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Think Different with a Modern Responsive Design By Salar Golestanian @ Monday, November 12, 2012 :: 9:07 AM :: 477 Views :: 0 Comments :: Web Content delivery today is not so easy as Typical user may have a netbook, a laptop, a 27″ iMac, a 50 inch widescreen TV that may also act as a browser and of course the huge number of clever new smartphones entering the market and finally iPads or other tablets that have become so popular. Read More..

Is your Content Management Mobile Friendly By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, October 21, 2012 :: 12:15 PM :: 232 Views :: 0 Comments :: During 2012 - something quite important has changed in the world wide web. We had seen the pattern and read all the articles telling us of the changes coming our way. But now suddenly we are realizing that Mobile is not only something we should consider in our overall web strategy, but more importantly we may have to consider that mobile devices are now the preferred browsing platform and Second is desktops and laptops. On top of that we need to recognize how people's search habits are changing too. Read More..

DNNWorld News - Microsoft to Deliver WCMS with DotNetnuke in the Azure Cloud By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, October 12, 2012 :: 10:37 AM :: 280 Views :: 0 Comments :: In the last few days I have been waiting to hear more Cloud news and today i was rewarded with DotNetNuke Signs Alliance Agreement with Microsoft to Deliver Web Content Management in the Windows Azure Cloud so to start a Cloud-Based Social CMS. Read More..

It’s Adapt or Die: How Mobile is Rapidly Evolving the World By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, May 20, 2012 :: 12:20 AM :: 384 Views :: 0 Comments :: Around 87% of the world’s population owns a mobile phone. And even in India, Africa and South America where the fixed broadband is scares, the mobile broadband is getting faster and faster. The truth of the matter is that already, with mobile technologies, one could build an entire consulting company in the cloud and nobody would ever have to come to work. Some organizations think that interactions between employees are essential and can only happen at workplace. However, that is not true for all organizations. Some do as well if not better completely mobile. Read More..

HTML5 update on Video format challenges and some examples By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, May 18, 2011 :: 12:22 AM :: 642 Views :: 0 Comments :: Currently, html5 video is more and more used in websites, and we can say that html 5 video is the future of video on the web. HTML5 video is an element introduced in the HTML5 draft specification for the purpose of playing videos or movies, partially replacing the object element. Read More..

Browser compatibility is the biggest issue for HTML 5 By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, April 17, 2011 :: 10:20 PM :: 838 Views :: 0 Comments :: There are a huge number of use cases for HTML 5 like mobility which is very promising. However, if the support of cross browser issues can't be resolved, HTML 5 can't leap forward. It is said that W3C is going to endorse HTML 5 in the middle of this year after API is finalized. Currently Chrome and Safari are on par with on another in terms of HTML 5 compliance. IE10 is also promising much better standards support and Aurora from Firefox will let developers to play with new stuff as they come out. Read More..

'YouTube Live' goes Live By Salar Golestanian @ Saturday, April 09, 2011 :: 9:39 PM :: 555 Views :: 0 Comments :: YouTube with Google Behind it has been growing steadily in recent years and now it has over 2 Billion views a day. However it has been all about viewing a video that is recorded in the past. Now YouTube has announced the initial roll out of YouTube Live which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools. Read More..

WebGL & HTML5 based on OpenGL ES 2.0 for the Web - Can it replace Flash? By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, April 07, 2011 :: 2:22 PM :: 628 Views :: 0 Comments :: Khronos Group is the Open Standards for Media Authoring and Acceleration which is a non-profit consortium of companies like Google, Apple, Intel, Mozilla and more dedicated to creating open standard APIs through which to display digital interactive media — across all platforms and devices. Has provided the graphics library that basically extends the functionality of JavaScript to allow it to create interactive 3D graphics within older browsers as a cross-platform API within the context of HTML5, it brings 3D graphics to the Web without using plug-ins. Read More..

