products that your customers and…
In favour of Ajax HTML
I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s an interesting…
The Quality Swiss Army Knife
Originally I was going to comment on Allan’s excellent summary of our new provenance features, but it turned into a post in its own right. Whilst I think that the features provided by provenance will clearly be of use during pattern development I think they have wider scope than…
An excellent way to get the best content
I recently discovered Google Reader, and it has changed how I interact with the web in general, and blogs in particular. As it becomes more widely used, I expect it to have even more of an impact.
In principle, the Reader is a simple aggregator of RSS feeds, just…
On Rethinking the homepage
Allan wrote about Rethinking the Home Page and my response was getting to0 long to be a comment so I’m writing it as a post.
Allan said:
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or a deep link from somewhere…
Rethink the ‘Home page’
Back when the web was young, the home page was where most visitors to a web site would start and therefore it got the most attention. Is this still a valid way of thinking today?
Today, visitors typically visit web sites as a result of a search or a deep…
How Opera deals with trying to import non existent CSS files
We happened upon a very interesting Opera quirk at work today!
A developer decided to add an @import link to a non-existent CSS file that would be included at a later date. During testing we saw some interesting results with the page rendering, things being positioned in the wrong place…
Dispatches from the field
Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Phillip Mayes (though I prefer Phil) and I’m a Technical Consultant for Tideway Systems. I’m writing what I hope will be the first of many entries sharing my experiences about what I do for Tideway, the challenges I face and the…
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