There are tools out there that allow automated mass-hacking of Wordpress instances that provides the attacker with a full shell access, file management and tools to clean up the traces. Quite impressive.
Use an interactive web-based spreadsheet to present your business plan instead of Powerpoint decks. Combine this with web analytics to increase your pitching efficiency.
From the makers of Tomboy: "Erlang-style concurrency with JavaScript". Has support for DOM and AJAX - I am looking forward to Google Gears worker threads support.
A good list of Web Marketing methodologies and aspects from Jermiah Owyang, Forrester Analyst (and smart guy)
These two patters have proven to work in multi-page, web-based forms. Either have previous left and next right and both of them as far apart as possible (I wonder how this works in RTL cultures) or emphasize the Continue button and de-emphasize the Go Back link.
The World Bank offers its statistical data via an open API. This is impressive.
Google introduces its browser "Chrome" with a comic. No matter what Chrome brings, the comic book is a master piece of technical communication on its own. Complex concepts are explained with human touch and graspable metaphors.
Good collection of market insight on making money in the Enterprise SaaS market as a startup, and how to get funded.
Designing social software for small groups and specific contexts offers a multitude of advantages compared to designing social software for massive groups and general contexts.
How the evolution of web clients allows us to build more powerful web clients, and why this is helpful for your application's architecture. After reading this it should become clear, why MVC is a good idea on the client, not on the server.
A new, API-breaking YUI release is coming. Would be interesting to compare what's new there with recent development in Dojo and Ext JS.
be fast, be consistent, do not interrupt, do not notify, do not give information that does not help, hard things can be hard (but not impossible), undo is better than yesnocancel, fail gracefully, do not forget, provide more than one navigation, design before you code. These rules rule!
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