YouTube announced in a blog post today that they are changing the default embed size for videos on YouTube.  Before today, the default embed size used to be smaller than the size displayed on YouTube.com. …

Recently Facebook posted on their blog that will no long send notifications from Facebook apps to users.  My response?  ”FINALLY!  Thank you very much Facebook!”.  I’m sure you are all in agreement with me on …

I have received this question a few times, “how much is my website worth?” and one of the most common misconceptions is to base your websites worth on traffic statistics alone. There are several …

Yesterday, a Facebook engineer made a blog post under Facebook’s engineering notes outlining the ways some Facebook engineers decreased the load time of Facebook effectively making it 2x faster.  In past I have discussed why …

HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the primary markup language used worldwide by developers to structure the flow of content on websites. HTML consists of several “tags” with branching attributes to help …

Facebook is a very large and complex content driven website. Like many other large websites, resource management is key to Facebook. Not only does it keep down CPU load and memory usage on their vast …

Sitting at your desk bored at work, in class, or just in general?  Check out the web’s latest social distraction tool, formspring.me (WARNING: it is very addicting and fun).  Formspring.me is a very simple website …

The use of Internet Explorer by Internet users has always been a burden on the web design community. With the expansion of Web 2.0 technologies such as feature rich CSS based designs and JavaScript …

TinEye is a reverse image search engine that uses some pretty cool technology to find where images came from, how they are currently being used, if there are any modified versions, and even to find …

It’s a question posed by many – will Google Wave make it into the mainstream?  And I believe the current answer is no it will not; and it will remain no until a few things …

Today is Google’s 11th birthday and to celebrate, the company has changed its logo accordingly and turned the letter “L” into the number 11.  I’ve been thinking about the past 11 years online and how …

Dear Webmasters,
I just thought I would let you know requests for link exchanges are so 10 years ago.  I’m seriously tired of receiving all of these bogus requests via email to exchange links.  First of …

The word “fail” has become somewhat of an Internet meme over the last year or so. Fails ranging from the Twitter “fail whale” to the recent CNN and Rackspace fails are not going unnoticed. …

Just as expected the Facebook vanity URL gold rush took place early Saturday morning (12:01 AM EST) over 200,000 vanity URL’s were registered in 3 minutes.  The vanity URL’s are permanent – you cannot change …

Twitter announced that they will be implementing an account verification system to help prevent people from impersonating other people. According to the Twitter blog, “The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous …