2 days ago

mashable XMPP might sound like a foreign language to you, but the extensible messaging and presence protocol was developed by Jabber and it’s the technology that powers many popular instant messenger clients.Today we’re learning from Process One that Facebook is readying an XMPP connection interface that would make it possible for y (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Flapic from Google Reader: The iPhone gets more press than a Brangelina sex video, and acts like it's the only smart phone on the planet... so why is it so rubbish at doing what it says on the tin?. Plus more technology news in Crave, the gadget blog at CNET UK. (Read More)

2 days ago

All Facebook As we’ve written previously, there are over 2.5 million users that support the addition of a “dislike” button to the Facebook feed. Unfortunately for those users, it’s highly unlikely that Facebook will ever add such a button, however that’s not stopping developers from coming up with creative solutions. One developer has (Read More)

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3 days ago

The Next Web Good news for those of you desperate to play Foursquare, the hugely popular location-based game: new European cities are being switched on today.Until now London and Amsterdam were the only European cities able to play.We’ve been playing with the prelaunch testing of these cities for the past few days and can reveal that li (Read More)

Sep 25, 2009

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4 days ago

Submitted by Flapic from YouTube: First single by FCO, band from Rome, Italy, topping the charts of college radio stations and CMJ. Produced by Orange Park Records. Visit FCO @ www.myspace.com/fcobandSimone Baldi - lead vocals, music & lyricsLuca Mancini - bass guitarAngelery Calabria - acoustic & electric guitarsAdriano Russo - acoustic & elect (Read More)

5 days ago

The Next Web Seesmic Desktop will be celebrating tonight. Not only has the client reached an incredibly impressive 3 million downloads (albeit no telling how many by one person), but it also becomes the first mainstream Twitter client to integrate lists, something you can rest assured Founder Loic Le Meur will be proud of.Le Meur and hi (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Flapic from Google Reader: I’m a massive fan of Pixelpipe, and its free services, so much so, I even got the T-Shirt (see smug photo below taken by Brett, Pixelpipe CEO at Nokia World earlier this year).  Pixelpipe, in case you don’t know, is an image, and status uploading service, and is completely free, and easy to use.  The Pixelpipe applications (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

TechCrunch If you weren’t sure about switching to an Android phone in the near future, this might put you over the edge. Google Maps Navigation is an absolutely killer app. And it is only available for Android 2.0 phones.Today is Droid day, and for the most part Google is taking a backseat and letting their partners get most of the at (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Mashable! Earlier this month, Last.fm launched its own HD radio stations in four different cities. Now, the CBS-owned company’s plan to expand beyond online music programming includes video too.According to Music Week, the company will launch Last.TV to online and offline airwaves starting in January and will initially include conten (Read More)

Oct 24, 2009

Scobleizer Facebook yesterday turned on a bunch of new features on its news feed. It looks a lot more like FriendFeed, even though Facebook claims that the FriendFeed team didn’t work on these new features.What does it do? Now Facebook mostly displays items that got engagement. You know, comments. Likes. Tagging. Etc.This makes Facebo (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

TechCrunch My mother always yells at me when she looks at my pictures on Flickr, saying that I don’t take enough pictures of people. The truth is, I do, I just put most of those on Facebook because it’s a billion times better for pictures of your friends because you can easily tag them. Now Flickr is gaining the same functionality — b (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

TechCrunch Last week we wrote about Google’s odd habit of putting the Google New Zealand web site as the top result for a ton of queries like Google Ireland and Google Egypt (and the commenters found many more). I wondered how long it would take for them to make the change. If they did it right away it would be too obvious. They’d pro (Read More)

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