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PC Magazine did a review of Dreamweaver CS3 and while praising the product left the editor’s choice pick in the hands of Expression Web “by a nose”.
How worthwhile is the award? PC World acknowledges that Dreamweaver CS3 is a pretty awesome product and describes it as an essential upgrade for current Dreamweaver users. […]

In catching up with some of my trackbacks I found a great post by Chris Messina about the importance of view source as Rich Internet Applications start to take off. He wrote it as an addendum to his panel at Web 2.0 Expo in which he lamented the fact that these new technologies were going […]

As a web designer, ESPN.com and MTV.com are two websites I have always kept an eye on to find cutting edge web design techniques. I remember ESPN.com doing some things back in the late nineties that really inspired me. MTV.com has always been a bit more funky, and less-predictable, but those can be two very good things.

I was disappointed when I found that MTV.com was bogged down in Flash recently, but today I see (via SimpleBits, another source of inspiration) that MTV.com has been reborn as an HTML-driven entity once again. It’s a tad bit bloggy now, but at least it’s not overrun with Flash anymore.

On a semi-related note, while reading up on the new MTV HATS at MTV Labs, I couldn’t help but chuckle at the following comment:

so are the videos not working anymore?? because they haven’t been for me.

Unfortunately, I think the commenter was literally asking about the videos on the site, but I couldn’t help but read the comment as a sarcastic jab at the fact that the actual MTV television channel never plays videos anymore.

One of the strange thing about Silverlight is that unlike Flash, it doesn’t have any native controls, it just uses HTML controls and has some special hooks for ASP.NET AJAX (keep this in mind when you’re calling Silverlight a “Flash killer”). But the team at Telerik have built some pretty cool 3D cube controls […]

Friday night and I’m reading feeds about RIAs. I’m not sure what that says about me, but hey, what can you do. This one is about the MTV reversion from their touted all-Flash site back to HTML. It’s interesting to see things like this happen. MTV is obviously a very media-heavy site, but going […]

I’m late to this, but on Thursday Robert Scoble blogged that Tjeerd Hoek, the director of user experience design for Windows is leaving to join Frog Design. Most of the comments focus on the Google vs. Microsoft angle, but from an RIA perspective, this is VERY interesting.
Frog Design is one of the best design […]

Interesting article from Wired about how “Web 2.0″ is starting to impact traditional software companies like Microsoft and Adobe:
As people gravitate to the Internet for more and more free services and solutions the web browser could become the central window through which our daily lives are conducted, potentially replacing most desktop applications.

I don’t think […]

But that will change soon.

Just in case you haven’t noticed the pattern yet, this blog usually goes quiet right before we announce cool new stuff. Well, the cool new stuff is coming. I have to work on the screencast now and show the world.

What will it be?

An even easier way to share tasks and a great way to find resources accidentally overallocated– both within a project and across many projects.

Screencasts coming soon!

I was over in Redmond yesterday getting some information about Silverlight. I can’t say anything of course, but I was both impressed and excited for what Microsoft is doing. They’re taking the RIA space VERY seriously, and that’s going to show at MIX when they take the covers off of everything.
Luckily, they’ve set […]

Some might call it posturing, but I’d rather call it what it is - Lying.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sonics/2003683358_sonics27m.html
Clay Bennett continues to show the Sonics fans and residents of Washington that he can not be trusted by his constant lying about his intentions. In turn, Howard Schultz should not be trusted either -remember when Schultz said that he […]