I came upon an interesting post at the if:book web site that was celebrating the release of the laser disc back in 1984. Looking back, the fascinating thing is how Criterion developed their logo to represent a book turning into a disc. This was to represent the kind of instant functionality and navigation [...]

As the new year approaches, rather than writing up a list of New Year resolutions I plan on breaking in March anyways, I decided that this year I’ll write a list of things I anticipate or wish to see in this coming year in the web industry.
Here are my 5 predictions in no particular order.
1.  [...]

Recently, there have been a wide variety of posts on the web indicating the need to delay the release of eBooks so that the hardcover can have its moment with the consumer. I’ve heard both sides of the argument and tend to side with Seth Godin’s perspective that this is wrong-headed thinking.
If publishers delay [...]

The days of locking developers in the backroom so they can program away are long gone.  Today’s developers are invited to interact directly with marketers, sales personnel, editors, customer service reps, and even other people outside the company such as end-customers, the general public, partners, etc.. through physical interaction and using new forms of communication [...]

I recently attended BlogWell; a social media conference hosted by Gaspedal. Hearing different companies explain their take on how they do social media was informative and helpful.  The following summarizes some of primary themes that caught my attention.
The main question seems to be, how do companies operate in the social networking environment. From hearing the [...]

We primarily use Adobe’s Spry for our AJAX framework right now. These are a couple of modifications I made to the DataSet object itself in order to give us some new capabilities we needed for a page we were developing…