Blogumus: a flash animated label cloud for Blogger! (4)
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"Blogumus" is an Flash based tag cloud widget which uses scripts converted from Roy Tanck's WP Cumulus plugin for Wordpress. I fell in love with Roy's original Cumulus plugin when I saw it, and simply had to learn how to convert this for use in Blogger powered blogs. The result is the widget you can see in action at the top of this post. Hover your mouse over the Flash object to see the animation ...
Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking (12)
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First came 360, launched in 2005 as an early attempt to get Yahoo into social networking, was unceremoniously shut down earlier this year. In 2006 Yahoo was unable to close a transaction with Facebook, despite being willing to pay up to $1.62 billion. Nor could they pull the trigger on a $1 billion Bebo deal (Bebo went to AOL for $850 million). Now Yahoo has shut down Mash, which launched less than a year ago ...
Android to Get Its Own App Market (25)
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The Android Blog is reporting that Google has officially announced the Android Market, an App Store like solution that allows publishers to upload programs and sell them online. Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to ...
Jaiku Uncaps Invites, Migrates to Google Infrastructure (21)
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Things have been quiet over at Jaiku since its acquisition by Google last Fall. People worried that Google may have ruined Twitter’s most formidable competitor by requiring the Finnish startup to labor away for months integrating its service into Google’s technology stack instead of rolling out new features. All the while, new signups have been disabled and invitations limited, which has cut the service off from a healthy stream of new users. But now we’re ...
Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years (33)
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Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years. In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum - in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company’s total revenue. The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run ...
A Downside of Getting to the Front Page of Digg (5)
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The Holy Grail of incoming links for many bloggers is an appearance on the front page of Digg. It has the potential to send tens of thousands of visitors and bring about a lot of secondary links from other sites who see it. However the downside of a site the power of Digg linking to one of your articles is that it is an authoritative site in the eyes of Google. Yesterday one of my ...
First images of Google-powered HTC Dream (4)
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It was rumored that the HTC G1 (Dream) would be the first Google powered phone on the market, and if everything pans out, those rumors will end up being true with a launch date sooner than later. Android Guys have the first mock-up drawings of the Dream, and it’s clearly Google powered — the [...]
Google Experiments With More Colorful Checkout Badge (4)
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Google search result advertisers who sell products through Google’s Checkout program get the special benefit of having a visible icon next to their ad (“Your AdWords ads will stand out”, as Google says). This could be an incentive for sellers to use Checkout, as the Checkout program has been struggling in the past (judging from e.g. Google’s extensions of free usage for sellers). Now, Google has been seen experimenting with an even more colorful version ...
Apple iPhone TV ad banned in UK as ‘misleading’ (1)
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Apple iPhone TV ad banned in UK as ‘misleading’: The ad, which touts the iPhone’s ability to completely surf the Web, apparently didn’t take into account the problem the device had with surfing Web pages that use Flash and Java. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that the ad cannot be rebroadcast in its current form.
Google Expands Its Wiki Approach to Map Making (India Edition) (27)
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When it comes to the availability of good mapping data, not all parts of the world are created equal. That’s why Google is taking a wiki approach to filling out the white spaces on its maps, particularly in developing nations. Back in June, it launched Map Maker for a small group of island nations where there isn’t great existing cartography data. But now it’s added India to the countries that can be modified on Google ...
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Mark Whiting said:
I really like this thing however I think they need to make it monotized for contributors and I think they need to make it available in more places.
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Kells Nollenberger said:
I hope they do this here. Google maps needs some serious editing by the masses. Wiki would be the way to go.
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Kesor said:
Cyprus gets this feature, but Israel doesn't??? C'mon Google!Give us the wiki! We wants it. My precious.
Russia’s Internet Population is on Steriods (5)
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Russia has the fastest growing Internet population in Europe, research by ComScore shows. The study about the online behavior of European Internet audiences (based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service) learns us that the Russian Internet population has grown with 27 percent past year up to 17.5 million visitors. The total number of European Internet users grew with 8 percent during the past year to 241.8 million visitors in June 2008. ...
Tapulous Cofounder Mike Lee Ejected From Company (22)
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In the startup world, it isn’t uncommon to see a cofounder fall out of love with their company and leave after only a few months. But when a cofounder is forced out of an apparently red-hot startup, it can lead to further employee departures and instability. Today Mike Lee, co-founder of Tapulous and Chief Architect of client software, has been ejected from the company. In a statement to his team, Lee cites “irreconcilable differences” as ...
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Derick Valadao said:
That sucks. Getting booted out of a company you helped to build is bad enough when on the wrong end of a shotgun clause (e.g., Second Cup) but this is ridiculous!
Finally the right thumbnail about Start-UPS (10)
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Every once in a while we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. This time we’re interviewing Shafqat from NewsCred. He works from Geneva, Switzerland. Together with his Sweden-based business partner Iraj, he founded a digital newspaper that aggregates hundreds of news sources. The Newscred community votes on the crediblity of articles, authors and news sources. Iraj and Shafqat then apply their ...
It’s Official: The G1 From T-Mobile is the First Android Phone (70)
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Images from around the web are showing the HTC Dream AKA the T-Mobile G1 in all its bendy, screen-sliding glory. This Sidekick-like phone has a pop up screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and none of the buckets of suck that characterize Windows Mobile phones. Android is still fairly nascent so I worry that the application environment will be limited on launch but an open, powerful platform backed by a major, web-focused corporation is better than a ...
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Haidong said:
iPhone or gPhone, which one will you buy?
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Chuck LeDuc said:
Meow!
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Joe said:
I like this article. That's all. ;)
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Devlin D said:
Hell yes!! Does Canada get one of these?
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Brian said:
this is sounding really good
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G$ said:
woAh. move your mouse pointer over the ad at the bottom of this article and keep your eye on the status bar at the bottom of firefox... see that #changing?
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HacKnight said:
Woohoo! I'm getting one...
"Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south..." (1)
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“Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.” - BBC News
