Opportunities for new business ideas? Sure.

"First and foremost the cost to build in cyberspace is, at least initially, far cheaper than in the real world," he explained. "It's also far easier to iterate in cyberspace than in the real world as you're not dealing with real products, made of real materials, but with arrangements of bits."

... The next big thing doesn't have to be a new big thing. Neither Google nor Facebook were pioneers. Yet, Google searched better than the rest, and Facebook adopted a friends-only approach to profile viewing that helped the site grow more quickly than open-house competitors.

Read more: Recipe for a billion-dollar website | Analysis | Features | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/212703/recipe-for-a-billion-dollar-website#ixzz19qRX5PUy

Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design

This thinker has me reviewing my web site design. A page turner. Steve. 

"The web design guru that web designers love to hate." My scaled-back design has a strong effect on the reflective level of Don Norman's theory for emotional design.

• Check it out for great ideas: useit.com
• Eyetracking Web Usability (usability findings from eye tracker research)
• Why No Graphics
  It's safest to separate site hosting and domain names, and maintain the two at different companies.

 Articles

• Scrolling and Attention and Horizontal Attention
• F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
• Banner Blindness — Old and New Findings
• Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored
• Photos as Web Content
• Show Numbers as Numerals
• Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online
• Website Response Times
• How Journalists Read Press Areas of Corporate Websites
• Corporate Blogs: Front Page Structure
• How Investors Read IR Information on Publicly-Traded Companies' Websites
• Email Newsletters: Surviving Inbox Congestion

Generic Commands (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts

Make Your Home Page a Home Run

Your home page is the single most crucial page of your site.

7 Ways to Make Your Home Page a Home Run for UsabilityWhat to look for:

• No splash page: Just get to the content, don't bore your visitors with a "clever" splash page that just wastes their time.

• Instant page identification: Make sure the visitor knows they've landed on your home page. This should be obvious.

• Provides overview of site: It is the job of the home page to provide a quick overview of who you are, what you do and what the visitor will find... and then lead them to it.

• Site purpose is clear: Make sure you clearly outline the purpose of the site and why the visitor needs to be there.

• Robot meta: NOODP,NOYDIR: Add this robots meta tag to the home page to prevent the engines from using whatever title and description are found in your Yahoo and DMOZ directory listings.

Backlinks to this Blog

It is very motivating to see how many people use this blog as a reference in their own sites or in forum discussions. Today 893 sites refer to this blog, the most popular entry seems to be how to set a Bell F10 bike computer. Click here for the lastest figure.

Many sites point to this blog (backlinks) for one reason or another, this is very encouraging news. I try not to get linked to for from bad sites, and get into trouble, so please tell me if one of my links is bad, I will fix it as soon as possible.
Thanks
Steve

Server to Go in your USB - Great for demos

Server2Go - Self configurable WAMPP Stack

Blogger Types

Français

ZERO SECONDE (par Martin Lessard)

Portfolio - Cyber Génération Beautiful sites. "Petite enterprise de Terrebonne qui swing!" merci Jacques

Who links to me? Testing

This link is designed to study who has linked to this blog. See you later. It takes 72 hours to build the backlink list here: wholinkstome.com
Steve

Test your website speed

Click this link: http://www.numion.com/Stopwatch/ Then type in your website address, the result is at the top of the page. This site loads in about 2 seconds.

online help application

Facebook Developers | Get Started
If you're using a hosting service like Joyent, it actually comes with the Facebook PHP client library installed, along with MySQL and memcached.
If you're not using a hosting service that provides you with a preconfigured environment for Facebook applications, then you need to upload the client library and install MySQL.

Coming Soon, Free Hosting for Facebook Apps - GigaOMAccording to AllFacebook, there are 7,782 Facebook applications, of which four have a million daily users, while 91 applications have been installed about a million times. The majority however have 10,000 or fewer installs. So there is a large number of app writers — especially those with 10,000 or fewer users — who could benefit from getting this service, which typically costs about $45 a month, for free.

