Google App Engine Blog:
App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released for Python and Java, now with XMPP supportToday we are releasing version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java, our first simultaneous release across both runtimes. We're excited about the great new functionality in this release ... including XMPP!XMPP SupportXMPP (or Jabber as i (Read More)
Daily DIY:
Opera 10 final is out, Chrome just turned one year old, and Firefox 3.5 has settled into stability. It's time once again to break out the timers and speed test today's web browsers.Like all our previous speed tests, this one is unscientific, but thorough. We install the most current versions of each browser being tested—in (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
Web optimization is a vital part of web development and maintenance but also something often overlooked by webmasters. Just think of the money you can save, and how it can potentially help increase your readership and traffic when they are properly done. If you have not done any optimization to your website (or blog) so far (Read More)
java.blogs Recent Entries:
During the Twitter DDoS attacks, there was a thread on the Twitter API group about using PubSubHubbub to get low latency notifications from Twitter. This would be an alternative to the streaming API that Twitter already has. The response from a Twitter engineer wasn't all that positive, and it is indeed correct that the str (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com has continued to expand the capabilities of Force.com, its platform to build and deploy enterprise applications. The company recently rolled out Force.com Sites, which lets companies build and run their applications for internal use as well as for public use on Salesforce.com cloud computing platform. Today, (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Meet the Real Live Search, a web app with the tagline, “your browser and Bing’s AJAX APIs make sweet love“. No, this isn’t real-time in the sense that you can search services like Twitter (though Bing has been making headway in that respect). Instead, it’s a seach engine that displays results almost immediately after you (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Every month or so, we compile a list of interesting things in the community related to App Engine. Here are some recent projects and resources that you might find interesting:Ubisoft's TickTock on FacebookUbisoft has released a fun game for Facebook called TickTock which challenges you to guess which of your friends have po (Read More)
Google Wave Developer Blog:
Many of you may have seen Tweety (tweety-wave@appspot.com) in action through either trying out the robot yourself or watching the Google Wave developer preview from Google I/O. The robot signs into your Twitter account and lets you fetch your Twitter timeline and post tweets from Google Wave. However, because Tweety was bui (Read More)
BlogStorm:
Ever since Twitter launched the API loads of people have been delivering cool applications and a side benefit was that the links to those applications were not nofollow links. The API links are under each tweet where it says something like:3 minutes ago from TweetDeckThen a couple of SEO bloggers decided to blog about How t (Read More)
Submitted by Renesilva
from Google Reader:
First I want to explain that saying RIA I mean Flash, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX. I am not speaking about AJAX,CSS, JavaScript etc. Everyone is talking RIA is the here now, RIA applications are beautiful, RIA applications are fast, you can develop RIA applications very easy. I will prove that : RI (Read More)
Submitted by Jcunwired
from Google Reader:
Some websites just have “it.” Whether it is good writing, a pleasing design, or great content, those sites rise above the others. Today I take a look at five tech-related sites that are worth visiting on a regular basis, or subscribing to in your RSS reader (or both). Of course, I would put 40Tech at the top of the list (Read More)
CNET News.com:
My6Sense, a company that previewed its RSS recommendation technology at the Under the Radar Mobility conference back in late November, is finally ready to get its tools into the hands of users. Later this week the company plans to release its first native application for mobile phones (currently for the iPhone only), which (Read More)
Submitted by Sfoskett
from Google Reader:
As cloud computing becomes more mainstream, investors will start looking to get in on the act. With that in mind, a friend and I began discussing which public companies were getting into the cloud computing market and to what extent. I have put together the following list, and encourage comments, suggestions, and contributi (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
I’m back from San Jose. My colleage, Dave Gynn, and I had fun at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) and learned a lot. Dave’s ability to pick out open source rockstars from a crowd is uncanny. It was pretty sweet seeing Larry Wall (and his family) hanging out and then hearing him speak. Although there are all kinds (Read More)
Simon Willison's Weblog:
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to (Read More)
: Pushbutton's foundation is built on these systems:
* Atom and RSS: The most common feed formats, for syndication on the web * PubSubHubBub and RSSCloud: Powerful new "hubs" for distributing messages * Web Hooks: Simple web services for receiving messages, rather than sending them