Archive for the ‘Web Apps / Web 2.0’ Category

• Microsoft’s new “Web Platform” enhances Preditor’s cross-platform appeal

  Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

  Microsoft recently announced the release of its new Web Platform that allows for the easy deployment of web-based applications. Critically however, it includes support for PHP – the powerful scripting language that Prefix Technologies uses to develop our own Preditor CMS for Publishers.
  We’ve always maintained that Preditor can run on both the Microsoft and Windows [...]

• Calais from Reuters. Tagging content for the semantic web

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  The semantic web is rising. This abstract thing that no one quite has a handle on yet is certainly going to become a major theme of information management in 2008. It’s all about the meta-data, and we’ve now got to figure out what this means for the publishing industry and small business document management respectively. [...]

• Dataportability.org - what an OpenID could do for publishers and WebApps in general

  Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

  The office got a bit excited this week. We have a weekly news-wrap/chat and the big topic was the fact that the big boys (ie. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others) have joined the efforts of dataportability.org. The basic principle is that users keep registering over and over again for each new website, portal or web-service [...]

• Firefox now bigger than IE6 according to W3Schools!

  Thursday, October 25th, 2007

  The latest browser stats @ W3Schools shows Mozilla’s Firefox has nudged ahead of Internet Explorer 6 - 35.4% versus 34.9%!
  This really is amazing. It’s a nod to open source software as a whole. It is also a sign that people, when given choice, will migrate to better alternatives. It shows that monopolies, even [...]

• A website job well done - for ourselves…

  Thursday, October 11th, 2007

  If don’t recieve our newsletter, then you won’t have heard yet. We just lanched our first-ever dedicated website for particular product/service within the Prefix Technologies stable.  The site is for pMailer, our email marketing and bulk sending engine.
  Before you run off to have a look, we need to place this in persepective. We revised our [...]

• ZendCon 2007 to elevate PHP even further!

  Monday, October 8th, 2007

  ZendCon - the international conference for PHP developers - starts this week. We were hoping to send members of our team but couldn’t quite get our act together in time. It is so exciting to see the PHP language taking such a clear stage globally as a platform for serious coding. With the release of [...]

• Web stats metrics will need to change as we go interactive

  Friday, October 5th, 2007

  One of the benefits of working with SA’s leading publishers is access to global insights from other suppliers. Nielsen//NetRatings supply web analytics solutoins to OPA member sites, some of whom are our clients. They recently made a presentation to members that begins to show how we’re going to have to start changing the way we [...]

• Microsoft Bid for ‘Open’ XML Format Gets a Big Thumbs-Down

  Thursday, September 6th, 2007

  This is important because XML is the main way us programmers get our applications to talk to each other today. Our Preditor publishing platform uses XML extensively to talk to the Adobe product suite for example, so that DTP departments can import and export Preditor content when it comes to layout of the print magazines.
  Microsoft [...]