Apple’s 2008 Top iPhone Apps section of iTunes (5)
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So maybe you just got an iPhone or iPod touch, or maybe you’re going to get one very soon for the holidays. With something like 10,000 applications out there in Apple’s App Store, it’s basically impossible to know which ones to get. Sure, the most popular ones right now are clearly displayed in the store, but those leave out a lot of great ones that have been popular in the past. Luckily, Apple has just ...
Why is Google Not Deploying Gears Aggressively? (8)
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We recently had the opportunity to meet with two senior executives at Google. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus and I met with Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise. Then a few weeks later, I met with Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, via video conference. Both meetings provided some interesting background - but the one question that keeps returning and that was not so well answered is: why is ...
Join the YouTube Global Symphony, Play Carnegie Hall (6)
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Always wanted to play in a symphony? Here's your chance - without even leaving your living room. YouTube has just announced the "world's first collaborative online orchestra" - the YouTube Symphony Orchestra - a one-of-a-kind experiment that provides individual musicians with an opportunity to collaborate with other musicians all over the world. But that's not all. If you play well enough, show some creativity, and exude passion, you may find yourself seated in the famed ...
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Jeff said:
Know a musician who dreams of one day catching that lucky break and maybe even playing Carnegie Hall? Then send them this. They may thank you for it.
Revenge of the Nerds: Hackers Give Victoria's Secret Campaign a Virtual Wedgie (2)
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It could be a scene out of “Revenge of the Nerds: The Next Next Generation.” Computer geeks at universities around the country compete to sabotage a Victoria’s Secret contest tthat is being promoted—on some of the campuses—by sorority members via Facebook. At Drexel University and a handful of other colleges, students created computer scripts to sway the contest—an online vote to nominate a university to receive its own clothing line—in their campuses’ favor. Tim Plunkett, ...
Google's New Open Stack Expanding - Sans Facebook, Microsoft (15)
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A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the first birthday of Google's OpenSocial project, an open API framework for social networks and websites. Google's OpenSocial Blog recently presented some statistics, including that OpenSocial now reaches nearly 675 M registered users and there are 7,500 applications. What's interesting about these numbers is that the single largest number of registered users isn't coming from MySpace, hi5 or even Orkut. The largest user base appears to be from ...
Gmail on your Desktop (26)
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Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer, Google DesktopOn the Google Desktop gadgets team, we've seen countless requests for a Gmail gadget over the years. That gadget is finally here, so if you've got Google Desktop for Windows, give it a try.You'll see that it covers the basics such as reading, searching, and sending messages. You can star messages, use the same keyboard shortcuts, and we didn't forget about contact auto-complete. It doesn't take up ...
Reddit gets an (unofficial) iPhone app (13)
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Since the App Store launched this past summer, it was odd to me that none of the big social-voting sites have launched iPhone apps. Sure, all work on the iPhone’s Safari web browser, and some, like Digg, are even optimized for it, but given how devoted some of those sites’ users are, it would seem logical to create slick apps for the services. Now there is one — unofficially — for Reddit. The app, made ...
Browser Head to Head: Chrome vs Firefox vs Flock (10)
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Chris Snyder is an online journalist specializing in new media. He writes about the tech biz for Wired.com’s Epicenter blog. It’s a long road to a victory in the browser wars. Just ask Firefox. The open source browser which launched in 2004 just cracked the 20 percent threshold of the market share for November, according to Net Applications, pushing it a step closer but still miles away from IE. Recently a few new players have ...
Which Photo Site Will be First to Embrace Facebook Connect? (9)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed) The news of today has been the coming rollout of Facebook's 3rd party platform services, aka Facebook Connect, to sites like Digg and Hulu, and the opening of Facebook Connect to all. Facebook has provided its Facebook Connect services as an extension to the Facebook Platform for developers to now be able to integrate Facebook login, Feed posts, friend information, and more on their own websites. The ...
gOS Cloud - From zero to web browser in just a few seconds (23)
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Filed under: OS Updates, Linux, Web services, web 2.0 gOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's designed to make it easy to interface with web-based applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Meebo. It uses the slightly OS X-like Enlightenment desktop environment, and the developers have been pushing it as a good operating system for low powered netbooks, thanks to its integration with web applications.The latest version of gOS goes a few steps further, by ...
