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Building Static Sites: How and Who

Building static Web sites is appealing for a variety of reasons: The model can support a rather large range of use cases, allows to use simple tools and easy deployment, and makes it trivial for everybody to work on branches... Read more →

Breaking Apps

now that the iPhone 2.1 Software Update has been released and the iPhone 3G is slowly approaching the status of actually working as a phone, i am still wondering why there were so few complaints about the fact that 2.0.2... Read more →

iPhone or AT&T?

my Could not activate Cellular Data Network post proves to be pretty popular, so i guess i am far from being the only one getting this message. the interesting questing is whether this problem is an iPhone problem, where the... Read more →

IE8 & Silverlight

i am sure this is a simplification of the situation, but it still is interesting to ask yourself why exactly microsoft feels compelled to release IE8. from the very beginning, IE was a tool to establish or maintain market dominance.... Read more →

You! Want! Silverlight! (Part II)

just when i thought everything was good because i read reports of the olympics being streamed live by NBC on www.nbcolympics.com, i once again was too naive. no, actually i was simply forgetting about reading the story behind that back... Read more →

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ICANN just announced that starting next year, you can get your own DNS Top-Level Domain (TLD). TLDs are the rightmost part of DNS names, names like .com and .de; some of them are called generic (gTLD), and others are called... Read more →

New Corporate Design

it seems that benedict xvi has decided to give the corporate design of his struggling outfit a not-so-subtle overhaul. the recent stage appearance of him in front of some display picturing the end of days (or something similarly unpleasant) looks... Read more →

Annoying Applications

when i found out about BlogRovR, i liked the idea. in the 2007 spring semester course on Web-based Publishing we were trying to build the exact same thing (our idea was to use the Technorati API for finding blog posts... Read more →

ACAP & Publishers

the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) recently has been released by a group more or less exclusively made up of publishers. it is kind of a robots.txt on DRM steroids, a set of rules how content providers can tell search... Read more →

Spock Suckage

this Web 2.0 stuff really is getting on my nerves. you are in somebody's network, they play around with some stupid new service and as a result send messages to everybody. you get the message, see the name, play around... Read more →