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Fixie
Fixie.js is an open source tool that automatically adds filler content to HTML documents.
html  javascript  web  library  lorem  text  dummy  automatic 
21 days ago by avinash
Python FAQ: Webdev - fuzzy notepad
I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

This is a deeply complex question. I could easily fill a book on web development and Python and how to make the two interact, so I was hoping to put this one off for a while. But given that I just trashed PHP rather harshly, it seems prudent to answer it sooner rather than later.

The dead simple answer is to stop reading here, get Flask, and start building a thing. I prefer a bit more nuance, though.

This is not a tutorial. I may write one in the future, but for now, plenty of them already exist, and I assume you can read documentation. Instead, this is an overview of the current state of affairs for someone new to Python web development.
development  python  web  programming  opensource  tools  software  comparison  opinion  dynamic  language 
21 days ago by avinash
5 Steps to Getting More Targeted Website Traffic with SEO Copywriting | Copyblogger
Sometimes search engine optimization gets a bad rap because so many people abuse it.
That’s too bad, because SEO copywriting is a great (and smart) way to drive traffic to your site or blog.
It will help you get more visitors through organic search, and when it’s done properly, it can even attract links, since your search-optimized content will be compelling, useful, and authoritative.
I’ve been working in this field for the last ten years — writing copy myself and helping clients tweak theirs — and I want to share with you the five tried-and-true SEO lessons I’ve learned that will drive more traffic to your site.
Of course, there are no tricks or cheats here. Just good common sense, strategically deployed.
copywriting  seo  tips  web  online 
21 days ago by avinash
Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows | Smashing UX Design
For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by our designs. It’s time to make the user flows a bigger priority in our design process.
design  web  webdesign  landingpage  marketing  sales 
21 days ago by avinash
5 Reasons Why Your Ecommerce Site Matters More Than Ever | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
Every ecommerce manager already knows that having a poor website is a major problem. And it can really bite during the critical holiday season which represents anywhere between 20–40% of annual sales.

But for those who need a little numerical validation, here are a few stats that make it crystal clear why your brand’s online presence is more important than ever
ecommerce  web  web2.0  marketing  sales  online 
21 days ago by avinash
How the Explosion in Online Education can Revolutionize Your Business | Copyblogger
Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley are doing it.
Companies, both big and small, are doing it.
Solopreneurs are doing it.
And bloggers have been doing it … they just haven’t been making any money at it.
It’s a trend that Copyblogger saw coming … in fact, Brian built a course to teach it way back in 2007. (And he built a number of successful businesses on the same principles before that.)
“It” is online education — and it’s gone from being an interesting sideline to a major social and economic trend.
education  online  economics  ecommerce  learning  teaching  internet  web  web2.0  socialnetworking  social  from twitter_favs
24 days ago by avinash
Reinventing College To Prepare Us For The Future, Not The Past | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
My college students are the first generation to come of age in humanity’s fourth great Information Age and their entire education has been designed to train them for the third. They have been learning with all the forms, formulas, strategies, and assessment methods that the late 19th- and early-20th-century educators engineered to get them off the farm and into the factory, out of the shop and into the firm.
learning  education  university  innovation  teaching  online  web  from twitter
4 weeks ago by avinash
Premise Review 2.0 – An in depth review of the landing page plugin Premise
One of the key features to any online business is a landing page that converts. Even if your traffic is low a high converting landing page can give you the possible income to outsource, expand and make your presence online known. I thin this is so important that I purchased Premise – the ultimate plugin for easy landings pages and what follows is a Premise review so that you can have a better understanding of this plugin and what it can do for you. Lets get started.
premise  wordpress  seo  plugin  landingpage  sales  marketing  product  internet  web  commercial 
4 weeks ago by avinash
Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over - Business Insider
Microsoft is toast because we're moving to a post-PC era;
HTML5, the new web standard that allows to make interactive web pages, is going to revolutionize the media and advertising industries;
Social is "done", it's now a feature, don't go do a social startup.
html5  technology  web  prediction  history  microsoft  apple  google  internet  strategy 
february 2012 by avinash
HTML5 Presentation
This presentation was created by Marcin Wichary and modified by many people in the Google Chrome team