Flip Video Giving Away Cameras To Non-Profits (2)
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The folks at Flip Video sent me a note last week right before Thanksgiving asking if I could help them get the word out about their pro-social initiative. I don't think I've been this excited about posting something in a long time — the company will offer non-profit partners two camcorders for the price of one in order to document the work they’re doing. From their email to me: "We are focused on getting the ...
Chrome Extensions On the Way, Adblock Imminent [Google Chrome] (27)
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Google has published official documentation detailing their plans to bring extensions to their beta web browser Chrome. When we asked you a few months back whether Chrome with extensions would convince you to switch, 28% said yes, while a whopping 22% of you said that as long as an Adblock extension never reached Chrome, you wouldn't use it. A previous announcement should have already satisfied the first group, but if you were in the Adblock ...
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Daniel said:
I can't wait for this!
Yahoo's Top 10 Mobile Searches for 2008: Local Info and Social Networking (3)
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Yahoo just announced the top 10 search terms on its mobile search engine. The top mobile searches are either for social networks (MySpace, Facebook), or searches for local information (Craigslist, movies, weather). A lot of of mobile searchers were also looking for auctions on eBay. The top 10 is rounded out by searches for more time sensitive topics like the Olympics, AIG, and The Dark Knight. The only celebrity to appear in Yahoo's top 10 ...
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Dedalus said:
Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Jessica Alba, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie... You perverts!!!
Blockbuster is Planning Video Services on Top of Live Mesh (4)
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According to the Dallas Morning News, Blockbuster, the beleaguered video rental chain, is planning to use Microsoft's Live Mesh platform to deliver streaming video to desktops and mobile devices. The article is weak on specifics, but Blockbuster seems to be planning to use Live Mesh specifically to allow users to start watching a movie on one TV and then to continue the movie on another TV or mobile device later on. Bockbuster's CIO Keith Morrow ...
Obama Puts Change.gov Under Creative Commons (37)
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Last week Barack Obama's Presidential transition website Change.gov added OpenID login for commenters and now the entire site has been put under a Creative Commons license. These concepts are no longer just the dreams of "crack-pot fringe case" advocates - they're the official policy of the US President Elect. The particular Creative Commons license chosen by Change.gov, the "By" license (one of many options), means that instead of the default US Copyright of "all rights ...
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channing said:
a step in the right direction for internet public policy
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Hank said:
The winds of change are blowing
Clearwire to use "Clear" brand instead of "Xohm" (Sinead Carew/Reuters) (2)
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Sinead Carew / Reuters: Clearwire to use “Clear” brand instead of “Xohm” — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp said on Monday that it would call its high-speed wireless WiMax service “Clear” instead of the “Xohm” brand its venture partner Sprint Nextel has been using. — The new name was announced after Clearwire closed …
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Tim Hoeck said:
Thank god. Never knew how to say "Xohm" anyway.
Songbeat: Interesting New Music Service - But is it Legal? - ReadWriteWeb (4)
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Songbeat is an interesting new desktop music application that lets you stream and download songs from SeeqPod, Project Playlist, Spool.fm, and iASK. Songbeat also gives you the option to 'record' music from your last.fm stations. To do this, the application records the live stream, which, according to Songbeat is perfectly legal in Germany, where the company is headquartered. The free version of Songbeat allows you to download up to 25 songs for free, but in ...
"Alana Taylor: I Make Web 2.0 Mistakes So You Don't Have To"TM (5)
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In the event that you are trained to send photos to your blog and social networks through your mobile device... and you find that you accidentally sent the WRONG photo... here is what do: 1. Try to turn off your phone so that maybe the signal will not connect and the e-mail won't send. (Not very likely you will do this in time tho). 2. Delete your blog post immediately. This will most likely be ...
Oldest Ever Lolcat Found *gasp* (Iz From Teh 1905) (51)
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What’s Delaying My Dinner? This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat picture with a caption, AKA lolcat, that we’ve seen. The differences are clear. Proper grammar and a more formal tone was in vogue back then. But the similarities to modern-day kitten struggles and lolcats are amazing. ALL CAPS is ...
Search.io: Search More Sites, More Quickly (8)
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While the majority of our day-to-day searches are easily handled by our favorite search engine, there are always those intensive searches that have you jumping from site to site - or opening a series of tabs - to find a good cross-section of information on a given topic. Even once you've established a preferred workflow for this kind of comprehensive searching, it can be time consuming to run through the process. Wouldn't it be easier ...
