http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:15:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The trickle of senior executives leaving Yahoo has turned into a flood. People close to the company confirmed on Thursday that three more senior executives — Qi Lu, Brad Garlinghouse and Vish Makhijani — were leaving. All were responsible for critical areas of Yahoo's business. Lu is executive vice president of the search and ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/06/20/yahoo-looses-more-upper-management/ What is PageRank? PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/05/16/google-pagerank-explained-how-to-make-the-most-of-it/ Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month. "We will start to show you the next version of the search," Chairman Bill Gates said in comments ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/05/07/26/ We all have our pet-peaves. Some of us have laundry lists of them. My list of personal pet-peaves is rather short, and as far as my business pet-peaves, there is only one: Communications Etiquette. What I am going to propose below might startle some of you largely due to the fact ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/02/19/communications-etiquette-101/ When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/02/16/vista-and-leopard-more-alike-than-you-want-to-admit/ In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input. Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/02/16/practicing-good-form/ Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago. Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/02/13/mozilla-delivers-third-beta-for-firefox-3/ According to sources, Yahoo is deciding between just two options. Accept the offer in principal, but get Microsoft to fork over some more coin, or attempt to partner with Google and outsource advertising to the Internet giant. http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/02/09/yahoo-plans-to-decide-on-microsofts-offer-this-weekend/ Today the HTML working group published  the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML. Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/01/23/w3c-releases-first-draft-of-html-50/ Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments. The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change. (Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at ... http://www.rodes.net/wp/wordpress/2008/01/21/microsoft-relaxes-vista-virtualization-rules/