The purpose of the presentation is to show the coming bleeding edge features for modern desktop and mobile browsers.
css  documentation  html  html5  web  google  chrome  css3  features 
february 2012 by avinash
It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web — Scobleizer
The date was January 3, 2008. Facebook had kicked me off for running a script to try to save the common web.
See, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very simple things:
1. It grabbed all my friends names.
2. It grabbed all their phone numbers.
3. It grabbed all their email addresses.
4. It gave me a simple CSV file with all that data so I could bring them back to Google, or Microsoft, or anywhere else I wanted to put them.
Facebook’s answer was predictable. They shut me down.
Oh, a few people supported me. Joseph Smarr, for one. Marc Canter, for two. It isn’t lost on me that Joseph now works on the Google+ team and Marc isn’t in the San Francisco area anymore.
They understood what was at stake: the future of the web.
facebook  twitter  web  people  future  open  from twitter
february 2012 by avinash
Rapportive
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.
email  gmail  plugin  social  socialnetworking  people  profile  free  online  web  google 
january 2012 by avinash
Ubundance: Installing RescueTIme on Ubuntu 10.04
RescueTime is a great time tracking program that beats pretty much any other free programs out there hands down. I use it on my Windows 7 OS, but using it on Ubuntu took me some toll.
rescuetime  linux  installation  gnome  session  properties  unix  shell  productivity  application  web  online  evaluation 
january 2012 by avinash
A Three Step Guide to Usability on the Mobile Web | mobiThinking
Designing mobile sites is a different kind of web design. Much like your first experience of designing for the desktop web, it can be both exhilarating and daunting in equal measures. So many possibilities, yet so many usability restrictions.

Don't panic, we've been there too. As the guys responsible for maintaining the .mobi top level domain, we work with experts and beginners on a daily basis to help them get the best out of their mobile web strategies. Over the past few years we've come to appreciate just how different a beast the mobile web is to the desktop web, and what it means to deliver a truly usable and functional mobile site.

This paper is our "101" guide to getting your design and usability principles right. Our aim is not to help you to cut corners. Like any good design, mobile design is a craft and we encourage you to experiment and make mistakes. Instead, we're providing a set of best practice conventions that will help to get your mobile sites working and off the ground in quick time.
mobile  web  design  css  html  smartphone  tablet 
january 2012 by avinash
Creating a custom grid definition | Fusion Drupal Themes Shop
There are many reasons to create your own grid definition in Fusion – you may want to change the page width, gutter widths, or number of columns. Some sites have specific ad size requirements or design layout which require a custom grid. This may seem a little intimidating at first, but in most cases it is very easy with Fusion!

Don’t be overwhelmed by all the CSS files in Fusion. If you are going to be creating a fixed width, unidirectional website, then you only need to copy and edit one CSS file.
drupal  theme  fusion  width  css  web  design 
january 2012 by avinash
WPCharity | WordPress Child Themes
We WordPress lovers want to contribute donating to the world disasters and grief, too. That's why we invite you to get involve in helping people and nature. You don't have to spend too much in complicated ways. WPcharity is a Tokokoo's network that is specifically built for charity purpose where you can donate your money easily. All you have to do is purchasing our themes. Each theme costs $5 only and you will donate 25% of it for social aim, right after purchasing.
theme  wordpress  free  download  charity  help  people  design  web 
january 2012 by avinash
How to export history? - Google Chrome Help
For the Mac using sqlite3:

Cut and paste  this into a Terminal Window (you can modify it as you like, here I'm exporting only Wikipedia browsing history)

/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History > history.log <<EOF
select visit_count, url from urls where url like 'http://en.wikipedia.org%' order by visit_count;
EOF
google  chrome  browser  web  internet  export  history  url  sql  sqlite  database 
december 2011 by avinash
Understanding the Life of a Session - TalkPHP
One of the most vast misconceptions in the PHP world is how sessions really do work. I'm fairly confident most of us know how to start sessions, terminate sessions, regenerate session IDs and easily pass data from 1 page to another. But do you really know how they work inside out?
php  session  web  development  apache  lamp  linux  software  website 
december 2011 by avinash
Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress is debating dangerous legislation that would give the Department of Justice unprecedented power to “blacklist” websites without a trial and give Hollywood copyright holders a new way to shut down a website’s financial services for alleged copyright infringement. It’s nothing short of a bill to create a U.S. censorship regime, and it’s moving fast.

We need your help to stop this legislation before it can undermine Internet security and censor the web.  Ready to join EFF, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, CDT, the Participatory Politics Foundation, and Public Knowledge in the fight? Here are 12 things you can do right now to help us stop the blacklist bills.
sopa  law  copyright  legal  usa  censorship  media  multimedia  web  internet  web2.0  people 
december 2011 by avinash
And Blueprint CSS Framework KompoZer: simple four-column Layout "
In my web surfing looking for Inkscape issues I came across a resource that had not the faintest idea of ​​its existence and I've been amazed at my first contact.

