Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer...
As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing
my SEO. Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the
reach of my blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach.
Moreover, Ulitzer does it in a very fair way since links back to my posts or
other locations are without the evil "nofollow" - providing a nice SEO boost.
It also gives me some good metrics that are very useful data points on the
effectiveness of my blog articles. And last but not least, it allows my
article to appears in the news listings of the two major search engines,
which is a very nice channel extension.
So, all of this means that, while Ulitzer might be seen as a competing
channel to bloggers, I thin... (more)
While many see Microsoft Silverlight as an Adobe Flash killer, I actually
think Adobe should rejoice that Microsoft is competing with Adobe on its own
turf (i.e., media plug-ins) rather than putting all its energy, as it once
did, into Web standards and innovation (IE 5.0 was the most robust and
compliant Web browser of its time).
If Microsoft were to take a similar approach to the one it... (more)
Mysterious, comforting, scary, and attractive are all possible adjectives to
describe a cloud. Interestingly enough, this is true of all kinds of clouds,
from the meteorological to the computing. During the last few years, we have
a seen a proliferation of clouds forming from every corner of the Internet.
Nowadays, it is very rare to see any Internet technology presentation without
at le... (more)
Jon Davis posted an interesting article discussing whether the Microsoft
stack is really more expensive than open source alternatives.
Jon has a point; Microsoft’s restricted (i.e., Express) editions are as
free as the open source alternatives. This is undeniably true, since the
purpose of many software vendor’s “Express” edition is to compete
against open source on price. However, the di... (more)
Nowadays, building [rich] Web applications can be quite challenging, as the
proliferation of Web technologies has become overwhelming and confusing. The
real challenge is that many interesting new Web technologies are being
promoted by various groups, and it can be quite difficult for a developer or
architect to filter the practical and future-proof ones from the cool and
volatile ones.
... (more)
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