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I was recently running through my followers on Twitter (which I apologise for as I don’t do it as often as I should) and discovered I was being followed by http://twitter.com/advalidation. So having signed up for  an account (free) I’ve just started using it for the past few days. http://advalidation.com/ provides an easy to use and [...]

Worth reposting this video from WSJ explaining how cookies and more specifically 3rd party cookies. Original Article: http://europe.wsj.com/video/how-advertisers-use-internet-cookies-to-track-you/92E525EB-9E4A-4399-817D-8C4E6EF68F93.html

This page attempts to bring together some resources that will better explain what HTML5 is, how to go about implement some of it’s features and links to reference material and source code for you to try. It’s primarily a resource where I can dump interesting articles, urls and other information that may help you (and [...]

Ghostery is a new free service/browser-plugin for IE, Firefox & Chrome which highlights many tracking, behavioural & analytics tags (commonly referred to as web-bugs or pixels) on a site’s page. More importantly from our industry’s perspective is that it can also act as filtering mechanism and gives the user direct access to block any/all of [...]

I was recently running through my followers on Twitter (which I apologise for as I don’t do it as often as I should) and discovered I was being followed by http://advalidation.com/. To say that this site ticks a hole swathe of ‘to do’ boxes on my development list is to do it a dis-service. If [...]

The brainiacs over at Sencha have put together some excellent examples of CSS3 ads alongside Flash equivalents and ask you to spot the difference http://www.sencha.com/deploy/css3-ads/ And here’s the article showing you the CSS and how they did it. http://www.sencha.com/blog/2010/07/20/html5-family-css3-ads-versus-flash-ads/

Freshmeat are reporting an update to the open-source SWFTools package with increases in performance of the pdf2swf tool and fixes to numerous bugs. “SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This includes a merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract), PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/TTF/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, avi2swf, font2swf, and wav2swf), a [...]

“Think we’d all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn’t exactly a clear winner. Jan Ozer’s article can be found [...]

Am seeing reports of a major DNS outage affecting DENIC on Wednesday 12th, seems as iof iot’s been resolved now, further info here: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20100512-27149.html (English) http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/denic-probleme-wie-das-deutsche-internet-verschwand_aid_507660.html (German) http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/news,rendertext=12523314.html (German) http://www.stern.de/digital/online/serverprobleme-bei-denic-massive-stoerungen-im-deutschen-internet-1565993.html (German) http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/12/1457240/Millions-ofnobr-wbrnobrde-Domains-Unreachable-For-Hours

Webmonkey have secured themselves some good video interviews last week at Web 2.0 Expo. Here Douglas Crockford talks about the future of Javascript & HTML5.