Blueprint CSS Framework is not a software but in the download folder to include some javascript that this first contact we will not pay attention.

The blueprint includes a folder called CSS prebuilt we link our HTML. Now, we must take care to create the DIV container class and give them the necessary according to the behavior we want.
linux  web  design  wysiwyg  software  opensource  html  html5  xhtml  css  css2  css3  development 
december 2011 by avinash
A Sencha Touch MVC application with PhoneGap | Learn | Sencha
In this article, we introduce PhoneGap, a way to package and allow web applications to access device functionality. We use its APIs to create a custom data proxy which underpins a Sencha Touch MVC application. By the end of the article, we will have demonstrated how to replicate the iPhone's address book application using web technology alone.
development  iphone  tutorial  application  multiplatform  android  web  mobile 
november 2011 by avinash
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript.
development  iphone  android  javascript  mobile  programming  html5  css3  web  application  multiplatform  opensource 
november 2011 by avinash
Chrome Experiments - Home
We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Together, they can do some beautiful, magical, crazy things. And that’s why we created this website.

Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.
browser  chrome  google  javascript  visualization  3d  webgl  demo  graphics  performance  programming  software  web  internet  technology 
november 2011 by avinash
We Have Only Scratched the Surface of the True Value of Twitter. Here’s What You’re Missing
In this post I want to talk about a Twitter that I see beyond what is visible to most Twitter users today. Call it “Strategic Twitter.”
twitter  strategy  business  socialnetworking  tool  online  web  from twitter
november 2011 by avinash
SQL-Ledger ERP
SQL-Ledger® ERP is a double entry accounting/ERP system. Accounting data is stored in a SQL database server, for the display any text or GUI browser can be used. The entire system is linked through a chart of accounts. Each item in inventory is linked to income, expense, inventory and tax accounts. When items are sold and purchased the accounts are automatically updated.
accounting  business  opensource  software  web  internet  free 
november 2011 by avinash
7 of the best Linux firewalls | News | TechRadar UK
You're walking down a dark alley, late at night, when suddenly someone jumps out at you and forces you to hand over your passport, your credit cards, and the keys to your car. This is a good analogy of what using the internet is like.

Around every corner lurks danger, and with today's always-on connections, you may have the internet equivalent of burglars without realising. For ultimate computer security, a firewall is similar to having a big, burly bodyguard walking down the street with you, keeping you safe. Whether it be your home or office network, a firewall distribution should be able to help you.
firewall  linux  networking  review  software  hardware  web  email  filter  security  iptables 
october 2011 by avinash
Heroku - GitHub
Installing Tracks 2.0 or newer on Heroku is fairly simple, here are the steps to get tracks working on Heroku
heroku  tracks  ruby  rubyonrails  web  application  installation  deployment  rake  gem  bundler 
october 2011 by avinash
Music-Map - The tourist map of music
the music-map is
a part of gnoosic

gnoosic is a
part of gnod

gnod is a project
of marek gibney
music  map  artist  search  engine  people  opinion  web  web2.0  collaboration  discovery  audio 
october 2011 by avinash
What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar
The future belongs to the companies who figure out how to collect and use data successfully. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn have all tapped into their datastreams and made that the core of their success. They were the vanguard, but newer companies like bit.ly are following their path. Whether it's mining your personal biology, building maps from the shared experience of millions of travellers, or studying the URLs that people pass to others, the next generation of successful businesses will be built around data. The part of Hal Varian's quote that nobody remembers says it all:

The ability to take data -- to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it -- that's going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.

Data is indeed the new Intel Inside.
business  article  internet  blog  research  data  processing  statistics  analysis  analytics  web  online 
september 2011 by avinash
The little-known secret of how to actually choose a web designer (in 5 easy steps) ~ Information Highwayman ~ expert advice on conversion-rate optimization, online marketing, attention-thievery
Read the website. Put a tick in the Good column every time you see a term like “business objectives”, “return on investment (ROI)”, “your revenue goals”, “lead generation”, “increase sales” etc. Award six million bonus points if the designer overtly talks about how you need to work with a copywriter to make your site a worthwhile investment. Award 12 million points if he argues the case or draws some kind of useful analogy, like how trying to get customers using an attractive site with lousy copy is like trying to get a date by dressing well but babbling like a retard.
web  design  business  webdesign  people  recruitment  characteristics 
september 2011 by avinash
Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com
I'm privileged to work with some of the best of the new breed of software companies, and I can tell you they're really good at what they do. If they perform to my and others' expectations, they are going to be highly valuable cornerstone companies in the global economy, eating markets far larger than the technology industry has historically been able to pursue.

