iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 12th, here are the highlights:

• FlairBuilder is a very interesting prototyping tool for user interface designers. Unlike Balsamiq or iPlotz, FlairBuilder makes it possible to create actionable prototypes
• Hadoops sorts a Terabyte of data in 62 seconds
• Laconica is an open source micro-blogging platform. Interesting if you want to provide a Twitter-like service for your employees or for an organization
• Python programmers: Pattern matching in Python

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 11th, here are the highlights:

• CubeTree is a new interesting application which has the same features as Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook, but for the Entreprise. Think intranets, Q&As, as well as project management
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective developers
• Botnet master hits kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs
• an interesting experiment: CouchDB on Wheels

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 7th, here are the highlights:

• Twitter will start indexing links for search, which will turn into a competitor to Google Search
• 2 different reports show that the telecommunications industry is out of capacity for the Internet, at its current growing rate, while another analysis shows that networks infrastructure spending is booming.
• Draw beautiful charts with Google Chart, through a javascript library
• Estonia planning 100Mbps Internet connections for its net-izens

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 6th, here are the highlights:

• TechCrunchIT writes that it’s the end for RSS
• Ilya Grigorik’s presentation on building a “mini-Google” in Ruby at RailsConf
• Sid Meier, an icon in games development, lists his rules for software design and development. It’s interesting if you are a programmer, a designer or a even a web entrepreneur.

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 5th, here are the highlights:

• Creating Buzz 101 for websites: from 0 to Forbes in under a week
• F.lux: software to make better lighting for your computer
• a micropreneur’s perspective: Selling physical products vs digital products
• BlackBerry Curve more popular than the iPhone

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 4th, here are the highlights:

• A list of client-side frameworks (mostly Javascript frameworks, but also other frameworks like Flex)
• The L.A. Times tells why text messages are limited to 160 characters (and in a way, why we have 140 characters now for services like Twitter or identi.ca)
• Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable? an article at MacWorld, about the popularity of WiFi networks

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For May 1st, here are the highlights:

• A blog post discusses the value of commercial databases (Oracle, MS SQL) vs open-sourced databases (MySQL, PostregreSQL, sqlite…). The author argues using Oracle is only justified in only 1% of cases.
• New features for the 3.5 version of Firefox.
• jspern is a mini-framework for Django to create REST APIs
• Facebook: efficient storage of billions of photos. The blog post at the Facebook engineering blog has more details about their Haystack system (servers, software, protocols etc.)
• Ars Technica: Twitter’s growth can’t be sustained

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 29th, here are the highlights:

• Edushi is a Google maps mashup with 3D visuals. It’s impressive and lets us see what can be done with the Google Maps API.
• The new ground zero in Internet Warfare
• Tokutek’s TokuDB claims to speed up MySQL by a factor of 10

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 27th, here are the highlights:

• How to leverage product development for your web company
• How much ads cost is an article revealing rates if you want to advertise on different media (TV, cable, magazine, Internet, radio). This is especially useful if you want to put ads on your website and negotiate with advertisers
• Compass is a CSS framework (video tutorial on how to use it)

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published at 8.00am EST. For April 23rd, here are the highlights:

• I ? wireframes is a blog/slideshow referencing interesting wireframes patterns
• How to optimize your website with mod_deflate
• Massive botnet, 2 million infected. The new network is operated out of Ukraine
• Microsoft Windows 7 is a gift to Google, writes Silicon Alley Insider