tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44255380125191055472024-03-13T20:14:53.780-07:00Web CentricYou had always wanted to know about the web. From now you will...Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.comBlogger1907125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-17268661573186941422007-12-15T13:26:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:59:36.310-08:00Adobe to Open Source LiveCycle Data Services as BlazeDSAdobe is announcing today the release of BlazeDS, an open source version of their server side remoting and messaging technologies that were previously only available in the LifeCycle Data Services ES package. Adobe is also publishing the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification. Right now, the technologies included in BlazeDS are targeted at enterprises using Java via the LifeCycle Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-187748300077970662007-12-15T13:26:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:59:20.616-08:00Online Accounting: The Next Killer App For Google AppsThis article was a joint collaboration between chartered accountant Jonathan Bradford and computer scientist Ian Leader. They blog at Jay Eye Sea. In September Google added a presentation application to its Google Apps suite, thus creating an online office version of the "holy trinity": word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. So what's next for Google Apps? What might be the Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-41658026628858105342007-12-15T13:25:00.003-08:002007-12-15T12:59:02.404-08:00Opera vs. IE: Round One, Fight! digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Opera_vs_IE_Round_One_Fight_2'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; I'm getting this feeling of deja vu... haven't we been through all this before? Today Opera filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union against Microsoft. According to Opera, the makers of an alternative web browser, Microsoft is using its dominant position to Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-31631431654845538142007-12-15T13:25:00.002-08:002007-12-15T12:58:45.490-08:00Yahoo! Releases Shortcuts Wordpress PluginYahoo! has released a new plugin for Wordpress that adds its "Shortcuts" search popups to blog content. Shortcuts are informational popups that operate similarly to Snap's SnapShots and AdaptiveBlue's SmartLinks. The key difference is that Yahoo!'s implementation is seeded with Yahoo! content. The Wordpress plugin route may limit the potential user base of Yahoo! Shortcuts, but it provides Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-26276910739587744912007-12-15T13:25:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:58:28.267-08:00Mobile MySpace On Sprint: Do Carrier Deals Make Sense?Fox Interactive announced today that it has a deal with Sprint to offer one-click access to the new MySpace Mobile portal when it launches early next year. Sprint and Fox have had a mobile relationship since before mobile meant much, in fact. This could be a sneeze turned into a press release, but it's also a good opportunity to examine carrier-based mobile content deals vs. open social Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-34488537290035981742007-12-15T13:25:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:58:13.561-08:00Flickr Introduces Traffic Stats for Pro Users digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Flickr_Introduces_Traffic_Stats_for_Pro_Users'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Users with a pro account at Flickr are now able to view a variety of interesting statistics about the viewers of their photos. Heather Champ said in a post on the Flickr blog this morning that the stats are intended to "give you all sorts of insight into how Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-8461283221613804302007-12-15T13:24:00.003-08:002007-12-15T12:57:57.426-08:00Best Web LittleCo of 2007: TwitterEarlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007, Facebook. In this post we're announcing our pick for Best LittleCo. We're also asking for your nominations for Most Promising Web Company for 2008. These picks are something we do every year, this being the 4th year. Last year's Best LittleCo was YouTube, with Sharpcast selected as Most Promising. In 2005 37Signals was Best LittleCo and Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-16261590418613554872007-12-15T13:24:00.002-08:002007-12-15T12:57:39.843-08:00Omnidrive Heading for Deadpool? (Update 1: CEO Says No, They're Just Overloaded; Update 2: ex-CTO Responds)A tipster informed us today that online storage solution Omnidrive has been having technical difficulties; and that the CTO has just left the company. Omnidrive's forums, both the official one and the Tangler one, are filled with messages complaining that the service is up and down - messages which the company doesn't appear to be responding to. The last post on the company's blog is dated AugustWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-42870024168685160952007-12-15T13:24:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:57:23.920-08:00Knols Project: Google Experimenting With User Generated Encyclopedic Pages digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Knols_Project_User_Generated_Encyclopedic_Pages'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The official Google blog has a post tonight about a new project that's in closed, private beta. The program is called Knols, or "units of knowledge." Knols participants will write reference pages on any topic, using a Google content creation tool Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-33957877750366300992007-12-15T13:24:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:57:06.338-08:00The Significance of YouTube's New Swarm Tool digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Significance_of_YouTube_s_New_Swarm_Tool'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; YouTube has begun experimenting with a visualization of related videos that's a poor knock-off of the Digg Swarm visualization tool. NewTeeVee says it's more fun than Digg Swarm but I think it's less useful and actually a bit nauseating to watch. (Update: By Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-61268092301552398862007-12-15T13:23:00.002-08:002007-12-15T12:56:50.723-08:00Microsoft's Ultimate Avatar All Night Party-o-Rama: Actually Pretty Funny Microsoft launched two new contests today at its UltimateSteal site (the ultimate steal is getting Office for $60 as a student). The UltimateSteal Sweepstakes, both The Ultimate College Idol and the Ultimate College All Nighter, are (ultimately) all about people singing or talking behind avatars they design using the Voki avatar generation experience. I was getting ready to write about how Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-9381990242373070602007-12-15T13:23:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:56:35.104-08:00Amazon Web Services Family Expands with SimpleDBLast night Amazon announced the limited beta launch of the newest in its growing family of web services, SimpleDB. Amazon's latest service brings the cloud computing power of EC2 to the database storage of S3. Where S3 only allows you to write, read or delete files, SimpleDB lets you run some calculations on your data. One of the neatest things about SimpleDB is that it is schemaless. UsuallyWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-44375293258506302892007-12-15T13:23:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:56:16.153-08:00The Blogosphere Gets a Newspaper in The IssueThe vast majority of the blogosphere exists in the long tail, and as we have often talked about recently, attracting an audience in the long tail is very hard to do. So it stands that many good blogs go virtually unread. Automatic aggregators, like Techmeme, end up acting somewhat like gated communities that are dominated by the biggest blogs -- who link to one another and prop each other up. Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-78627718014712665592007-12-15T13:22:00.003-08:002007-12-15T12:56:01.374-08:00Developer Project Management Services Growing Increasingly SophisticatedTwo popular project management tools for software developers, Assembla and Unfuddle, both made major releases of new services this week. Unfuddle announced an extensive API yesterday, as well as a Mac Dashboard Widget based on that API. The widget will let users monitor project activity, create tickets, time entries and more from their desktop. Assembla, a developers' project management Web Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-43746564561157717102007-12-15T13:22:00.002-08:002007-12-15T12:55:47.663-08:00Magnify.net And ClipSyndicate Partner For Embedded ContentVideo discovery and broadcast service Magnify.net has partnered with ClipSyndicate to give users the ability to search and embed content from a variety of mainstream media sites. Magnify.net users will have access to content from providers including ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates, Bloomberg, AP and Fox News. The additional content allows for the creation of new [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-20160765562615085972007-12-15T13:22:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:55:29.265-08:00Meebo Brings Chat to Facebook Apps; Hits 20 Million Monthly UsersBringing more immediacy to Facebook apps from BuddyMedia, (fluff)Friends, RockYou, Slide, The Broth and the WaterCooler, Web-based instant messaging startup Meebo is now letting Facebook developers add chat to their apps through a new partner program. Basically, these are versions of Meebo Rooms inside Facebook that can be customized and skinned any way the [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-59015671196499891032007-12-15T13:22:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:55:12.336-08:00P2P Loans GainingTraction. Lending Club Goes NationwideDespite sub-prime loan worries rocking the economy, peer-to-peer loans are gaining some traction. You’d think loans between individuals would be much riskier than loans from a bank, but it turns out that individuals can be more risk averse than banks when it comes to lending out money. If you look at Prosper, the [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-33726753198470767622007-12-15T13:21:00.003-08:002007-12-15T12:54:56.797-08:00Google Zeitgeist's 2007 Verdict: "Mozart" Is So 2006.In our ongoing series of top search terms for 2007 (check out Yahoo’s list here), Google released its [via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-3315911893967210762007-12-15T13:21:00.002-08:002007-12-15T12:54:40.210-08:00Kwiry Launches. Will Anyone Use It?A new service called Kwiry launched today that lets you text yourself things so you don’t forget them, and then e-mails you a link to search results for the same terms. Huh? That was our reaction too. Nick Gonzalez covered the site earlier today on MobileCrunch: The product is pretty straight forward. It [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-62182998874723126632007-12-15T13:21:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:54:23.126-08:00Simkl Keeps Record of Your IM Conversations Online A new service called Simkl History Saver, still in private beta, will keep a running log of all your instant messaging conversations and allow you to access that log via the service’s website wherever you go. Simkl currently only works with desktop IM clients (albeit many of them, such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ - [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-25894612141113792252007-12-15T13:21:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:54:12.117-08:00While You Are Reading About The Steroids Report, Here Are Some Related Products You Might EnjoyThe problem with automated advertising on news sites has always been the placing of inappropriate ads next to serious news issues. Take today’s report on steroid use in baseball. For at least a brief period, the story on CNN.com was matched with these “Ads by Google” shown at right trying to sell you [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-71265926617751889892007-12-15T13:20:00.003-08:002007-12-15T12:53:53.588-08:00Google Answers Stirs Zombie-Like as Google Q&AOne of the few triumphs Yahoo has had over Google in the past few years is Yahoo Answers, which is one of Yahoo’s fastest-growing properties. Meanwhile, the more academic (and lumbering) Google Answers was shut down in 2006 when Google figured out that nobody wants to pay “researchers” to do Google searches for them. [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-1573340923785871952007-12-15T13:20:00.002-08:002007-12-15T12:53:36.651-08:00Flickr Adds Stats To Photo Pro AccountsFlickr has provided an attractive place to show off your photos and get constructive feedback from the community. However, their advanced comment and tagging system leaves out the vast number of people that simply peruse the site. But today Flickr unlocked those stats for Pro users. Earlier this year Flickr whetted our appetite for stats [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-74585054277306256312007-12-15T13:20:00.001-08:002007-12-15T12:53:21.410-08:00Google Preparing To Launch Game Changing Wikipedia Meets Squidoo ProjectWhen it comes to Google, nothing should surprise us any more. Last month it was Digg style social voting on search results, this month its a new project called “Knol” (which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge), a user generated knowledge project that combines parts of Wikipedia and Squidoo (and to a lesser extent [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425538012519105547.post-74443224302470805142007-12-15T13:20:00.000-08:002007-12-15T12:53:04.436-08:00Google Knol: A Step Too Far?News broke late yesterday that Google was preparing to launch a new site call Knol that will combine parts of Wikipedia and Squidoo to create a new user generated authoritative online knowledgebase of everything. All the details aren’t fully clear yet. What we do know is that Google will offer a revenue share from each [...][via] TechCrunchWeb Centrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149711761195740012noreply@blogger.com0