Good News for HTML5 with Mobile Firefox Skips Flash on Android By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, March 29, 2011 :: 8:18 PM :: 489 Views :: 0 Comments :: These days life is getting very difficult for web developers like me, It seems that we have to test against a bigger variety of devices than ever. It is no longer enough to check for IE 6-9, FF, Opera, Chrome, but also Safari for Apple for desktops. We now have to test mobile versions of Safari for iPad, iPhone, Android and no doubt soon Tablet variety of Android not to mention BlackBerry. Here at SalarO we have all of them except Android and now it seems this weekend I got to go out and buy one of these too since we have the first customer asking us to test against it. Read More..

WordPress Blogs just got a lot better with iPad Reader By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, March 24, 2011 :: 12:07 AM :: 538 Views :: 0 Comments :: As an iPad owner that is aware of the changing Web landscape and the fast advances that Tablet world is making. I was curious about what WordPress has... Read More..

A NEW WORLD ORDER IN SHOPPER MARKETING - Esomar Conference - Brussels By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, March 01, 2011 :: 7:51 PM :: 585 Views :: 0 Comments :: Companies face a new world order in shopper marketing as consumers have evolved following the recent recession. The global financial turmoil caused a profound change in shopping behaviour: motivations, values and priorities are creating new shifts in the mechanics of commerce, online Retailing is also continuing to grow at the expense of traditional commerce…  what’s next? Read More..

Google Blog About The Plan to Combat Search Spam By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, February 25, 2011 :: 4:34 PM :: 637 Views :: 1 Comments :: Today SEO czar Matt Cutts published a detailed article on the Google Blog regarding the company’s efforts to improve the quality of Google search results. Matt is admitting what Google has been suspecting for months: there are more spammers trying to scam unsuspecting Googlers. Read More..

Record-Breaking $43.4 Billion in Q4 2010 U.S. Retail E-Commerce Spending By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, February 04, 2011 :: 9:19 PM :: 555 Views :: 0 Comments :: comScore Reports Record-Breaking $43.4 Billion in Q4 2010 U.S. Retail E-Commerce Spending, Up 11 Percent up from last year. comScore is a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its Q4 2010 U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that online retail spending reached a record $43.4 billion for the quarter, up 11 percent versus year ago. This growth rate represented the fifth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth and second quarter of double-digit growth rates in the past year. Read More..

Mobile e-commerce study shows large increase in transactions via SmartPhones By Salar Golestanian @ Monday, January 10, 2011 :: 9:09 PM :: 567 Views :: 0 Comments :: Last week we reported "Mobile Sales growing fast! Is your E-commerce App ready for SmartPhones?" Today we have more evidence for this trend and the future looks similarly bright for mobile shopping. Mobile commerce is the ability to buy and sell a product or service through a mobile device. With the increased usage of mobile phones, PDAs and smartphones, mobile commerce is starting to pick up speed. New applications for the iPhone and Blackberry and Android phones are leading the way for thiw growth. This topic covers the soon-to-be lucrative business of mobile commerce. Read More..

BT Wholesale move with 'Content Connect' and the 'net neutrality' By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, January 09, 2011 :: 5:15 PM :: 616 Views :: 0 Comments :: There is a lot of chatter about Neutrality these days. There are the furious disagreements from activists and the hard-hearted pragmatism of the big c... Read More..

Mobile Sales growing fast! Is your E-commerce App ready for SmartPhones? By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, January 06, 2011 :: 4:04 PM :: 627 Views :: 0 Comments :: eBay: Mobile Sales Grew From $600 Million To $2 Billion In 2010. The report says that in December eBay's Gross Mobile Sales was up to $230 Million. However, during the holiday period the growth was much faster. For example in United Kingdom has apparently been the fastest adopter of mobile-commerce, with more Brits shopping through the eBay app than anywhere else in Europe. Read More..

Tips on Designing for Tablets, as 1/3 of Online Consumers Will Own a Tablet By 2015 By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, January 04, 2011 :: 9:21 PM :: 535 Views :: 0 Comments :: It is no secret that Apple enjoys a huge lead in the touch tablet market. The last major accounting put Apple at an incredible 95% market share. This is mainly because the alternative tablet Operating System like Android is not really made for Tablet use. This week we have every other PC manufacturer is rushing to revamp or bring out their own tablet computers. New tablets are expected to dominate at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Borrowed from Salar Golestanian Blog. Read More..

