ReadWriteWeb:
We recently told you about the Flickr App garden and gave a list of five interesting apps we found using this new section of the site.One app we didn't find - and one that brilliantly appropriates the Flickr API in a delightful, infectious user experience - is Noticings. Part game, part geotagging app, part photoblog, Notic (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After successfully selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo, it was surprising to see Lookery founder Scott Rafer write a blog post announcing his company's "orderly shutdown". In heartbreaking detail he took full responsibility for the company's demise saying, "In chronological order, the sins Lookery committed under my leadership were (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, Brizzly managed to become the first company to release web client with support for lists earlier tod (Read More)
TwitLinks:
Imagine a terminal program that accepted commands like:twitter>Â follow davewinertwitter>Â follow evtwitter>Â unfollow sexygirl209twitter>Â addtolist scoble halfmoonbay -uThe first few commands are obvious, the last would add scoble to a list called halfmoonbay and unfollow him. I stumbled across this as I was thinking about ho (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Google has just announced that it is open-sourcing a set of tools its own developers use to build some of the company’s most well known products, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps.The first tool is called the Closure Compiler, which helps developers optimize their JavaScript code by removing extra portions of co (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Inside Source is eBay's latest announcement. The searching, buying, and selling habits of its 88 million active users have added up to an enormous dataset, one that could have easily been hoarded and sold to marketers, brands, and others with a vested interest in online retail and trends.Although eBay isn't releasing ra (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Sunlight Foundation, in partnership with Google, Mozilla and Redhat, today announced a nation-wide weekend hackathon dedicated to coding projects that foster government transparency. Scheduled for December 12th and 13th and titled The Great American Hackathon, the network of events could lead to some really cool develo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
An update to our post in late October about OneRiot and Yahoo partnering to build real time search results into Yahoo: OneRiot CEO Kimbal Musk now confirms the relationship. The new search engine will go live tomorrow. In the email, Musk says that OneRiot results will appear in the main Yahoo search results page for certain (Read More)
Mashable!:
Though Twitter Lists are new to most users, some news organizations are trying to stay ahead of the curve by taking advantage of the new feature and implementing it quickly. Whether by creating staff directories to make their journalists easier to find, or recommending tweeps to follow on specific subjects, Twitter lists ar (Read More)
readwriteweb:
After waiting for two months for PayPal to release its much-anticipated platform, the day has finally arrived for PayPal X. ReadWriteWeb first covered the company's announcement in late July and today, at San Francisco's Concourse Exhibition Center, developers and press people waited with bated breath to see what was earlie (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re at PayPal’s much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company’s first dedicated developer conference. PayPal, which reported strong earnings recently, is hoping to engage developers in producing applications on top of PayPal’s newly released API. eBay’s CEO John Donahoe said this morning that PayPal is set to be (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
CompareMyDocs makes it easy to compare multiple revisions of a document and to compile a final version based on these revisions. The site, which launched today, can handle Word documents and rich-text files. You simply selects up to seven documents and the service will display all the differences between these in a very wel (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter rolled out its new lists feature to all users on Friday and today, Seesmic will launch the first desktop client with support for lists. For now, this early release will only go out to users who sign up for Team Seesmic, the company's semi-private beta-test group. We got a chance to test an early build of Seesmic wit (Read More)
Mashable!:
As predicted the Twitter Lists API is causing a fast frenzy amongst Twitter developers anxious to be first to support the new Lists feature. Just this morning we saw Seesmic Desktop release a new version of their application to support Lists, and now there’s news of a brand new widget.Twitter Lists Widget is a simple widget (Read More)
Mashable!:
Now that Twitter Lists have been rolled out to everyone, and the Lists API is in the wild, the next thing for Twitter users to look out for is Lists support in their favorite desktop, mobile, and web applications.Today, Seesmic Desktop appears to be the first to market with full Twitter Lists support built right in. Select (Read More)