2 days ago

Silicon Alley Insider Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis's PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which recently exited bankruptcy will lay of seven print production employees.Gadget and PC shoppers stay (Read More)

2 days ago

Delicious hotlist A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out.It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far (Read More)

Sep 29, 2008

Lifehacker A number of blogs and web zines lately have examined Apple's App Store and its development policies and voiced their complaints. Chief among them are the app approvers' inconsistent approval standards—ranking the "Pull My Finger" app as not useful, for example, but allowing virtual bubble-wrap poppers—and taking (Read More)

Sep 30, 2008

TechCrunch Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening - they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a new tagline. Gone is all the descriptive language suggesting you sign up to “Keep up with friends and family,” “Share photos and videos,” “Control (Read More)

Sep 30, 2008

TechCrunch After Facebook rolled out v1.1 of their iPhone application, they promised that a bigger, badder v2.0 was in the works for September. They cut it pretty close, but they’ve kept their word. Just a few hours ago, the second major release of the Facebook application hit the App Store, bearing a whole new user interface an (Read More)

Sep 29, 2008

TechCrunch When Apple’s App Store was first announced, many of us envisioned a fleet of applications that would turn the iPhone into a mobile computing powerhouse - any functionality that Apple neglected to include would be quickly introduced by third party developers. Unfortunately, the store has largely failed to deliver on t (Read More)

Sep 25, 2008

Daily Python-URL! (from the Secret Labs) Ask a Google engineer: How would you sort 1 million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python? [see also] [see also]. (Read More)

Sep 24, 2008

The Voidspace Techie Blog I've just discovered the attrgetter and itemgetter functions from the Python standard library operator module (both functions new in Python 2.4 with added functionality in Python 2.5). I wish I'd discovered them earlier as although they do very simple jobs they can make code cleaner and more readable. ... [569 words] . (Read More)

Sep 30, 2008

Submitted by Eristoddle: A network of 100,000 computers providing the greatest data processing capacity yet unleashed has been created to cope with information pouring from the world’s largest machine. (Read More)

Sep 03, 2008

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: Yesterday we published a list of the top 10 web sites of 1998. When those sites were tops on the web, starting an Internet business was a pricey proposition. Times have changed, and it no longer takes millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch most web applications. It still takes some time, and money tho (Read More)

Sep 04, 2008

TechCrunch socialmedian, which has come under fire as of late for trying to use Twitter as means of raising $500,000 in venture funding, announced Thursday that it has launched its first major upgrade since the company started and its improvements will finally address some of the concerns its users have had since its inception.First o (Read More)

Aug 05, 2008

Submitted by Netzoo: Louis Gray writes: "Despite only being available in beta for less than a week, Social Median has been shoehorned into my online news consumption activity, lopped on to my staples of Google Reader and FriendFeed - and each site performs a different critical function."... (Read More)

Aug 01, 2008

Submitted by Sarahcrisman: Santa Clara, Calif. - Intel (NASD: INTC) said on Thursday that it has signed a deal with Facebook to help optimize the social network's hardware and software as the company builds out its datacenter infrastructure. (Read More)

Aug 01, 2008

social|median Here is a list of where traffic to socialmedian came from in the past 24 hours since we opened up the site for anyone to use.Notables:Twitter is our #2 source of traffic, and performed better than any of the media sites as a sourceFriendFeed also performed very high relative to other sites.LouisGray.com outperformed Venture (Read More)

May 14, 2008

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