Engadget:
We trust you're reading this on your R2-D2 case mod PC with matching Star Wars-themed Skype webcam, all of which you acquired using your awesome mind control powers (learned with the assistance of your Force Trainer). And as all this goes down, you are undoubtedly surrounded by a full compliment of Star Wars Mimobot flash d (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Mozilla Foundation announced this morning that it has hired Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, co-founders of Ajaxian and the Ajax Experience, to run a new Developer Tools Lab aimed to make Open Web development easier and more powerful. The term Open Web refers to a paradigm in which data and users can move easily from one (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s literally been ten years since Yahoo updated its online calendar. And it’s been more than two years since Google launched its Web-based calendar. But tonight it will start rolling out a new drag-and-drop, Ajax calendar in a closed beta to Yahoo Mail users in the U.S., UK, India, Taiwan, and Brazil. You c (Read More)
Mashable!:
The world won’t end for at least two months, so here are some questions to consider. Does the tenor of today’s political advertisements appeal to you - at least in a comical sense? And does your frustration over New Facebook continue to linger as the network’s creators complete the shift? Old Facebook and the Facebook (Read More)
Mashable!:
Drop.io, the file hosting and sharing service of considerable renown in Web world, particularly among those who espouse the need to keep things simple and easy and cheap without excess baggage, is moving along with another upgrade to its feature set.We previously noted the company’s release of a browser plugin intended for (Read More)
TechCrunch:
280 North, the Y Combinator-backed startup that brought you slideshow maker 280 Slides, has released a programming language and set of frameworks collectively known as Cappuccino that can be used to create rich web applications in the same way you’d create desktop applications for MacOS X.Like SproutCore, which powers (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google Chrome has quickly become one of our favorite browsers here at RWW, but, as Ryan Narraine, a security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, reports, Chrome has also inherited a potentially serious security flaw from the old version of WebKit it is based on. An attacker could easily trick users into launching an executable Jav (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google released Chrome, its new open source app browser today, with "Another One Bites the Dust" playing while we waited on the press call. Can Chrome kill IE? Will it kill Firefox? Or will it go the way of Google Base, Google Sites and other Google Flops?Join us for a first look at Chrome together. We'll be walking th (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Does this picture remind you of your office a little too much? It may be time to check out the latest job listings on CrunchBoard. Here’s a sample from the past week:VP of Network ManagementTechnorati - San Francisco, CASoftware DeveloperWikimedia - San Francsico, CADHTML/AJAX Web Application DeveloperOracle - Redwo (Read More)