As we and many other bloggers have noted in the past, Web 2.0 is all about community involvement. Digg CEO, Jay Adelson, reiterates the importance of community involvement in a Forbes.com interview segment published on YouTube. You can view the video at Techcrunch.com. Techcrunch » Forbes Video Interview With Digg CEO Michele Steele at Forbes [...]
Amazon Announces New Release of aStore
The Amazon Associates team announced the next release of aStore with a set of new features. Amazon is offering an extra 4% premium on units referred through aStore (and Omakase) for the rest of the year (details below). To take full advantage of this premium, login to Associates Central to modify your existing aStore to [...]
Firefox Tool for Browser-Based Blog Publishing – Performancing
Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that resides in your Firefox browser and lets you post directly to your blog while surfing. You can drag and drop formatted text from any web page you are browsing, take notes, and post without going to your blog's admin panel. Once installed, hit "F8" or [...]
Intro to Using AJAX
SitePoint has released a detailed 17-minute video tutorial titled, “An Introduction to AJAX.” Produced by SitePoint Technical Director Kevin Yank, the tutorial discusses the origins of AJAX and provides real world AJAX examples. “What’s AJAX, really?” you ask. You’ve come to the right place. The video is professionally produced, very informative for those new to [...]
Popular Firefox Extensions for Web Pros, Developers
Web developers are using a host of Firefox extensions to improve their efficiency. I use the “Web Developer” extension, which has just about everything within one addon. Here’s a short-list and brief description of popular Firefox extensions: HTML Validator http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ This is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number [...]
Top 10 Firefox Add-ons
(Updated February 2007) Our Top 10 Firefox Add-ons list is based on a review of more than a dozen lists published by colleagues, friends, and website pros. Given the length of the content, we created a stand-alone page and included the Firefox add-on, plug-in, and extension lists used as references. Here's the link: Top Ten [...]
