Kijiji US is eBay’s attempt to bury Craigslist. It has been buzzed about for a while now, but I received an e-mail announcement, from eBay, only this morning. I guess, it is official starting today. Kijiji is wrong on many levels, as in - it should have never existed in the first place wrong. An...

Drupal is the bestsocial web community management software in existence, period. I dare make a blunt statement like this, because I have seen/worked with many “CMS” (oh, how much I hate this bloated abbreviation) systems, including couple I architected and lead the implementation of and I insist - as imperfect as Drupal may be, it...

Several “iPhone simulators” have been published on the Web, lately, that claim aiding web developers in creating iPhone-compatible web applications. Beware of them! Aside from a bunch of other issues, they do not display text and graphics the same way (size, proportion, layout) that iPhone does so you may fall in false confidence and when...

Good news on the iPhone’s bluetooth support front: you do not have to buy the $129.00 Apple headset of questionable wearing comfort. Third-party bluetooth headsets seem to be supported just as well. We had no trouble hooking up a much cheaper, yet nicer Motorola H700 headset with an iPhone. Apparently, headset model is one of...

There’s been plenty of whining going on the Net about “iPhone does not do this” and “iPhone does not do that”, so I am not going to bore you with all the known shortcomings like: half-ass (even less) bluetooth support, no Flash support, yadda, yadda, yadda. You’ve heard it, you know it. However, having been...

The confusion is over - Apple revealed the secrets of creating slick iPhone applications. When Apple announced iPhone in January, this year, the shocking news and the source of much speculation became the alleged lack of third-party application support. An intelligent cellphone without Java/J2ME was so unusual that for a long while it gave Apple-haters...

OK, I am not a marketing guy. I know how to use Porter’s Five Forces analysis, and I always happily escape to it when I have no real idea about the subject matter, but that’s about it. Being so ignorant in marketing, I used to share the general misconception that pretty, female face can sell...

Steve Jobs announced the availability of Safari 3.0 Public Beta during yesterday’s WWDC Keynote. For audience at large the biggest news about the release was that it is now available on Windows, as well. However, apparently there is a “hidden” (well, unpublicized) new feature that is just as exciting for Mac geeks like moi -...

You might have noticed that I have not been blogging quite so frequently, lately. Part of the reason has been that we were breaking nights launching BuzzMonitor. I am happy to report that it is live now at [buzzm.worldbank.org]. BuzzMonitor is a nifty Web 2.0 tool conceived by Pierre-Guillaume Wielezynski that allows you to create...

Apple is undoubtedly a leading innovator in the industry (if you wonder which one – both), and so is Google; so expectations from the announced integration of AppleTV and YouTube are very high. Whatever may your (or my) feelings be about YouTube, it is certainly a defining phenomena in Web 2.0, and bringing YouTube to...

Highly Efficient Rosetta or Darn Slow Photoshop? When Apple introduced Intel-based Macs, a year ago, it provided comprehensive migration support, as well. Free compiler (program “translating” human-readable source code of programs into “machine code”) shipping with OS X is able to produce so-called Universal Binary - code that both old and new processors can understand....

Microsoft Silverlight, pet-named “Flash killer” by the Web 2.0 community, replicates many of the features of Macromedia Flash technology. Silverlight was first unveiled at the NAB Show, in early 2006, but it is only recently that it has gotten increasing spotlight from the industry. Somewhat intriguing, yet quite telling was that Microsoft featured Silverlight at...

Linus Torvalds recently gave a presentation at Google about a new source-control management (SCM) system he has authored and that is being actively maintained by an open-source community - Git. If you are a happy user of Subversion, you should take a break right now and watch the video (if you are a “happy” user...

Joost, the revolutionary online TV service, is the new craze on the Web. However, if you have been using it extensively, you may have noticed that you are running out of disk space. Ouch! Not sure how it behaves on Windows, but on OS X, Joost demonstrated an early bug - it “eats” disk space...

Eclipse is an IDE of choice for many. It’s been very popular among Java developers for a long time, but lately it is getting some traction in the PHP world, as well. A big contributor has been the absolutely fabulous Eclipse PDT project that makes Eclipse PHP-intelligent. Whether you are developing in Java, PHP or...