Troy Peterson

New Weekend Project – SimpleIPaddress .com

Troy Peterson — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:34:19 +0000

Completed a new weekend project… www.simpleipaddress.com If you’re like me and use a cable internet service, your IP address changes on a regular basis… when the power goes out, you disconnect your modem to reset it, or whenever your ISP feels like changing it. As a web developer, I need to know this on a [...]

Turning Off Autocomplete Using HTML

Troy Peterson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:04:03 +0000

Autocomplete is a function in most modern browsers (IE 7+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera) that remembers commonly named entries in previous forms and enters it on new forms. This can be a handy tool for users so they don’t have to keep entering common information. However, for a developer, it can be an extremely annoying [...]

New Augmented Reality Cards for Valentines Day

Troy Peterson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:14:29 +0000

When you think of a High Tech Media company, the name Hallmark doesn’t normally come to mind. However, this Valentines day, you might just change your toon… Hallmark will be offering new Web Based Augmented reality greeting cards for Valentines day! Video of the technology after the jump. What is Augmented Reality? Augmented reality is [...]

The Lie That Will Ultimately Kill Facebook

Troy Peterson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:38:33 +0000

Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to an audience at the TechCrunch Crunchie awards about privacy and their descision to automatically make all content open and publicly available by default. His statement and reasoning is that privacy is no longer a “social norm”. Essentially that we should assume everything we say and do [...]

2 Weeks with Google Chrome

Troy Peterson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:49:51 +0000

Most people are creatures of habit. Just look at almost any Analytics report now days and you’ll still see that around 20% of most “average” web visitors still use Internet Explorer 6… a browser that was released in 2001 and is EXTREMELY out of date. So, in an effort to change some of my own [...]

Improve RSS and Email Followers

Troy Peterson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:34:00 +0000

RSS and Email subscriptions are great ways to improve the traffic and brand recognition of your web site or blog. However, few site owners know of a simple UI tweak that can make a HUGE difference in your subscription rates. Simply change “Subscribe” to “Get Updates“ Wordplay So, Why should this one small change make a [...]

Brilliant Move by Twitter: Allowing Big 3 to DataMine

Troy Peterson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:33:41 +0000

It came to light today that Twitter is in talks with Google and Microsoft (and by default, Yahoo!) that would allow open access to Twitter’s Data feed. The aparent non-exclusive deal that Twitter is signing would allow the Search Engine Heavyweights to display and monetize twitter results along side of regular search engine results. This [...]

Bing’s Smoke-In-Mirror Growth

Troy Peterson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:21:06 +0000

In the month’s since Microsoft’s launch of their new search engine Bing.com, much has been said about it’s amazing market share growth. Some even proclaiming a 10% market grab since it’s launch. However, much of that is smoke in mirrors and not “real” traffic… In reality, Microsoft simply replaced it’s traffic from two seperate sources [...]

The Internet Manifesto… A Must Read for ANY Journalist

Troy Peterson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:00:04 +0000

This has been stirring up some controversy lately in and around the journalism field over the past few days. The Internet Manifesto – How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations. What originally started as small declaration by a few German bloggers has recently been translated into English and several other languages and has quickly turned into [...]

Why Twitter is Significant

Troy Peterson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:50:33 +0000

It seems lately that on almost a weekly basis I get asked or overhear someone talking about how they don’t understand what the all fuss is about Twitter. At first Glance, this is a rather obvious and understandable statement. After all, what can you REALLY do with 140 characters? Just take a look at this [...]