YouTube-CNN Republican Debate Reflects Poorly on New Media
Friday, November 30th, 2007New York Times in Peril Again: Hiring Freeze and Lost Jobs
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007The New York Times may be having more trouble with its publishing company. The company has frozen new hiring, and has also cut a “small amount” of newsroom jobs. No journalists have lost their jobs (yet), and it doesn’t seem to be as bad as the massive layoffs ...
Userplane Goes the Meebo Route: 4 New Online TV Partners
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Do you ever chat on the phone with your friend while you both watch your favorite program? That’s kind of old school, because now you can chat online. And meshing online chat directly with just about every other online activity has been a progressive movement that’s recently collided ...
Facebook: New Home for Ron Paul Fans
Monday, November 26th, 2007Facebook and ABC News have formally established a partnership that allows Facebook members to electronically follow reporters from the news network, view reports and video as well as participate in polls and debates, all within the new “U.S. Politics” category. ABC and Facebook made the announcement by way of ...
Apple iPod Ads Are The New Hitmakers
Sunday, November 25th, 2007It seems that if you’re a band, and you can get your song in an Apple iPod commercial, you can expect a surprising amount of success. The most striking example of this is when Nick Haley, an 18-year old university student in England, made an amateur commercial for the iPod Touch. ...
Who’s Your Favorite New Media Douchebag?
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Ha, I strongly suspect I qualify as a “new media douchebag”, as evidenced in this educational video. A trollbait question: who’s your favorite new media douchebag? Bonus points for insulting Mashable and its staff. [via Scoble] Share This Can't see the video? Click here
Boring Library Pictures Get New Life at Kaltura
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007With the general trend of online media and new ebook tools being launched just in time for Christmas, perhaps your local library is feeling a bit neglected. What if it, too, could find new ways in which to join the online media revolution? The New York Public Library ...
BuzzLogic’s New Ad Network Gets $2.5M
Monday, November 19th, 2007BuzzLogic has received another $2.5 million in financing from Adams Capital Management, Transcosmos and Ackerley Partners, for further development and promotion of its recently launched advertising tools. This new set of advertising tools works with BuzzLogic’s new Targeted Ad Network, which isolates social media for providing marketers with the ...
AOL Prepares New Video Annoyance: Video Ticker Ads
Monday, November 19th, 2007Boy, those big companies are really trying hard to mess up the online video viewing experience for us. We’ve got pre-roll ads, post-roll ads, overlay ads and dozens of ads all around the video. Now, AOL (with the help of PointRoll and its TickerBoy technology) has prepared a new way ...
KickApps WordPress Plug-in: Creating New Standards?
Monday, November 19th, 2007KickApps has created a Wordpress plugin for enabling a few community features for bloggers and their readers. It’s a single sign-on plugin that lets your readers simultaneously login to your blog and your KickApps-powered community. That basically means that you can more easily create a social network around ...
New York Times’ Free Content is Paying Off
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Here’s even more reason for the Wall Street Journal to drop paid subscriptions for its online version. Traffic to the New York Times’ site has increased by 2.9 million between the months of September and October, reaching 17.5 million visitors last month, after incorporating subscription-based Times Select content into ...
The Internet is the New Unix
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Tim O'Reilly has described the Internet as the new OS. Recent observations lead me to believe it's new the new Unix. Consider the following philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs ...
The new documentation build system is ready for testing
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The PHP documentation team is pleased to announce the initial release of the new build system that generates the PHP Manual. Written in PHP, PhD ([PH]P based [D]ocBook renderer) builds are now available for viewing at docs.php.net. Everyone is encouraged to test and use this system so that bugs will ...
A New Beginning
Monday, March 19th, 2007I began my blog with a post entitled A New Beginning. For the first time since that post, the title seems appropriate again. A few months ago, I decided to put more effort into my blog, starting (but not ending) with a new design. I'm very picky about...
A New Beginning
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007I began my blog with a post entitled A New Beginning. For the first time since that post, the title seems appropriate again. A few months ago, I decided to put more effort into my blog, starting (but not ending) with a new design. I'm very picky about...
CakePHP Visits New York
Thursday, September 28th, 2006Last night at the monthly NYPHP meeting, Nate Abele presented an introduction to CakePHP, a web application framework. The New York subway wasn't cooperating with my schedule, and due to a problem affecting all uptown 4/5 trains, I was 30 minutes late...
NYPHPCon 2006 Program Announced Guy Harpaz opens a new blog!
Thursday, May 18th, 2006We are pleased to announce the speaker, tutorial and keynote program for NYPHPCon 2006. The New York PHP Conference Guy Harpaz, the product manager for Zend Studio (and its former development team leader), has opened a new blog. His likely topics for blogging would revolve around the Eclipse PHP ...
Guy Harpaz opens a new blog!
Thursday, May 11th, 2006Guy Harpaz, the product manager for Zend Studio (and its former development team leader), has opened a new blog. His likely topics for blogging would revolve around the Eclipse PHP IDE project, and upcoming versions of Studio, so it should be quite interesting. Check it out!
New Zend Studio plugins released Developing and Implementing Applications
Sunday, February 12th, 2006Two new plugins were officially released today by Zend. First, a plugin that allows integration of PHP code snippets from zend.com's code gallery, directly into Adobe GoLive. That replicates a feature that's built into Zend Studio 4.0, and makes it available (for free) in Adobe's HTML WYSIWIG editor, quite a ...
New Design
Monday, September 19th, 2005For those of you who visit my personal web site, you'll notice that things look a bit better. Thanks to the design talent of Amy Hoy, both shiflett.org and brainbulb.com have had a bit of a makeover. This has actually been finished for a while, but I'...
New Zend Studio plugins released
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Two new plugins were officially released today by Zend. First, a plugin that allows integration of PHP code snippets from zend.com's code gallery, directly into Adobe GoLive. That replicates a feature that's built into Zend Studio 4.0, and makes it available (for free) in Adobe's HTML WYSIWIG editor, quite a ...
