Category Archives: Design

Useful tips, hints, and notes on design and usability

Markup for the Semantic Web

A recent article, The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs, provided me with some new insight into how blog templates should be designed for optimal Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The advice is not restricted to blogs, but can be generalized for any web development. For my own benefit I will recap the key [...]

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The Future of Web Apps SF 2006 Conference Notes

Carson Workshops is working hard on the two day conference The Future of Web Apps in London. The summit is going to be held in London during February 20-21, 2007. I had the opportunity to attend the San Francisco, September 13-14 2006 conference for which I present the following notes… The Future of Web apps [...]

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Mike Davidson – User-driven Content – Is It Working?

Mike is the founder and CEO of Newsvine. Mike’s presentation at CarsonWorkshops The Future of Web Apps conference dealt with user generated content. User generated content is not a new concept, it is just a new buzzword. Amazon is driven by user generated content, user can review reviewers. Amazon, Ebay, Epionions have been using user [...]

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Carl Sjogreen – How We Built Google Calendar

Carl is the Product Manager of Google Calendar. During his presentation at The Future of Web Apps, Carl shed some light into the development process in place at Google on a typical project and his experience building a great web 2.0 application. Carl said that Google Calendar started as a ‘classic’ Google product team, that [...]

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Tantek Celik – Best Practice With Microformats

Tantek as the Chief Technologist at Technorati has helped shape and define new web standards. In this the fourth session of The Future of Web Apps conference Tantek described the benefits of using standardized Microformats. Microformats are small enhancements to standard HTML tags that help describe and classify the information that is being presented. According [...]

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Tom Coates – Social Change On The Web

Tom Coates is a Social Software Technologist at Yahoo! Tom talked about building social software that is greater than the sum of their parts in the CarsonWorkshops The Future of Web apps Conference. According to Tom, social software allows us to do “more together than we could do apart.” This is an interesting point, because [...]

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