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OpenSocial or OpenGadget?
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on January 30, 2008
Steve O'Hear (who edits our digital lifestyle blog last100) has an interesting post on his ZDNet blog that questions whether Google's OpenSocial initiative is at all about data portability, or if in fact it really just about widget standardization. O'Hear quotes heavily from a recent article by Marc Canter, who is a strong advocate for open standards and data portability, that ran on...
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How to Make Facebook Useful Again
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 19, 2008
Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, someformer Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried. Why is that? Because Facebook has a whole generation of users who grew up using their site for everything social...
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OLPC 2.0: A Striking eBook and a Step In the Right Direction
via TechCrunch by John Biggs on May 20, 2008
Here is the the next-generation OLPC. It will consist of dual touchscreens on a single spine and include keyboard, face-to-face, and ebook functionality. The touchscreens will be built by a start-up by OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen. These screens will be readable in direct sunlight, just like the OLPC. I’m glad that the second generation OLPC is more of an ebook than a laptop. While the...
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TripIt is awesome
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on January 30, 2008
You know what I really like? TripIt.com. It's amazingly simple. You take all those travel confirmation emails that you get from your travel agent, hotels, car rental agencies, etc, and you just forward them to plans@tripit.com. That's all you have to do. You don't have to sign up for an account. You don't have to log on. You just forward those emails. You can do it right now.You...
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An easy way to add new features to Google
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts on February 25, 2008
Have you ever wanted to add a new feature to Google’s search results? There’s a really nice way to do it right now. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, it’s called a Subscribed Link, and it lets you “create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages. You can display links to your services for your customers, provide news and status information...
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How @replies work on Twitter (and how they might)
via Twitter Blog by Ev. on May 11, 2008
I see a lot of confusion around how "at replies"tweets that start with an @ and then a usernamework on Twitter. E.g.:@Veronica I vote they should be $2.00 each. Cut down on junk mail. Isn't that the only use of postal mail these days, anyway?10:59 AM May 09, 2008 from web in reply to VeronicaStarting my update with "@veronica" designates that I'm addressing her, specifically, much as...
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Google Reader, Why Dost Thou Taunt Me?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 20, 2008
... the box to find only crumbs?It's this feeling of first hope, and then, emptiness, I'm getting tonight with my Google Reader. While Google Reader, despite significant competition of late, is still the best online feed reader out there, its occasional quirks are almost always worth highlighting - especially as the small team does such a great job the other 99.9% of the time.So do I have ...
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Better Gmail 2 Gets New Features, Skins and Firefox 3 Support [Exclusive Lifehacker Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 21, 2008
All platforms with Firefox: Just posted the long-awaited update to the Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, a compilation of the best user scripts and skins for the new Gmail interface. This update to version 0.4 adds Firefox 3 compatibility, the absolutely beautiful Gmail Redesigned skin, the oft-requested HTML signatures, bottom posting, and a reintroduction of the much-missed Filter Assistant,...
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The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on May 28, 2008
The next-gen web is starting to gather pace, as this week MySpace integrated Google Gears, Yahoo! announced their new BrowserPlus product and Google launched a browser-based edition of their 3D Earth product. Technologies and formats such as AIR, Silverlight, JavaFX, Gears, XUL, Web Applications 1.0 (DOM5, HTML5 etc.) allow developers to accelerate beyond AJAX and towards a new generation of web...
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The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
via TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic on June 04, 2008
Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized effort to bring all the browsers under a single,...
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