Instead of constantly questioning their valuations, let's seek to understand how the new generation of technology companies are doing what they do, what the broader consequences are for businesses and the economy and what we can collectively do to expand the number of innovative new software companies created in the U.S. and around the world.

That's the big opportunity. I know where I'm putting my money.
technology  software  web  business  internet  revolution  evolution  entrepreneurship  startup  opinion 
september 2011 by avinash
Modernizr
Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites.

Taking advantage of the new capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 can mean sacrificing control over the experience in older browsers. Modernizr 2 is your starting point for making the best websites and applications that work exactly right no matter what browser or device your visitors use.
programming  development  web  opensource  javascript  browser  features  html  html5  css  css3  modern  library 
september 2011 by avinash
start [PHP for Android]
PHP for Android project (PFA) aims to make PHP development in Android not only possible but also feasible providing tools and documentation.
programming  web  development  php  android  language  mobile  software  application 
september 2011 by avinash
Top 8 JavaScript Projects You May Not Know - Developer.com
Last year's article 10 Experimental PHP Projects Pushing the Envelope and its followup 9 More Experimental PHP Projects You Should Check Out struck such a chord with developers that I thought it would be fun to continue the theme, this time applying the idea to the JavaScript programming language.

Perhaps more than any other programming language in history, JavaScript is experiencing a major renaissance thanks to its unique ability to serve as the glue between the client- and server-sides of a web application, a trait which is quickly becoming indispensable as developers seek to create highly responsive features which closely mimic their desktop-bound brethren. Given so much attention, we're seeing incredible innovation in the JavaScript space, and with it a fair amount of experimentation. In this article I'll highlight ten crazy JavaScript experiments, some of which are already changing the language in profound ways.
javascript  project  programming  web  internet  list  innovation  server  client 
september 2011 by avinash
Create a Google Talk chatback badge
A Google Talk chatback badge will let visitors to your web page chat with you. They'll be able to chat with you whenever you're signed in to Google Talk.
web  talk  chat  google  live  embed  html  marketing  crm  client  people  social  business  interaction  conversion 
september 2011 by avinash
The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
The HTML5 test score is an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. Even though the specification isn't finalized yet, all major browser manufacturers are making sure their browser is ready for the future. Find out which parts of HTML5 are already supported by your browser today and compare the results with other browsers.
web  development  reference  html  html5  test  compliance  audio  video  geolocation  markup  programming  language  internet 
august 2011 by avinash
Font Families for cross-compatible Typography
The reason I believe it has come to these simple mistakes is that people do not know the basic differences between fonts, like humanist, grotesque, old-style or transitional. If such differences were know, finding good callback fonts would be much easier.

Hope this helped in building better font families.
css  typography  fonts  web  website  rendering  quality  visual  perception  windows  mac  osx  linux 
august 2011 by avinash
tlrobinson.net / blog » Blog Archive » Mac OS X, Web Sharing / Apache, and Symlinks
Mac OS X comes with an Apache installation which is very handy, but by default it’s configured not to follow symlinks. A lot of times I have projects in other directories which I want to share via the web server, but end up getting errors
mac  osx  server  unix  apache  web  symlink  configuration  software 
july 2011 by avinash
Nuts & Bolts: Database Servers - (37signals)
As a part of our ongoing Nuts & Bolts series I asked for questions from readers about the kinds of things they’d like to see covered. One of the topics that came up several times was how we manage our database servers.

All of our applications, with the exception of Basecamp, follow a pretty similar model: We take a pair of Dell R710 servers, load them up with memory and disks, and setup a master/slave pair of MySQL servers. We use the excellent Percona Server for all of our MySQL instances and couldn’t be happier with it.
howto  tips  database  mysql  percona  bestpractice  hardware  software  configuration  performance  security  concurrency  backup  web  website  webapp 
july 2011 by avinash
Literate Programming - Nobody Understands REST or HTTP
The more that I've learned about web development, the more that I've come to appreciate the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of the authors of the HTTP RFC and Roy Fielding's dissertation. It seems like the answers to most problems come down to "There's a section of the spec for that." Now, obviously, they're not infallible, and I'm not saying that there's zero room for improvement. But it really disappoints me when people don't understand the way that a given issue is supposed to be solved, and so they make up a partial solution that solves their given case but doesn't jive well with the way that everything else works. There are valid criticisms of the specs, but they have to come from an informed place about what the spec says in the first place.

