links for 2007-05-04
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Friday, May 4th at 1:19 pm
Microsoft Silverlight is a XAML based WPF technology for vector graphics, video, design, and development of applications for the desktop, as well as the web. It is cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in that is less than 2 megabyte in size!
There’s an online exploit of YouTube’s channel background that enables you to automatically subscribe anyone who visits the page. There’s no danger to the end user, but it is a little sinister!
The Google Enterprise Blog recently featured the Volkswagen web site for using Google Enterprise search to power a new feature on the VW web site. As you can see, the Volkswagen home page has a huge search box in the middle of the page. Cool, right?
I asked Graywolf this question and he graciously answered on his blog. Graywolf has a great blog on SEO, I’d encourage everyone to add him to your reading list. As well, it was really nice of him to take the time out for me. Thanks Graywolf!
As was reported back in February, an enterprising hacker unearthed and posted one of the decryption keys used by AACS to decode HD-DVD movies
If you went to Google, Yahoo, AOL or another mapping site to plot a route from San Francisco to Oakland in the hours after an oil tanker exploded in California, they would have sent you driving over a collapsed overpass engulfed in flames.
Groan…The Register reports that Microsoft may fail to build full W3C web standards compatibility into Internet Explorer 8.0
You’ve heard the old research adage: “…tell me what you want the (research) results to be, and I’ll figure out how to ask the question…” Would MySpace ever publish results that showed anything bad about social nets?
