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Mozilla Announces Best New Firefox 3 Extensions (7)
on ReadWriteWeb (4026) permalinkMozilla just wrapped up its Extend Firefox 3 contest and, after reviewing over 100 entries, its team of judges has announced the winners for Best Add-ons, Best Updated Add-on, and Best Music Add-on. In the Best New Add-on category, the winners were Pencil by Dương Thành An, Tagmarks by Felipe Tassario Gomes, and HandyTag by Rémi Szymkowiak, while the Best Music Add-on category was won by Fire.fm from Jorge Villalobos and Jose Enrique Bolaños. The ...Shared by AJ (719) Björn (4) CannonGod (497) Corvida (277) Mike F (1619) sarahintampa (392) Tim (234)Contribute comment
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Will More Companies Hate On App Store Developers? (1)
on Mashable! (3077) permalinkAt first, I thought only Apple would pick on the App Store developers. After removing BoxOffice, NetShare, and countless others that we probably don’t even know about, I thought for sure that Apple would single-handedly push developers away. But I guess I was wrong. According to Ars Technica, an App Store developer called 1337pwn developed an Xbox Live Friends application that lets Xbox Live users see their online friends, what they’re playing, and browse profile ...Shared by AJ (719)Contribute comment
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OpenSports is a Feed Reader for Sports (3)
on Mashable! (3077) permalinkOpenSports is a new sports news network designed to deliver up-to-date sports news based on user preferences. What makes OpenSports different from many other sports news networks is that it’s designed to operate a bit more like a feed reader geared towards sports news. There are various sports that you can subscribe to, and OpenSports also has social networking features for users to take advantage of participation and engagement capabilities. Making friends, rating content and ...Contribute comment
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Could the LinkedIn iPhone App Replace Salesforce? (2)
on The Social Times (150) permalinkI spent some time poking around at the new LinkedIn iPhone application this morning and I was fairly impressed. The application is simple but useful. It enables you to browse through your contacts, view your contacts’ latest activity, search for contacts and update your status. Apparently status updates have become ubiquitous across all the social networks making tools like Ping.fm a necessity. LinkedIn As the Simple CRM One thing that I find interesting about this ...Shared by Andreas Johannsen (17) Teresa (27)Contribute comment
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Yahoo Search Comes to the iPhone (9)
on ReadWriteWeb (4026) permalinkGoogle has long been offering iPhone-optimized sites for most of its services, as well as a dedicated search application for the iPhone. Yahoo, however, had mostly been lagging behind with respect to dedicated iPhone offerings. Now, Yahoo has unveiled a dedicated iPhone version of its search service, which, among other things, integrates results from SearchMonkey modules and also does a good job at displaying Flickr photos or movie showtimes in the results. One of the ...Shared by AJ (719) Alex (315) Apostolos (91) Corvida (277) mark (18) Nate (57) Rex (391) Ryan (40) sarahintampa (392)Contribute comment
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London Symphony Orchestra conductor performs in war-torn Tskhinvali (1)
on Russiatoday.ru (8) permalinkThe principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev, has led a concert in Tskhinvali. The performance was staged next to the destroyed parliament building in the bombed-out capital of South Ossetia.Shared by postzavtra (59)Contribute comment
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McCain not sure how many houses he owns (1)
on L.A. Land (12) permalinkFile this under "Problems most of us will never have" -- You are running for president. Someone asks you how many houses you own. You can't remember. Is it four? Six? Seven? From Politico.com: "Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. 'I think — I'll have my staff get to you,' McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. 'It's condominiums ...Shared by jonmower (31)Contribute comment
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'Subway to the Sea' Sneak Peak (1)
on LAist (41) permalinkAs of last May, these were the 4 remaining rail options (View Larger Image) | Provided by Metro Here's one of the maps that will be seen at the upcoming Westside Extension meetings that Metro will be holding in September. Metro won't say what routes/alternatives have made the cut, but we do know this: the above map shows all four remaining subway possibilities from last May and all four might remain as possibilities. As for ...Shared by Sonya Smith (35)Contribute comment
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5 Ways You Can Use Twitter To Build Your Online Profile, Network And Get More Clients (2)
on Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers (19) permalinkI opened my Twitter account about 2 years ago and honestly, I used to see it as a real time-waster and I’m sure many of you still see it as the ultimate productivity killer. I know… how can Twitter be of any use to freelancers? It’s just something made to waste some time online, right? Wrong! Sure you can spend hours on Twitter! But I find it’s totally worth it! I started using Twitter more ...Shared by elsterama (201) silverlunace (42)Contribute comment
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IAC Pulls All the Right Strings in Spin-off (3)
on Mashable! (3077) permalinkIAC, the holding company of major online properties like Ask.com, Match.com, and Ticketmaster, announced today that it has completed the much-anticipated spin-off of HSN, Inc., Interval Leisure Group, Inc., Ticketmaster and Tree.com to IAC shareholders and retained the litany of more profitable companies. According to IAC, the move will be best for all parties involved and let the newly-formed companies blaze their own, independent, paths. The very fact that IAC was required to even engage ...Contribute comment
