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Latest posts from my blog (as you can tell, I don’t write much)

Web Standards Checklist

I have translated the original checklist A Web Standards Checklist, from MaxDesign. Before starting, let’s clarify some concepts: What are web standards? The expression “web …

Google’s PageRank

Do you know how PageRank is calculated? Do you understand its algorithm? Ian Rogers explains clearly, using very simple and illustrative examples, how it works. He also provides …

The ‘rules’ of creativity in web design

I came across (via meyerweb.com) an interesting study carried out by François Briatte. In it, he analyses 10 websites (perhaps too small a sample and with fairly similar topics: …

Viral marketing doesn’t work

Tell everyone.

The Principles of Motivation

Browsing, browsing… I came across a very interesting article by Stephen Covey, in which he explains how to convince the people who depend on us to act responsibly. From Covey’s …

Google explains Monday’s outage on its weblog

In a post titled “Global Worming”, Urs Hoelze (VP of Operations and Google Fellow) explains the incident that surprised us all last Monday, July 26th, on Google’s official weblog. …

Skype

Thanks to Eduardo Manchón (Ainda.info and Alzado.org) I discovered today one of those communication apps that truly “change your life” — the kind that clearly mark a before and an …

The GMail way

Getting started: Getting Started with GMail What’s new: New features!

Happy birthday, Luci

“If it takes forty years for the gun to be paid for If it takes forty years, I'll put the money away If it takes forty years to get the things that I need sir If it takes forty …

See you later...

...grandma.