TechCrunch:
Yammer, a twitter-like service for closed groups, continues to add new features that I wish Twitter would implement as well. In the last day or so they added a simple notification for unread messages that syncs across the many ways users can access the service (mobile, AIR, browser). The notification is available through th (Read More)
iLibrarian:
This guest post has been written by Igor Faletski, co-founder of Mobify, the popular service for optimizing a site for the mobile web. SitePoint uses Mobify for its own mobile site — check it out at http://m.sitepoint.com.1. Style for mobileCongratulations — you’ve decided to embrace mobile, one of the fastest growing segme (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
A: Ciao, come stai?B: Bene, grazie, e tu?A: Non c’è male…si lavora, si sta in famiglia, poi c’è questa cosa che mi prende un sacco…B: Quale cosa? Di che stai parlando?A: Come, non lo sai? Ho una passione: il cacio con le pere!B: Non ci posso credere! Lo sai che anch’io ho la stessa passione?A: Eh, beh…siamo in molti ad ave (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Seesmic's's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur just announced that the company will release a native Windows client of its popular Twitter client later today. Seesmic developed this client on top of .NET. As Le Meur told us yesterday, the new client will be faster and use signific (Read More)
Submitted by Codelust
from Google Reader:
This is just a quick start for a brainstorming of what we all hate in todays CMS (I am including portal/community software here as well and I guess most also applies to web shops) software out there. I have written a very small CMS application myself ages ago so I do not have experience in what its really like writing and m (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what a new service called Factery Labs aims to provide for any service that utilizes the API it's launch (Read More)
TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 demopit startup Lottay, which lets you create an online gift that people can put money towards, has raised $450,000 in Series A funding from DFJ Frontier. The startup has also recruited former Evite exec Harry Lin as CEO. Lottay, which uses PayPal’s newly released Adaptive Payments API, lets anyone create gift (Read More)
TechCrunch:
When you go to search the web, is it because you want to read through a lengthy article related to a subject, or do you just want the facts that answer your question? Factery Labs, a new service that’s launching this morning, is hoping it’s the latter. Factery is a new search engine/API that uses advanced language process (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter, for all of its greatness, would not have significantly altered the landscape of real-time online communication without the swell of developer interest around its API. The simpleness of the service was, no doubt, key to Twitter’s meteoric rise, but Twitter applications – desktop, web, mobile – drove home the utility (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Perhaps the most annoying thing about Twitter as a platform is that it’s nearly impossible to find people you may know through third party apps. Essentially, you have to know their Twitter handle already to find them, or rely on some other more convoluted method rather than just say, looking them up by name. Soon, that won’ (Read More)
Mashable!:
Twitter apps can do almost everything that Twitter.com can: search Twitter, follow and unfollow users, and even manage Twitter lists (well, only a few apps so far). One thing Twitter Apps couldn’t do though was search for other Twitter users that could be interesting to follow. This is what “Find People” on Twitter.com do (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Over the last few months, TinyChat has established itself as a highly popular video chat service. Today, the company launched a new product, TinyChat.tv, which competes directly with established companies like Ustream and Stickam. Signing up and getting started with TinyChat.tv only takes a minute. Users can customize their (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Up until now, Foursquare, the hot location-based service, has only let a handful of developers play around with its API. Starting today, the company is formally unveiling it, hoping that a robust app community will form around their data.Here’s the way they’re describing it:The foursquare API enables developers to build app (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Open-source search has some major advantage compared to it competitors. First of all, it's free. Second, it stands up in comparison to the largest, proprietary search vendors. Third, there is a growing ecosystem around open-source search that makes it far easier to implement than ever before.SponsorThe combination makes ope (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Location, location, location. With the growing ubiquity of GPS-equipped phones, there is a virtual land rush going on right now to put geolocation capabilities in every mobile app. Today, Mixer Labs, the folks behind TownMe, introduced the GeoAPI, aimed at developers who want to add geolocation features to their apps in a (Read More)