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Reinvigorate is a new service (web.2.0) in beta version (needless to say) dedicated to Web statistics, in direct competition with Google Analytics .

I'm trying these days and now I can feel quite satisfied. The approach and the mechanism of operation is substantially identical to Google Analytics with the exception of the ability to display real-time visitors and active pages. Registration is free, just enter a code to activate JavaScript virtually identical to that of Google Analytics . An interesting feature for owners of a Blog WordPress or Drupal , Reinvigorate provides a Plugin can be downloaded from the site. Using this plugin you can avoid putting the Javascript code and perform the configuration manually tag, will do the plugin (will be provided with an alphanumeric code to activate). This mode - for bloggers - is definitely a step forward.

The system is well maintained even in the look and feel. There are reports in both tabular and in graphical form. Some bugs, however, is still present, as in most of the Web2.0 beta products (section Timezone can not see the map ... continental charge, then mysteriously disappears ...)!

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Apollo is the code name (for now) of an ambitious project in the world for Adobe RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) and Web 2.0, including Ajax. Someone remembers Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Central to someone else. There is, also, who sees in Apollo simple union - or opportunity - to bring together elements of Flash and PDF (something which has already been feasible with Flash Paper)!

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A characteristic of the style sheets (files. Css) is to be specified depending on the output medium. The Style Sheets allow you to specify the same class, the same the same ID tag, etc. ... for different media. For example, I can write a file. Css with the following syntax:

non sarà visibile sul browser, sullo schermo, ma quando provo a stampare la pagina troverò un contenuto diverso da quello che mi aspettavo. What it comes at the end, is that the content of the DIV with id myBox will not be visible on the browser screen, but when I try to print the page will find a different content from what I expected.
Search engines, spiders, crawlers and aggregators, usually (for now) do not solve the css file. They are interested in viewing the content not the formatting. However, this technique could have interesting implications if not disturbing. Because of the characteristics of systems of indexing a situation like the one shown below would be at least curious:

Correlated with a file. Css like this:

Google, for example, both index the contents of our HTML, even if the screen we can see only one. If we print the page you will find a surprisingly new content. The trick, however, would be revealed by eliminating the application of styles in browsers that support it. Normally no one performs an operation of this type when surfing the Internet. This survey occurs only after finding a mismatch between what is visible on the screen and what was printed!

To date I have seen no cases of this type of blatant manipulation using CSS. At one time it tried to increase the visibility on the Internet using a series of texts, words, of the same color as the background of the Web page, thus making this obscure artifice in the eyes of navigators. By the time the engines are indexing guard against these "fraud". Maybe it's time to anticipate some joker before you set a precedent?

Currently Style Sheets allow you to specify a range of output media type. For a complete list see the W3C .

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The Net TV - at least for now - is not an alternative to traditional television. At this time, and at this stage, is something that travels parallel to the TV home. Some of the reasons why I say, for example, the ability to see the Net TV in your living room. To date, the PC remains the tool of choice for viewing and interacting with Net TV. This does not mean at all that they always will, indeed, in all probability (see the Multimedia stations) we are getting closer and closer to the day when your PC, or its successor, will be located just below the TV (or monitor?) In our salon.
However for now we must be satisfied to solve the logistical problems in their own way.

Linear or nonlinear

One of the fundamental (if not essential) the Net TV is its ability to provide video on demand. Rather than talking about on-demand non-linearity, the characteristics that virtually all Web browsers experience every time you move on the network. Just because a daughter of the Net TV network does not differ at all from today's dynamic navigation; I click on what interests me and I see it now! It needs a good discharge (download) locally!
Some argue that this characteristic of the Net TV makes a comparison wrong with television today. In future, therefore, we always think of two approaches: a classical, linear, with a continuous video stream and a divesra, nonlinear, embedded in Net TV.
I think the continuous video stream, the linearity, has really very important in certain situations and contensti. The characteristic of certain non-linearity should not be underestimated. But a tool like Net TV, in need, also implement flow characteristics or live broadcast (streaming real-time). Nothing prevents a site to offer a video window with a live format, just as happens today on regular television.
It seems so obvious, if not self-evident, that as a Net TV station will be under my TV will be very difficult, at least for me, come back to see today's TV, as long as the format and offer Net TV is at least comparable to that - forced - we see today.

