In great news, Google, Yahoo and MSN have agreed upon a XML sitemap standard.
The Continuing Development of CSS as a Web Standard
Cascading style sheets were formally introduced by the W3C in 1997 and in the nine years since have made gradual progress to becoming a web standard.
Should Privacy Search Command Be Standard?
One of the issues facing the search engine industry is privacy. People aren’t necessarily keen on the fact search engines store each and every query executed as well as the applicable IP information. Remember the AOL debacle? In light of those events, you’d have to think active search engine users would welcome a command that […]
Add variables to standard CSS stylesheets in ASP.NET
After reading a post on The Cafes about the lack of dynamics in the CSS language, I found myself inspired to do something about it.
A Google vs. Microsoft Double Standard?
I was just looking at all the blog writing about Google’s new announcement. Hey, what an awesome PR machine Google has. They don’t talk to a single blogger and we all talk about them anyway. I think bloggers like the abuse!
Europe’s Competition Double Standard
When it comes to US-based companies like Microsoft and Apple, the European Union thinks they should open the doors on their intellectual property to competitors; when it comes to municipalities competing with broadband providers, the EU’s stance is downright American.
Yahoos Double Standard: France Vs. China
Yahoo has a double standard. A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by the Sunnyvale portal powerhouse, filed to try and keep a Paris court from enforcing a $15 million fine for displaying Nazi memorabilia for sale on Yahoo’s auction site. This is a violation of French law and shows a different game than Yahoo dealing with China.
A Standard Symbol for RSS?
One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping ‘normal’ people understand what RSS is.
Create Your Methodology Based on a Standard Framework
This article, the first of a series of three, gives some tips on designing and implementing a methodology based on a standard framework such as ITIL or PMBoK.
Companies Demonstrate Interoperability of WSDM OASIS Standard
Powerful tech companies collaborated with OASIS on their Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard. Those companies include IBM, DataPower, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and Tibco and they demonstrated the interoperability of that standard at the Enterprise Management World conference in Bethesda, Maryland.