Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for catching prey
World Wide Web or "the Web", a hypertext system that operates over the Internet, used for serving Web pages and transferring files
Web 2.0, a perceived transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications
Web (manufacturing). Many thin materials are processed as webs, continuous sheets passed over rollers. Web offset printing, where the press is fed from a roll of paper rather than individual pages, is a particularly visible application of the principle.
WEB, a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
Web, John Wyndham's posthumously published novel about an attempt to establish a Utopian civilization on an island populated by spiders
The web of a steel I-beam or truss in construction is the rigid structure, centered between the top and bottom flange, which transfers the structural load to steel columns
Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:40:03 -0700
National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...
Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
Vincent Flanders' Web Pages That Suck - Source for learning good design by looking at bad design.
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404 Crappy Review the Web - Humorous reviews of many strange web sites by two odd looking teddy bears.
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Ambit's Totally Useless - A growing list of dozens of Web sites with absolutely no purpose.
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Golden Trash Awards - For sites that lack originality, creativity, and purpose.
NuttySites.com - Directory of some of the worst, nuttiest, and downright wackiest sites on the net.
500Tardbusters - Cynical reviews of disturbing and overly obsessive web sites.
The Chaos Engine - Offers a look at the current quality and condition of the web and the internet as a whole. Covers areas such as spam, privacy, serious breaches of netiquette, forceful marketing, technology and web design.
Tweef Web - A page attempting in its own small way to catalog the weirdest of the web.
Meta Description: [ Online journal (or online diary, if you prefer) showcasing the worst of the web with links to weird web pages. The www is a sick, strange place... ]
Worst of the Web - Features one site per day, with an archive back to November 1996.
Meta Description: [ Chip, Melvin, and Buzz poke fun at bad websites. ]
perspective. The real-world example included here isn't one of the worst encountered, by any means. It probably wouldn't ...