Google Blogsearch and Techmeme (Matt Cutts/Gadgets, Google, and SEO) (1)
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO: Google Blogsearch and Techmeme — More and more people are spending free time (and work time) online and lots of those people want to discover interesting things on the web. Google Blogsearch's new home page applies that insight with a browsable version of what's going on in the blogosphere.
Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) (1)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model — Gnip, the guys that are helping move data around from one social network to the next, launched v 2.0 of the service tonight. — The new version of the service allows data consumers (services like Plaxo that take data from other services …
Adobe CTO on Open Source and Flash, EU and Web 3.0 and More [Best of September '08 #4] (1)
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Some interesting posts this week (September 22-29 2008): eWeek has a long interview with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, covering areas such as the open source aspects of Flash, the competition Adobe Air is facing from Google Chrome, Gears and possibly from Microsoft and Silverlight, and a bit about new features of Creative Suite 4 (CS4). Josh Catone does a good job of covering the Adobe Air part and the competition from Google Gears and Silverlight. ...
Clearspring Acquires AddThis to Bolster Reach (1)
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Widget distribution and advertising platform Clearspring will announce this morning that it has acquired super popular social bookmarking widget AddThis. Clearspring is one of the largest widget management, distribution, and monetization platforms on the web, and serves about 4 billion widget views per month. AddThis offers a widget that makes it easier for content publishers to encourage their visitors to bookmark and share content via email and social sharing sites. AddThis lets content publishers enable ...
Ringside Networks Closes: Lessons to be Learned (1)
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Ringside Networks, a startup backed by venture capital from Matrix Partners, has closed up shop, as announced in this blog post. The company, focused on open source social networking, had been seeking more VC funding earlier this year when it suddenly got interest from a large Internet company in acquiring it. The acquisition fell through as the economy worsened, though, leaving Ringside with no options. Check out the lessons to be learned here--especially in this ...
Felix shared as favorite Will Habari Be The Next WordPress? (50)
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WordPress may be one of the best blogging platforms around today, but that hasn't stopped a worldwide community of developers from thinking they can do better. Desiring a more open environment where individuals can contribute and extend the project with their own work, they designed a platform called Habari to utilize a unique community participation model. Within this model, users whose contributions are consistently of a high quality are granted more privileges within the project. ...
jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia (John Resig/jQuery Blog) (6)
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John Resig / jQuery Blog: jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia — We have two pieces of fantastic, albeit serendipitous, news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development …
10 amazingly alternative operating systems and what they could mean for the future (Royal Pingdom) (1)
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Royal Pingdom: 10 amazingly alternative operating systems and what they could mean for the future — This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris.
Full Pass of Acid3 (Maciej Stachowiak/Surfin' Safari) (1)
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Maciej Stachowiak / Surfin' Safari: Full Pass of Acid3 — Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3. A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering. Now, thanks to recent speedups in JavaScript, DOM and rendering, we have passed the third condition …
Adobe Talks Open Source, Innovation and the Future of Flash (Darryl K. Taft/eWeek) (2)
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Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: Adobe Talks Open Source, Innovation and the Future of Flash — Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe talks with eWEEK about open-sourcing Flash, the new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), mobile technology and more. Lynch also talks of competing with Microsoft Silverlight and Expression and possibly with Google Chrome.
Lakshman Prasad shared as favorite Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows? (Drpizza/Ars Technica) (4)
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Drpizza / Ars Technica: Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows? — In the sandbox — Since its release a few weeks ago, curious developers have been sniffing through the source code for Google's new Chrome web browser. Chrome's source is interesting for a variety of reasons: there's …
Automattic Acquires Comment Plugin IntenseDebate (7)
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Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform Wordpress, has acquired IntenseDebate, a blog commenting plugin that works on almost every blogging platform. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. This is the third major acquisition for Automattic after buying Gravatar in 2007 and bbPress in January 2008. Automattic promises that IntenseDebate will remain platform agnostic, just like Aksimet, Automattic's comment spam blocker. More Than Just Comments It is noteworthy that IntenseDebate's infrastructure goes ...
Chrome Add-ons, JavaScript Performance, a Web 3.0 Conference and More [Best of September '08 #3] (1)
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Chrome continued to be of interest this week, with a Web 3.0 conference as a bonus (September 15-21 2008): The last word on JavaScript performance among competing browser engines has apparently not yet been spoken. This week it was reported that an updated version of SquirrelFish, dubbed Extreme, which is the native WebKit JavaScript engine, has regained the lead in JavaScript performance. Reportedly it was faster than both the V8 engine of Google Chrome and ...
Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed (4)
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Shin-LaC writes "In a post on their official blog, WebKit developers introduced the 'next generation' of their JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme, claimed to be twice as fast as its predecessor. The post lists several changes contributing to the performance improvements, including 'bytecode optimization,' a 'polymorphic inline cache' (which sounds similar to V8's 'hidden class transitions'), and a 'context threaded JIT' compiler which generates native code (currently only for x86 processors), and is also applied to ...
Sponsor Announcement: Web 3.0 Conference (3)
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The Web 3.0 Conference & Expo is happening October 16-17, Santa Clara, CA. ReadWriteWeb is a media sponsor of the event. Web 3.0 Conference and Expo will explore the strategies, tools, technologies and the big ideas necessary for building impactful, socially relevant, and profitable Web 3.0 products, services and companies. So whether you are a designer, developer, entrepreneur, strategist, or venture capitalist, if you are thinking about the next generation of the Web, the Web ...
Web 2.0: Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons (J. Nicholas Hoover/InformationWeek) (2)
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J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek: Web 2.0: Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons — Google said it will work hard to make sure its add-on paradigm keeps Chrome stable, unlike add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. — Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons …
Google in one more language (Cap'n Pam Greenebearde/The Official ...) (1)
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Cap'n Pam Greenebearde / The Official Google Blog: Google in one more language — As we've written before, one of our goals is to enable everyone using Google to find the information they want easily, no matter what language they speak. — It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates.
Google's Chrome Browser isn't Going Unnoticed (1)
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Even though it's only available in a Windows version so far, Google's open source Chrome browser is reaching a lot of people, according to data from Nielsen Online. Nielsen reports that between Sep. 1st and Sep. 7th, more than 1.9 million unique visitors in the U.S. visited the "Thank You" page for the Chrome browser. The data lines up with similar findings from NetApplications, which has found that Chrome has about one percent of browser ...
Google opening Lively to game developers (GamesIndustry.biz) (1)
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GamesIndustry.biz: Google opening Lively to game developers — It was a surprisingly lightly attended session that initiated Austin GDC's WorldsInMotion virtual worlds focused conference track - surprising because you'd imagine that the entrance of a company with the massive resources and cultural ubiquity …
