Personalizing a mobile app is the key to its effectiveness and success; the personalization lends focus and beauty to your app design. There are a few specific ways to implement personalization into your app, making it appealing, beneficial and most of all — sought after. Marketing strategies always do better when you are not fighting […]
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7 Best Free Tools for Bootstrapped Startups
As a small business owner, you might feel like everyone’s out to get a piece of your income. These great tools prove that’s not the case.
8 Ways YouTube Will Be Changing How You Create Videos
Professional YouTube video creators and amateurs alike will soon get new tools for refining their work and expanding audiences.
6 New Salestech Tools You Should Try Right Now
Passing “the barista test” isn’t easy, but you’ll return to these six new CRM solutions day after day.
Make Yourself Irrelevant: How Engineers Can Really Spur Innovation
Hey, engineers! Build better tools for online innovators so you can go back to changing the world instead of coding apps.
MIT Brain Who Beat the Casinos Launches Service to Quantify Developer Performance
Jeff Ma, the MIT blackjack team member who served as the inspiration for Ben Mezrich’s book Bringing Down the House and the film 21, gave developers at the Atlassian Summit a glimpse of his new stealth startup: TenXer.
Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible
Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done – but they’re not great tools for making decisions. The team behind Loomio wants to solve that with a new Web-based tool for focused, concise discussions that allow all team members to be heard.
Revenge of the DevOps: Microsoft Targets Next Visual Studio for Admins Too
You’ve heard this from ReadWriteWeb for the past several months: The exodus to the cloud for enterprise services and resources is moving control of everyday work away from the IT department. So what happens with all those displaced IT workers and administrators who are no longer managing applications and services day-to-day?
Well, if you ask the…
Umbraco CMS’ Latest Reinvention Finally Complete
One other way to think of a “content management system” is as a database engineered to present data in a rich and navigable format. As such, a CMS doesn’t have to be “the company blog;” and a business’ communications – especially the kind that used to be logged on the intranet – don’t have to look like WordPress.
A few months later than…
HP Aims to Redefine Apps Performance Testing with Cloud Platform
When mobile users feel they don’t like how their apps perform after the first trial, some 75% of them won’t launch the app again. That’s the metric cited by engineers and marketers at HP Software, who note that this first wave of mobile apps brought forth by the iPhone has resulted in a glut of programs that make even the best performing mobile…
HP Aims to Redefine Apps Performance Testing with Cloud Platform
When mobile users feel they don’t like how their apps perform after the first trial, some 75% of them won’t launch the app again. That’s the metric cited by engineers and marketers at HP Software, who note that this first wave of mobile apps brought forth by the iPhone has resulted in a glut of […]
The Fruit of SproutCore’s Labor Will Live On as Amber.js
Last month, the team responsible for the creation of SproutCore, one of the more successful of many JavaScript libraries for Web application development, were absorbed as a whole into Facebook, and will likely be working on an apps distribution platform there, probably involving HTML5. What Strobe left on the table was SproutCore, a project…
Silverlight Stall: Microsoft Says Final Word on v5 ‘in the Coming Weeks’
Spokespersons for Microsoft and all other sources on the subject are remaining mum today, after an unofficial general release deadline of the end of November for the next edition of its Silverlight Web apps platform passed quietly. The Silverlight 5 project had been launched as the evolution of Microsoft’s graphical platform for Web functionality…
Collabnet Connect Offers New Integrated Dev Tools
Today, CollabNet announced Connect, its new integration framework to provide app dev orchestration and management. The big news here is its integration with Atlassian’s bug tracker tool JIRA. It also brings the Git source code repository into an enterprise setting that can be used more adroitly by larger project teams. The goal is that your data…
Built-in Dev Tools in Firefox 10 Look More Chrome-ish
For most of its existence, Firebug has been the de facto JavaScript developers’ console for Firefox; and for several years, most Web development in general involved Firebug to at least some extent. Now with HTML5 developers expecting to see more workbench functionality built into the browser, Firefox finds itself in yet another chase, this time…
New Relic Expands Performance Monitoring as a Service with Python
How exactly should you gain visibility into the performance levels your customers are seeing when they use your Web applications? One method that’s still in wide use is compelling users to install plug-ins and background processes. But for many users, that’s not just performance monitoring, that’s behavior monitoring. You don’t want your…
Sisyphus: Add Gmail-like Saving to Your Site’s Forms
Modern browsers are, generally speaking, so much better about stability than they used to be. Still, who hasn’t had a browser crash in the middle of filling out a form at some point? Maybe the odds are 1 in 100, maybe they’re 1 in 1,000, but it will happen. Now, consider the odds for all the people visiting your sites. If your site has forms of any…
17 Alternatives to Klout
As we wrote about earlier this week, Klout has reworked its algorithms, and your scores have changed. Some have gone up, some down. Despite claiming more transparency with their algorithms, they are still mostly opaque and mysterious. As one of our readers commented, “Klout just pulled a Netflix, taking trust off the table.”
So while they tinker…
MySQL Leads Open Source Market Share
Jelastic.com, the Java PaaS similar to Heroku, has compiled an interesting market share analysis of their more than 1,000 developers. Since their service is built on standard application servers and databases, their developers can choose which of four major open source databases they want to use: MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB and MongoDB. Granted…
Latest SAP Mobile Apps Show Progress for Sybase Platform on HTML5
Despite having been generally available for mobile systems like iOS for over two-and-a-half years now, you don’t hear much about something called the Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP). That may change soon, as a new set of mobile apps for human resources professionals, developed in conjunction with Sybase’s parent company SAP, are demonstrating an…