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David Kord Murray – “Borrowing Brilliance”

I’m very excited about the new Speaker Series that MSR New England has kicked off today, featuring David Kord Murray, author of Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by building on the ideas of others. David gave a solid talk, emphasizing the importance of two aspects in the process of being “creative”: Borrowing [...]

From Pages to Streams

Thought provoking article on Techcrunch about the shift from dedicated web pages to real-time streams.

“The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.”

This real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings [...]

Journalism Will Not Only Survive, It Will Thrive

On May 6th, Arianna Huffington presented the opening remarks for the Senate Subcommittee on Cummunications, Technology and the Internet’s Hearing on “The Future of Journalism”. She began with a clear statement: Journalism Will Not Only Survie, It Will Thrive! She added that we are actually in the midst of a Golden Age for news consumers, [...]

pagination using php, javascript and html

Earlier this week I set out to build a little webapp – essentially a visual, easy-to-use wrapper over a mySQL database which included a wide array of data. Naturally, I set to add pagination to the app, along with filtering functionality. Automatically, I set out to search the web for pre-written modules. I [...]

Making round DIVs

Here’s the image-based method I used to make rounded DIVs. Use the following HTML code along with the CSS properties and .gif files. The results are a lot of fun and look quite good:

[tags]html,code,programming,round,div,css[/tags]

The Insider & Facebook connect

More and more sites using Facebook connect (a platform which allows integration of FB content on external sites) are popping up. CBS’s celebrity gossip site TheInsider is among the first to do so. Anyone can log in using their Facebook ID, and then can choose to have any comments, article votes, or poll responses show [...]

Now Your Online Business can Observe the Sabbath Online!

Saturday Guard automatically shuts down your website during Sabbath (and ONLY during Sabbath) according to the browser’s geographic location. Another genius innovation from our beloved religious sect (did I already mention that I can’t wait for someone to invent sarcastic type already!)

With the development of technology the Internet takes a major roll in our day [...]

Visual Delights for Browsing

Whoa. In the past couple of days I’ve discovered fresh web-based visual effects that give a lot of joy:
1) I am a big supporter of Gmail labels and filters. Since it is my main email box, I use it to subscribe group lists, bills, google alerts as well as receiving personal emails. Labels and filters [...]

On sympathy groups and why I diss(like) Twitter

Overload [def]:: to load to excess; overburden; fill to excess so that function is impaired – precisely how i feel about social networking sites recently. Plunged from their initial excitement to being yet another procrastination tool – one that minimizes the already little amount of sincere conversations I have with friends. Even though Twitter seems [...]

new media News

I’ve recently been enjoying the NYtimes multimedia feature. This latest one is a set of interviews with people who live in the Gaza strip. Different local perspectives on their lives and feeling towards the deteriorating political situation. It is a series of well-taken photographs placed in a slideshow along with translated audio of their interviews. [...]