Bloggers do all sorts of things that earn money or products. Reviews, giveaways, contests, and product mentions are among many common blog post types that may result in the blogger either getting a free product or making some money somehow. Bloggers get pitched by PR firms to try out products and write about products all [...]
jQuery: A Designer’s Perspective at scriptjunkie is a good introduction to jQuery. Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Jailbreaking iPhone apps is now legal. Well, it’s legal according to the DMCA. Apple says it voids your warranty, however. Women in Technology is a thoughtful essay at Stubbornella (Nicole Sullivan’s [...]
Etsy is hiring. Like any web-based company, they are advertising the job openings on the Internet. Maybe you aren’t familiar with Etsy. You need to know that it is a marketplace for handmade and vintage items–a community of creative people. That’s important to keep in mind. Etsy is advertising for coders and programmers and database [...]
Patch vs. Media News: One Little Instructive Story is about the AOL hyperlocal news service called Patch. The landscape is shifting under our feet. Pay attention. I’ve written about a lot of “build a website, free!” sites, especially for eHow. Now there is a company in the field that has found a way to make [...]
Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution from the POTUS promises more broadband. We need it. Is it google.cn or google.hk? Either way, it’s a workaround for searching in China. See An Update on China. It’s Social Media Day. Mashable wants you to attend a meetup in your area to celebrate your social medianess. Getting the hang [...]
A call for help with a technical problem to a line called Builder Support is making the rounds of the Internet. During the anniversary of Pac-Man last week, there was a small Pac-Man game on the Google search page. The call is about that noisy Pac-Man game. Most people think it’s worth linking to and [...]
For a while I toyed with the idea of using embedded fonts to liven up my web pages. I would read articles on how to do it and get discouraged. Some browsers needed one kind of font, some another—it was too much bother. Then Google came out with a font embedding system that is dead [...]
Last week Facebook responded to the screams of anger over their privacy policies. On the Facebook blog, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new rules. Supposedly, the steps Facebook is taking will make monitoring your privacy settings simpler. Today we’re starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler. We’ve [...]
The Stylemaster folks at WestCiv have some online CSS tools that are useful. Make gradients, transforms, shadows and stroke text with these tools. Small icons on each tool show you which browsers currently support these CSS3 techniques. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010 is themed “Collaborating Across Boundaries.” It’s set in [...]
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