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Digitalus: A Web CMS Built on Zend Framework...

James Mowery talks about Digitalus, August 2008

He says "The Digitalus CMS aims to empower PHP developers to create content on a solid, simple and extendable content management system that is based off of the widely popular Zend Framework."

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Prevent Your Website Being Displayed Inside IFRAME...

Roshan Bhattarai on Roshan's Blog, June 2008

He says "Sites like Google Image search and goodphptutorials.com display the website under the IFRAME and I don’t think you guyz want your site to be displayed it under the IFRAME. If you want to protect your site to be displayed under the IFRAME then here are the tips for you."

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Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...

Jakob Nielsen on AlertBox, December 2007

AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.

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Analysis: 6 Reasons Twitter Rocks and Sucks Simultaneously At SXSW

Rohit Bhargava on www.dmwmedia.com, March 2008

Rohit speaks about utilities and feels that "A utility is something that is always on, and essential. To lose it would be to thrust yourself into the dark ages. Water, electricity, gas ... and Twitter."

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Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry

Aarron Walter on A List Apart, March 2008

Aarron speaks about findability and feels "..that we are (the ones) missing out by not making Findability a priority in what we do. There’s much to gain if only we recognize its value."

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User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly

Jakob Nielsen on Alert Box, February 2008

Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.

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Social Media Trends Revisited 2008

Kami Huyse on Communication Overtones, February 2008

In 2006, Kami Huyse made some predictions about social media trends. She revisits what she had said. Plus, what's next for 2008

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Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

Aaron Gustafson on A List Apart, January 2008

Aaron Gustafson writes on A List Apart about a new site versioning feaure in IE8; a meta tag to define which version of the IE rendering engine should be used. While seemingly harmless, it outraged the standards crowd because with it comes the announcement that if no rendering engine is explicitly stated—if you fail to include this tag—it will use IE7 by default, no matter what CSS you wrote.

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The Social Graph: Issues and Strategies in 2008

Dion Hinchcliffe on Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, January 2008

One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of years has been the growth of social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace, as well as the addition of a social element to existing user experiences.

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A Study of Ajax Performance Issues

Coach Wei on Coach Wei: Direct from Web 2.0, January 2008

Ajax application performance largely depends on the performance of JavaScript execution and browser DOM operations. Some say JavaScript is just too slow. Some say the problem is not JavaScript but rather Browser DOM being too slow. Some people would then argue that browser DOM operations are fine. The problem is IE that is unbelievably slow. What is the reality? Coach Wei decides to take some time and do some study in this area.

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