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Razorfish Technology Capabilities Differentiates

Monday, August 24th, 2009

It's great to get some market recognition for all our efforts. In this post Forrester recognizes that technology differentiates and our addition to Publicis will help strengthen their market position. This captured our attention '"What about Razorfish? The firm has much stronger design capabilities, both for user experience and what we ...

Taming IE6 and a “Drop IE6″ rebuke

Friday, July 24th, 2009

During the development of any project that involves HTML, there's always a nagging question in the back of your mind:  "How broken will this site be in IE6?"  Here's an article that will reduce the amount of worrying you do when fixing your site to work in IE6.  It covers ...

Windows : Mac :: Google : (?) - It happens to be “bing”

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Believe it or not but Microsoft’s newly evolved search engine bing is nothing less than the answer of the above analogy question. You must have solved many of these analogy questions during your SAT exam. When I apply my knowledge and understanding to the question“Windows : Mac :: Google : (?)”, ...

Cloud interoperabiltiy

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase It's great to see cloud computing pushing for deep interoperability. This MSDN post covers some interesting topics around the manifesto and also speaks a bit about some interesting demos showing integration between Google's App Engine and Azure. Very excting. "At MIX, we highlighted the use of our Identity Service ...

Brand experiences and MOSS

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

All the video's for the 2009 MIX conference are posted online (http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09) and they are interesting for anybody developing on the Microsoft platform. One of the session posted is about developing consumer facing brand sites, presented by Tony Jones, Technology Director for Razorfish. It touches on the unique challenges that ...

agile and pair programming

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

One of my favorite topics in agile and iterative development is pair programming.The question is can we make it happen more and do we want to try it more? I've typically seen it on the smaller and more isolated projects. It's a fascinating concept and the research, while minimal that ...

OpenCloud Manifesto = Skynet

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...

zemanta wordpress plug-in

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase The zemanta wordpress plug-in rocks. It looks at what you are typing and suggest images, urls, related articles and tags.Through the Zemanta API, it will also automatically recommend RDF to go along with your text. Very cool. Sure does writing posts a lot faster.

Ready for Web 3.0/Semantic Web?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

When mainstream media starts talking about SemanticWeb, one can infer that it is not just another buzz within research labs.  Recently the magazine The Economist, and BBC online covered this topic.  Early this month Thomson-Reuters announced a service that will help in Semantic Markup.  SemanticWeb Primer The term Semantic Web was ...

Google Chrome - Why it is different?

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Yesterday, Google launched its first beta version of open source web browser called Chrome. Some people consider this launch as Google’s attack on Microsoft’s IE and some regarded this launch as yet another browser to choose from. Google indirectly claims that market needed a fresh web browser. A browser that ...