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1.8Make Your Site An iPhone App
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1.0Let My Maps Be Your Geo Database
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3.9Revamped CitySearch Makes Facebook Connect Look Useful
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1.8Xobni Puts the Social Web in Your Outlook Inbox
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7.2Why Adobe ‘Configurator’ Will Revolutionize The Way You Use Photoshop
- Microsoft to Offer Free Virus Protection Software for Windows
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7.2Google Makes Life Magazine Photo Archives Searchable
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2.5Side Project to Startup: Shizzow Q&A
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5.5Shout Out Your Whereabouts With Shizzow
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6.0Zoetrope Project Aims to Archive the Web
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3.9Amazon ‘CloudFront’ Promises Cheaper, Faster Downloads
- Facebook’s New App Verification Program Offers Protection — for a Price
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7.3Adobe and Google Announce Flash Analytics
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6.8Will Flagging be Social Media’s 8-Track?
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4.3iPhone App Puts the Glue Social Network in Your Pocket
Wednesday November 19th, 2008
1.8
Make Your Site An iPhone App
From webmonkey, 4 hours ago,
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You can get most of the benefits of an iPhone application without writing a single line of Objective C. An open source project called PhoneGap lets your wrap your website in iPhone App goodness. And you can even charge for your creation.
Even more exciting than being able to easily create an app is getting access [...]
1.0
Let My Maps Be Your Geo Database
From webmonkey, 5 hours ago,
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Toss out that MySQL book. The only thing you need to store location data is Google Maps.
My Maps is a feature that lets you create your own mashup on a map. Once a map is created, it can be shared with a link, or in Google Earth with a KML file. And now, it is [...]
3.9
Revamped CitySearch Makes Facebook Connect Look Useful
From webmonkey, 5 hours ago,
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CitySearch probably isn’t your go-to site for local searches. While the site can be useful, its current interface is more likely to start you reminiscing about the old Geocities network, than inspire a return visit.
But CitySearch is hoping to change that perception with a new beta version that brings the site up to web 2.0 [...]
1.8
Xobni Puts the Social Web in Your Outlook Inbox
From webmonkey, 8 hours ago,
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Those of you stuck using Microsoft Outlook for e-mail will be happy to know that the Xobni Outlook extension has been revamped with new integration tools for Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype and Hoovers.
Xobni (that’s “inbox” backwards and it’s pronounced “zob-nee”) already integrated with the LinkedIn social network and the new options bring the add-on closer [...]
7.2
Why Adobe ‘Configurator’ Will Revolutionize The Way You Use Photoshop
From webmonkey, 9 hours ago,
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For newcomers, Photoshop can seem like a labyrinth. The photo editing app is very powerful, but with great power comes great complexity — figuring out how to do what you want can take longer than actually doing it.
To help make Photoshop more flexible and bit easier to work with, Adobe has just released Configurator — [...]
Microsoft to Offer Free Virus Protection Software for Windows
From webmonkey, 10 hours ago,
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Microsoft plans to offer Windows users a new antivirus package designed to protect the OS from viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. The new software is tentatively code-named Morro, and will be available for free to Windows XP, Vista and 7 users sometime in the second half of 2009.
The new software will reportedly use very minimal [...]
Tuesday November 18th, 2008
7.2
Google Makes Life Magazine Photo Archives Searchable
From webmonkey, 1 day ago,
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Looking for a time suck? Google has put the entire catalog of Life magazine photographs online and (of course) made it fully searchable. More than a million historic Life images are hosted on a special section of the Google Images site, which you can browse by year, place, people, events and more.
The vast majority of [...]
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Side Project to Startup: Shizzow Q&A
From webmonkey, 1 day ago,
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Shizzow is a new location-based social service, most similar to BrightKite. The bootstrapped startup is also a side project. The four team members have full-time jobs outside of Shizzow.
Webmonkey got together with Shizzow CEO-by-night Ryan Snyder. Read on to find out why he won’t make an iPhone app, Shizzow’s relation to Google Calendar, and that [...]
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Shout Out Your Whereabouts With Shizzow
From webmonkey, 1 day ago,
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After months of private beta testing in Portland, location-based social network Shizzow has launched in the tech-friendly Bay Area. Now the coffee shop working laptoperati can easily let their friends know whose WiFi they’re soaking up today. Like the location granddaddy Dodgeball, Shizzow is focused on connecting people in real life.
To “shout” from a place, [...]
6.0
Zoetrope Project Aims to Archive the Web
From webmonkey, 1 day ago,
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The web changes fast, what you see today will be gone tomorrow. That ephemeral nature means that looking at information over time can be very difficult. Google’s new visualization API attempts offer novel ways of looking at data over time, but for the average user, it remains a difficult task.
However, there’s an interesting new tool [...]
3.9
Amazon ‘CloudFront’ Promises Cheaper, Faster Downloads
From webmonkey, 1 day ago,
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Amazon has announced its new content delivery network service, dubbed CloudFront, which will help even small websites vastly improve their file download speeds. Like its other services, S3 storage, EC2 hosting and more, CloudFront is pay-as-you-go, offering a much cheaper alternative for small sites.
CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) and just might completely change [...]
Facebook’s New App Verification Program Offers Protection — for a Price
From webmonkey, 1 day ago,
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Facebook has rolled out a new application vetting program designed to help you navigate through the sea of available apps to find trustworthy options. Unfortunately the program bears a striking resemblance to basic, mob-style extortion schemes and might leave you wondering why it’s necessary.
In theory the new verification program will help you decided which Facebook [...]
Monday November 17th, 2008
7.3
Adobe and Google Announce Flash Analytics
From webmonkey, 2 days ago,
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For developers using Flash, integrating stats has been a chore. Coders had whipped up solutions previously, but now there’s an official package released jointly by Google and Adobe at Monday’s MAX Conference.
Flash and Flex developers can use the components and libraries to track pageviews and events. In a video (embedded below) Sprout’s Matthew McNeely shows [...]
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Will Flagging be Social Media’s 8-Track?
From webmonkey, 2 days ago,
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Sites that depend on user-generated content often also depend on the same users to police the quality by flagging content. Is this flagging a natural expectation of a community, or is it asking too much of our users? Will flagging become yesterday’s technology and the butt of future jokes, like the 8-track cartridge?
According to YouTube, [...]
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iPhone App Puts the Glue Social Network in Your Pocket
From webmonkey, 2 days ago,
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Adaptive Blue has released an iPhone app for the new Glue service we profiled last week. Glue is a social network, but not in the normal sense. Glue has no destination site, rather it works through a Firefox toolbar that follows you around the web and, when relevant, shows you what your friends thought of [...]