Oct 28, 2009

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)

Oct 25, 2009

TechCrunch A little before 9pm on Wednesday night and I’m standing on the ‘VIP’ balcony of San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, holding a can of something called ‘MySpace Buzz’ and waiting for Weezer to take to the stage. It’s a weird scene, all told, and not just because I thought Weezer was dead.The bulk of the weirdness stems from the (Read More)

Oct 17, 2009

louisgray-com As comments on the Web become fragmented, conversations that occur on downstream aggregation sites often are taking place in a silo, disjointed from parallel discussions on the originating Web site. Over the last two years, many people have found this evolution controversial, hoping to unify the conversations in a central l (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

Nico's shared items in Google Reader When XMPP support in Google App Engine was announced, it occurred to me that it would be pretty easy to use it to do a PubSubHubbub-to-XMPP bridge. Other things came up, but I was reminded again of the possibility when a "Oh, you didn't you see my Reader share?" conversation happened in a Partychat room. A bit of searching (Read More)

Oct 12, 2009

TechCrunch We’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may, which is to say with their friends and colleagues. Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expe (Read More)

Oct 11, 2009

TechCrunch The big story today is about Microsoft subsidiary Danger losing all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data from their servers. Danger is the company noted for the T-Mobile Sidekick, the revolution in cloud mobile, and most memorably, almost everybody living in 90210 having to get new phone numbers because of Paris Hilton. Valued T (Read More)

Sep 21, 2009

Delicious hotlist So here's the deal with Wave:  If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you'll miss the boat.  And it's a big boat.  If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture.  M (Read More)

Sep 29, 2009

Wired: Gadget Lab About as slim as the Adamo and just half a pound heavier, Dell’s new slim laptop is a PC intended for business users who crave beauty and are willing to pay whatever it takes to get it.At the basic level, the Dell Latitude Z is a notebook with a 16-inch HD display that runs Intel Core 2 Duo processor and offers a choice of (Read More)

Sep 29, 2009

TechCrunch » Jason Kincaid The iPhone has all the ingredients necessary to build the first popular location-based game that combines the real world with fantasy — a scenario long dreamt of by gamers. A handful of games like Parallel Kingdom have gotten some traction, but they have yet to really catch on on a large scale. And while Foursquare has go (Read More)

Sep 29, 2009

readwriteweb Real-time web protocol PubSubHubbub's co-creator Brett Slatkin, an engineer at Google, gave a talk at Facebook headquarters today about how the new information delivery system works and how Facebook can support it. He's published his deck on his blog and we've embedded it below as our Real-Time Web Article of the Day. If (Read More)

Sep 28, 2009

Coding Horror How often do you check your email per day?Does checking your email make you more productive or less productive?Oh, sure, we delude ourselves into thinking we're being extra-productive by obsessively checking and responding to our email, but in reality we're attending too frequently to our own desire for gratification and sa (Read More)

Sep 28, 2009

TechCrunch This guy was asking the quality question way before the PSP GoThe PSP Go just launched and the blogworld is in a tizzy about the price – $249 – and the apparent chintziness of this new PSP replacement. You see, the device doesn’t support Sony’s exciting UMD optical standard and is generally reported as “feeling” cheaper tha (Read More)

Sep 29, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Designer Nicholas Felton formalized his passion for personal infographics in 2005 when he issued his first Annual Report. He tracked his time spent working, the countries he'd visited, his favorite books and even his favorite refreshment. The report was a mix of pie charts, bar graphs and lifestyle-based statistics. Today, (Read More)

Sep 24, 2009

Submitted by Sylvain from Google Reader: And oh yeah, thanks to Network World for the post highlighting my “dumb pipes” comment which they totally took out of context.  I don't know if they actually read my post or not, but that was… unexpected.  I hope I can clear that up sufficiently with this one.Because my point about networks being dumb pipes did not refer to (Read More)

Sep 22, 2009

Official Google Mobile Blog Earlier this year, we launched Google Sync which allows you to synchronize your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with your iPhone, Windows Mobile, and S60 devices. Today, we're adding Gmail support to Google Sync for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices. Using Google Sync, you can now get your Gmail messages pus (Read More)

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