Scott Barnes considers the whole RIA thing and concludes, "if Spiderman and Batman were ever to team up as a super-hero duo, crime could be fought much easier and better."  I nearly spit my coffee on the keyboard (yes, I am drinking coffee at 4PM).  What a great post going into…

How do you encourage your organization to take web standards seriously? How can you enforce standards across a big company with no central dictatorship? What is the one question that you better not answer wrong in a Yahoo! job interview?The developers at Yahoo! probably write more HTML, CSS, and…

Back when Vista launched, Yahoo! announced an incredible instant messenging client that runs on Vista.  The Yahoo! IM client for Vista uses WPF to give a beautiful user interface.  It's the perfect example of what's possible with RIAs (that stands for Rich Internet Application or Rich…

Kelly Goto is a well-known expert on research-driven, people-friendly interface design.  Her clients love her work, and her presentations always get high marks.  She presented at MIX last year on mobile design, and is presenting this year on moving from Web 1.0 to 2.0.  Rory…

Here is the footage of the BBC's demo at Robbie Bach's keynote.  Using Silverlight to bridge music festivals and the online world!

Opera is the 4th most popular PC-based browser, with high usage share in Northern and Eastern Europe.  They are also the browser for Nintendo Wii and 100 million mobile devices.  Opera is well-known for excellent standards support -- their CTO invented CSS, and they are…

Phizzpop is a new part of MIX Online that lets agency designers and developers interact, share, and show off their stuff.  We're going to be officially announcing this at ReMIX Boston in a few days, but we're publishing the link a few days early along with this demo and interview to show you…

Last time I discussed accessibility here, it was to hold out a carrot.  Designing for accessibility makes your site more mashable, skinnable, and maintainable.  But if the carrot isn't enough, the government holds a big stick. The U.S. District Court of Northern California has just ruled…

When Tim O'Reilly introduced search engine "Spock" at Web2Expo earlier this year, I was skeptical.  Today it launched, so I signed up to try it out.  I have to admit, my doubts have only grown. My initial skepticism was based on the premise that "people search is a…

We've been covering the exciting state of web advertising platforms since the inaugural MIX.  With last week's announcement that our acquisition of aQuantive has completed, I wanted to recap some other recent related news. You probably saw the biggest news about Microsoft: we are doing…