I experienced a huge Web 2.0 surprise on December 27, 2008 delivered in my mail box: an envelope that travelled all way from North Texas to Schweich, Germany containing a greeting card from the team at LinkWorth. I found that the Internet makes us lazier and somehow colder. I remember when I used to send [...]
Like so many social networks we use, twitter is inhabited and most effectively used by bloggers, marketers and obviously people with something to sell. Is it better to be critical of Web 2.0, or to follow mindlessly the trend to “lifestream ourselves until time runs out”? How many hours do you spend either “working” twitter [...]
I wrote a few articles emphasizing a fact some still debate: Google does have semantic functionality although they deny their interest in semantic search. Particularly the heads of the so called semantic search engines debate this, happily wearing the hat of an ignorant “we are alone” – translated “we are the only ones able to [...]
Once upon a time the only way to create accessible websites was the dullest way possible: all text websites were considered the only acceptable in terms of accessibility. Images, animation and any other elements meant to increase the visual appeal of a website used to be treated as the number one enemies of Web accessibility. [...]
Definition: Web accessibility refers to the practice of making pages on the Internet accessible to all users, especially those with disabilities. For people with disabilities the Web provides tools that open new horizons, and gives access to information that used to be a burden to get to before. Many people wrongly assume that Web accessibility [...]
Many entrepreneurs pay a public relations company to issue a press release and expect wonders immediately after the fact. Their expectations include: Coverage in the most important press outlets Sales boost Traffic overflow SEO advantages (mainly backlinks) What many of these business people fail to understand is that a press release is not a magic [...]
Allen Stern, editor at CenterNetworks wrote yesterday about an interesting local startup – ZocDoc. The news refers mainly at ZocDoc’s round A of funding from Khosla Ventures, but what really caught my attention was Allen’s statement: While ZocDoc isn’t as “sexy” as some of the other startups out there, it is one of the most [...]
