Scott Berkun’s Confessions of a Public Speaker is a great roadmap for anyone who is a public speaker of any level, including the elementary school teacher battling daily for the kids attention. The chapters come in perfect bite size chunks for easy reading. He covers a variety of dos and don’ts supported by some of [...]
Ready for your personal Extreme Makeover Home Edition? Google SketchUp might be just what you need. This 3D modeling program has been around under the Google brand since 2006. Download the “non-pro” version and jump right into designing your next flower planter, log cabin, or your favorite firefighter. It’s all possible as the extensive 3D [...]
Developer Janis Gonser explores new standards for HTML and CSS.
Creating interactive timelines can be simple. With an easy-to-use interface, Dipity allows you to upload descriptions, images, URLs, videos from video-sharing sites and even locations that display via Google Maps. With a simple code snippet, the timeline can be embedded into your own site and registered users can comment on your content. There are four [...]
As the team at TradeMark Media celebrates ten years of business, they reflect on the ever-changing technology industry and the World Wide Web. In this issue’s roundtable discussion, Developer Janis Gonser asks the team how they remember the Internet ten years ago.
Xing.com is the German/European counterpart of LinkedIn. When I started using it in December of 2008, I was amazed how many people I found at xing.com that are not part of the LinkedIn network. For your national networking approach stick to LinkedIn (at least for now), but if you do or plan to do business [...]
Developer Janis Gonser sheds some light on some of the common and confusing terms currently used in interactive marketing and development.
Developer Janis Gonser lays out the latest features of Microsoft’s long-awaited Internet Explorer 8. (Now if they’d only kill off IE 6…)
I came across senduit.com at this year’s SXSW conference during one of the design and usability sessions as a demonstration of a Web application with high clarity (versus simplicity). Senduit lets you share files with a size of up to 100MB via a private link. You can set an expiration date for the link varying [...]
Right in time for the holidays, Kayak is a search engine for all your travel needs. It searches more than 140 travel sites based upon your search criteria. You can then categorize the results by price, time, durations, and airlines. Feature worth mentioning: Fare Alert, which notifies you about low prices for your trip.
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