Archive for February, 2007

 

Ritesh on Feb 26th, 2007Ad Words trends and forecasts - SEO tool

Here’s a nifty little tool from Microsoft that lets you search for keyword analysis. Upon searching you are given a history of searches, also the geographical concentration of the search and also a forecast of how many people will search for the keyword in the coming future. Great I must say, people working on SEO [...]

Ritesh on Feb 25th, 2007Navigation management in Ajax Apps

[digg=http://digg.com/programming/Navigation_in_Ajax_Apps]There are a lot problems that Ajaxifying a site presents and one of them is navigation control. Bookmarking and the back button functionality namely the user behavior when using a browser have been around since the early days of the browser. With the advent of Rich applications and more Ajax, the concept of browser navigation [...]

Ritesh on Feb 25th, 2007Usability is the new buzzword

[digg=http://www.digg.com/design/Usability_Standards_for_websites_is_it_the_future_of_the_web]I hear a lot about usability around the blogosphere and frankly am impressed with the efforts coprorations are taking to help physically or visually challenged people utilize their services. Matt Bailey maintains writes the accessability blog, whereas Dr T V Raman from Google keeps writing updates on the Google Blog with his ground breaking work [...]

Ritesh on Feb 24th, 2007Internationalization of websites

Update : Google Desktop, Google’s Blogger have been updated to support 29 languages. Blogger even lets you blog in hindi by converting english letter equivalents to hindi letters on the fly.
Almost all of my favorite websites, be it flickr, meebo or more recently gdocs, have been internationalized to more than one language. As internet defines [...]

Ritesh on Feb 18th, 2007Yahoo Pipes - taking mashups to a whole new level.

[digg=http://digg.com/linux_unix/Yahoo_Pipes_4]Yahoo is really going after the mashup craze, releasing some amazing products one after the other. The latest in their offering is Yahoo Pipes. Let me be honest, I was totally astounded at the brilliance of this wonderful product. Forget sites making mashups of content, in pipes any user with little bit of an IQ [...]