What’s the difference between HTML, XHTML, CSS and PHP?
A friend new to web design asked this question, and here’s a short(ish) answer.
HTML is a “markup” language, in that you mark up content with tags. It takes text and adds machine code around it so the browser can make it pretty.
Then XML came along, which looks like HTML in …
How To Price A New Product
Cover via AmazonA product designer from LKIC’s Tycoon Bootcamp approached me for help determining the price for his new product, and getting it to market.
The product is a “category killer,” having no obvious competition, so he’s struggling with determining a sale price. At this stage, the price is a pivotal …
Strategies To Avoid Catastrophic Downtime
Recently a friend’s entire business was offline for around 12 hours, and customers were without service for the first time since the business started, over 7 years ago. Even in this case, where the team is very talented and diligent, mistakes were made.
This is a learning opportunity for us all. …
Reboot Britain or Reinvent Britain?
I had a clear purpose at the Reboot Britain conference. I’ve recently started collaborating with Dave Woods & Dan Thompson, founders of Your Party, and Brian Ahearne of Independent Network to use technology to help improve our elected representatives’ awareness of public needs. They have in-depth experience with our current …
Using social media locally – new place identification system from Yahoo is a major step
Yahoo Placemaker finds place names in text content, and returns specific location information such as latitude, longitude, other names, political borders, size, etc.
This will be a key tool for developing place-based social media. For example, this will be used to automate a local news feed for a hotel websites and message boards. News sources selected [...]
I’m Salim Virani, an entreprenerd & business advisor. I bring businesses from vision to market traction quickly using innovative customer research techniques and marketing platforms.
