As the web becomes more and more realtime across different applications, the browser technology to support such a movement has been playing catchup. There have been plenty of work arounds - polling for new messages (kind of the coding equivalent of your kids in the back of car asking 'Are we there y...

Following a Quora thread asking exactly how hard it would be to implement an Apple Siri clone from scratch, NiobiumLabs alongside some  students of the National Technological University of Athens decided to have a bash at exactly that. Utilising freely available open source tools, the tea...

URL: http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/ One of the recent shining stars of the online presentation world is Prezi - a different approach to the way we think about presentation generally. Instead of the traditional slide by slide / left to right viewport - Prezi allows you to zoom in and out...

I've been sitting on this post for quite some time. It's seems with the rapid pace of mobile development on the web, and the increased focus that this brings to developers, that there isn't a day goes by without someone bringing something new to the table. Whether that be a new library, a new framew...

Search is a crucial feature of any website.  Even if your navigation is crystal clear, it still doesn't cater for those power users and return visitors that remembered a particular piece of content, or want to find collections of information stored on your site in the same topical areas. Typical...

Clouds is a new experiment from the talented javascript developer Mr Doob, who has brought us a number of the demo's showcased on Chrome Experiments. This latest featured experiment published on his website yesterday uses the full power of WebGL to brings us depth of field and an amazing 3d ex...

I've just stumbled upon something for those of you running Android phones, which lets you control YouTube directly from your phone. This free application provided by Google connects your Android device directly with YouTube Leanback, a full screen browsing experience for YouTube. The service esse...

No doubt many of you will have already heard the news on Facebook's recent bait and switch tactic with the like button now turning into sharing functionality across your Facebook stream. For publishers across the web, this change will undoubtedly bring with it an additional wave of traffic ...

There is tons of traffic out there for the taking on YouTube. It's the second largest search engine in the world behind Google. Growing your audience on your YouTube channel isn't easy, and sometimes, it's nice to get a helping hand. :) This tutorial / overview shows you just how easy it is to...

There are a number of Facebook tutorials, including my own offering examples of FBML to add additional functionality to a Facebook fan page. However, on many occasions these tutorials fall short of the mark, with no server side functionality currently available via FBML, connecting to databases, ...