Ajax, accessibility, Flash, ActionScript 3, and Flex, are familiar to many but well known by few. Here are some tips on the conditions of the web industry, the effects they have on finding quality People 2.0, and some ideas on how to go about identifying good developers [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Tuesday, 3rd Jun, 2008
There is something special about Generation Y tech professionals This article takes a deep look in the general tends, motivational factors, and best practices in recruiting and retaining young technologists [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Tuesday, 3rd Jun, 2008
This year’s Y Combinator Startup School and some of the recent Google Tech Talks shared top of the line advice from the thought leaders in User Experience, Product Development, and Entrepreneurship. After watching the separate presentations over a period of a few weeks, I could not help but to connect the three topics. Those disciplines together shape and the Web 2.0 environment and its current leaders and will more likely than not affect the industry for years to come. This my summary of recurring themes and notes interconnecting the three topics that and I hope will provide inspiration to Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Marketers, Brand Managers, and Product Leads alike [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Monday, 26th May, 2008
Here’s a piece of news: only about 20% of the world’s population speaks English (about 30% or so of web users). And guess how the remaining whooping 70% of web users would be able to read your content? Web translators!
Those useful little tools use the same technology to traverse through web content as some of [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Saturday, 10th May, 2008
If you want to stay current with web matters, but have no time to explore all opportunities this list is for you. (Caveat - this was post was published in the Spring of 2008.) The categories below will be updated with the most interesting sources in each category to match your favorite style of learning. [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Sunday, 23rd Mar, 2008
Here is a common problem: barriers to learning. Whether we’re talking about the walls between design and development or development and engineering or crossovers between many other web related disciplines, we are talking about walls. This is the first of several posts that will attempt to create bridges between these disciplines and open up [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Tuesday, 18th Mar, 2008
It seems intuitive to think that a site will be only as fast as its host. Speed of download is a pretty important factor in the usability of a site, in return of users and customers, and yet most shared web hosts pray on users seeking not speed, but the biggest host size for [...]
Posted by: Diana Zink on Sunday, 9th Mar, 2008
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