Mar 2, 2012
Mozilla is demoing their mobile operating system Boot to Gecko at Mobile World Congress. Boot to Gecko or “B2G” is to focus on providing open HTML5 web-based applications. Mozilla has already received support of telecommunication companies like Telefonica, Qualcomm, and Deutsche Telekom as well as support from Adobe. Mozilla phones will also come into market [...]
Feb 27, 2012
This journal articles explains the cost-business strategy of outsourcing computer processes to specialized cloud computing companies. Businesses avoid the huge investment costs of computer hardware and software licenses by switching to cloud software and simply paying the subscription price. They also save on not having so many IT employees which are considered overhead in many [...]
Feb 13, 2012
The journal article explains the problem solving process of e-reader developers in creating a user experience that competes with the tried and true user experience of regular old books. These developers understood that they had to deliver a product that was easy to use and was formatted well to effectively deliver content to the customer [...]
Feb 5, 2012
Mutual Mobile COO, Tarun Nimmagadda, describes advantages of mobile development and gives pointers on what to look for when developing a in-house mobile development team. He claims that mobile development is very cost efficient for smaller companies and that it is no longer viewed as “supplements to existing web efforts,” but are now viewed as [...]
Jan 27, 2012
Luis von Ahn (Creator of CAPTCHA) speaks at TED about “massive-scale online collaboration.” His reinvention of CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, allows the wasted human time of using CAPTCHA to instead be used to digitize books. When the system is unable to decipher a word from an image of text, it will place the undecipherable word into a [...]
Jan 21, 2012
Square COO, Keith Rabois makes a case on the importance of keeping mobile applications native to the platform. He believes that applications that stay native to the hardware allows for a greater user experience that is deeper and more responsive than any HTML5 counterpart (which is web-based and usable on any of the mobile platforms). [...]
Jan 16, 2012
The bulk of this article from Wired.com describes the new car technologies displayed at the Consumer Electronic Show by various car manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, and Audi. Car manufacturers see the profitability of developing cars with mobile applications, cloud support, connectivity options such as “Sync” or “UConnect,” and internet connection such as 3G. That [...]
Jan 8, 2012
The option to register “web address suffixes” or “secondary names”, e. g., “.shop” or “.california”, will become available on Thursday and will expand the index of unused domain names by near infinity. The cost to apply to be “registry holder” to one of these new web address suffixes will be 185,000 US. Many businesses are [...]
Mar 12, 2012
Online Comments {2}
The article describes Gawker Media founder Nick Denton labeling online comments a “joke.” He describes that web comments are usually “off topic and toxic” and attempts to moderate are ineffective at the cost of high amounts of effort. The moderation attempts that he mentions are writer and editor participation in discussion, a “up-vote and down-vote” [...]
By Richard Huynh Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: comments, online, web