This micro- blogging service was launched in September 2008 and is unlike Twitter as messages are not available for public display. Over 70 000 companies use Yammer as a way to communicate. Only those with appropriate email addresses may join the respective networks. In February 2010 Yammer launched “communities”. This allows businesses to communicate with other groups such as clients, partners or suppliers.

The idea behind Yammer is to ensure that people inside a company know at all times what each person in the organization are working on. The founder of Yammer, PayPal’s COO, David O. Sacks, has created a platform upon which companies can improve internal communications. Research has found that people prefer short snippets of information rather than longer conversations. When information is documented it also makes it easier to refer back to points that otherwise may have been missed in a face to face conversation.

Yammer is certainly less invasive than instant messaging and does not require the effort and time that emailing involves. In fact this networking site finds itself in between the two, making it perfect and convenient for business purposes. It is less time consuming to check your Yammer account throughout the day when it suits you. Being bombarded with instant messages however is distracting and can become a nuisance.

Yammer allows for management to keep up to date with work that is completed or still being worked on. This helps to understand the progress that their business is making. It also means that fewer meetings need to be held because everyone knows what everyone else is doing.

With social networking evolving like it has over the last few years, it only makes sense that something like Yammer be created to assist the corporate world. We have all become accustomed to the terms “Facebooking” or “Twittering”. Soon enough companies all over the world will be “Yammering” each other information back and forth.

To find out more about Yammer or to sign up to Yammer, visit www.yammer.com

Net Prophet Bursary

The Net Prophet Bursary was established to assist those who have the innovation and desire to succeed but do not have the financial backing to do so. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur within the technology industry, then the Net Prophet Bursary is the place to go for financial help. Through a magnitude of pledges made by individuals, The Net Prophet Bursary along with its reputation and guidance, makes the most of crowd-sourced funding to make their innovative ideas of tomorrow become a reality.

The Net Prophet Bursary will benefit those with a high propensity to innovate in technology, yet do not have the knowledge required or the funds available to live their dream.

These Numbers Have Faces will help us with the application and selection process, identifying the best educational institution, coaching the individuals personally and professionally, and provide us with feedback in order to communicate to all the donors.

If you are a willing donor to this amazing cause, The Ramp Foundation has made it easy enough to pledge. By sending a tweet such as the one below, Net Prophet will contact you directly.

How to pledge to the Net Prophet Bursary

There are other great initiatives that the Ramp Foundation has started. Ideas such as the Net Prophet Conference and the RAMP Startup School are both amazing initiatives and will definitely help you in reaching your dream.

To find out how you can get your startup funded, visit the Get Funded page on their website.

Just think about this for a minute. If there are 120billion websites (wild guess), and lets say 5% increase their speed effeciency by 0.1seconds. Thats means that 166 666 site hours have been saved. Quite a lot isnt’ it?

Google ofcourse created their own software for web developers, they wouldn’t want them using Yahoo!’s YSlow would they?

Download Googles Pageload Speed Tool to see how your site compares to the best practises.

HTML 5 will be fully backwards-compatible as well as having the ability of a javascript-accessible built in SQL database which will render the current cookie method laughable in terms of the amount of information that could be stored. Also, in an effort to make website source more “legible”, a heap of new elements are being developed, some of which are <nav>, <article>, <header>, <canvas>, <video>, <audio>, <command> and <figure>. New input types are also being developed to ease the ever-fustrated web developer. Inputs such as ‘Date’ will become a common tool which replaces the old javascript calenders and another new feature will include browser supported form validation which will make web application development a walk in the park.

With the last HTML update being in September 1999 (4.01 Specification), it is evident that HTML 5 is definately long overdue.

Keep in mind that “HTML 5″ refers to the W3C specification name, while “HTML5″ refers to the document type.

You may have already noticed that some websites are using HTML 5. Firefox 3.5 includes the <audio>, <video> and <canvas> tags while Chrome and Safari are already supporting key features of HTML 5.

Here is a simple HTML 5 blog example:

<body>

 <header>
  <h1>My Blog!</h1>

 <nav>
   <h1>Navigation Links</h1>
   <ul>
    <li><a href="articles.html">All articles</a></li>
    <li><a href="latest.html">Latest Articles</a></li>
   </ul>
  </nav>

 </header>

 <article>
  <p> Article Goes Here</p>
 </article>

 <footer>
  <p>Copyright © 2022 My Blog</p>
 </footer>

</body>

To clarify the strikeout of 2022 above, there seems to be quite a bit of confusion going around on the web with regards to this topic.
2022 will be the final proposed recommendation of HTML 5 and October 2009 is the last call for the HTML 5 working draft. The final proposed recommendation requires complete compatibility of at least 2 browsers, and with that in mind, CSS 2.1 also remains in development until 2 browsers fully support all of it’s features.