Aug 23, 2009 Posted by David Torcivia

RSS: A Primer and Guide

What is RSS? RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a system that arose at the turn of the millennium for syndicating new content. This was the era that marked the rise of the first great news portals which would pull new media from the web and aggregate it for consumption. Content creators needed a universally standard method to notify these news distributors of their stories and soon embraced the... read more

Mar 19, 2009 Posted by David Torcivia

Ultimate Browser Showdown

We are living in a fantastic time for browsing the Internet. Not only are connections faster than ever but browsers have finally made the instantaneous web and ultimately an online OS tangible. I’ve run several tests comparing the next generation of browser to each other in javascript and page load time – arguably the two most important statistics about a browser. The results were definitive in... read more