Last May Ballmer announced a new rebranding for Microsoft’s search engine. What was once MSN Search and Windows Live, is now Bing. Probably named for the availability for purchase of the non-offensive, semi-sensical, 4 letter domain, Bing is a lot more than just a mere marketing move. Last month I took it upon myself to give this new search initiative a fair chance by using it for a month straight. Here’s my findings.
For those of you still in the dark, there is this awesome webpage/program/widget/app called Pandora. What it does is stream music via your browser or phone using the internet; this might sound like a regular internet radio station with the following exceptions: Continue reading »
Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is the bane of our existence. There I said it.
As web standards have changed, browsers gotten better and people’s interactions with the internet become something else entirely; 20% of Internet users insist in keeping an 8 year old browser. Do you remember what websites were like 8 years ago? Here’s Microsoft’s own from the Wayback Machine’s archive. No video, no Javascript, no CSS, basically nothing of what makes a modern site.
It has come to my attention that only 10% of the internet knows what an RSS feed is. So, as defined by wikipedia:
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
Ok, so example-wise:
Hundreds of reflections, thousands of rounded corners and 4 years later, the web 2.0 hype is finally over. I still remember the term being new to me and admittedly our company suffered many designs biased by the trend. However, below (literally) the now widely adopted tools from the era such as RSS, comments, and AJAX asynchrony in RIA’s, lies a trend we gladly use and try to include in most of the sites we make: The Quick-Link Pane. Continue reading »
