HTMList.com, A Web Development Blog by Synapse Studios

Synapse Studios is interviewed by Fox 10 Arizona for a local news segment on the “app economy” surrounding custom software development in Phoenix and the surrounding area.

Whilst in the throes of exploring my favorite airfare booking site (Hipmunk), I noticed their live chat tool looked a little… different. It was bouncy, fun, and unassuming. Turns out, they use Olark: by far the most impressive live chat tool I’ve ever had the pleasure of dealing with. Olark is absolutely simple to integrate: a [...]

Google’s Plus represents their best effort in the social networking space. So what do they need to do to really lock things down?

Managing multiple passwords within a group while maintaining security, good practices, and synchronization can be a challenge. We explore our utilization of a program called KeePass and a file-sharing system called Dropbox to help manage passwords.

Skype is a great internal tool for managing projects and chatting with team members. Sometimes to hilarious result.

Amazon reveals their newest addition to their S3 service: Versioning and multi-factor authentication.

We look at clickthrough rates from Twitter and Facebook and see how they compare.

TweetNotebook prints notebooks filled with the wisdom of your tweets, right in the footer.

Google announced their Speed Tracer profiling tool to allow developers to better analyze performance problems in their web applications.

Venture Hacks has a great interview with serial entrepreneur Eric Ries that discusses the value of launching a startup with the “minimum viable product”: basically, the absolute most barebones product you can launch with while still being able to appropriately gauge customer interest, to avoid the common pitfall of spending months developing an idea only [...]