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A Visual Guide To Net Neutrality, Theopeninter.net

By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, December 26, 2010 :: 9:49 PM :: 417 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opposition from all sides, with some holding that FCC has overstepped its boundaries and others saying that the still unpublished framework does not offer enough protection.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

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Web Founder Asking For Open Standards/Neutrality: Long Live the Web

By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, December 12, 2010 :: 10:15 PM :: 575 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.

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Mobile OS & Browser Landscape is changing, should we change too?

By Salar Golestanian @ Friday, December 10, 2010 :: 6:10 PM :: 605 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.

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DNN module development for mobile Smartphone platform - part 1

By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, December 09, 2010 :: 2:03 PM :: 430 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.

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Truths and Myths of Social Media

By Salar Golestanian @ Thursday, December 09, 2010 :: 2:00 PM :: 437 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.

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What does it means to software developers when smartphones & tablets overtake PC sales?

By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, December 08, 2010 :: 11:14 PM :: 426 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.