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XMPP might sound like a foreign language to you, but the extensible messaging and presence protocol was developed by Jabber and it’s the technology that powers many popular instant messenger clients.Today we’re learning from Process One that Facebook is readying an XMPP connection interface that would make it possible for y (Read More)
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Google Alerts, once the secret of savvy online marketers and social media experts, have become the de facto way for the masses to keep one eye always on the web.While there have been attempts to apply the instant alerts concept to Twitter, we haven’t seen an application get the formula completely right yet. Perhaps we spoke (Read More)
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Drew Olanoff, who created the site "Blame Drew's Cancer" (where citizens can blame Olanoff's cancer for their problems) skyrocketed to techno-stardom when Drew Carey offered him $100,000 for his @drew Twitter handle. Afterwards, Carey offered to match up to 1 million dollars in donations to the LiveStrong Foundation, Lance (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com
Over the past months, we’ve written quite a few PDF manuals for you, on all kinds of diverging subjects. Initially available only for subscribers, there are now multiple manuals released every month, for everyone to enjoy. After releasing 15 manuals and nearly half a million downloads we thought it was about time to look ba (Read More)
Mashable!
Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Norman Bates, and Jon & Kate are just some of Hollywood’s most horrifying characters. One of the best things about Halloween is that it’s a perfect opportunity to grab some friends and settle in for a good old fashioned scare in front of the TV, or increasingly, the computer mo (Read More)
WebUrbanist
It sounds like a horrible nightmare: human bones stacked in patterns on the floor, their skulls lining the walls and staring, gaping-eyed, at visitors. It’s no nightmare, though: in churches, cathedrals and underground chambers all over the world, the bones of millions of dead greet visitors. The grisly rooms, known as ossu (Read More)
louisgray-com
As a Mac fan in the 1990s, it was a lot easier to understand who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Apple was very good. Intel was bad. Adobe was usually good. Microsoft was bad. Very bad. Evil. But over time as we have morphed into the latter part of this decade, Intel switched teams and became good. Meanwhile, (Read More)
The Next Web
Facebook has just announced at their Facebook’s Developer Garage that developers on their platform will be given access to their users email addresses.The goal is to create a more ‘open’ Facebook and let developers feel their users/customers are actually their own, rather than just Facebook’s.For developers, this will mean (Read More)
TechCrunch
With the Holiday Season nearly upon us, we at TechCrunch thought it would behoove us to share with everyone a definitive list of the best smartphones currently available (or launching shortly), so as to help with any possible purchasing decisions which may occur in the upcoming months.In making our decisions, we looked at (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com
Not many people know this, but Google Chrome is based on Chromium, an open source browser project. Everyone willing can download the source code, and make a few tweaks to their own Chrome-like browser. That’s right, Firefox isn’t the only contender showing off their code!Although there are a whole bunch of Firefox spin-offs (Read More)
Google Operating System
Last week, Marissa Mayer announced at the Web 2.0 Summit a new experimental feature that will improve search results with web pages created by your social connections."Due to the ever-increasing popularity of social networks, we've been thinking about how your social network could influence and improve your search results. (Read More)
Official Google Blog
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that infor (Read More)
Live Crunch
Tomorrow Asurion Mobile is releasing new Android application called AddressBook. Address Book App like this has not been seen in Market Store yet. This address book ties most popular social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or Flickr with your contacts. With this Address Book you get more functions than your stand (Read More)