by Rob Cottingham | Nov 2, 2009 | Everything Else
My site was hacked this morning – something I discovered by visiting my site, only to be greeted by Google’s genuinely frightening “WARNING: VISITING THIS SITE MAY HARM YOUR COMPUTER” screen. The culprits altered every file ending in... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 30, 2009 | Everything Else
I’ve been enjoying working with Zazzle, an online store where you can design and sell merchandise such as T-shirts, coffee mugs and greeting cards. (CafePress is its more famous competitor; each launched in 1999.) So far, my store is selling Noise to Signal... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 30, 2009 | Everything Else
via engagementdb.com This is actually useful for a whole range of purposes: a database of online brand engagement initiatives, a crowd-sourced ranking of corporate brands, and some very interesting visualization and interface work. Many, many kudos to the folks at... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 30, 2009 | Everything Else
Tattler (app) is an open source topic monitoring tool for today’s Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on the topics you want. Using semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 25, 2009 | Everything Else
via whitehouse.gov If you’re a developer who’s made a contribution to the open-source Drupal web content management system, then add this guy’s web site to your portfolio. The White House has switched to Drupal from its old proprietary CMS, after... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 22, 2009 | Everything Else
For a lot of the disabled, getting through a typical website is beyond challenging. It’s impossible. Amy, for example, prefers to shop for her kids online. It’s easier than getting someone to take her to the store and help her identify the products she needs. On the...