Tips on Designing for Tablets, as 1/3 of Online Consumers Will Own a Tablet By 2015 By Salar Golestanian @ Tuesday, January 04, 2011 :: 7:59 PM :: 579 Views :: 0 Comments :: It is no secret that Apple enjoys a huge lead in the touch tablet market. The last major accounting put Apple at an incredible 95% market share. This is mainly because the alternative tablet Operating System like Android is not really made for Tablet use. This week we have every other PC manufacturer is rushing to revamp or bring out their own tablet computers. New tablets are expected to dominate at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More..

A Visual Guide To Net Neutrality, Theopeninter.net By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, December 26, 2010 :: 9:49 PM :: 414 Views :: 0 Comments :: Further to FCC approval for the first “enforceable” net neutrality regulations last week. These rules face opposition from all sides, with some holding that FCC has overstepped its boundaries and others saying that the still unpublished framework does not offer enough protection. It is rather difficult to understand what Web Neutrality Means. Web designer Michael Ciarlo has given the site as a holiday gift of being able to explain to the less web savvy web members what net neutrality means with nice graphics, and why exactly we should care about the FCC’s recent attempts to create “enforceable” Internet regulations. This article is taken from Salar Golestanian Blogs Read More..

Web Founder Asking For Open Standards/Neutrality: Long Live the Web By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, December 12, 2010 :: 10:15 PM :: 572 Views :: 0 Comments :: A few months ago Wired magazine started the conversation with the question "Is the Web Dead? This was the article that created a stair. At the time, I wanted to blog about the subject, but I did not have a blog site. Now I do. So I thought its better late than never. And here is a little bit about the controversy it caused. Read More..

Mobile OS & Browser Landscape is changing, should we change too? By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, December 10, 2010 :: 6:10 PM :: 602 Views :: 0 Comments :: For more than 3 years we have been producing mobile specific modules and skins/templates for DotnetNuke platform. When we first started this path the king of mobile browsing was just Apple iOS and the rest were not man enough to even consider them. Read More..

DNN module development for mobile Smartphone platform - part 1 By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, December 09, 2010 :: 2:03 PM :: 428 Views :: 0 Comments :: A couple of months ago dnn-europe.net organized the first European Day of DotNetNuke; a free conference for DotNetNuke users. The event took place in the conference centre of Microsoft in Paris and nearly two hundred attendees enjoyed a full day with key note by Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke. Furthermore there were 24 Sessions by 28 profound speakers from the DotNetNuke Core Team, the European community and even guests from the U.S. Check out the event's web site for further details. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs.  Read More..

Truths and Myths of Social Media By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, December 09, 2010 :: 2:00 PM :: 434 Views :: 0 Comments :: According to the recent Social Technographics® report from Forrrester, 81% of U.S. adults with an Internet connection use social media in some form or function. Further, last year’s Forrester study of B2B technology buyers found that they use social media nearly twice as much as U.S. adults overall. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs. Read More..

What does it means to software developers when smartphones & tablets overtake PC sales? By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, December 08, 2010 :: 11:14 PM :: 423 Views :: 0 Comments :: As a web developers we do need to watch global hardware and software sales as it can impact our employment prospects. Having worked for IDC research back in 1990s, I always follow their assessments of the market with great interest. This week when I heard the news that Shipments of Smartphones, tablets and other app-enabled devices will overtake PC shipments in the next 18 months. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs. Read More..

The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, November 26, 2010 :: 10:59 PM :: 414 Views :: 0 Comments :: Next six months let alone the next five years is going to be exciting to watch changes in Social Networking. Designing and developing compelling social products that have the best tools to break through the noise and capturing people’s time and money is in being extremely clear on how your social product meets a few key design principles. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs. Read More..

Second Life Launches Beta Web Browser By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, November 25, 2010 :: 8:24 PM :: 558 Views :: 0 Comments :: Linden Lab is launching web-based Beta access of Second Life (mentioned.) See the screenshots, apparently it works on your browser. According to Katharine Berry, it requires a Java plug-in in your browser. The Beta version apparently logs you into selected locations as a guest avatar for a short period of time. Second Life blogger Alicia Chenaux has a illustrated write-up. Original post at Salar Golestanian Blogs. Read More..