Photo by xtylerclub . This post is part of the Blog Action Day 2009 over climate change. Green web hosting is something that has started to become quite popular among many web hosting companies. Even some of the big players are starting to turn to alternative energy sources to power their servers, or to…

I’ve been noticing some buzz about the newly-launched photo sharing service DailyBooth , and can’t help but notice a trend that seems to happen with nearly every new web service. All newly-released websites seem to have an cycle of innovation that looks something like this: Release product to early adopters Early…

Photo by Paraflyer . Signup forms have long irked the casual visitor. During the process of discovery, nobody wants to stop and fill out details before they can “unlock” the rest of the site’s potential. As web users become more and more fickle , signup forms are becoming an increasingly large barrier that repels many…

Google Web Toolkit is a monumental project for Java developers. Java is a language that isn’t usually associated with web development. PHP, Ruby, Python and others are typically seen as the languages of choice when building web applications. At least until recently. Google’s steady development and improvement of the GWT is…