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The Optimizer’s Guide to Web Accessibility

ConversionXL

That’s where web accessibility comes in, opening you up to conversion opportunities you didn’t even know you were missing out on. What is web accessibility? Web accessibility is the practice of removing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing and interacting with sites. of people in the U.S.

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[The Philippines] Harnessing Apps To Tackle Traffic

YoungUpstarts

trillion since 2001 due to traffic – a massive loss in productivity. Sakay.ph , a web- and SMS-based app that gives commuters printable transit directions for. The study noted that the country has lost more than P1.5

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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza.

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Power To The People – Creating Trust In Data With Collaborative Governance

YoungUpstarts

The good news is that IT professionals have a blueprint from the companies that pioneered the use of the World Wide Web for collaborative data governance. Just as Web 2.0 Launched in 2001, it is the world’s sixth most popular website regarding overall visitor traffic. As the Web 2.0

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Web 3.0 Brings a New Wave of Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. He calls his dream ‘Web 3.0’ or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate.