Web 2.0 information blog

Over the course of 20 days in May and June, the community of Webware.com users voted for its favorite Web applications. These are the results: the top 100 Web apps, 10 in each of 10 categories, determined by Webware readers and the fans of the sites that made the final cut.

There were more than 5,000 nominations for sites to be included in this awards program, which Webware’s editors pruned to a list of 250 finalists. Users then voted on those finalists–there were 489,467 votes cast, to come up with the top 100 Webware sites for 2007.

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XinhaJavascript, WYSIWYGJune 20th, 2007

Xinha is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML editor component that works in Mozilla based browsers as well as in MS Internet Explorer. Its configurabilty and extensibility make it easy to build just the right editor for multiple purposes, from a restricted mini-editor for one database field to a full-fledged website editor. Its liberal licence makes it an ideal candidate for integration into any kind of project.

Xinha is Open Source, and we take this seriously. There is no company that owns the source but a community of professionals who just want Xinha to be the best tool for their work.

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Digital Life America reports an online survey conducted by Solutions Research Group (May 2007), on 1230 American consumers. The following profile describes those who report to be ‘definitely’ interested in buying iphone for 499$.

It seems that the average early adopters are educated men on their thirties, living in NY or California, not necessarily ipod users, with household income of 75,600$. 

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Aptana IDECSS, XHTML, Free Script, Javascript, Tool, Windows, Mac OSX, LinuxJune 18th, 2007

The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

The Web IDE

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications.
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ModalBoxCSS, Ajax, EffectJune 15th, 2007

What is ModalBox?

ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. And yes, it may also be useful for showing bigger versions of images.

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Before you start into any market an important 1st step is research. Many people simply fail to find out if there is a demand for their product or service and after many months of frustration with no success they simply give up. They invest a lot of time and money into a project but go no where. Why? They didn’t do their research.

Despite powerful search engines like Google and Yahoo, it can be difficult to sort through the wealth of information available that you need on your market. One clear way to focus your research is to use Technorati. Undoubtedly the largest blog directory on the planet, yet many people don’t realize that they can use Technorati for their market research.

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ProxomitronTool, Freeware, ProgramJune 11th, 2007

Proxomitron, the Universal Web filter was created by Scott R. Lemmon and is a configurable personal web proxy tool. It can be configured to block popup ads, blinking banners and annoying sound clips through the use of regular expression filters. He distributed the program under a “ShonenWare” license; it was free to use, but if you bought a Shonen Knife CD and convinced him you listened to it, he would consider you a registered user.

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CRIR: Checkbox & Radio Input ReplacementCSS, Javascript, HTMLJune 11th, 2007

This combination of JavaScript and CSS will hide checkbox and radio inputs that have a class = “crirHiddenJS”, an id, and a proper label tag.

This will allow you to style the label however you wish using CSS, and the actual input control will be hidden. The form will still collect data as it normally would because the label itself will trigger the hidden input control. If javascript is disabled no inputs will be hidden and the form is still be fully functional.

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While manga downloads is a growing trend in Japan, I can’t resist bringing it up as a trend we might all take part in.

As can be learned from The Japan Times Online: “In Japan, graphic novels have been a major part of society since the late 1940s, and the art form has become a key export to countries both in Asia and the West. But while printed books are costly to translate and distribute, digital propagation could make manga’s influence practically limitless. Takarajima Wondernet already has fledgling plans to offer its stories to mobile phone users in the United States or around Asia once it finds partners in those countries, and faces relatively low costs to do so. In addition, it will be easier to tweak the digital content to suit foreign users.”

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sIFR 2.0CSS, Flash, EffectJune 6th, 2007

sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.

sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to replace text elements on screen with Flash equivalents. sIFR is the result of many hundreds of hours of designing, scripting, testing, and debugging by Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben. Mike, Mark and an invaluable stable of beta testers, supporters, and educators like Stephanie Sullivan and Danilo Celic of Community MX completely rebuilt a DOM replacement method originally conceived by Shaun Inman into a high quality cross-browser, cross-platform typography solution for the masses.

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