Let's talk about a few cases where either REST or HTTP (which is clearly RESTful in its design) solves a common web development problem.
programming  technology  software  web  development  html  rest  architecture  w3c  phd  representational  state 
july 2011 by avinash
Google’s Six-Front War
While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+, it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with Facebook, it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most valuable pieces of real estate in technology. Whether it’s social, mobile, browsing, local, enterprise, or even search, Google is being attacked from all angles. And make no mistake about it, they are fighting back and fighting back, hard.
technology  web  business  internet  google  strategy  product  apple  microsoft  search  advertising  browser  opinion  economy 
july 2011 by avinash
Crockford on JavaScript: A Public Lecture Series at Yahoo!
Douglas Crockford is Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect and a member of the committee designing future versions of the world's most popular programming language. Over first three months of 2010, Douglas delivered his acclaimed series of lectures on the history of JavaScript, its features, and its use.
programming  web  development  reference  tutorial  video  javascript  language  software  browser  client 
july 2011 by avinash
Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
Eloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.

A concise and balanced mix of principles and pragmatics. I loved the tutorial-style game-like program development. This book rekindled my earliest joys of programming. Plus, JavaScript!
—Brendan Eich, the man who gave us JavaScript

The book exists in two forms. It was originally written and published in digital form, which includes interactive examples and a mechanism for playing with all the example code. This version is released under an open license.

I have published a revised version of the book on paper. The structure of this version remained largely the same, but the whole text has been thorougly edited and updated.
programming  web  development  education  design  javascript  language  functional  scripting  browser  client 
july 2011 by avinash
The Guardian draws a line in the sand: Digital comes first — Tech News and Analysis
The Guardian in Britain has been a leader in taking advantage of the web for some time now, but the management of the paper — including the CEO of the charitable trust that owns the media outlet — made its clearest declaration yet that the future of the organization is online, with a statement on Thursday that it’s going “digital first.” This phrase has been used as a rallying cry by proponents of a new media approach, including Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger, to show that the web should take precedence over print. Now the challenge is for the newspaper to prove that this strategy can be a success financially as well as philosophically.
news  business  media  digital  economics  press  online  web  print  strategy 
june 2011 by avinash
The Three Greatest Survey Questions Ever | Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Here are the three questions no survey can live without (and often a survey can be pretty awesome with just three questions):

What is the purpose of your visit to our website today?

Were you able to complete your task today?

If you were not able to complete your task today, why not?
web  business  article  blog  research  survey  question  simplicity 
june 2011 by avinash
Page Speed Online
Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates.
programming  development  web  online  google  performance  recommendation  bestpractice 
june 2011 by avinash
CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript". The code compiles one-to-one into the equivalent JS, and there is no interpretation at runtime. You can use any existing JavaScript library seamlessly (and vice-versa). The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, passes through JavaScript Lint without warnings, will work in every JavaScript implementation, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.
programming  software  web  development  language  javascript  coffeescript  interpreter 
june 2011 by avinash
No, Facebook is not Killing Your Website. New user behavior is (by @baekdal) #insights
The old way of looking at the internet is like this. Your website is at the center of your internet strategy. That is your core destination and where you try to get people to go. Around it is a lot of secondary social media channels, whose purpose is to drive traffic (and engagement) to your site.

The new model is very different. The world has turned social by default, and it is not specifically about Facebook. People's user behavior has changed and requires a completely new internet strategy.

It is no longer about specific destinations, formats or channeling user behavior. It is about giving people what they want, wherever they need it.

