When asking “can you..?” also ask “should you…?”
When reading a list of requirements, ask yourself why they are requirements, what is their purpose, rather than just creating something that technically meets those requirements, but doesn’t meet the spirit of the requirements.

Over at Opera Watch, there’s a lovely graph showing page views per month shown on Opera Mini.  It’s one of those sharply rising graphs we’re used to seeing from popular web start ups.  About 100,000 page views in March 2006, to almost a billion page views in July 2007.
I think that’s pretty awesome, the market shares might [...]

In these times of web standards advocates speaking the message of cross browser compatibility and not tying site to specific browsers or devices, why, why, WHY, are people suddenly busying themselves with making iPhone optimised versions of their services?
37signals have been doing it (in fact, I find that fairly hypocritical of them, and have stopped [...]

No matter how much effort you put into thinking about a site design, how you lay things out, how you highlight certain things, there are pretty much always comments about how you could improve it, how certain things are annoying etc…
I find that when you launch a new web site, or a redesign of an [...]

Re-inventing nature for cheaper solar power suggests a group fo Australian scientists have developed something akin to photosythesis, on a small scale.
If they really have managed that, and they can harness that energy in electrical form, and scale it up, that is awesome news.  Much more efficient than our current solar panel technology.
There’s a few “if’s” [...]

Ignore whether your new site is Web 2.0 or not.  Concentrate on doing cool stuff with it.

I think there are a few cracks in the Web 2.0 veneer appearing at the moment.  It’s always had it’s detractors (me for one), but there just seem to be a few more people now asking “So what now?”.
It seems to have been triggered by SXSW I think, lets look at some links.
I linked to [...]

I’ve been looking at the issues surrounding getting Flash video on web sites recently.
SWFObject is a pretty good way to go about it, built from a standards point of view, with accessibility in mind, the basics are pretty easy to use.
The only thing that didn’t seem terribly clear, was that it doesn’t do anything automatically [...]

I’m not sure whether I agree or disagree with it, but I do find it particularly amusing when Jeffrey Zeldman says things like web1.0 is the new web2.0
From everything I’ve read, it sounds like SXSW was awesome.  Would’ve been nice to go, but I think I may have found it a bit overbearing [...]

People have talked for years about how everyones going t be accessing the internet via their mobile phones, or through some screen on the door of their fridge, or some such other ‘alternative device’. But it’s never happened, almost all internet traffic is still done through a desktop/laptop PC/Mac.
Most mobile phones are useless when [...]