Web Development Live

The Bush administration has added a controversial ingredient to the $770-million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis: language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.
The value or detriment of genetically modified, or bioengineered, food is an intensely disputed issue in the U.S. and in Europe, [...]

With more than $100 million in assets, Texell wanted to drive the growth of its online channel, strengthen its Internet presence and reinforce its brand, while providing a secure forum to protect confidential data and comply with Federal regulations. According to Tony Hale, chief executive officer of Texell, what began as a simple evaluation of [...]

Hosted by Informative Research, the Garden Grove, Calif.-based credit reporting agency responsible for engineering and supporting OriginatorDirect, the demonstration will give attendees an opportunity to “test-drive” the technology and experience its functionality from both administrative and customer perspectives. Donovan Williams, a board member of the National Credit Reporting Association, will lead a question and answer [...]

The City Council set a public hearing for June 2 to discuss the proposed changes to the Land Development Code. The code has combined and reformatted multiple land development standards to ensure consistency.
The proposed code also includes an update of sign regulations and preparation of gateway design standards.
Council members spoke Monday about the impact the [...]

The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has released a report about the increase of online video (11.5 billion videos viewed in March, according Comscore). Its title is “Zooming In on Online Video: A Development & Growth Guide for Newspaper Web Sites.” Here is the download link.
Main conclusion: everyone needs to jump on online video. “While [...]

Everything’s ready to go. Piles of 11 different kinds of shirts and pants for girls ages 5 to 12 sit stacked on shelves in RealKidz’s office in Ypsilanti’s Depot Town. Boxes, envelopes, tissue paper and clear plastic bags are nearby.
As of Friday, the company had made only one sale, to a Michigan woman who bought [...]

OSU’s Technology Business Assessment Group will fund four faculty research projects for spring 2008. The group identified these one-year projects from a number of excellent proposals submitted in response to a solicitation earlier this spring. Funding for the program is administered by the OSU Office of Intellectual Property Management, and is generated by royalties from [...]

Innovative, user friendly and one of leading turnkey ecommerce solution provider has announced its latest release that incorporates the added value and benefits of web portal into its largely popular ecommerce web application, eBanyan.
Coupled with eBbanyan’s rich featured ecommerce platform, the portal will allow websites to combine feature-packed solution into a single point of entry [...]

They are also offering No-cost tools to assist webmasters and domain developers. Their most recent offering - Stomper Site Seer - is a web-based tool that you don’t have to pay for. It generates a lot of information about your site in one report.
Even if you don’t sign-up for Stompernet (and most people won’t) their [...]

NY Web Standards May 2008 will focus on Microformats with attendees from the web design and development fields, expected to attend an evening of comprehensive discussions and networking.
Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and adopted standards. They are intended to solve simple problems and were developed by examining current [...]