Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
Google has announced its latest API with a haiku of all things:New admin tool dawnsSettings change like the seasonsFor hosted emailThat’s from Andrew Olsen of the Google Apps team, announcing the Google Email Settings API, which allows IT administrators at organizations that use the Gmail-based Google Apps hosted webmail so (Read More)
I'm Not Actually a Geek
FriendFeed released its Real-Time feature yesterday. This feature is very cool. With real-time, all new content entries and comments to those entries post automatically, in real-time. You get this amazing flow of content and conversation.In its simplest form, it allows you to passively monitor the river of content. “P (Read More)
: "Personally, I think FriendFeed Real-Time puts even more emphasis on the value of Lists for day-to-day useage. Real-Time Rooms will be great for episodic uses, such as the debates or Apple events. But conversing with a group of friends will be a lot easier with a smaller List of users."
ReadWriteWeb
Social networking provider Ning yesterday announced that it now hosts half a million social networks on its platform. Ning launched in February 2007 and has seen rapid growth and mainstream adoption ever since. According to Ning's co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini, Ning users now create a new social network every 30 seconds (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
So as you see you have already without knowing it been right in the middle of web 3.0, either looking at its parts or using its services. Web 3.0 is here today all you have to do is look a bit beyond the nose on web20’s pretty face to see it. (Read More)
Crunch Gear
Tokyo Jogging is the name of a cool idea Ryo Katsuma, a renowned Japanese software engineer, single-handedly turned into reality in his spare time. Katsuma-san’s project is a mashup of Wii technology and Google Street View. Users can “run” through Tokyo by using a Wiimote (plugged into a PC) and with Tokyo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week we had two big product launches: the Google Phone and MySpace Music. We also looked at Favtape, a new startup aiming to shake up the online music market. On the trends side, we had another great podcast this week - on Data Portability. W (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
What do you say to an old friend who's over extending themselves yet again? This morning 3rd tier search engine Ask.com proudly tooted its horn one more time - "It's Here! The New Ask.com!"Ask.com is a decent search engine, it does a lot of things well enough to check out once and appreciate before moving on. (Maps, for e (Read More)
Submitted by Dobata
from Google Reader:
Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion has written a blog post saying that Google Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence, although he does admit that it’s not perfect. As a little exercise in analysis and logic, I am going to take his thoughts and see whether or not I come to a similar conclusion.First, however, I (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
For those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy’s AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the service supports Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed. But version 2, which will be released this month, adds support for Digg, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
It's now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web - a.k.a. the 'dark web'. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service (TOS) prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider th (Read More)
Submitted by Manogr:
What exactly is Twitter? And what does its exploding popularity say about the state of the tech industry? Inside the hottest Web startup since ... gosh, February at least. (Read More)
: I use Twitter daily, multiple times daily. What do I use it for? I keep in touch with the wide world with world news from the BBC; I get hurricane alert news; Cricket scores, and local weather. I also keep track of some of the local bloggers and them of me, as we tweet snippets during the day. I also use it to keep in touch with my wife when we in different places, as it's easy to use via SMS on a cellphone. It's the brevity that's good too. Not a huge amount of options - just 140 characters of text (which can be a URL) and away you go.
Mashable!
There are tons of open source applications out there, from operating systems to word processors to graphics programs and more. But, it’s often hard to find manuals or other documentation beyond what the developers have written (which, while technically correct, doesn’t always cover the nuances of actually using (Read More)