Custom meta tags in Textpattern

Out of the box Textpattern does not provide the meta “description” tag for each article. Although there’s a keywords field available for each article under the “Advanced Options” link on the “write” page, the keywords tag is not included in the default template.
I wanted to implement custom meta tags such as description and keywords on [...]

Warren’s Playpen on Google Search

Warren’s Playpen is a website which I set up a few months ago for my son. Warren loves to scribble, so I thought I would encourage him by setting up a personal website to showcase his doodles.
Recently I tried to do a search on Google using the term “Warren Tam” and I was presently surprised [...]

IE7.com

Check out IE7.com. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Shedding light on Etisalat’s Internet filtering (censorship) policy

The “Wikipedia”:http://www.wikipedia.org has an “article”:http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etisalat on Etisalat’s internet filtering (censorship) policy. “Etisalat”:http://www.etisalat.ae is the UAE’s state owned telecommunications company. It has a policy of actively filtering internet websites which are “inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE”.
Apparently the websites which fall under the following categories are actively [...]

Skype.com not accessible in UAE

I have not been successful in accessing Skype’s homepage from Dubai. Now I know why. Skype.com has been blocked by the authorities here since April last year as reported on “Skype Journal”:http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/04/uae_blocks_skyp.php.
However the VOIP service is still working. Only the homepage has been blocked to prevent UAE residents from purchasing Skype credit.

Box.net Online Storage

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I was reading “Paul Kedrosky’s post”:http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002797.html on Google’s Analyst presentation. There was a reference to an online storage service called Box.net.
Box.net offers a free 1GB storage and signing up is a real breeze.
Check it out.

Introducing Google Page Creator

Google recently launched a new service called “Google Page Creator”:http://pages.google.com. It is an online service which allows the user to easily create web pages and hosting is thrown in for free. It has been called “GeoCities 2.0″, comparing it to Yahoo’s popular “GeoCities”:http://geocities.com/ which provides similar functionality.

Lulu.com - Affordable Self Publishing for the Masses

Lulu.com is bringing really affordable self publishing to the masses. Through the help of software technology and the internet, Lulu is able to lower the costs of self publishing by providing the user with powerful software tools to publish and sell books online .

Who used to live here?

Getting the domain name that you want is no longer an easy task these days, especially if you want one in the dot com space. Hence it is always exciting to be able to find your choice available for the taking. However it might be a good idea to check whether the domain is pre-owned and who used to inhabit the address.

But can one actually peek into the past to see a moment in web history? …

Social web services integration - Del.icio.us, Furl.net, Blogrolling.com and Flickr

It has been said that the world wide web will eventually evolve into the Social Web. And we can see it materialising with the increasing popularity of social software web services such as Del.icio.us, Furl and Blogrolling.
Del.icio.us has been described as social bookmarking service. It is a web service for storing and sharing internet links.
Furl [...]

A peek into the early days of the WWW

The World Wide Web Consortium maintains a section on the history of the web, including this early archive of the first web page.

WWW versus Microsoft

Recently I had an interesting conversation with a friend on how the emerging web platform will affect the current desktop client platform monopolised by Microsoft. The move to the web is being spearheaded by companies such as Google and Yahoo. Of course Microsoft is also hedging its bet via sites such as MSN.
With the growing [...]