The customer is now at the very center. Around him are all your channels. The customer decides which channel to use, and it is your job to deliver what people need *on that channel*.
web  social  website  engagement  people  socialnetworking  media  insights 
june 2011 by avinash
Academic reference management software for researchers | Mendeley
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
software  web  education  research  paper  collaboration  people  free  mobile 
june 2011 by avinash
Where Do I Find Keywords for My Website? | Web Marketing Strategies
One of the questions I hear frequently from frustrated business owners who are trying to break into search marketing is "Where do I find keywords for my website?" Now, there are many methods and resources you can use to find traffic-driving and profitable keywords to target
web  social  website  media  marketing  keywords  strategy  advertising 
june 2011 by avinash
Blogging Common
Blogging Common seeks to capture and present the spirit and wisdom of the blogosphere by surveying bloggers around the globe. We are based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
statistics  university  usa  people  behaviour  online  web  blog  relationship  socialnetworking  social 
march 2011 by avinash
Using Google Charts to Create Custom Graphs | Ecommerce Developer
I will discuss Google Charts — based on JavaScript — in this article, addressing its power and simplicity. Most anyone can create these types of graphs.

What Is the Google Charts API?

As Google states on the main page of its Charts API, "The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts with a URL string. You can embed these charts on your web page, or download the image for local or offline use.” You can create anything from static graphs to dynamic graphs, or even art.
google  graph  graphics  image  web  webdesign  javascript  programming  generator  free 
march 2011 by avinash
Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator
Cool Text is a FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.
graphics  webdesign  generator  tools  design  text  logo  button  website  web 
march 2011 by avinash
The ‘Panda’ That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google’s Top Search Engineers | Epicenter | Wired.com
Google announced a new update last week to its search engine that addressed the growing complaint that low-quality content sites (derisively referred to as content farms) were ranked higher than higher-quality sites that seemed to be more important to users. This major change affects almost 12 percent of all search results, and the web is still buzzing about its implications...
google  search  engine  strategy  algorithm  mathematics  web  web2.0  internet 
march 2011 by avinash
SPDY, a faster alternative to HTTP by Google
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocolsto help reducethelatency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a specification of theprotocol,we have developed a SPDY-enabled Google Chrome browser and open-source web server. In lab tests, we have comparedtheperformanceof these applications over HTTP and SPDY, and have observed up to 64% reductions in page load times in SPDY. We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code, and test results, to make SPDY the next-generation application protocol for a faster web.
google  http  protocol  performance  web  networking  internet  programming  optimization  chrome  speed  development  spdy 
march 2011 by avinash
Train Before You Hire
Today I had an epiphany. Maybe the right thing to do is to enroll prospective job applicants in some kind of low-impact training as part of the interview process. If the training were given in a part-time, online format, the time commitment could be minimal on the employer’s part (the instructor role could also be outsourced) and it wouldn’t take time away from the prospective hire’s job hunt. The learning experience could be a net positive for the job seeker, too, because instead of burning time meeting with one dead-eyed middle manager after another getting asked the same questions, she has the potential to emerge from the process with a new skill.
programming  interview  jobs  web  training  people  employment  skills  young 
february 2011 by avinash
The Book on Social Media Marketing - By Ryan Quintal and Brian Donnelly
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book  socialnetworking  humour  internet  strategy  web  web2.0  people 
february 2011 by avinash
What Facebook Can Give Back To The Web
So, in the spirit of One Web and Ambient Findability, I’m asking Facebook on behalf of all Web citizens to give us the benefits of being able to just look at things online without being tracked by you. Give us the option to treat Facebook like every other part of the Web, whenever we want, and I assure you it will benefit us all.

Give us an easy one-click way to truly and totally disconnect from Facebook Connect whenever we want. I’ll still spend just as much time on Facebook, I promise! But now I won’t have to see my friends’ faces every time I look up a restaurant review on Yelp, read the news on the New York Times, or wait for external modules to load on TechCrunch. It’s just an option, and an option confers value… I’m sure the vast majority of users love Facebook Connect and will continue to use it. But having the option to return the rest of One Web to its pre-Facebook status—useful but not fundamentally social—would be the best gift that Zuck could give back to the Web.
facebook  social  internet  web  reading  strategy  website  simplicity  anonymous 
february 2011 by avinash
15 Web Services We Rely On Every Day | Blog | myGengo
When we started myGengo, we spent a lot (a lot!) of time searching for the ‘perfect’ tools to do all the bits of rubbish that a startup does in its first couple of years of existence. But we now feel we've found an amazing set of services that do things really well for us, from email delivery to API management to accounting to sales. We use this stuff every day, and we depend on it as much as our water supply. So it’s worth sharing with you — there might be a few in here you haven’t tried.
startup  tools  services  webservices  web  opinion  selection  api  open  cloud  computing 
february 2011 by avinash
SupportBee's Team Blog » Blog Archive » Don’t fall into the SEO trap
SEO (Search Engine Optimiation) is a great strategy to gain traction initially. It is even a sustainable growth channel. But if you don’t consciously watch out for it you may end up playing the never ending game of micro optimizing tail keywords and looking for link exchanges in the name of SEO strategy. This is especially true of B2C startups with the Freemium business model. Making ad revenue off the tail traffic is an inevitable lure. And the obsession to optimize that is a death trap.
business  inspiration  marketing  seo  top  advice  web  website  advertising  google  search 
february 2011 by avinash
Website Conversion – It’s all about CTA’s and Email Marketing!
Research has shown that a new sale from your website can take up to 5 visits from your prospect. If you don’t capture email details the first time a user visits your website, chances are you’ll become a distant memory in the eyes of the prospect.

