Friday, 2 September 2011

This is what we have all been waiting for :)

This is what we have all been waiting for :)


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New Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Thinking Printers'
SAN FRANCISCO—Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned pri...

Bad move Google

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Google closes Android developer complaint forums • The Register
Silent support costs more, but it's less embarrassing. By Bill Ray • Get more from this author. Posted in Developer, 23rd August 2011 13:23 GMT. Free whitepaper – Creating Order from Chaos in Data...

The HTML validation games continue


And they are not going to end one way or the other. Here is a recent example. Developer/journalist Tristan Louis did a small experiment the other day:

Louis then went on to examine the code of many top Web 2.0 companies to see how they compared. All of them are using UTF-8, and all of them had errors with the validator. Only five out of the 11 sites have made the transition to HTML5, with the rest using XHTML or HTML v4. As he says, "It looks like there is still much room for improve ment in the world of HTML validation."

Full article: The State of HTML5 Validation According to Tristan Louis - TNW.

Of course, HTML validation today is not an easy task, when some parts of the code are not even yours as TNW found

In places where we've embedded Facebook code on our home page, the Validator considers instructions that include the namespace declarer fb: to be erroneous. What's more, every part of those instructions generates a single error, so the entire instruction line may be deemed guilty of ten separate counts or more of infraction. The screenshot above shows one example of an attribute (among many in the same line) that the Validator claims doesn't exist, because the fb: namespace declaration doesn't exist in the specification. So when Facebook doesn't comply, we're guilty by association.

Full article Who's Validating the Validators? Reassessing HTML 'Compliance' - TNW

All in all, there will always be the need from big (private or public) organizations to ensure some level of quality (in the eyes of executives with no understanding of the medium). So HTML validation will continue to be another checkbox in a requirements list. At the same time, browsers will continue to evolve and add new features and major sites like Facebook will continue to do what suits them best (meaning that you will have non-validating code from Facebook on your site). It's a game you can't win but one we will continue to play...

Thursday, 1 September 2011

I activated my new online social profile on Amazon Kindle yesterday and suddenly...



Reshared post from +Mari Smith
I activated my new online social profile on Amazon Kindle yesterday and suddenly peeps started following me. Aha, that's because when you hook up your Facebook and Twitter accounts, autofollow is turned on (meaning you automatically follow other connected Kindle users that you follow on Twitter or with whom you are friends on Facebook) and this automation cannot be deactivated. Hmm.

Still, one of the first peeps I noticed I'd autofollowed was +Paul Allen (founder of Ancestry.com + ten other companies!), who's super savvy and very active on G+. I can see at a glance that Paul has 83 books with public notes. Now, I love the saying, "all leaders are readers" so I'm actually rather excited about the fact we can all share what books we've read along with notes and highlights, plus books we're currently reading and those we hope to read. I think you can tell an awful lot about a person by the books they read. I'm a voracious reader and have a library at home containing over 600 print books (97% of which are nonfiction). I love physical books and like to annotate and flag. I have a smaller collection on my Kindle and really dig the fact that now I can go from my own world - limited to just me and the author - to the whole world by reading a book on Kindle, highlighting and annotating and sharing online with my networks. Yep, reading books is now a social activity!

Feel free to connect with me here:
https://kindle.amazon.com/profile/Mari-Smith/2143524 (not a very elegant URL for now, but oh well! I just made this redirect: http://marismith.com/amazon/kindle).

You can make your Kindle notes (from books you've read/are reading) available publicly or keep them private on a book by book basis. And, if you do connect up your Facebook and Twitter accounts, you can also opt to share your reading activity with your social networks. See the article below from RWW. At a high level, your Kindle Profile is focused on reading and your Amazon profile is focused on buying.

See also this Wired article for more details: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/amazons-newish-social-network-now-lifting-even-more-info-from-facebooktwitter/


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Amazon Brings Social Reading to Kindle - But Will You Use It?
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The validation "game" continues

The validation "game" continues... and it's not going to end one way the other. There will always be the need from big (private or public) organizations to ensure some level of quality using html validation as a checkbox in a list. At the same times, browsers will continue to evolve and add new features and major sites like Facebook will continue to do what suits them best (meaning that you will have non-validating code from Facebook on your site...)


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Who's Validating the Validators? Reassessing HTML 'Compliance'
Yesterday, Tristan Louis, my friend and colleague (and I reserve that phrase specifically for friends and colleagues, that's not a euphemism) published on his TNL.net blog the results ...

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

it's not that bad :p

it's not that bad :p

Reshared post from +Timothy Lorens
http://asterclick.drclue.net/snapshots/AsterClickHUD082510.png

Perfect example of way you don't let a geek design UI

Food for inspiration :)

Food for inspiration :)


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