Category Archives: Interactive

Facebook privacy changes: Five can’t-miss facts

Keeping track of Facebook’s ongoing updates, upgrades and changes—and how they affect your privacy—can be confusing and frustrating.

Google explains search rankings after complaints in Europe

by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Google has offered a general explanation of how it ranks its search results, one day after the European Commission said it was looking into antitrust complaints against the company.
In a blog post Thursday, Google Fellow Amit Singhal also referred to a recent op-ed piece suggesting that regulators should control how search engines rank [...]

Working with multiple browsers

Some useful tips on how to keep things organized. The comments provide a fair amount of helpful information and ideas as well. View Site

Google grabs bigger search bite

While Microsoft’s Bing might be getting a lot of attention, Google is still king of all things search. Google’s search rivals, such as Bing and Yahoo have been pulling out the stops over the last several months trying to take a chunk out of its market share, but so far it’s not working, according to [...]

Report: Twitter gets phone users to surf the Web

Micro-blogging site Twitter is having a positive effect on the number of consumers using their mobile phone to access the web, says Novarra. View Site

JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash

JavaScript’s creator claims JavaScript has displaced Java as a Web client, outlines projected enhancements View Site

MSN Reskins, Aligns with Bing

The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival.
That would be Apple (AAPL), of course, with a big dollop of Twitter and Facebook tossed in and [...]

‘Readability’ makes Web pages more readable

Dan Frakes describes how a 3rd-party site offers a simple bookmarklet to help you make any other site… well… more readable. View Site

Google Chrome Frame: an early/preview look at a way to move beyond IE6

Jim Ray talks about how to get rid of IE6… without getting rid of it. It’s an early attempt, but I’m pretty certain your mom (or your client) will end up being able to implement this eventually… “Chrome Frame potentially makes designing for progressive enhancement even more realistic. Imagine being able to design with all [...]

Facebook aims to become the next Google

Recent moves suggest that the social networking site Facebook wants to be the next Google instead of the latest MySpace, according to PC World’s Tony Bradley. View Site