This problem can be sorted very quickly by setting up a very compelling ‘Call To Action’ on your website, somewhere very prominent on every page.

So, what is a ‘Call To Action’ or CTA. Very simply it’s a reason for the visitors to your website to give you something, an email address is the easiest to get. The challenge for your business is giving your visitors something in return for their email address. Just before we go on, a CTA can be a lot more, it may involve getting a visitor to buy something from your website, or you may have multiple CTA’s for different products/services.
web  website  conversion  customer  client  people  product  calltoaction  sales  ecommerce  marketing  webdesign 
february 2011 by avinash
Locomotive — Ruby on Rails Open source CMS
We've got a couple very good reasons why you should learn yet another CMS

Custom content types
Multi sites support
Template inheritance with Liquid
Sexy UI
Inline front-end editing with Aloha-Editor
Ruby On Rails 3
In The Cloud (Heroku / Amazon)
cms  rails  ruby  opensource  rubyonrails  content  website  web  web2.0  server  cloud  heroku  amazon  s3 
february 2011 by avinash
tlbox - the best tools on the web
A lot of sites have been promoting pages for web developers, but none of them have asked what people are actually using to do good work. This site hopes to answer that question and provide people with the best sites first - not somewhere in the middle of long lists.
I also find myself looking for links I know I've seen on the web before, but can't seem to remember where. This site saves my good links, and organizes them by category so I can find them again. If you saw my list of unorganized bookmarks in my browser... it's sad.
Small Software Workshop falls under the Don't Be Evil corporate charter.
tools  webdesign  programming  reference  design  sysadmin  online  web 
february 2011 by avinash
Art Project, powered by Google
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
art  google  museum  gallery  culture  online  virtual  web  web2.0  social 
february 2011 by avinash
Readability: Enjoy Reading. Support Writing.
Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. No matter where you are or what device you use, your reading will be there.

As a Readability subscriber, you’ll be a part of something bigger: a sustainable publishing ecosystem. Here’s how it works: every time you use Readability on a particular article, a portion of your subscription fees go right to the content creators. You get a fantastic reading experience. Publishers and writers get compensated for the content you enjoy. Everyone reads happily ever after.
reading  ipad  readability  app  iphone  online  declutter  design  web  writing  website  blog  publishing 
february 2011 by avinash
Introduction to Pharen
Pharen is a compiler that takes a Lisp-like language and turns it into PHP code. This combines Lisp’s advantages of uniform syntax and homoiconicity (among others) and PHP’s advantage of…being everywhere.
php  lisp  programming  compiler  web  scripting  language  functional  scheme 
january 2011 by avinash
DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars
With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.

It's free and there are no Flash, ActiveX controls, downloads or toolbars needed - just your browser and a few mouse clicks. That's it!
web2.0  generator  tools  graphics  fun  avatar  comic  character  free  online  web 
january 2011 by avinash
Le Web selon Google | Noulakaz
Depuis sa création par Sergey Brin et Larry Page le 4 septembre 1998, Google n’a cessé de grandir et représente maintenant plus de Rs 5000 milliards sur le marché boursier. Depuis ses débuts comme moteur de recherche uniquement, Google a su innover en proposant des services Web qui sont rapidement devenus indispensables pour beaucoup d’entre nous. Et, le plus souvent, gratuitement.
noulakaz  google  service  web  web2.0  webservice  product  company  business  maps  search  youtube  video  internet  social  socialnetworking  opinion  magazine 
january 2011 by avinash
Manage Your Bookmarks & Reading List with Instapaper
Instapaper is an application we’ve covered before here on MakeUseOf – Abhijeet even featured it as one of “4 Awesome Tools to Save Pages For Reading Later.” Instapaper is a great tool for saving pages and reading them later, but it’s also got the potential to be so much more.

