Google's latest offering, Google Wave is billed as an online collaberation and communication tool. Described as a combination of email and instant messaging with a healthy dose of collaberative tools, it could be a healthy and robust set of tools for developers or Google's latest flop.

Since I'm often involved with things on Wikipedia, I get a lot of questions from clients and other businesses about managing an article on Wikipedia. Many of them are surprised to hear my initial advice: If you don't already have an article on Wikipedia you absolutely, without a doubt, do not want one.

Working in a mostly online business, we’ve had the chance to hear a lot of project horror stories over the years. If you’ve ever had a freelance provider disappear mid project, or on the other side of the coin, had a client that stretched a two day project on for months with “just one more” items, you’ve learned the hard way that navigating the world of web-based projects its fraught with pitfalls.

Design inspiration can come from anywhere, especially when we're least looking for it. The kids in my neighborhood are an almost constant source of new ideas from their crazy mix-and-match outfits to their latest art projects at school. Kids just see the world in a different way. Maybe they have a lot in common with good web designers after all.

Your mother probably told you that first impressions were important, but what she probably didn't know was exactly how tiny your window of opportunity is. Marketing a new website or product is part thoughtful design and part psychology. Seven seconds is all the time you have to convey the right impression to your potential clients.

Whether you’re thinking about developing for your intranet or making services available to customers via web based applications, security should be something you take into account from the start. Before you plan your next project, consider these steps to building a more secure application:

As a growing number of companies enter virtual worlds to interact with customers or employees, experts are predicting that virtual marketing will start to dominate brand building over the next five years. Before going virtual, organizations need to consider the current trends and predictions for the 3-D internet.

So you've decided that you want to create or update a website. With all the choices available, how do you choose a web designer? Here's some ideas that anyone can use to help decide.

While most web and content providers have a good handle on using web analytics technology to improve their customer's experience, very few have taken the next step into end-user monitoring technologies. As websites increase in complexity, more consumers report experiencing difficulties or even complete failures of web applications. End-user monitoring gives you an important window into these problems.