The Guardian’s list of the top 100 websites and applications for the new year.
“The web really is becoming the operating system.”
The biggest changes since 2006 have been in the fields of collaborative online services that let people in different locations work simultaneously on projects. Collaboration in 2006 was very much focused on words, but [...]

Vishal Sharma’s run down of ten Australian Mobile Startups that are poised to take advantage of the market for mobile web applications, on the back of the iPhone’s arrival.
Mobile is the next platform for consuming services and its the next battle field for technology companies/entrepreneurs. Apple’s iPhone has been embraced similar to standing ovation which [...]

An explanation of the so-called “white screen of death”, something I see a bit of while logged in to Facebook, to name one example. Especially common to websites, or applications, that are PHP powered… which, hmm, includes disassociated.
A web application powered by the scripting language PHP will display an empty white page in the browser [...]

WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader that can be used to access webpages on any computer without the need to install any screen reading software.
Try it here… it’s a little strange hearing your webpage being read back to you at first. It mispronounces both “disassociated” and my surname (minor detail, plus this is an [...]

With ten million applications downloaded already, it might be a good idea to learn something about developing apps for the iPhone. Accordingly Web Directions have invited Tim Lucas and Peter Ottery to speak on the topic at this year’s conference.
Plenty of people have been beavering away on all manner of things, and I’m certain this [...]

Australian task-list manager Remember The Milk has been honoured with an Apple design award for their mobile version of the app.
You can imagine how hugely honoured we were when Remember The Milk for iPhone & iPod touch was named the winner in the Best iPhone Web Application category!

Congratulations :)

The vanishing personal site
Where have all the personal websites gone? Gone to self-syndicating Web 2.0 applications like Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us, every one of them.
Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing [...]