The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange

By tim, on November 1st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Searching Google recently it struck me that I rarely see results from Experts Exchange. I used to see a lot of these, because I typically search on things like error messages or programming issues for which the site is a useful source.

The site is controversial, because it (kind-of) charges for access to its

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Twilio: programmable telephony, SMS comes to the UK, Europe

By tim, on October 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Web telephony provider twilio, which is based in San Francisco, has today announced its first international office, in London. You can now purchase UK telephone numbers at a cost of $1.00 per month, or Freephone numbers for $2.00 per month.

Twilio is not in competition with Skype or Google Voice; rather it offers

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Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?

By tim, on October 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose organisers had pre-announced that Google would be announcing its new language there, as indeed it did.

Dart is a

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Adobe Flash Professional to get HTML authoring features

By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have just attended a session on the future of Flash Professional, the designer-oriented authoring tool for Flash, here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.

One feature that caught my attention is that export to HTML is coming to Flash Professional. Adobe already has a research project called Project Wallaby which converts .fla files

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Adobe Debut: my favourite of the new touch apps, cloud-side rendering

By tim, on October 4th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe announced six touch apps for Android and Apple iPad tablets yesterday at its MAX conference in Los Angeles. These hook into cloud services offered by the Creative Cloud, also just announced.

My favourite among the new apps is Adobe Debut. The problem this addresses: you want to show your client the work you

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No plugins in Metro-style IE, and here is why

By tim, on September 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

This evening was Ask the Experts time at Microsoft’s BUILD conference in Anaheim, California, so I took the opportunity to ask the Internet Explorer (IE) team why the Metro-style IE does not support plugins such as Adobe Flash and even Microsoft’s own Silverlight.

I find it puzzling since the desktop IE in Windows 8

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Adobe says role of Flex and Flash has changed, makes play for mobile

By tim, on August 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Andrew Shorten has posted on the future of Flex, the developer-oriented tool for building applications for the Flash runtime.

This is one of the clearest statements I have seen from Adobe that recognises that the role of Flash on the web is diminishing:

There are countless examples where, in the past, Flex was

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Adobe Muse: so what is wrong with Dreamweaver?

By tim, on August 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has released a preview of Muse, a new web site design tool.

My first reaction was one of be-musement. What is wrong with Dreamweaver, the excellent web design tool included in Creative Suite? Bearing in mind that there is also a simplified Dreamweaver aimed at less technical business users, called Contribute.

Here are

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Wolfram announces Computable Document Format for interactive docs

By tim, on July 21st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Wolfram has announced the Computable Document Format (CDF), a document format that enables live computation to be embedded within it. “It’s a new way to communicate the world’s quantitative ideas much more richly than we have in the past, and in doing that a new kind of active document,” says Conrad Wolfram, Strategic Director

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Mozilla CEO fearful of closed mobile platforms. So what next for Mozilla and Firefox?

By tim, on July 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

What next for Mozilla? Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, posts about some of the issues facing the open source browser project and Foundation. His list is not meant to be a list of problems for Mozilla exactly, but it does read a bit like that, especially the third point:

Google marketing budgets for

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