Some interesting thoughts on the difference between blogging and using the various social media like twitter...

But it wasn't the same. I had gone from owning (most of) my content, to digital sharecropping.

source : Tantek

: "I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves."

source : The Life of Leo

Maybe we do put too much of our content in other peoples hands, twitter owns our tweets, flickr our pictures, slideshare our slides and youtube or vimeo our videos. At least on our own blogs we have control over whether or not we keep it, anyone remember Buzz...

And here is why...

HTTP/1.1: Connections: "Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy. A proxy SHOULD use up to 2*N connections to another server or proxy, where N is the number of simultaneously active users. These guidelines are intended to improve HTTP response times and avoid congestion."

Cool and long overdue. The sites that make me visit multiple pages for one article only make me use the reader functionality of safari.

And get annoyed...

"Think of how a typical user session works on most news sites these days. A user loads an article (1 pageview), pops open a slideshow (1 pageview), flips through 30 slides of an HTML-based slideshow (30 pageviews). That’s 32 pageviews and a lot of extraneous downloading and page refreshing.

On new msnbc.com story pages, the above sequence would register one pageview: the initial one. The rest of the interactions occur within the page itself. Can msnbc.com serve ad impressions against in-page interactions? Sure, and that’s key to the strategy, but as a user, your experience is much smoother, and as an advertiser, the impressions you purchase are almost guaranteed to come across human eyes since your ads are only loaded upon user interaction."

(Another Nail in the Pageview Coffin | Mike Industries.)

Google is going to compete with amazon's s3, sadly it's only for US citizens now. I would love to play with this and see how it compares...

"Google Storage for Developers is a new service for developers to store and access data in Google's cloud. It offers developers direct access to Google's scalable storage and networking infrastructure as well as powerful authentication and data sharing mechanisms."

Product Overview - Google Storage for Developers - Google Code

Please read this piece about ads on your page, it makes a good point that the ads are part of your brand. And that you should pick them with care, not accept anything a banner farm throws at your site.

Mule Design Studio's Blog: Ads are Content: "The ads you allow on your site are part of your brand."

In my opinion this also is true about the speed you want to give your visitors. Still too many banner farms ( I won't name and shame, but you know how you are. ) and ad agencys don't do anything about speed. Using for instance extremely slow javascript solutions to serve the banners. At one of my clients I tried to convince them to just give us some xml or json and let us place the banners from the link provided by them, but they didn't wanted to do that. Hiding behind tracking the visitor 'cause it was important to them, the continued to worsen the experience we could provide for our visitors.

In fact it was so bad the the load time was multiplied by 5 with banners. FIVE times as long, all because they wanted to track users to better their experience...

"But the Macalope will be surprised if people move away from the iPhone in droves because of a technology that eases the lives of developers instead of users."

(Via The Macalope Weekly

Here’s what happened: On his Mac, Ryan pulled up a site called Eco Zoo. It is, seemingly, a pretty intense example of Flash development — full of 3D rendering, rich interactions, and cute little characters. Then, he pulled up the same thing on his Nexus One. The site’s progress bar filled in and the 3D world appeared for a few seconds before the browser crashed. Ryan said (paraphrasing), “Whoops! Well, it’s beta, and this is an intense example — let’s try it again.”

"JeffCroft.com: On the Android Flash demo at FlashCamp Seattle: "

Because it is friday and I am working,

• Homer simpson
• does web site need to look the same in every browser.
• is it IE...
• is web equal to print

I will put up a decent post when deadline season is over. Should be in a couple of weeks...

Technorati Tags:browsers, css, Internet Explorer

As not all the links have to be new, I decided to share a few old articles with you I read long ago and still look at...

• A trip down memory lane, me first look at the versatile nature of lists.
• A tutorial about Object-Oriented Javascript.
• Seven rules of unobtrusive javascript
• More on unobtrusive javascript by Christian Heilman.
• More oo stuff, this one by Jonathan Snook
• A piece by Douglas Crockford on prototypical inheritance
• And one on privacy in javascript
• A simple article about closures in javascript.
• To close todays fixation with javascript read this and use it to defend your trade.

Technorati Tag:javascript

the site was complaining about the cold, it being april but still freezing at night here in the netherlands, I decided to clothe it again. So naked day is over...