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Eran Galperin is the techfounder, an Internet entrepreneur and web technologies expert.
The term web 2.0 has been frequently misused and misunderstood, however it is more than a buzz word - it defines a very real phenomenon in which user generated content can be the driving force behind an online site / service.
Some very well known and successful online entities can be considered as such - Wikipedia in which users contribute knowledge, Digg in which users help others find interesting articles by voting and facebook which is the current golden standard for social networking (in which user generated content - UGC - is a given).
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Internet Explorer 6 (abbr. IE6) is the biggest thorne in a web developer’s behind at current times. This legacy browser, released almost 7 years ago, is known for its multitude of offenses on security and standards compliance and still has a sizeable user base to this day. Its market share makes it impossible for us developers to ignore it still, despite how much we would want to do just that.
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John Resig (of jQuery fame) has released 10 days ago a Javascript implementation of Processing, a Java based visualization language. Read more …
Modern web-sites and web-application make heavy use of Javascript to improve the user experience. To further improve the user experience, I’d like to propose a simple caching mechanism.
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It took forever, but my blog is finally online. In this space I will publish technical articles about web-development that I didn’t think were appropriate in our company blog, spiced with some thoughts about Internet start-ups and personal interests.
Hope to keep you interested
P.S. I would like to thank Adam for the layout concept. Turned out pretty nice!
2008 - The Future