Hello World! I welcome you to the first installment of the new Tuesday Tech Trends feature–a monthly gathering of some of the most talked and tweeted-about tech stories. From HTML5 to emerging mobile technologies, you can expect to find it here (sprinkled with a little personal commentary here and there).
Title Junk
Page titles play a large factor in a site’s SEO performance — so it’s important to make sure all relevant keywords make it in there. In this post, however, John Gruber talks about how we often abuse the ever-important <title> tag. Whether it be unnecessary decorative symbols or keyword stuffing, Gruber provides a number of examples, from Fox News to CNN, of poorly constructed page titles and how it makes them inaccessible in search results, mobile devices, and bookmarks.
A Sneak Peek at Android 3.0, Honeycomb
Google gives us a peak into the next version of Android, Honeycomb. Android 3.0 is the first release of Google’s mobile operating system designed for tablet devices. It’s a preview of what is likely to be the most widely used mobile platform of 2011. This is one to keep an eye out on. The iPad might be hot right now, but just wait until tablet manufacturers get ahold of Google’s latest creation.
2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript
When we talk about JavaScript, we’re typically referring to everyones’ favorite browser language. However, this once nascent programming language is now one of the hottest and trending languages on the backend. Yes, the programming language originally created by Netscape for use within browsers is finally gaining some traction in backend applications. JavaScript, the most widely used programming language, is going to make some huge strides this year in server-side implementations — and this post talks about just that.
Angry Birds Creator Talks About Developing Successful Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
In this interesting and short Q&A, the creator of the hugely successful Angry Birds game discusses his strategy for developing/deploying mobile applications but also his concerns with the Android platform with what he calls an “ecosystem fragmentation”. As Android continues to gain market share and surpass Apple’s iOS platform in usage, this is sure to be a problem all developers will soon face. I know I’ve lost sleep over it.
Ben is a Sr. Developer in our Chicago office.
