Google Operating System
For more than a year, Google Reader has been struggling to add social features and almost all the new features were contrived, difficult to use and only cluttered the interface.Originally, Google Reader's only social feature was sharing items in a public page. The trouble was that the shared page was difficult to find and (Read More)
: A good piece - covers the difficulties Google is facing as it tries to integrate popular social features of Friendfeed and others into what was originally a spare interface.
Hacker News
Problem. You are interested in how the Google Chrome 3.0 Dev, Firefox 3.5 RC, Safari 4.0 for Windows, and Opera 10b web browsers manage memory on the Windows Vista operating system over moderate usage, such as with 150 top web sites. These numbers can be measured but there are complexities involved in measuring memory. Solu (Read More)
A VC
I tweeted about all this yesterday so some of you probably know this already but I figured I should blog about it as well.For years, I've had a Facebook account but I've never really used it. I've just pumped information (blog + twitter) into Facebook and that's about it. I've never had a particularly scientific approach to (Read More)
: I personally prefer Facebook to Twitter. I have a business page set up on Facebook and a lot of my business leads come from this page. I also like to use it to keep in touch with family and friends from all over the world. I just dont see the appeal or point of Twitter.
Submitted by Judithgermain:
A third of HR professionals and managers confess to searching through employees' social networking profiles for information on their background and 24% are not impressed with what they find. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
What do you do when your industry is shifting under your feet? Taking the lead with radical steps is one strategy. The New York Times did just that this afternoon when it announced that it has released a new Application Programming Interface (API) offering every article the paper has written since 1981, 2.8 million artic (Read More)
TechCrunch
Google says the vast majority of the 1 million businesses that use Google Apps opt for the free advertising supported version. To make the free option less attractive they’ve been quietly lowering the number of user accounts that can be associated with a free account. Now as businesses grow, they’ll be forced to (Read More)
: Can we really trust Google to not lower the limit further? The days of "do no evil" seem to have ended some time ago. I feel like I can trust Microsoft more than I can trust Google.
Smashing Magazine
By Dmitry Fadeyev and Smashing Magazine EditorialLast week, we presented 10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques, the first part of our review of useful design trends in modern Web applications. Among other things, we highlighted embedded video blocks, specialized controls and context-sensitive navigation. We also en (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
One of the most apparent trends from this month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), was the proliferation of flat panel, internet-connected TVs. Nearly every major television manufacturer was demonstrating some sort of web-to-TV integration, including sets that offered Yahoo widgets, MySpace social networking, and Netflix bu (Read More)
Smashing Magazine
Just yesterday we introduced Twitter Avatars In Comments plugin for Wordpress that enables bloggers to have both Twitter and Gravatar avatars in blog comments. We are certainly not going to turn Smashing Magazine into a repository of Twitter plugins for Wordpress, but we are confident that it does make sense to introduce an (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Like every other innovative industry before it, Web 2.0, too, has developed its own language. Our friends over at the Royal Pingdom blog took a close look at the buzzwords around Web 2.0 today and found some interesting trends. Using Google Trends as the basis for their research, Pingdom, for example, concludes that searche (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
I don’t normally do product or services reviews because truthfully I stink at them but when I got passed the release from Shout’em I thought it was be interesting enough to take a look at and share my thoughts on it.What is Shout’em?The simplest explanation would be - take a heaping helping of Twitter and mix with a dash of (Read More)
ProBlogger
Amir Helzer is a business owner, blogger, and webmaster, who runs ICanLocalize, a human and technology-based translation service for small businesses who want to move their product or services into multilingual markets.Some businesses start blogging to expand their website. Some start with a blog. For the strongest online p (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva:
Drop.io, Inc. (http://Drop.io/073108), the simple private sharing solution, today introduced a new suite of features to enhance Drop.io’s file sharing experience, making it faster and easier for users to privately share and store pictures, videos, audio, documents, and other digital content with family, friends, colleagues (Read More)
: What makes the semantic web such a difficult thing to implement in a useful way is, again, a combination of the limitations in the technology, but most of all the human factor. It just isnt possible to model human behavior. There is mood, taste, circumstances, irrational behavior and all other types of complexities that we humans can deal with (barely) but machines cant.
: I think the semantic web has a long way to go. Anyone remember virtual reality video games. Sometimes the concept is great, but it will take time for it to be accessible enough for the average person to understand, let alone adopt.