Mix08 Day 1
MIX08 got off with a BIG BANG today with what looked like a full house (roughly 900-1200 people in the keynote). Ray Ozzie kicked off the event and shared his vision for how Web developers and designers can deliver seamless rich media experiences across web applications, rich desktop clients and mobile devices with the HUB [...]
Read MoreLive from Mix08
The anticipation is building here in our offices for the MIX08 show in Las Vegas. I am looking forward to seeing the lastest and greatest MASH UPS with Live.com Silverlight, and the new features in Visual Studio, SQL 2008, and Windows Server 2008.
Read MoreExclusive Musana.com code for Black Web 2.0 users
We got an exclusive set of beta user accounts for you guys to checkout from Musana, a new music portal set to launch later this year. The portal is built on ASP.NET, and uses the ASP AJAX toolkit for the Javascript UI features. Not sure if they are using Silverlight, but it would be the [...]
Read MoreGoogle does Wikipedia
Well kinda! The official Google Blog reports a new tool to “encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.” The tool, Knol, which stands for a unit of knowledge, is still in development and is in the initial phase of testing. Currently, using Knol is by invitation only, but [...]
Read MoreMovable Type: Open Source…Finally
Six Apart’s blogging platform Movable Type has officially gone open source, now allowing developers to freely modify, customize, and use Movable Type for any purpose they choose. This move, though much anticipated, may come a bit too late. MT’s number one competitor, WordPress, which is the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on [...]
Read MoreWhere Are The Black Web Professionals?
Young and middle-aged white men are designing the modern Web. It’s a rather obvious claim which can be supported by the results from the 2007 Web Design Survey results from A List Apart (ALA). According to ALA, “the results represent the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced [...]
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