The sidebar is an important element of every blog. In a standard two-columns layout it’s placed to the right of the main section and includes information and links related to the content of blog posts. A well organized sidebar should include some important items, such as subscription options, advertisements, recent and popular posts, and help blog readers find contextual information related to the article they are reading or, in general, about the blog they are browsing…

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Here is a round-up with the best services online that allow you to watch in streaming the best TV series, shows and movies for free. This collection includes Hulu, TVGorge, Fancast and Cast TV.

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Dear friends, something is changing on Woork Up. As you know, since its birth in October 2007, this blog has been mainly addressed to web designers and developers becoming a popular and appreciated website in that area. Now, due to a big increase in popularity of Woork Up, I believe it’s the right moment to make a choice in a new direction.

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Here is a collection of 6 spectacular storytelling websites you have to see for you daily inspiration.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs presents the new Apple iPad at a company event in San Francisco.

When in 2007 Apple launched the iPhone not only reinvented the phone but it also introduced a revolutionary user experience that has changed definitively the way to browse the Web with a mobile device then before.
In that same period, I remember browsing the Web with a Nokia or Windows Mobile phone was an arduous undertaking: webpages was unreadable on small screens on portable devices, slow to render in mobile browsers and all available options that allowed users to fit pages to screen (for increasing readability) was ridiculously worse than the problem they was trying to fix…

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We all know Street View, the Google service that provides 360° panoramic views for many streets in the world. Immersive Media is working on an evolution of Street View that provides 360°, full motion, interactive video experience.

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In 2004, the Web 2.0 philosophy introduced a new paradigm for the Web that also marked a huge change of direction in the approach to design websites than before. Tag Cloud was probably one of the most popular elements which characterized that period in web design. But are tag clouds really useful?

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The Web is evolving fast: new features, formats, user needs, continuously change the way we interact with websites. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting emerging techniques every web developer should know in order to build modern web applications.

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2010 will be the years of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition of their contents and enlarge their audience. In this post I prepared a roundup of code snippets inspired to some mobile versions of popular websites (such as Facebook, Flickr, The New York Times, Digg, Google, …) that illustrate some HTML best practices to develop perfect websites for iPhone and mobile Devices.

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Yesterday I downloaded the new version of the Facebook application for iPhone 3.1 that introduces new useful features such as address book synchronization and push notifications. I think this application is great, useful, I like the interface and the simplicity of use. But I noticed two serious problems that can discourage its use.

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