Category: State of the Web

  • Like and Friend are broken in Facebook.

    Like and Friend are broken in Facebook.

    I CANNOT LIKE Happy Cog’s new Facebook page, due to Facebook’s unexplained and arbitrary limitation on how many things a user is allowed to Like. In Facebook’s world, it seems I Like too many things,…

  • Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show

    Episode 39: Crowd Fusion’s Brian Alvey live on The Big Web Show

    BRIAN ALVEY (home, Twitter) is our guest on The Big Web Show Episode 39, recording live Thursday, February 16, at 12:00 PM Eastern at 5by5.tv/live. Brian is CEO of Crowd Fusion, a publishing platform that…

  • Readability 2.0 is disruptive two ways

    Readability 2.0 is disruptive two ways

    RELEASED LAST WEEK, Arc90’s Readability 2.0 is a web application/browser extension that removes clutter from any web page, replacing the typical multi-column layout with a simple, elegant, book-style page view—a page view that can be…

  • HTML5 vs. HTML

    HTML5 vs. HTML

    THANKS TO THE WORK of the WHAT WG, the orations of Steve, the acclaim of developers, and a dash of tasteful pamphleteering, the W3C finally has a hit technology on its hands. Indeed, it has…

  • Big Web Show Episode 34: Craig Mod on the Form of the Book

    Big Web Show Episode 34: Craig Mod on the Form of the Book

    CRAIG MOD is our guest today January 13, 2011 in Episode No. 34 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 12:00 PM Eastern (new time!) before…

  • Own Your Data

    Own Your Data

    Captured from Twitter, here is Tom Henrich’s partial reconstruction of my conversation with Tantek Çelik, Glenda Bautista, Andy Rutledge and others on the merits of self-hosting social content and publishing to various sites rather than…

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • Top Web Books of 2010

    Top Web Books of 2010

    “It’s been a great year for web design books; the best we can remember for a while, in fact!” So begins Goburo’s review of the Top Web Books of 2010. The list is extremely selective,…

  • Touch-based App Design for Toddlers

    Touch-based App Design for Toddlers

    As always, Luke Wroblewski nails it:   When kids interact with software they explore and engage with anything that looks interesting. Especially if it looks like content. Graphical user interface components don’t. Consider the example of…

  • UK Judge: Search is Theft

    UK Judge: Search is Theft

    paidContent UK’s NLA Ruling Summary: How PRs Break Copyright Law Online offers the highlights of a 148-paragraph ruling by the British High Court “that PRs who subscribe to paid news monitors are breaking UK law…

  • Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.

    Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.

    Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…

  • Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…

  • A List Apart 2010 Survey For People Who Make Websites

    A List Apart 2010 Survey For People Who Make Websites

    The data that you provide and we analyze is the only significant information about web design as a profession published anywhere, by anyone. Please take the survey for people who make websites.

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

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