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12seconds API Launches with Blippr and TweetDeck as Partners (2)
on Mashable! (3077) permalinkThe recently launched video status service 12seconds hasn’t been around for more than a few weeks, but already it’s hoping to become a standard in the crowding playing field of video-integrated commentary services. To do so, 12seconds is seeking a seamless integration offering with its own product, in hopes that other third party services will find this useful. The result is the alpha release of the 12seconds API, which lets you use the 12seconds service ...Shared by Eban_C (77) krs (27)Contribute comment
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State of emergency lifted in Ossetia (1)
on Russiatoday.ru (8) permalinkThe state of emergency imposed in South Ossetia since the end of hostilities has been lifted. Life in the republic is gradually returning to normal as thousands of refugees make their way home. Russian emergency teams have almost fully restored public utilities in the region.Shared by postzavtra (59)Contribute comment
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Mailplane 2 Beta is Available (1)
on The Apple Blog (81) permalinkFor those of you who don’t know, Mailplane is an application that combines the best of two worlds: Gmail and your Mac. Mailplane is essentially Mail.app for your Gmail account. It allows all of the functionality of regular Gmail, but adds a lot to make life easier. You can compose, save and send email like in a regular browser, but application buttons allow you to compose, send, browse, reply, forward, and Mailplane even includes all ...Shared by Garrett (28)Contribute comment
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Apple and Ruby: The Ongoing Relationship (2)
on Ruby Inside (118) permalinkWhile it was pretty momentous last year when Mac OS X (Leopard) was released with full support for Ruby and Rails included with the OS, it seems that the Ruby train is still rolling with Apple. A recent InfoQ article highlights some ways that Apple is using Ruby that you might have missed - including: The iPhone Configuration Web Utility - A tool written in Ruby on Rails for allowing enterprise customers to manage iPhones. ...Shared by Keener (24) paco_reyes (20)
- Keener said: Hum, I did not know this. Interesting. The core of OSX has lots of neat "extras."
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Obama Drops a Big Tea Leaf (1)
on The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com (22) permalinkIn an exclusive interview with TIME’s Karen Tumulty and David Von Drehle, Obama talks in the greatest detail yet about what he wants in a running mate — including someone who is “not about ego, self-aggrandizement, getting their name in the press.” Read Tumulty’s analysis of Obama’s veep answer here. Read the full interview here. * * * * * Get The Page delivered to your inbox. Sign up for TIME’s daily political newsletter here.Shared by Nowhere (36)Contribute comment
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回炉再炼-BONES《钢之炼金术师》TV动画始动 (1)
on 大宅萌 (2) permalink经过了内部文件泄露再到骨头社辟谣到Moonphase的评论借着杂志图片透露最后在20卷《钢之炼金术师》的套页上，所有的猜测一切都尘埃落定了。Bones《钢炼》新TV动画开始了。记得当时还谈到了《黑之契约者》不知道这部的续作何时能有进一部的消息。 Technorati 标签: 钢之炼金术师,Bones,骨头社Shared by Heureka (127)Contribute comment
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Grand Theft Auto 4 detailed for PC [News] (1)
on bit-tech.net feed (10) permalinkRockstar Studios has finally detailed what PC gamers can expect to see in the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 4.Shared by happy_soil (95)Contribute comment
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Subscribe to RSS Feeds of your favorite GPSed authors! (1)
on GPSed Blog (4) permalinkRSS (Really Simple Syndication) used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. For GPSed users we prepared a new feature to keep up with our web site in an automated manner. Now you can make a subscription on the new public tracks of all users you like using RSS. Want to know more about that? On the page of each track near the author’s name you can easily find ...Shared by zsafwan (147)Contribute comment
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Has He Kexin’s age been changed to older or younger? (1)
on Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China (16) permalinkEven though Buxi isn’t back, why don’t we return to a fine tradition of this blog? This post from Niubo (牛博), a Chinese forum often filled with discontent with how things are, has something interesting to add about the age of Olympic gymnast He Kexin. Translation below: On the question of the Chinese gymnast He Kexin’s age, one fact is certain, that is, there is an inconsistency between the local athletic bureau and the central ...Shared by Duncan (11)Contribute comment
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Microsoft Launches Photosynth: Your Pictures in 3D (25)
on ReadWriteWeb (4026) permalinkTonight, Microsoft has publicly launched Photosynth, its long awaited Live Labs product that allows you to stitch your photos together to create a detailed 3D environment. While most of the computation is done on your desktop, the images are uploaded to Microsoft's servers and Microsoft is giving all Photosynth users a total of 20GB of storage for their collections. The rendering and browsing is done with the help of Seadragon, another Live Labs product. Windows ...Shared by baardoa (66) bfernald (61) Chris (14) dobata (788) Eduardo (15) Henk-Jan van der Klis (31) Jan (196) Jeff (20) Jeff Poetker (20) Jeppe (6) Joe (163) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (260) psi (26) Rob (346) Rui Ferreira (25) Sandaruwan (29) sarahintampa (392) Sean (2) Selwin (15) Shrike (5) Steve (4) svartling (135) Tallin (13) Tom Steel (27) Wayne (109)
- bfernald said: So very cool, and surprise it's from Microsoft!
- Tom Steel said: It really takes a different approach to shooting pictures to make the most out of Photosynth. If you often stitch together photos, you are probably already used to this, but Photosynth also gives you more freedom, as you can zoom in and out, or walk around an object and still have Photosynth recognize the common areas.
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