Flowing List Items (tutorial)
How to make IE's webfeed button work. See bottom of: Atom Webfeed Basics.
Darren Rowse. A non-technical blogger, who became wealthy by blogging. Quote:
His two main personal blogs are 'Digital Photography School' which features photography tips and ProBlogger which features tips on blogging. These two blogs get around 85,000-100,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month.[2][6][7].[8][9].
This is really a simple fellow, not some mysterious CEO and business suite type of guy. You can check out his blogs at digital-photography-school.com and problogger.net. You can read about the guy by himself, to get a sense of who he is, here: http://www.problogger.net/about-problogger/.
As getting to know his blog, one of the article i read is: Why I Don't Use AdSense on ProBlogger Anymore (2007-10-03), by Darren Rowse. Source. It contains a short video, where he talks about it. Very informative. I'll be reading more of his blog to gain some experience.
Also, discovered Google Code University, which is a set of tutorials. For example: http://code.google.com/edu/ajax/index.html. The tutorial is quite nice, much like my tech tutorials. To the point, practical, in plain english, without much obtuse jargons, pedantry, confused writing, open source hot air. (See: Open Source Documentation Problems.)
Web Share Widgets. (webmaster tips)
Micropayment On The Web (comments)
Google introduced a new tool, Chart API. It lets you create many sort of charts and graphs. You need some coding experience to use it. Basically, you send a url to google's chart server (GET or POST request), the url is a little programing lang that contain all your data. Google than sends back a image of your chart. Very handy. I'll probably use it. Home page at: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image_charts.html
Another thing google announced is Aardvark. Which lets you ask a question and get answers. Any question. Any, you might ask your friends, family, co-workers, teachers, colleges, on tips, how to, where, or questions in professional fields. Announcement at: Source. Home page at: http://vark.com/.
2009-12-26. Google did a experiment on how speed effect users. Interesting reading. Speed Matters (2009-06-23) by Jake Brutlag. Source
A more informative article with clear summary is here: Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users (2009-06-23) by Brady Forrest. Source
Of course we all know that we don't like slow pages, but the interesting thing is that even a 0.4 sec delay has measurable impact.
Another, about minor and major experiments google is doing: Search experiments, large and small (2008-08-26) by Ben Gomes. Source
More readings: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/search-quality-continued.html. A interesting thing on the site is this link: http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html, showing the few hundred variation of spellings people used to search Britney Spears. From this, we can infer how much trouble they take just for the spell correction feature, and further, how extremely complex the search technology actually is, beneath the extremely simple interface.
CSS Problems (random thoughts)
In the past year, i noticed a flurry of new sites that do reporting on website's traffic and marketability. Alexa.com is one of the first and most well known. Here's a list of them i discovered. Most of them are based on stat from Alexa.
- http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/xahlee.org.
- http://www.quantcast.com/xahlee.org
- http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.xahlee.org
- http://www.websiteaccountant.com/www.xahlee.org
- http://www.markosweb.com/www/xahlee.org/
- http://pagestat.com/www.xahlee.org
- http://www.realwebsiteworth.com/xahlee.org
- http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/xahlee.org
Preventing Image Leechers (some tips)
Interesting Tidbits About Domain Names.
“Zen-Coding” and “Emacs-Buddha-Coding”. (abbrev expansion template system for HTML)
More juice from the google exit china threat, from The Wall Street Journal. Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking (2010-01-13) by By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO, JASON DEAN and SIOBHAN GORMAN. Source
The article gives a bit more detail on the nature of the hack, google's revenue in China, google search's market share in china. Follow links on that article will be quite a few others... all over the web.
From Google's blog: A new approach to China (2010-01-12). Source
Google is saying that recently there's a sophisticated attack, originated from China, on gooogle china that seems to be focused on stealing info on Chinese human rights activists. And they are implying, that they might exit China business.
The article is overall negative on China. I'm Chinese by blood. If google bad mouths China, i wouldn't support google.
Google might exit China? That is quite a laughable suggestion. As a business, that's close to suicide, even with google's particular philosophy on business ethics (which i think is good). Also, it is not clear if this is just a blog-level bluffing drivel. A blog with implied suggestion of exiting business in china is one thing, but if they explicitly make a official statement to their stock holders, that'd be different.
China has several of their own huge search engines, video site engines, etc. Just like everywhere else, the competition is tough. Those Chinese web companies, as well as foreign companies running in china such as Yahoo and Microsoft, would be more than happy, H A P P Y, if google gets the fuck out of China.
As for google ending their search engine censor in China... that'd be great if they asked the Chinese government and gets permission. Ultimately, it is up to the Chinese goverment, the Chinese people, to decide.
Am starting this web programing blog.
Bringing you interesting discoveries of all things related to web app programing, technologies, news. Items may include tech tutorials, tips, on html/xhtml/xml, css, javascript, ajax, sitemap, rss, APIs... and also webmaster news from Google/Microsoft/Yahoo etc.
This blog is branched off from my main blog Xah Lee's Blog, so it is more subject focused.
For past ~60 articles related to web app programing, see: Xah's DHTML Tutorial.