Instapaper has, over the last several months, become my only source of bookmarks – I’ve ditched Diigo, which I loved; I’ve ditched Evernote, which I still use for everything else. Everything I find on the Web that I want for later now goes into Instapaper, which was made possible by some fantastic updates to the site, and more importantly, to the companion iPhone application.
web  web2.0  mobile  tool  reading  online  website  service  feed  free  directory 
january 2011 by avinash
Collaborative Online Diagram Software - Try it Free | Creately
Creately is a cloud-based diagramming and design application service operated by Cinergix, Pty Ltd. It is built on Adobe's Flex/Flash technologies and provides a visual communication platform for virtual teams. It can be used to create informational diagrams, flowcharts, organisational charts, website wireframes, UML designs, mind maps, circuit board designs, doodle art and many other diagram types. It features a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface and easy to use collaboration capabilities. Being a browser-based application with support for all modern web browsers like Firefox, Safari and Opera browser, it runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
tool  diagram  drawing  collaboration  design  software  development  web  web2.0  uml  free  online  flash  adobe 
january 2011 by avinash
Drupal: Receive an Email when a reader leaves a comment
Here is the scenario. We’ve created a blog using Drupal (don’t ask why, just because) and have written the most interesting blog post. After announcing the new post on every social media site that we can think of, we wait. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got more important things to do than to sit around and wait on feedback. Wouldn’t it be nice if the site would notify you of any new comments? Well it will with a little help.

By configuring Actions and Triggers your Drupal website will send an email when a reader, clicks the submit button on a new comment.
drupal  blog  email  send  configuration  action  trigger  web  webdev  opensource  howto 
january 2011 by avinash
Curation is the New Search is the New Curation
If we couldn't index 100,000 websites in 1996 by hand, how do we propose to do 234-million by hand today?

The answer, of course, is that we won't -- do them all by hand, that is. Instead, the re-rise of curation is partly about crowd curation -- not one people, but lots of people, whether consciously (lists, etc.) or unconsciously (tweets, etc) -- and partly about hand curation (JetSetter, etc.). We are going to increasingly see nichey services that sell curation as a primary feature, with the primary advantage of being mostly unsullied by content farms, SEO spam, and nonsensical Q&A sites intended to create low-rent versions of Borges' Library of Babylon. The result will be a subset of curated sites that will re-seed a new generation of algorithmic search sites, and the cycle will continue, over and over.
search  google  content  curation  algorithms  crawling  indexing  directory  website  web  web2.0  collaboration  people  value  information  data 
january 2011 by avinash
node.js
Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently. Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep. If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation.

This is in contrast to today's more common concurrency model where OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking is relatively inefficient and very difficult to use.
javascript  server  development  programming  library  web  web2.0  webapp  webdev  internet  opensource  tool 
january 2011 by avinash
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is an open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps. Build apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of core features in iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, Google Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs.
iphone  mobile  development  javascript  android  blackberry  palm  symbian  opensource  library  html5  web  web2.0  apps 
december 2010 by avinash
Yahoo, You Flubbed News About The Future Of Delicious, Not The Press
Yesterday, like many news outlets, we saw a leaked slide that suggested that Yahoo might be closing Delicious. We didn’t publish until we had a statement from Yahoo. That statement clarified nothing. So it’s galling to have Yahoo today acting like the press got it all wrong.
yahoo  delicious  news  fail  communication  problem  twitter  web  web2.0 
december 2010 by avinash
Scripting News: How Twitter and del.icio.us are alike
Perhaps if we figure out how to decentralize del.icio.us, we'll be on the way to decentralizing Twitter? Maybe all del.icio.us needed was to become realtime, and it would have become Twitter? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

BTW, I often have the same idea about Flickr. It's a gem, with a huge and influential user base, to this day. With a little love and care it might blossom into something really wonderful. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Yes, I believe in resurrection!
twitter  delicious  comparison  features  internet  web  web2.0  tool  data 
december 2010 by avinash
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
I've used Delicious in many different ways. In addition to analyzing its patterns to discover early influencers, I've also used it for:

Blog discovery
To Power a Lightweight CMS
Key news threshold
Postrank input
etc.
yahoo  delicious  socialnetworking  tagging  bookmark  consolidation  service  blog  technology  internet  web 
december 2010 by avinash
Announcing Infos.mu
On the reasons why I launched Infos.mu...
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december 2010 by avinash
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