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Customer Experience Meets Classical System Development
In today’s IT alphabet soup, why would something as ordinary sounding as “customer experience ” become a hot topic? Haven’t “customers” always experienced using computer systems? So what’s different? The answer lies partly in the Internet’s evolution from information resource to transaction platform, and partly in its transformation from
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Zend Integrates PhoneGap into PHP Tools for Mobile + Cloud Apps
Zend, providers of PHP based tools for mobile and enterprise app developers, has introduced updates to three flagship products during its ZendCon event this week, and a PhoneGap integration for building cross-platform apps.
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W3C Partners with Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Others to Create Web Standards Documentation Site
Who would have thought it? A group of some of the top companies in the IT industry have come together with the W3C organization to build a new community and website that, the group says, will become the authorities' source for documents for web developers.
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Adobe Edge Animate Seeks to Unleash the Beauty of the Web
The Web has been called many things both good and bad, but “beauty” is not a trait often associated with cyberspace. Adobe is seeking to change that with the release of Adobe Edge Animate 1.
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Adobe Rolls Out PhoneGap Build for Cloud-Based Mobile Apps
Adobe has rolled out Adobe PhoneGap Build, a service designed to allow development of cloud-based mobile apps. PhoneGap Build leverages the PhoneGap framework (a distribution of the Apache Cordova open source project) to enable the development of cloud-based mobile apps with standard Web technologies.
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Oracle Debuts Free Version of its ADF Application Building Tools #oow
Developers who have been thinking about building enterprise level apps now have a chance to use the same tools the big boys use because Oracle has released a free version of its Application Development Framework. It's called ADF Essentials, and it's a Java platform that provides a ready to
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Google Chrome Gains Do Not Track, Advertisers Are Still Watching You
The “Do Not Track” (DNT) privacy standard has made a little more progress. Google, still reeling from this summer’s US$ 22.5 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission stemming from their mishandling privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser, included support for DNT in the latest developer release of its Chrome
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Lost at 'Like': The 10 Reasons Brands Fail to Convert Facebook Fans into Paying Customers
According to HubSpot, 93 percent of adults on the Internet are on Facebook, yet only one percent of a brand’s Facebook fans will ever make their way to the company’s main website. Many blame their low conversion rates on Facebook: “Facebook ads don’t work.
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2012, New Tools for Windows 8 & Azure
Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 2012, the latest iteration of its Visual Studio developer tool suite. The IT giant says new features of the latest edition are designed to help developers “turn ideas into applications fast.
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Microsoft Releases WebMatrix 2 Developer Toolkit
Microsoft's WebMatrix 2 web developer toolkit is now free to download in its final version, and the release includes support for Node.js templating as well as with ASP.NET and PHP. Microsoft continues to warm up to the open source community by adding more extensibility to the WebMatrix platform.
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Web CMS vs. Best of Breed Solutions
For years, Web CMS vendors wanted you to believe that you have to consolidate all your websites into one platform. It's true, there is much logic in doing that. The Web CMS (WCM) vendor provides an incredible amount of tooling for content authoring, content management and content delivery.
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Enterprise Drupal Takes Big Step Forward with Four-Way Merger: #DrupalCon
Perhaps the biggest news at DrupalCon was a four-way merger of leading European Drupal shops to form Wunderkraut. NodeOne, Krimson, Mearra and Wunderkraut joined forces under the Wunderkraut name to create an international team of Drupal service providers.
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Bootstrap Turns One, Continues to Win Fans
The team at Twitter has released an update to its year-old incredibly popular open source front-end web development framework, Bootstrap.
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Twitter Tightens API Rules: Increases Authentication, Decreases Requests Per Hour
Twitter plans to release version 1.1 of the Twitter API in the coming weeks, and it involves a number of new user restrictions.
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