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Amazon launches online payment system to rival PayPal and Google Checkout

There is a great need for a reliable, easy-to-configure and easy-to-use on-line payment system for small traders and Amazon has stepped into this arena with it’s own on-line payment system called Checkout by Amazon. Read more about it at C-Net… Share This

iconzworld.com - free web icons resource

Whenever I’m building or designing a web site/web app, the most time-consuming part of the project will be the creation of graphical elements like buttons etc. Well now I won’t be spending as much time doing that since I discovered iconzworld, a free icon resource web site. They put up new icon sets every couple of read more..

Joomla 1.0x Developers Manual

Although Joomla is a very popular open source application for building content-rich web sites, the available documentation for version 1.0x leaves a lot to be desired. Currently working on a pretty big, and complicated, project involving multiple Joomla sites, I went off in search of relevant material that would help me design and build custom components read more..

Pay-As-You-Go Email Marketing from MailChimp

Email marketing, although a proven and required part of a marketing strategy, can be costly with most online suppliers charging a hefty monthly sum to use their systems. Those that operate for free have limitations, usually something like ‘100 recipients only’ which is ok for low level activity but unsuitable for a growing business. Setting up your read more..

Got a 5 year Business Plan? Throw it out says 37Signals

I often write about or quote 37 Signals here, largely due to the respect I have for them as designers/developers and for the way they manage their business. This week Matt Linderman has written the article “Advice for entrepreneurs: Throw out that five-year plan, build something now, and don’t take any money” where he’s brought together read more..

Cheat Sheets for PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, CSS and SEO

I went on a bit of a Cheat Sheet binge this month. Working on a couple of projects using various technologies means I keep bouncing around looking for stuff so I thought I’d better get some cheat sheets up on my wall to save me time. Most of these are from one site, the brilliantly named read more..

Using Social Networks to Create your Business Market

Last month’s Inc. magazine featured clothing company Threadless on the front cover, a company founded by 2 college drop-outs (an interesting trend in itself - so many successful start-ups have college drop-outs at the helm) Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff. Founded in 2000, Threadless is set to hit $5million is sales this year selling, wait for read more..

Ruby and PHP are the Leading Web Development Languages according to Sun’s Tim Bray

Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, said in April’s Ruby Conference that Ruby and PHP are the languages of choice for new web applications. Both Ruby and PHP are open source and therefore it comes as no surprise that both these languages are being taken up far more quickly than established languages like read more..

Joomla - the difference between components and modules

When starting out in Joomla, either as a developer or site administrator, it’s likely one of the first questions to pop up will be what the difference between a Component and a Module is. Although it’s possible to ‘figure’ out what does what, it’s always a good idea to get the low-down from someone who’s read more..

What information does Google collect about you, the browser?

Danny Dover has written an amazing article over at SEOmoz about the information Google tracks and collects about every user to  its many service web sites e.g. from GMail, Google Desktop, Google Docs, Postini, YouTube, FeedBurner etc. Most Internet users are aware of the usual information collected but here Danny Dover has put together an exhaustive read more..

Can Social Networking Bridge the ‘Digital Divide’?

Technology has always moved fast and the Internet has made the pace even quicker. This has raised the question whether the digital divide is growing bigger as those who can afford to stay updated with the latest technological know-how and those who can’t are left ever behind. However new research from an American university shows that exactly read more..

ICANN relaxes rules on Top Level Domains

TechRadar.com reports today that ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names, is relaxing its rules for Top Level Domains next year. With billions of web sites populating the Internet it’s really no wonder ICANN are doing this - I can’t remember the last time I registered the exact domain that I or a client wanted. Practically read more..

Facebook races past MySpace

May was a very good month for Facebook; With 123 million unique visitors in May to MySpace’s 114.6 million, Facebook has become the king of the social networking hill! Seeing an increase of 162% on May 2007 compared to only 5% for MySpace it’s no contest as to which of the Social networks is the most read more..

How well does a Ruby on Rails Application scale?

A lot is usually made of the scalability of Ruby on Rails applications, usually leaning toward the negative. ZDNet spoke to LinkedIn about their viral application, called BumperSticker, for Facebook which sees in the region of 1 billion page views a month! Read the article on ZDNet.com here… Share This

Childnet International website teaches Parents about the Internet to help keep Children safe online

Childnet International is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to keep children safe when using the Internet. The open-ness and accessibility of the Internet by anyone from anywhere unfortunately means the Internet has become the hunting ground for those who prey on children. One way in which children can be protected when using the Internet is read more..