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CSS animation
Another non-standard extension makes its way into WebKit. Nice, but this is feeling like '97 again.
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Pownce API arrives
After a buzz-killingly long delay, Pownce releases the first stable API with promises of more enhancements to come.
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SimplePie RSS
A great PHP plug-in that can parse RSS feeds for CodeIdniter among others.
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Mozilla Labs announces Prism
Toolkit allows Web pages to become desktop applications, without relying on proprietary languages.
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Bell backing out of IPTV
The phone company once again delays its Internet Protocol TV roll-out causing some to wonder whether it well happen at all.
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Processing the Ontario election
Patrick Dinnen builds a compelling visualization of the 2003 election results.
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Sustainable green Web hosting
The San Fransisco company offers 100% carbon neutral Web hosting service.
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Canadian iPhone for January 2008?
A Molson Export marketing campaign seems to suggest that but everyone involved is denying it.
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Microsoft buys into Facebook
News broke for me on Twitter, still no update on Facebook's news page
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Guardian America's voice
Inigo Thomas introduces Guardian's new American Web site be explaining why its style and writing voice will not be "Americanized"
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LATimes.com tracking fires on Google Maps
Smart, simple way to use Google Maps in breaking news without any developer requests needed.
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Mozilla shows some strong numbers
Revenues increased 25% to $66,840,850 on $19,776,193 in expenses for 2006. Remember this is a non-profit pushing open-source technology.
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Nielsen says don't avoid passive writing
Realizing the positively ironic nature of the headline amuses me.
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It's the data, stupid
Deconstruct the hype behind widgets (and there is a lot of hype) and you can find some real truths.
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Parsing the case for online subscriptions
Mathew Ingram reality-checks a study by Matthew Gentzkow that essentially says the making news free online costs millions in lost revenue.
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Making a successful news site
Jay Rosen lays out yet more ideas for making a solid online news site.
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Don't click here
A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".
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Humanized messages
While watching the Leopard preview, I thought about doing something like this tool JavaScript-based prompts and notices.
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The new Newsweek
The redesign of newsweek.com is one of the first mainstream sites I've seen to smartly incorporate Web 2.0 functionality.
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CSS Snapshot
W3C says CSS "standard" enccompasses CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and Colors, and the CSS Namespaces.
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Handicapping the TTC.ca contract
Joe Clark, undoubtedly the most qualified and informed evaluator of the TTC.ca Web site proposals rates the hopeful firms.
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ONA 2007 Winners
Gala event sees the Toronto Star win one online journalism award for Canada.
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Paywall lift boosts NYTimes.com's pageviews
Reportedly, less than a month after lifting the paywall on its op-ed section, pageviews doubled.
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NYTimes.com open source
NYTimes.com is starting to release some of its code for the public to play with. Setting a brave new standard.
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Print circulation now will count regular online traffic
This may be another reason why the NYTimes.com dropped its paid circulation service.
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Panel on the future of news
CBC, as a precursor to the Online News Association's conference, is hosting a panel discussion about the future of news.
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Interviews with "networked" journalists
Sixty-two interviews with the attendees of the Networked Journalism Summit.
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Toronto Star stop PDF-based afternoon edition
Apparently it wants concentrate more on its Web and mobile presence. There's something wrong with that equation/
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Web Directions North 2008 line-up announced
Amazing line-up for one of North America's best Web conferences.
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The next standard: VWAML?
Could a "Virtual World Avatar Markup Language" be the result of IBM and Second Life plan to free your online persona?
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Wal-Mart bigger than Manhattan
The combined area of Wal-Mart's stores take up more space on Earth than the island of Manhattan.
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Mobile Firefox
Effectively, this kills the Minimo project and promises to bring the Firefox spirit to mobile browsing.
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Ontarians: Get your (2007) vote on
Election day comes to Ontario and the parties are dull, but the referendum on proportional representation offers hope.
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CSS3's grid module
This would be what people are really looking for when making column-based layouts in CSS.
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Out of the ashes of the portal...
...comes the concept of a network of sites. I've seen it fail, but it does have promise.
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Local TV news threatened
As media consolidation continues, CRTC may ignore the decline in local TV news.
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MSNBC buys Newsvine
Being closer to this deal than I would have imagined doesn't prevent me from being surprised; but it does mean I think it will work well.
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BarCamp Canada
On November 3rd, BarCampers from across Canada will descend on Montreal.
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IE7 comes to XP
Whether its another admission Vista is doing poorly or not, it's a good thing for Web developers.
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Client-side load balancing counter-point
Some thoughts against client-side load-balancing.
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Redesigning the Wall Street Journal
Andy Rutledge tries to improve WSJ.com's mess of a homepage.
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Interface design for the mobile Web
Lessons in interface design for mobile devices.
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Client-side load balancing
Digital Web has a great new article on load balancing Web 2.0 apps.
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Making the popular vote count
Ontario is holding a referendum on changing its election system to one of the best ways to reflect the popular vote: the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system.
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AIR Development Center
Apps created in Adobe's new Web/desktop development platform is a good place to learn what it can do (and how).
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The pay wall "third way"
FT.com is loosening its pay wall, and letting causal readers view 30 articles a month, for free.
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