Despite Net TV is very different, therefore, from an average television conitnuano some dynamics to affect the community and discuss these issues on the agenda, distribution, rights, advertising, marketing, net-working, user- generated-content, are just some of the topics that revolve around the "new" television, or television of the future.
However, we can reflect on how it might change our approach by adopting the Net TV instead of today's television. What accadreebbe? What would change?

1. The TV Guide

That's the first thing that comes to mind that will make more sense in the new vision of the television network. "What are they doing tonight?". Half as useless question on the Internet: it will be the same provider - the provider of the channel - to inform us of his schedule, among other non-linear! We will then enter the channel and see what you can get on the air! We may be informed by RSS Feed, Newsletter or a nice (if anything on the phone) will keep us informed about our favorite shows. So questions like "When do what?" Become meaningless anyone.

2. The death of WAP: average cross-platform

"What is it?" Someone will say ...? The explosion of the media most important of all - the video - the network is relatively recent. Even with the new Apple iPod Video had to appreciate the approach of a new era. With the iPhone - and the immediate release of competition (see " The iPhone Nokia seconds ") - the Internet in its entirety (mail, voice, mp3, video, etc. ...) has entered the mobile as never before. Today already have FireFox, Opera or Mozilla on the phone is a standard, then it follows, that the site xyz will be navigable in the same way from home (via PC) and by "street", for example via iPhone. One site, two different media: Convergent Media! Moral: Net TV has all it takes to explode as never could have done only a couple of years ago.

3. Tips for shopping

<> Hot Topic, very hot indeed. Advertising is a crucial issue for Net TV? How, when, where, how users digest it, are just some of the questions that the whole community of marketing is paying. Probably advertising as we understand it is now dead. Surely you can not attack the Net TV, as was done with the television home for a variety of reasons, almost obvious.
Place ads, banners and advertisements before or after the video has failed from the start, there will always be someone who can quickly delete, remember that we are on the Internet and anyone can contribute.
The only alternative - otherwise the whole system collapse, sooner or later - is a change of direction, a new business strategy, a new marketing is able to evolve quickly as the same network community.

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Start arriving the first data on sales in Japan of the Playstaion 3. According to news agency Reuters , Nintendo surpassed Sony in a ratio of 3 to 1, were sold for every PlayStation 3 Nintendo Wii well (data from January 2007: 405,000 148,000 Nintendo against the PS3).

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I want to pick an interesting Post by Thomas Tessarolo titled " If YouTube is gone , "an argument that is very curious and disturbing in some respects. Not long ago, during an episode of Quark Piero Angela, has discussed the consistency of digital information in relation to the neo-digital photography. In recent years digital photography has clearly eclipsed traditional photography with the introduction of cameras in mobile phones and digital cameras to lower costs of good quality. There was, therefore, a radical change in the management of the photographs that are on CD, DVD - or the PC itself - their ideal of conservation, preservation and display. The main question that arose from the transmission was: Will our children or grandchildren to see the "old" CD with our pictures?

I still have faded Polaroid of the seventies, as I happened to recall photographs - really old - taken between 1940 and 1960! While these photos have lost momentum and the time has left its mark, no doubt remains that were preserved more or less discreetly over more than half a century. Also I had no problem for "display", being proposed on a substrate analog! If we consider that I can not read disks written 3 inches and a quarter in 1995, the issue could begin to be worrying.

ALEXANDRIA DOT NET

What happened to the library of Alexandria , a fire that destroyed an important heritage that no one is now able to quantify, it is perhaps a repeatable event? What would happen if an electromagnetic wave befell enough power on earth could reset all the digital information stored today? Sure, there would be many other problems, see bank accounts, stall (or collapse) of the western economy, etc. ... etc. ... a real massacre. However, this - remote - possibility is accumonata the same way as an environmental disaster caused by the fall of an asteroid! Is it true?

The circle is closed

What could be accessed in a certain sense, quite curious. Among the services offered online on the Internet, blogs are the most popular. Imagine what would happen if the server of our blog shut or suffer an injury - including backups! Blogs (The Post) are usually written directly online, there is no local copy, at least I, for example, do not possess it (I will provide ...).
We should start thinking to print on all issued post so he can one day rebuild the blog compared to a total destruction of digital material. The digital, therefore, is no longer safe or analog?

