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Adobe Flash gets a break in war against Silverlight
via RB | Top | min 7 by (author unknown) on July 01, 2008
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger shared by 9 peopleInteresting, this is probably why I don’t try to do news reporting anymore. I was briefed a few days ago on the Adobe/Google news, but already it’s being discussed on hundreds of blogs. There is no longer much value in being first. So off I go today to hang out at HP’s Labs to get you some intimate looks into one of the...
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Google Docs Stats
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on July 01, 2008
If you publish documents at Google Docs and link them from web pages, you may wonder how many people actually view them. Google helps you find this information by placing a Google Analytics tracking code that can be connected to your account. How to get traffic stats for your documents?Just go to Google Analytics, create a new profile for http://docs.google.com and get the tracking code for that...
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Google Earth, meet the browser
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 27, 2008
Posted by Paul Rademacher, Technical Lead, Google Earth Browser Plug-inWhen Google Maps was launched in 2005, few could have guessed the way map mashups would permeate the online world. Online maps had been just something you used to get directions or to find the ten nearest grocery stores. Google Maps and the Google Maps API proved that an online map was actually a rich canvas on which entire...
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Google Sites now open to everyone
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on May 21, 2008
Posted by Andrew Zaeske, Engineering ManagerA few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information -- team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it...
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Re: Blog post: Love My Maps? Use its Line and Shape Editing in your API Apps!
via MapApiGuru by pamela....@gmail.com (pamela (Google Employee)) on May 21, 2008
Hi developers- There is a demonstration of using these tools on Google App Engine, and saving the created geometry in a Datastore here: [link]The code is openly viewable here: [link]I'm still working out the optimal UI for the sidebar, but it should
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Google to Crank Out More iPhone Apps
via ReadWriteWeb by Steve O'Hear, last100 editor on May 19, 2008
With Apple set to roll out the next major software update for the iPhone, and with it official support for third-party applications, it will come as no surprise that Google is busy prepping some new wares. “We expect to have applications at Day One”, Google’s vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, told Macworld.Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blogEven before the...
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The Results of Reality Mining at Where 2.0
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Brady Forrest on May 19, 2008
Your cellphone and laptop leave an invisible trail. Collecting this data is know as Reality Mining. A formal definition of Reality Mining is "the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior". We had two such collection projects this year at Where 2.0. They each took advantage of the signals that our inadvertent sensors (mobile phones and laptops primarily)...
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Goodbye Borland, Welcome Embarcadero
via marcocantu.blog by (author unknown) on May 18, 2008
Shared by AlexT Optimistic, but I'd be cautious. Look like a way to graveyard...The news is floating around the web, moving from blog to blog, and sparkling newsgroup discussions... and will be like this for some time.Embarcadero Technology, the company behind database management tools like ER/studio and DBArtisan, has signed an agreement with Borland to buy CodeGear, the division focused on...
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Microsoft Blames Users for Vista Problems
via marcocantu.blog by (author unknown) on May 18, 2008
Shared by AlexT But we'll ignore it and install Vista to users. Drum, drum, drum...A post from Tim Anderson's ITWriting blog pointed me to a very interesting article (it is a 9 pages PDF) by Microsoft , the specific author unnamed. The document is titled "Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista". Now while it is certainly true that there are some misconceptions and urban...
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Keep a Cameraphone Photo Album To-do List [To-do List]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 18, 2008
The iPhone-toting blogger at Minddriven says that the cameraphone is often within reach when he wants to capture a task to his to-do list—so he snaps a photo of what needs to be done instead of writing it down. If he needs to buy more toothpaste, he snaps a photo of the empty tube and stores it in the to-do album. When he buys new toothpaste? He deletes the photo. Definitely a nice way to...
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