louisgray-com:
On Thursday, Google caught the eyes of Web developers around the world with the company's move to open source its Closure JavaScript compiler, library and template system to the Web community - the very same tools that power popular applications, including GMail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Reader, and no doubt many ot (Read More)
antirez weblog:
Something like one year ago I switched from Linux to Mac OS X. It was not an easy switch if you think that my desktop on Linux used to be this one, that is, just fvmw2 with a minimal configuration, super fast virtual desktop, border-less windows.Why I switched after more than 12 years of Linux? Actually I didn't decided to (Read More)
louisgray-com:
With plenty of cash in the bank and a growing talent horde, Twitter looks to be taking the next step forward - which is finally getting around to introducing features that have long been core differentiators brought to the table by third party clients. Following the recent addition of trending topic definitions (following B (Read More)
mashable:
We’ve covered dozens if not hundreds (or thousands) of Twitter applications over the past couple years, some of which have gone on to great success, but many of which have fizzled out after initial buzz. Now, 11 apps, most of which would appear to fall somewhere in between, are up for sale. Twtapps, the developer of polli (Read More)
mashable:
Just eight months ago, more than 20 million users were actively using Facebook on their mobile devices. Today, the company has announced that that number has more than tripled — bringing the current active userbase to more than 65 million. The other big news today is that Facebook Connect will now start appearing on mobile (Read More)
louisgray-com:
The Web is speeding up, and Google is playing a big role in making how we get our information faster - no matter its type. Recently, a pair of the company's engineers, Brett Slatkin and Brad Fitzpatrick, have teamed up to roll out a new protocol, PubSubHubbub, to accelerate just about every major part of the Google sphere i (Read More)
louisgray-com:
The much-discussed distributed denial of service attacks over the last two days which hobbled Twitter and also impacted a number of other sites, including Facebook and LiveJournal, has also had a tremendous negative impact downstream, bringing many third party applications and services to a halt. With the sluggishness and n (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The latest startup to fall victim to the recession: SplashCast, which had raised about $6 million in funding. SplashCast’s apps let users watch TV shows from within social networking sites—and chat and rate the content as they watch. “We demonstrated that premium content applications in Facebook and MySpace can be monetized (Read More)
louisgray-com:
Seventeenth Edition Of a Monthly SeriesAs we wrap up July, it comes time again to highlight some enterprising bloggers who are practicing their craft with little attention - or at least a lot less than some of the brand names we frequently run up against. This month's edition, like the others, brings new voices into the sph (Read More)
louisgray-com:
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is the eleventh edition of the monthly FriendFeed to follow member list. Louis Gray has done a superb job covering for me for the past three months, and has kept the tradition alive. That's one of the reasons I naturally invited Louis to partner with me on it (Read More)
louisgray-com:
Editor's Note: On July 4, 2008, TweetDeck, a new Adobe AIR application for Twitter, was introduced to the world, on this blog. Twelve months later, it is unquestionably one of the most popular microblogging clients in the world. I had the opportunity to trade e-mails with its developer, Iain Dodsworth, to learn more about h (Read More)
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from blog:
Usually if you want to install a Content Management System like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla on your computer you have to go through several step. First you need to find and install a web server like for example , then you have to create a database and probably edit a config file. If you are not enough expert or if you just (Read More)
louisgray.com:
As the discussions around Bing continue, I found myself often thinking of how the product would need to not just be marginally better than Google search for me to switch, but dramatically better - not due to an inherent bias on my part, but because of how the landscape has changed. Under our nose in the last decade, Google (Read More)
louisgray-com:
Amidst the buzz from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that took over the tech news world today, in the shadows, something very weird has happened. Companies that were once market leaders, and then, later, laughed at as the ugly stepchildren in tech, are being championed once again. And this time, they are being laude (Read More)
louisgray-com:
When I attended the SXSW conference this March, I was able to see the announcement, by Dave Morin, the company's senior platform manager, that Facebook Connect would be integrated with iPhone applications, essentially adding the glue between the world's most popular social network with the digerati's most treasured mobile p (Read More)