August 2011
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SSL Certificates: What's Left to Trust? →
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Google’s New HTML5 Chrome Apps For Gmail, Calendar... →
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Salesforce.com Taps HTML5 For Tablets, Opens Up... →
Early 2012 releases will bring a tablet-optimized mobile app, customer-facing collaboration options, and SharePoint integration for Chatter.
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The Cloud’s Potentially Huge Liability →
… As the average household’s bandwidth use increases and begins to run up against established data caps, the impending sticker shock coming from overage charges will lead to bandwidth anxiety.
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Tumblr Tops 13 MM U.S. Uniques in July →
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Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper... →
… The man behind the camera is American photographer Charles O’Rear. Don’t let his name fool you into thinking that the photo was in fact taken in Ireland. Bliss, as it turns out, is in California. In Sonoma County to be exact.
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“… Switch Facebook into study mode
Connect with your friends to work on...”
– Hoot.Me: Switch Facebook into study mode
Cliqset Founder Takes On LinkedIn With... →
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Flickr Boosts Location Privacy With Geofences →
… With the new feature, Flickr users can draw a circle on a map to designate a geofence and then choose a geographic privacy setting for that area.
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“… Mobile app development framework PhoneGap announced today that it is...”
– PhoneGap Releases Plugin to Easily Connect Apps to Facebook
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OpenDNS and Google team to speed up the web →
… So now a user in Austin, Texas who types in the URL for a YouTube video will share part of his IP address as part of the DNS request. That way, the domain name system server can route the request to a Google data center in Dallas, as opposed to one in Ireland.
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“… Twittering is not allowed on court during a match.”
– The US Open Explains the Dangers Posed by Twitter
… Although I’d like to see a player try and do both live on TV ;)
With ‘Save To Pulse’ Bookmarklet And Chrome... →
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Google Deadpools All Slide Products Except One →
… and the just-launched-last-week Photovine. They’re all dead.
Jumio Comes To WordPress, Turns Blog Readers’... →
… The new Jumio Netswipe add-on allows website visitors to pay for products or make donations quickly and easily, just by holding up their credit card to their computer’s webcam.
Marching to their Own Beat: Inside Company Culture... →
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Paid version of Google Translate API now open for... →
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Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple →
… Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO.
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“… Facebook is announcing … it’s abandoning its old forums, which it...”
– Facebook Turns To Stack Overflow To Power Developer Forums | TechCrunch
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“… Facebook spokesperson Meredith Chin tells RWW that visibility of other...”
– Facebook: New Privacy Provisions Won’t Add Protections for Apps
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“… Following the lead of Warner Bros, Paramount, and Universal, Miramax has...”
– Miramax Launches Facebook App For Streaming Movies | TechCrunch
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Missouri teacher sues state over ‘Facebook law,’... →
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“… Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of...”
– Twitter Bootstrap
It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones And The... →
Stephen Colbert's Head Launched Into Space by 3D... →
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“… Foursquare, the much-discussed location-based social network, announced...”
– Foursquare Goes Beyond Place; Adds Movies, Music & Sports
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Easily Google’s Most Ambitious Photo-Sharing App... →
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“… Foursquare has added photos inline with checkins in an update to its...”
– Foursquare Updates iPhone App With Inline Photos
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How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a... →
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“… Groupchat.tv is a new Facebook application that brings a Google...”
– Groupchat.tv Brings a Google Hangouts-Like Experience to Facebook | TechCrunch
BookLamp Launches a Pandora For Books →
… Much like Pandora assigns specific qualities to music, BookLamp measures the story components of a book (characteristics like history, domestic environments, physical injury) and how it’s written (density, pacing, dialog, description, motion).
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A Photo Upload API | Twitter Developers →
… Following last week’s wider release of photos to Twitter.com users, we’re ready to share our media upload API, which will allow developers to conveniently attach an image to a Tweet.
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“… Beginning August 15th, when a user tweets or sends a direct message...”
– Next steps with the t.co link wrapper | Twitter Developers
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“… ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft Quietly Closes the Book on Reader”
– http://t.co/OElxXv8
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“… Google announced Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility...”
– Google Buys Motorola
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Tweak Your Favorite Web Site's CSS with Stylebot →
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2005 Zuckerberg Didn’t Want To Take Over The World... →
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How To Build A Better Web Application For Your... →
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“… Box has completely re-developed its mobile site, and is launching HTML5...”
– Box.net Bets On HTML5 For New Mobile Site; Launches PlayBook And Android Tablet Apps | TechCrunch
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Facebook Rolls Out Changes to Chat, Other... →
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Twitpic Founder Launches Twitter Clone →
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“… NoSQL database company Couchbase, created earlier this year through the...”
– NoSQL, Yes Funding! Couchbase Raises $14 Million
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“… Amazon announced this morning that it is releasing a Web-based version...”
– Amazon Releases Web-Based HTML5 Kindle Cloud Reader, Skirts Apple’s App Store
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Twitter Rolls Out Photo Sharing to All Users →
… Users will now find a camera icon on the bottom of the “What’s Happening?” box on Twitter.com. Clicking it will let users select a picture to upload, which they can then preview before sending it to the world.
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With Today’s Rally, Apple Pushes Past Exxon To... →
Airbnb Rolls Out 24/7 Phone Support, Additional... →
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Twitter Buys Bagcheck for Engineering Talent →
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Facebook Groups News Feed Updates by Subject,... →