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Video on Demand

Posted November 10th, 2007 by NickJ
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Introduction

 

Video on demand is one of the popular web technologies playing an important role in Web 2.0 and modern Internet marketing. Usually referred to as "VOD", it can either stream the video content or allow to download it and watch it later.

Ajax versus Flash

Posted October 18th, 2007 by NickJ
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Ajax & Flex Technologies

 

We can all see the changes happening on the web nowadays, in the web 2.0 era - sites  load faster, they are more interactive and often contain audio/video information; sections on a page are updated independently according to user actions, thus the web application is more responsive and generates less traffic; the user interface has become almost as convenient as using a desktop application.

 

Ajax

 

How to: Write a Design Brief for a Web Site

Posted October 16th, 2007 by NickJ
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Why do I need to write a design brief?

 

You have an idea for a web site (or, for that matter, a product) and you have ideas about how it should look; but how do you get these across to a designer?

 

With a design brief.

 

In a design brief you will set out the goals, objectives and key stages of your project and hand this to a design agency (or web developer).

VoIP

Posted October 2nd, 2007 by NickJ
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).  Sounds boring.  No...worse than that, it sounds like something only the geeks in your IT department talk about, regularly dropping it into their conversation alongside talk of 'RAM', 'CPUs', 'Gigabytes' and 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol'.

Blogs - what are they?

Posted September 25th, 2007 by NickJ
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A couple of years ago, the Internet was buzzing with a new phenomenon – ‘blogging’ – and although other technologies are emerging, blogging has become an important feature of the World Wide Web and is an integral part of other emergent Internet trends such as social network services and RSS feeds.

 

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