BuzzTracker.com - Twitter:
In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available.This release is unique in that it's API-only which means you won't see any changes on twitter.com, yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Sees (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
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Dopo oltre un anno dal precedente, l’ottavo rapporto Censis mostra una crescita di tutti i mezzi di comunicazione, tra il 2001 e il 2009.Più di tutti aumentano gli utenti di internet (+26,9%), dei telefoni cellulari (+12,2%), della radio fruita ormai da web o in mobilità (+12,4%). Il problema è che solo il 47% degli italian (Read More)
Submitted by Egculbertson
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We love what we do because we know when you all succeed, we do as well. This time around, we need your help to vote for us on the Chase Community Giving contest. (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
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Today we are posting our audited financial statements and tax form for 2008. We have also posted our FAQ. As in past years, I’ll use this event as an opportunity to review both our financial status and our overall effectiveness in moving the mission forward.FinancialThe financial highlights are:Mozilla remains strong financ (Read More)
Newest Webmonkey Articles:
“What if your browser was your operating system?”That’s the question Google is hoping to answer with Chrome OS, the open source operating system centered entirely around its Chrome browser. All your apps — e-mail, communications, docs, photo management — are delivered through the web browser, which sits on a lightweight Lin (Read More)
AFP Blog: Youth in Philanthropy:
morrisdailyherald.com | Student essayists win right to become philanthropists: "Six students in Grundy County have had their essays selected as winners in the “What Charity and Philanthropy Mean to Me” essay contest.The Community Found-ation of Grundy County sponsored the contest in honor of National Philanthropy Month, whi (Read More)
Techdirt:
We recently wrote about how booksellers were freaking out over the "price war" between Amazon and Wal-Mart, whereby they're starting to offer certain books at a very cheap price to bring in more customers. The whole thing was a bit silly. Reader Robin Trehaeven alerts us to a fantastic opinion piece in the Library Journal (Read More)
MediaShift:
Last month, UWIRE.com, an edited college media newswire, mysteriously vanished from the Internet. "UWIRE, a popular service that aggregated articles from student newspapers across the country, promoting student journalism both within higher education and to the outside world, has disappeared," wrote Simmi Aujla for the Chro (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
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Speaking at SMiB in LondonThe current state of conversations in regards to Social Media and BusinessOkay, look. I don’t mean to step on anyone’s toes here, but how many times do business managers hungry for real Social Media know-how have to suffer through another “Social Media is what’s next” presentation before someone ac (Read More)
zlabs:
The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with co (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
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This is the uncut version of my latest post on TechCrunch…Measuring individual influence in Social Media is as coveted as it is elusive. While many tools claim to calculate authority, it is the definition of influence that requires clarification in order to grasp the relevance and differences of existing tools and services. (Read More)
Submitted by Logicalextremes
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Blogger: Ian GlazerA friend in the industry recently asked me for my thoughts on OpenID, InfoCards, and the US federal government's work to consume non-government issued credentials. Letting the question rattle around in my head for a while, here's what I've got so far.My hope is that the overall ICAM initiative is successf (Read More)
Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers:
Nearly every day somebody asks me about how I got started as a freelance developer. Many people recognize that they would like to branch off into freelancing, but most don’t know where to begin. It’s this fear and uncertainty that keeps them from taking the plunge.Challenges like how to find clients, what to do about mone (Read More)
Submitted by Beneipeter
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Egy ideje nem újdonság, hogy közösségi portálokon napi szinten jelenik meg a politika. Jelen vannak a pártok és politikai ügyek az iwiw-en, illetve a facebookon is. Az elmúlt idők egyik legsikeresebb kezdeményezése az eredetileg „félig viccnek szánt” Time Zone Jump 2009 elnevezésű projekt. A szervezők azt szeretnék elérni, (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
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(You are encouraged to read this article with its formatting and typography intact, instead of in this RSS reader)Introduction & RationaleWhat if there was a backwards compatible way to transfer all of the resources that are used on every single page in your site — CSS, JS, images, anything else — in a single HTTP request a (Read More)