Reuters Labs will use Viewdle’s facial recognition search features to help index video content delivered over certain Reuters satellite streams.

SEO is about more than meta tags, title tags, and targeted anchor text. Call it "competitive webmastering", "SEO", or any one of a slew of other titles – it is the thought process of lateral thinking and understanding of website creation and marketing combined that matters most.

Audio and visual search start-up Pluggd claims they have perfected their product. What does this mean for competing sites?

There is no doubt in my mind, that ASP.NET is the most powerful and versatile platform for web applications at the moment.

Balakumar does a visual usability review (in the style of the recent Windows Live Mail review). He starts off his post with:

On the web there is a meshing of a virtually unlimited number of value systems.

Because it could cost you your job and it’s definitely true.

What’s the purpose of site precompilation? As it turns out, improved performance is often brought as an evidence of the benefits of precompilation.

When something odd happens in a program that the developer certainly did not include in the code, a bug may have nestled in, and needs to be tracked down and fixed.

The web user interface for an application can make or break a website, so following some suggestions on developing an effective UI will benefit the site publisher.

Notes from a technical session at Wikimania on WYSIWYG.

New software called “Ruby In Steel” is set to come out later this year; according to its makers, it will “provide an easy, accessible Ruby coding environment for [Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005] users.” One version, a “personal edition,” will be free. A “developer edition incorporating more advanced features” will sell for an unknown amount.

Google has released a downloadable beta version of its AJAX Search API, a javascript library that allows webmasters to embed inline Google searches (Web, local, video, and blog) in web pages, blogs, and other applications alongside existing content.

Microsoft has added support for database professionals in the latest version of Team Edition for Visual Studio.

Online options exist for learning how to work with ASP.Net and Microsoft’s Visual Studio, with free and fee choices available.

One programmer blogged about the powerful attraction he is feeling to C# programming, and departing from six years of tinkering with Python.

The now-free version of the developer platform Visual Studio 2005 Express gives hobbyists and home developers the tools to hone their application development skills.

Apple has put out a tutorial introducing programming with Core Data, Xcode and Interface Builder. Even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life – and maybe even especialy if you have not – go take a look at Building a Sample Core Data Application.

Now here’s a search engine destined for controversy. Pixsy.com, a “visual search engine” that scours the web for images and videos on RSS feeds and makes them searchable, launched yesterday – for the second time, and it may not be ready still.

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Problem is, a picture can also take up a lot of space, particularly on a web page. Leave it to Edward Tufte to come up with a solution.

InternetWeek is running an 18-page showdown by Ed Bott, Scot Finnie, Dennis Fowler, and Ron White of the four hottest web browsers: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.5, Opera 9 and Maxthon.

Time Warner’s AOL recently purchased Truveo.com, a video search site that opened its virtual doors to the public in September 2005; only three months later the startup became part of AOL and may be the enabling mechanism behind its forthcoming video store.