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It appears that Baidu is looking to expand their base as much as possible. Exploring possible acquisitions, partnerships and so forth as Baidu begins taking its competition a bit more seriously now.
It’s sort of interesting to see how Baidu differs in market share when compared to alternatives such as Google. While Baidu maintains a massive [...]

Normally, I would never link to an article claiming that RSS is dead. In this case however, the piece was written by someone who actually understands its value in the great scheme of things. And even Dave Winer was seen sharing his own perspective in the comments of the above linked piece as if to [...]

Hate to admit it, but before today I have never even heard of Jaxtr at all. Clearly, VoIP comments on Twitter are still a work in progress for @Jaxtr, despite them maintaining a fair presence on the social networks otherwise.
The way the service works is as follows. The user dials into a toll free number [...]

Many think of a Web site as an electronic brochure, and in many ways it is. A Web site, however, keeps going where a brochure leaves off. This response often leads to the question, “Well, how different should my brochure be from my Web site then?” There are ways that your brochure should be similar [...]

Chris mentioned this once and frankly, I think it needs to be said again - we need you, folks.
I’m going to go out on a limb tonight. Actually, I think I was out there before - and the response from this audience was relatively dismal, which only served to push my hopes onto the backburner. [...]

Now this is an interesting comparison to be sure – roller skates for the web. Never of AJAX being looked at this way before.

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates [...]

Boy, lately it seems like everyone and there mother is hitting the AJAX train. Guess it should not be a huge surprise to see that IBM is all on board as well.
 
IBM announced that it will [...]

Redirects on links are usually more annoying than helpful. Some are put there to act as “click counters” while others really have no point at all. Can we just get rid of them so we can travel on to the next Web page? That doesn’t seem like a big problem to me. [...]

Don’t get me wrong here, I think that AJAX is as cool as everyone else out there. Cool effects and time saving abilities. But is it also a cause for security concerns, too. It appears that for some, it could be.

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is shutting out survivors of Hurricane Katrina who don’t use Internet Explorer (IE). Those Katrina survivors needing to request assistance from FEMA and who use Firefox, Opera, Netscape, or any non-Windows system are, as they say, SOL. Apparently when it comes to relief aid, MSFT is the [...]

Perfect 10, an online and offline publisher of adult content, has filed a lawsuit against Google and Amazon, claiming that by turning up images of Perfect 10’s… um… “models”… in searches for, oh, who knows, maybe “nekkid women”, Google and Amazon’s A9 are violating Perfect 10’s copyright.

The Web Standards Project has launched a DOM (document object model) Scripting Task Force because “JavaScript suffers from outdated, uninformed, and inaccessible development methods which preclude it, and therefore web development in general, from attaining its full potential,” as written in its manifesto. “The WaSP DOM Scripting Task Force proposes to solve this problem [...]

Wow, we could use something like this in our own country (USA)! I am not trying to get political, I am talking about laws both old and new that may not really apply any longer.

Dave, I maintain a website for a grammar school and I would like to put a form in on our alumni page with their name, graduating year and email address. I can create the form on Frontpage or Dreamweaver, but I don’t quite get how the info is sent out. I would like [...]

That’s right, blogging is no longer the next big thing… it’s already THE big thing! What started out as a way to keep an online journal for recreation has become a must-have for corporations. Blogs have become a great tool for companies, acting as a medium for CEOs to interact with employees [...]

Studies show that people are deleting cookies and cached files from their computer regularly, giving the web developer a new headache for tracking their visitors. Tracking your visitor’s movements on your site can be very beneficial for showing trends and increasing visitor stay length and revenue, if you adapt your site accordingly. There [...]

Dave, I’m having a problem with a title block on one of my sites. When the browser window is below a certain size (about 750px in width), one of my absolute positioned divs overlaps another. How do I make it so that the browser just displays a scroll bar once this minimum size is acheived [...]

Firefox browsing performance can be boosted in a very significant way by following a few detailed instruction steps.

iUpload has just released the beta version of its new online personal publishing system, iUplog. Half personal CMS, half blog, the iUpload solution brings together some of the best features found in the top mainstream solutions from Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad and MSN Spaces.
iUplog Personal Publisher integrates also support for RSS enclosures allowing independent publishers [...]

Looking for the perfect cross platform blogging, RSS Reader application? You might consider giving Thingamablog a shot. The program is completely free and is simple enough that almost any skill level can create their own Weblog.