AppLabs eCommerce Survey: Holiday Season, 2008
A survey by AppLabs finds that more than 25% of respondents are concerned that their websites are at risk for failure. AppLabs is the largest independent global IT services company specializing in quality management, testing, and certification solutions.
Practical Web sites and services
We all have favorite Web sites that we depend on and visit regularly. Here are some really practical Web sites that you might want to add to your collection.
100 incredibly useful and interesting Web sites
Even as the Web has become more entertaining--and certainly better looking--over the past 15 years, it has also become much more useful and practical, as the 100 sites in this feature will demonstrate.
The bottom 10: The Web's most useless sites
While locating the most useful sites on the Web, we felt it only fair to call out the some of the most useless, too. We found no shortage of sites that are poorly designed or boring, but we list here some of the sites that go that extra mile--the dazzlingly ugly, the patently offensive, and the mind-bogglingly pointless.
8 great how-to Web sites
The "wisdom of the crowd" model works very well for how-to and advice sites like Yahoo Answers and Instructables. The content at these sites is created and contributed largely by the communities of people that frequent the sites. At some of the sites you can ask a question, and then read what informed members of the community have to say about it.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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100 incredibly useful and interesting Web sites
AppLabs eCommerce Survey: Holiday Season, 2008
What Do You Want?
15 specialty sites you should know about
10 great sites for local content and mobile devices
8 great how-to Web sites
The bottom 10: The Web's most useless sites
Practical Web sites and services