PGA Challenge in a Flash
World Golf Tour offers “the most authentic golf game on the web” through its www.wgt.com for free. A flash game. They have now also launched the PGA Charity Challenge, another flash game.
All you need to do is register (one minute) and play. Beginning a game can test your patience to the tether end, “due to […]
A New Hope For Google Visualization API
When the Google AJAX Search team first introduced the Google Visualization API early this year in a hope to reshape the future of online data visualization, it was met with a lukewarm response. Not because it wasn’t good, but because data could only be used from Google Spreadsheets. Not any more.
Google announced a couple of […]
E-Commerce Takes a New Turn With Amazon Windowshop
Until recently, e-commerce was synonymous to innumerable links and tomes of reviews with flickering flash ads and other pop-ups once every minute. Not anymore. As more and more e-commerce sites embrace RIAs, shopping online is increasingly becoming a viable alternative to daring the heavy traffic and pollution. Amazon Windowshop makes this an even smoother experience.
Amazon […]
Rounding Up Last Week
First off, dear co-bloggers, if you have been planning to join the BlogRush, I’m sorry to say that it is no more. Actually, Mark Hopkins of Mashable said that. Cheer up, it was not very appealing and apparently had so many problems, it is short-lived like the gold rush. For those wondering what this is […]
Color Your Music With Moody
We often want to listen to “soft music” or “party tracks”, more often than to listen to a particular artist or a genre. When there is a large music library, selecting these tracks is especially tedious. The simple solution is to use Moody.
With Moody, you can mood-tag your music.
Moody is an iTunes app that has […]
More Websites Use Flash Than AJAX
Everybody knows that there is a lot more Flash than AJAX on the web. But how much exactly is that “more”?
MAMA aka Metadata Analysis and Mining Application, is a structural web-page search engine that trawls the web for various details. Key findings of MAMA’s crawlings have recently been posted on the Dev Opera community resource […]
Habitual Thinking, An Obstacle
Being a part of the RIA community, I sometimes wonder whether we tend to forget the basics of usability while concentrating on the rich user experience. Here, I thank Jono for reawakening once again that thought with a nice example. (I apologize for not knowing his last name.)
Take a paper and draw a triangle and […]
Rounding Up Last Week
<head> conference closed the tag this Sunday with a </head>. There was so much to take in, it might be too early to start waiting for the next round. Mark Grossnickle of ickydime has a day by day review. And thank you for the show, Aral.
Google Earth is now officially on iPhones and iPod Touches […]
Quick Reminder About Head Conference
The web conference is to start in a few hours. The local conference hub registration is still open for the London hub according to Aral’s blog. I’m not sure about the remaining hubs in Brighton (UK), Manchester (UK), Fribourg (Switzerland), and San Francisco (USA), but at least the official website hasn’t changed the announcement that […]
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