Submitted by Sarahcrisman:
SocialMedian was barely a thought for people back in February, but it has gained a solid following in the 9 monthsof its existence. Many people would ask why this startup has gained any traction. It is yet another social news site with voting and commenting. Did we really need another? Given the amount of traffic that socia (Read More)
Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett
from Google Reader:
Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribe (Read More)
louisgray.com
Guest Post By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)I'm noticing a trend lately which started several months ago, and I couldn't quite pinpoint what was causing it. It seemed as though many of my friends and others that I esteemed as good bloggers were getting tired, and were posting much less frequently, or not a (Read More)
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Discover the capabilities of the ECMAScript (JavaScript) for XML (E4X) enhancement, designed to facilitate simple, easy parsing, calculations, edits, and more on XML data. (Read More)
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
Hello, oh great and powerful Adobe people.Thank you so much for releasing Flash Player 10 beta 2 for Linux. Thanks even more for (finally) building in support for video4linux2 Webcam technology. You have no idea how much we appreciate that. The only problem is that many (if not most) of us can't use it. You see, it crashes (Read More)
Neoformix
I just posted a new application in my projects section called Twitter StreamGraphs.
It is an interactive tool to let you create StreamGraphs from the latest tweets containing a given word or from a particular user. A few
examples are shown below.
The application shows a StreamGraph for (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
There are a lot of tech conferences these days and we at ReadWriteWeb get many emails asking us to promote them. We've happily done so in the past, but there are now too many events to keep up with. So this year we've decided to partner with a couple of conferences in particular: Defrag and DEMOfall 08. Defrag is a conferen (Read More)
Mashable!
I was going through my normal routine this morning of IV’ing my daily allotment of caffeine into my system, reading my email, going through my blog feeds in FeedDemon and then finishing up with a good round of FriendFeed when I realized something. My Twitter client wasn’t running, and in fact, it hadn’t been running for alm (Read More)
jQuery Blog
Since 4 days, many have noticed that we’ve uploaded another minor bugfix release to our Google Code account. While there’s again no new API introduced, more than 30 issues have been cleared again, and we’re getting the feeling that the codebase is growing more stable very day.The full changelog is availabl (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Recently, Facebook changed its layout involving the commenting functionality on Mini-Feed items. Before, you had to click on the plus sign ("+") to add a comment, but now the word "comment" is written out. VentureBeat is reporting on this change and notes that it's probably to make the new commenting functionality more visi (Read More)
Twitterholics
Twitter Psm Pusher is an extension for Windows Live Messenger that send your personal status from Messenger to Twitter. To configure it, enter "/twitterconfig" into a chat window, then enter your username and password in the window that comes up.When you modify your Messenger status, it will be sent to Twitter automaticall (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changerhref3D"http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_apple_will_dominate_next_gen_computing.php">.Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhonebecomesthe new personal computer. The d (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
For those of you wondering why you haven't seen a Twitter post on ReadWriteWeb for, oh, a couple of days now -- here is one! And you'll be pleased to know it's very easy to digest this post, because it's in cartoon form. This is courtesy of the wonderful Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog calle (Read More)
: This post says a lot about the power of Twitter. By lifestreaming we open up more of our lives, so we think we get to know each other (which we almost do).
TechCrunch
Michael once wrote that Twitter may not have to worry about uptime any more, explaining, “I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.” And, a few months and countless hours of downtime later, it looks like most of you feel the same way. The early adopters may have migrated to Friendfeed, but the masses appear (Read More)