PR 2.0:
Source: ShutterstockNova: a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness and then slowly returning to its original stateSupernova: a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its massI recently wrote about reports on the documented decline of visitors t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Opera just announced the release of Opera 10.10. This latest version of Opera's desktop browser now includes Opera Unite, the company's browser-based web server. With Unite, users can share photos, music, notes, websites, forums and calendars - but unlike standard web apps, these apps are hosted on the user's computer. When (Read More)
Royal Pingdom:
Last week Google finally unveiled their much-talked-about Chrome OS, and subsequently worked the tech community into a frenzy. The operating system certainly lived up to Google’s initial promises of being browser-centric – it is basically just the Chrome web browser atop a custom Linux kernel. It does everything you’d expec (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Google Reader:
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though - there's some good (Read More)
Submitted by Courane01
from Google Reader:
More and more startups are working in distributed teams. Teams with people in different countries and time zones. Keeping the team up to date and aligned is key for success. 7 tools to make online collaboration easy, thanks to CrunchBase for the introductions:AgileBuddy: agree on specsAgileBuddy is next generation Scrum pro (Read More)
Submitted by Vitamincm
from blog:
Site Specific Browsers Put Web Apps on Your Desktop OVERVIEW: You will learn how to turn your favorite web applications into standalone desktop applications using site specific browser tools. What Is a Site Specific Browser? A Site Specific Browser (SSB) is is an application with an embedded browser designed to work excl (Read More)
Web Strategy by Jeremiah:
I was briefed as an analyst by Adam Nash, LinkedIn’s Vice President, Search & Platform Products to learn about today’s announcement around opening their network as a platform.Announcement: Access LinkedIn Data From Other Locations Using The LinkedIn PlatformStarting today, developers worldwide can integrate LinkedIn into th (Read More)
mashable:
When developers get their hands on a social media platform, amazing things tend to happen. For example, Facebook transformed web apps when it launched the Facebook platform. The result has been everything from Facebook Connect to FarmVille. Twitter’s an even better example when you start thinking of the countless Twitter (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This morning, professional social network LinkedIn announced that it is opening up its API for developers to build applications around the platform. While LinkedIn has partnered with Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, Research In Motion and others, this will be the first time startups can tap into the platform. While LinkedIn is rele (Read More)
techno.blog("Dion"):
“Just what the world needs—another sucky JavaScript library,” he said. When I asked him what made it ‘sucky’, he elaborated. “It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”This quote is by Kevin Yank, talking to Dmitry Baranovskiy, author of the fantastic Raphaël graphics abstraction (Read More)
AndroidGuys:
Last week, Google unveiled a bit more on the ChromeOS initiativie, including source code. Some people already have it running on netbooks, even though commercial devices running ChromeOS are not due out until 2010.As usual, there was a round of questions as to where Android ends and where ChromeOS begins. No other than Serg (Read More)
Mashable!:
Hulu houses one of the most extensive legal video content libraries on the web. Backed equally by Disney, NBC Universal, and Fox and with plenty of content partnerships with other studios and providers, US-based users have access to thousands of episodes of TV shows and movies, plus even more clips.Although Hulu’s search fu (Read More)
SitePoint Blogs:
Finding the tools you need when you first start a new business can be difficult, but luckily there are more and more web applications to ease some of that pain. You can take care of just about any challenge from designing your logo to even answering the phone … yes, via the Web. No longer are you shackled by what your local (Read More)
silicon.com : News:
Google released the source code for Chrome OS on Thursday, beginning the process of producing a browser-based operating system by the end of 2010 for lower-end PCs called netbooks. Although Linux runs under the covers, the applications all run within Google's browser. The upper-left corner has an applications menu with link (Read More)
Submitted by Funkyboy
from Google Reader:
When word hit the street that popular virtual assistant service I Want Sandy was shutting down, many people were shocked and well, saddened. Sandy was a well built application with a nice dash of personality.And so many people were left looking for a replacement — another web based application that could offer similar funct (Read More)