A printed photograph is subject to wear and tear, dust, light, etc. ... However, even a CD or DVD is damaged, despite maintaining the data in a way - apparently - more stable (not sure) of any other analog media.
It seems the only solution is to use the digital, even for archival purposes, but at the same time continue to use the classic mode of storage.

Analog -> Digital -> Analog

The books, for example, have a duration long enough if we consider that even today you can read texts dating before Christ! In addition, some information is not lost with time. In a photograph, for example, information is the predominant light, the tones, the photo itself. This, on a substrate analog, is therefore subject to greater wear. In a book, however, information is more stable and lasting. A text with pages worn at the edges or yellowed by time and continues to lie completely still its main information: the text.

However, this solution a return to analog can be applied with a certain simplicity in very specific contexts, such as pictures or text precisely. The music and other digital information typically require alternative approaches to implementation is not simple. A piece of music, for example, can be stored in the form of the score, as a set of sheets of paper, but it is not a copy of the original. Videos are too complex to be stored in other forms.

In my opinion this is a very important topic in a digital age such as ours. The fact that there are no precedents in this regard allertino that there is not a sufficient excuse to not think about it carefully. If ever a disaster were to occur Digital important proportions, here are springing up like mushrooms and company initiatives to the preservation of digital data.
Why wait for the inevitable and not think of a solution right now?

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Chris Pederick releases new version of Web Developer , convenient add-on for FireFox and other browsers, which together with FireBug makes life better for Web developers.
Stumble this release for its novelty than its much do good. The toolbar icons have been redesigned, now much more effective. It increased the number of functions available on the menu, as a convenient magnify in real time, rules and guidelines, ability to edit the HTML. To be installed as soon as possible ...

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In Post Create an RSS Reader in PHP and Javascript indirectly we met a very interesting technique that allowed to create - in practice - a file from PHP JavaScript.

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Snap is one of those extraordinary style Web2.0 services that are increasingly being offered on the network so totally free. Its non-functioning is simple, just enter the "usual" JavaScript scripts on your web, blog or anything else ... and as of InCon all your links now have a nice preview in real time.
To test it I put here on undolog.com, try to hover above . Cool!

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Who has had the ability and patience to see the last of Steve Jobs Keynote, which presents the new Apple iPhone, will certainly have found it fascinating wonder of the last multi-touch technology of Cupertino.
Fantasies to "Minority Report" apart (the reality often exceeds the imagination really), what struck me most, even if already present in many smart-phones on the market for some time, is the ability to surf the Internet like a home PC. The iPhone comes in direct competition with traditional phones, not smart-phone market today. Apple has introduced its solution for mobile, following his classical guidelines: simplicity - so - mass distribution, as happened with the iPod.

If the smart-phone market today, those with Windows Mobile on board for example, allow you to surf the Internet, however, are perceived by the "mass market" as a hybrid between a phone and a notebook. In short, something different from the "phone" every day. To date, a phone is a "cell" in the sense that Web browsing is relegated to a few - some do not even know that you can do it - (also seen costs) with solutions very far from those of a home PC for the size of display, the speed of bandwidth, the difficulty of interaction with the simulated keyboard or mouse, etc. ...

However, almost quietly, it seems to me that there is a small revolution in the act of considerable interest, at least for Web developers

Being able to navigate a site from the "street", without changing the technology used is a huge step forward. To date some reality on the Web are double - if not triple: WAP, Flash Lite (version for Windows Mobile or Symbian) and Internet standards. Bring together and unify the browsing technologies is an important achievement, the antechamber to the true distribution of navigaione via mobile.
The WAP, for example, as has tried to emulate the real Web has failed miserably. This reminds me of the digital terrestrial!

The Net TV, for example, in this new situation may find a fertile ground to flourish even more than a few years ago. So there are all the conditions to give further impetus to the second youth of the Internet. On the one hand, new forms of aggregation of the community and the other the opportunity to take advantage of these "experiences" as well as at home even in the "mobility" utter.

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