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In a move to better represent Web 2.0 properties, one of the world’s largest internet benchmarking companies, Nielsen/NetRatings, announced that as of today it will immediately begin using total time spent on a site instead of total pageviews as its primary traffic metric. ( computerworld article )
Many of the new technologies used on Web 2.0 […]

I’ve been a fan of Meebo for awhile now. I love the fact that I can use all my Instant Message Accounts (MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL/AIM, and Jabber/GTalk) all on one webpage. It’s a very slick site and gets better every week. If you use Instant Messaging and have to keep […]

Ajax, for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a collection of web development tools used to create Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Ajax allows web browsers to interact with web servers via small requests and update the loaded web page without actually reloading the entire page after each request. This gives the site an immediate […]

You’re using your favorite search engine, ready to find the most appropriate sites for your needs. You type in your search terms, and up comes a list of the most relevant sites, right? Not necessarily, says the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the federal government’s consumer protection agency.
Read more in the FTC Search Engine Rank […]

The topic du jour in web development and web software, AJAX, is getting more and more press. CNN has an interesting article on AJAX and the potential threat it may pose to desktop software and the Microsoft monopoly. AJAX is the group of technologies behind such projects as Google Maps, Google GMail and […]

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I was contacted several weeks ago to ask my opinions on several aspects of blogging behaviour and corporate interaction to determine how companies can best engage the blogosphere and its prevailing attitudes toward corporate information/PR. Check out the 2005 Edelman / Technorati Blogger Survey to see the results.

A few notable statistics:
34% blog to increase/maintain […]

While we call this thing a world wide web, we often forget that it is indeed not simply a list of our favourite destinations, but in fact a dynamically inter-related collection of information. A great tool to visualize just how connected everything really is: The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser.

This Java tool performs a related: search on […]