Joyent: Welcome to Joyent  ONE YEAR FREE

You can have as many applications on the Facebook Accelerator as the resource quotas allow (512 MB RAM and 10GiB Storage). You may also build applications on non-Facebook platforms, however, your Facebook application must remain active and in use in order to remain qualified for this program.   An active Facebook application is defined as application that has more than 50 total users.   The number of users is obtained from thisURL: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=  
Support

Joyent provides no support for this free service. Knowledgebase is here. We also have a very helpful and knowledgeable user community on our forum,
Joyent: Accelerator

Creating your first application - Facebook Developers Wiki

Facebook | Free Homework Help is close to what i'm looking for

Free Web Hosting Courtesy Wikipedia - What's the catch ? - Digital Inspiration YES IT'S FREE

Hosting Free-Internet.CC - Your Ultimate Source for a Free Internet RULES RULES RULES

Free web hosting service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Google releases Sites to replace Pages to make your own website

You can now host a website at sites.google.com. Great news this tool is more flexible than ever, and you can create "old style" websites page by page, just like in the old days, but without using code. I tested it and it works very well and allows for considerable flexibility. It's a big improvement over pages.google.com which is not accepting new members.

How to assemble a free website

Using Google.com free services to create a website is a solid solution for any person or group, the following servers mesh together to form a large multi contributor system that is safe and easy to maintain. Your domain can now point to it directly.
If you are working in multiple languages, start one blog per language and give permission to the writers and administrators for that language only. Cross link the blogs to each other in the blog links tool.

1. The site: Perfect for a basic site blogger.com/ allows multiple administrators, multiple authors. Easy to change colour templates and the layout of the buttons and tools. Samples: Beautiful: lucmorrisseau.blogspot.com
   Français: http://hispanolaval.blogspot.com/
   Español: http://hispanolaval2.blogspot.com/
   vox.com has more features but will require separate logon. TypePad is not free but has no ads.
   Yahoo 360 The service's editor lacks the ability to post audio and video clips,
   Windows Live Spaces is fine if you don't need high-end features. Its basic editor lets you add photos and embed videos, but you can't upload videos directly from your computer.
   The WordPress service provides handy editing tools, including a word counter, and the option to open links in a separate window.
   
2. The pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/ perfect for 1GB of photos. It creates code to paste into the Blog to show slide shows, embedded photos in the blog.
   
3. Music Player: for MP3
   http://artmango.blogspot.com/2007/05/embed-audio-in-blogspot.html
   Store your music/sounds in MP3 format online. Create a free account at:
   http://www.archive.org/account/login.createaccount.php
   
4. Video player: youtube.com video.google.com
   YouTube Remixer. Your original videos remain unchanged, but the edited versions appear on YouTube. Star in Your Own Video
   
5. Social Network
   
6. Events Calendar: The agenda format is great http://calendar.google.com/ allows multiple administrators to spread the workload. Allows repeat events. Users can scroll to past and future events if they wish. Individuals can then add their personal calendars and merge them. Even synchronize with Outlook!
   
7. Special layout pages: For full control over a page, popup pages, lists, summary sheets, upcomming events calendars, etc. http://pages.google.com/ each author can open a new page, copy from word etc. and paste it retains formatting for tables. Creates a no publicity page. Sadly, only one author only per page group no sharing. Much better looking than http://docs.google.com/ if you can do without shared authorship.
   Sample: http://sitivi.googlepages.com/home
   
8. Document storage and group editing of text, spreadsheets, slide shows. The very cool http://docs.google.com/ has limited layout tools (not easy to control tables in word processing mode) but amazing shared work options. Can be used as a for public documents in the website from time to time, but always displays editing tools to the public reader.
   Sample: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dk7gw3v_0gvv357
   
9. Mailing lists: http://groups.google.com/ is ok for lists but hard for beginners to understand. could be used for lists but it's a big leap for outlook users who mail to their contact list.
   LiveJournal is designed as a community tool rather than a standard blogging service. For instance, you can join user-created groups and text-message other LiveJournal members. The free Plus service provides 1GB of photo storage.
   
10. Statistics: use Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/
    Will track multiple domains under one counter!
    Exclude yourself from the stats http://www.google.com/analytics/home/admin?rid=795718&vid=1201&scid=3746882 using your IP adress What is my IP?
    
11. RSS. Feed Rinse: This freebie lets you enter your RSS subscription URLs singly, or you can import your OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) file to add them all at once. Then you set up rules for each feed (to block posts that contain a certain objectionable topic or word, for example).
    
12. Music publishing
    
13. Domain name. If you are running a server on your own PC, use a free DOMAIN to IP redirection service such as DynDNS. Idealy you should use external free hosting and not waste your time running your own web server, unless you really want to learn the technology involved.

FRANÇAIS:

1. bloguer-sur-le-long-terme-pour-reussir
2. over-blog.com/ exemple: http://sitivi.over-blog.com/