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Tag Archive: technology
Google Big Tent – event report
This week, we had a glimpse of the future at Google’s Big Tent, a more open and less glitzy version of the Zeitgeist conference, which precedes it at the same venue (the Grove Hotel in Watford). Zeitgeist gets David Cameron, the Big Tent gets Ed Milliband.
CORS support for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 now available in ActiveStandards API
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) allows a browser to make a request from one site to another. So, for example, an in-house corporate solution that integrates ActiveStandards using the API needs to make a cross-server request from the corporate site to the ActiveStandards servers. Before the CORS standard was introduced, such a request would have resulted …
Structuring Ajax sites for search engine crawl
Ajax web development techniques are becoming increasingly popular among developers who want to create innovative, user-focused sites. But while Ajax is definitely at the bleeding edge of B2C web, corporates have tended to steer clear. For one, corporate sites haven’t traditionally been as user-focused as B2C sites. However, the other issue with Ajax is that …
Pandas, penguins and the quest for website quality
Over the past decade, SEO has gone from a “what’s that?” topic to representing a significant slice of the corporate marketing budget as companies fight it out for the top spot in search engine results. The Holy Grail in this struggle, is, of course, the top ranking on Google (OK, maybe second ranking after Wikipedia). …
