Sean Carton

While the exact definition of what puts a new site into the “Web 2.0” category is still a bit fuzzy (all of Tim OReillys attempts to define it aside), its a bit like the famous definition of pornography: You know it when you see it. What makes a site worthy of the “Web 2.0” definition? […]

Yeah, I was more than a little peeved when I wrote about the telephone companies plans to charge higher rates for “preferred” traffic on the Net back at the beginning of February, and Im still pretty miffed about the whole thing. The Internet was founded (pretty much) on the concept of “Net neutrality” (for more […]

Are Web services going to be the Next Big Thing? Is the future going to be ad-supported? Apparently Bill Gates thinks so. In an Oct. 30 memo recently leaked to the Net,Gates states that “This coming services wave will be very disruptive,” going on to state that Microsoft has “competitors who will seize on these […]

Not surprisingly, I managed to kick up a bit of a tempest in the blogosphere last week when I wrote that Weblogs (and Podcasting and video and RSS and social networking apps) were “fads of the future.” I wasnt going to (and am still not gonna) write to defend my position this week, but I […]

Last week I took a look back at the cringe-worthy Web design fadsof the past in an effort to offer some cautionary perspective for those thinking about jumping on todays “hot” new tech. Today, as promised, I wanted to follow up by looking at what might very well be the Web fads of the future […]

By now, search engines have become so ubiquitous, so powerful, so reliable and so integrated into all of our online lives that weve pretty much stopped thinking about them. Need to find something? Just type your search into your browsers search bar and boom! There you are—generally speaking. But we often forget that theyre so […]

Microsoft is about to release IE 7.0, and if youve been hoping that this new release would solve your development problems, prepare to be disappointed. Besides the obvious issues with an X.0 release of anything, word has it that the new browser wont fully support CSS2 standards. So what else is new? Since the beginning, […]