October 18, 2007 2:23 PM PDT
Posted by Elinor Mills [...]

Microsoft’s much-touted and much-anticipated RIA (rich Internet application) entry, Silverlight, lets Web developers and designers create “rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, images, media, and video,” to use Microsoft’s own description. Silverlight competes in this arena with Adobe Flash and Flex, with OpenLaszlo and Curl, and with a variety of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript [...]

By Evan Schuman
E-commerce spending in the United States for this year’s second quarter jumped 19 percent, to $47.5 billion, compared with last year’s identical quarter, according to a statement released this week from ComScore.If you take travel out of that equation—in what ComScore considers the pure e-tail segment—the quarterly figure grew [...]

“Will It Blend” Videos Boost Sales 5x
September 27, 2007 — 09:46 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole — Share This — 11 Comments

Here’s another success story for viral video marketing online. The Blendtec guys have increased their sales five times over thanks to a little segment called “Will it Blend?”
The most [...]

Why Creative Commons licenses and the GPL are incompatible, and how that makes life difficult for artists like icon and wallpaper designers who love free software.
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This is a follow-up to read/write’s “10 Future Web Trends” article - and these picks are much more futuristic than the last lot!
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This is the updated list of the best open source software. The only way to have TRUE “Open Source Windows” is to have all native Windows programs uninstalled and removed.
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Microsoft’s approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals to invest in the fast-growing site is part of the software giant’s effort to catch up with the Internet rival Google. If successful, Microsoft’s talks with Facebook could give it an up-to-5% stake in the closely-held startup
—a stake potentially valued at roughly $300 to $500 million…
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This is my current pc’s desktop wallpaper. It inspires me to continue working towards IT greatness. You can download it or even buy the poster. Here’s the info:
Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
Published on 26/06/07
by Oliver Reichenstein

We have done it before: The 200 most successful websites [...]