Web Timeline

A simple timeline, just to remember what happend few years ago…

1994

www protocols

1995

ebay

1996

Netscape and Microsoft war

1997

Someone buys .com domains for 150.000 dollars!

1998

Open Diary, the first blog platform

1999

Napster

2000

Paypal

2001

Napster is closed

2002

Friendster, the first social network

2003

Wikipedia

2004

Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo

2005

YouTube

2006

Wen 2.0 becomes a common word

2007

Twitter

2008

Obama, the 2.0 election

2009

Pirate Bay on trial

And for something more, read the following article: “Fifteen years of [...]

Ipoki – GPS-based social network

Ipoki is a GPS-based social network that allows people to share geolocation data using a small application installed in their mobile devices.

With Ipoki you can track the position in Google Maps of all our friends, and:

Google Earth integration: You can follow in Google Earth in realtime.

Flickr: Keep your tracks in Ipoki and upload [...]

2008 Web Trend Map

This time we can see almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites pinned down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, Information Architect Japan enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0.
What’s New?
All the lines are new and they laid the tracks in perspective, but they kept the look, feel, [...]

Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. We have done it again – and better. Upon popular demand – here is iA’s next Web Trend Map:

Download it:

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iA Webtrend Map Screensaver (OSX)

The author: iA is a strategic design agency in Tokyo, Japan.

Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps

Google Maps do not display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.

Looking up an address in Google Maps will center the map on that address if it was [...]

Not first in Google? Try using Sitemap!

I know, every article about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the same: a lot of words and not a really useful tip!

Today I have founded one: “SEO With Google Sitemaps“, by Matthew Coers.

An extract:

What is a Google Sitemap?

A Google Sitemap is a very simple XML document that lists all the pages in your [...]