Forecasts in July this year predicted MySpace membership numbers would reach the 100 million mark by the autumn. Well guess what? It’s happened already according
From its humble beginnings as FutureSplash, Flash has grown into the leading platform for delivery of multimedia on the web. Adobe have posted a selection
Goggles is a fun flight simulator game that uses graphical data from Google Maps. A great idea from Mark Caswell-Daniels.
O’Reilly Radar has posted a feature on programming language trends based on sales of computer books (figures taken from 70% of US bookstores, including Amazon,
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox has a new article that answers that old question “what screen resolution should I design for?” The headline, one-sentence answer is: “Optimise
With viewing figures for our most recent email marketing campaign hot off the server, all indications point to it being a success. Carried out on
Adobe have revealed that a new version of Director will be released in the first half of 2007. No new features have been confirmed, which
SitePoint have published “The Ultimate SEO Guide” – a comprehensive article covering the fundamentals of search engine optimisation, written by Shirley Kaiser. The guide includes
Yahoo! have launched a radical overhaul of their site this week. The emphasis seems to be on usability and speed of navigation: the homepage still
The Omni Group, creators of the popular graphing and charting application OmniGraffle, will release a public beta of their new project management tool OmniPlan on
The popular SitePoint author Matt Mickiewicz has interviewed Jakob Nielsen, the usability evangelist (or usability fetishist, depending upon your perspective), on AJAX (deemed “irrelevant”), contextual
This website demonstrates the features of the KIA Rio using an innovative, 3D rollercoaster ride. Featuring lots of pre-rendered Flash animation and bold, primary colours,
The results of a survey conducted by Click Forensics suggests that more than 1 in 10 clicks on online ads is fraudulent. The latest figure
ClickTale is an intriguing website statistics and monitoring service which creates movies of users’ individual browsing session. Every mouse movement, click and keystroke is recorded
activeCollab is an impressive open source clone of Basecamp. As you can see from the screenshot, it looks remarkably like Basecamp, even down to the
The UK website for the PSP game Loco Roco is a real treat, using the open source Flade engine to great effect.
Mochi Media have released MochiBot, an online statistics package for Flash content. Integration with MochiBot is simple: just cut and paste 4 lines of Actionscript
Colin Moock has posted a great article on the recent history of Actionscript and related Adobe/Macromedia swf generation tools. Colin discusses the progression from AS2
Senocular.com have posted a new tutorial, the Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3 (Without Learning Flex). Surely learning Flex and MXML is an integral
MDM have released an update to Zinc adding support for Flash 9, Flex 2 and AS3, with the added bonus of Universal Binary support for
Freedb.org, the website used by myriad MP3 encoders to download track information when ripping CDs, is to be taken down after two of the main
After months of speculation, Google have finally launched Google Checkout, their eagerly anticipated rival to the ubiquitous PayPal. As the feature tour demonstrates, the objective
Macromedia (Adobe, whatever)… can you please release a universal binary of the Flash Debug Player? It’s an integral part of my Flash, Eclipse, FDT setup,
I’ve invested in a black MacBook with 2GB of RAM (purchased separately of course, as Apple charge far too much for RAM upgrades). It’s an
Opera Software have released Opera 9. The update includes a number of new features including: Integrated BitTorrent downloader. Preview the contents of a tab by
The Apache module mod_rewrite is very much en vogue in this web2.0-obsessed world we live in. It’s a powerful tool for URL manipulation, and has
I’ve been doing lots of mod_rewrite stuff lately which has necessitated restarting Apache over and over again. Before doing so, I always run the command
Google have released a new beta of Google Earth, featuring a host of great new features including: Improved, user-friendly UI. 3D buildings can now feature
The author of the CSS3 preview page, Joost de Valk, has launched CSS3.info, a site dedicated to information about CSS3. For more information on CSS3,
The BBC’s eagerly anticipated live video streaming of the 2006 World Cup appears to have failed before a single ball has been kicked: (Screenshot taken