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Years from now, people will look back to the day Skittles ditched its flashy site and chose to load the top social websites that talk about it instead. I can’t even begin to fathom how brilliant a campaign this is (despite being pioneered by Modernista exactly a year before). Maybe it’s not. I don’t know [...]
Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzzwords that you will hear these days. Whether or not you know exactly what cloud computing is all about, you can certainly understand just how hot this topic is. For the benefit of those you who want to get a concise definition of cloud computing, here’s a nice [...]
Google brought back the 80s arcade game Pac Man to celebrate its 30th anniversary last May 22nd in the form of a fully-working Google Doodle on its homepage (it’s been since moved to a dedicated page where people can still play it). The “I’m feeling lucky” button gets replaced by “Insert coin” and clicking on [...]
It’s been a couple of years since the height of the “kill IE6″ web campaigns, and it took that long to hold a funeral that finally seals its fate. Of course, the IE6 Funeral is an arbitrary event held by the Aten Design Group last March 4, and this doesn’t really eradicate the browser on [...]
To commemorate the closing of internet dinosaur and free web hosting service Geocities today, October 26, geeky web comic XKCD “redesigned” its site to match the horrible aesthetic (or lack thereof) rampant during the ’90s. Low-fi images (including the requisite “under construction” sign), web-safe colors, <table>s, <blink>, <marquee>, a hit counter, and a “best viewed [...]
Jacob Gube of Six Revisions has compiled 30 visually-stunning sites which are all formatted like virtual business cards. Tim Van Damme, whose dot-com of the same name sparked this trend, also maintains a list as well. There’s little else on each page except a rectangular area found dead-center, filled with icons representing the tons of [...]
One of the most ambitious efforts to come out of the Googleplex (or anywhere, really) in ages is Google Wave, a real-time messaging, sharing, and collaborating service unveiled last week. Finally, Google’s crack at the Real-Time Web. We’ve been waiting. Google’s Real-Time Web You might recall ReadWriteWeb proclaiming the big G missed the boat on [...]
It’s April 9th somewhere around the world and that means it’s time for the annual CSS Naked Day. Just how elegant and semantic is your website’s markup? Stripping out your stylesheets will determine that. Good houses must have good foundations, and so must good sites. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. [...]
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) has just announced that members of the Internet Information Security Consortium (I2SecC) have discovered the real purpose of the infamous Conficker Worm, set to wreak havoc on millions of compromised systems on April 1st. WaSP has also discovered that the best way to fight this malware is to ensure your [...]
On Friday, November 28, standardistas all over the world shall unite to celebrate the 2nd Blue Beanie Day, an informal event promoting web standards and accessibility. Participants are invited to wear a blue beanie—like the one Jeffrey Zeldman wore on the cover of Designing With Web Standards—then snap a photo of themselves and share it [...]
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