Call for papers for PHP North West 2010, ‘Messenger Connect’ API launches and How to Update to WordPress 3.0 with SQL Server
Fancy a Virtual PA straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey (or Woody Allen’s Sleeper for that matter)? That day may be closer than you think with a Technology Innovator’s Mobile Move
Want to integrate Messenger into your website? Microsoft has released an API called ‘Messenger Connect’ so now you too can Be Part of 300 [...]
Google tackles VP8 quality, keep track of your kids and paperbacks get hyperlinks
Bing gives Microsoft search credibility. A year after its launch and with innovative features like Bing maps, the search engine’s biggest challenge is ‘overcoming Google’s place as an embedded piece of online culture’.
Google tackles VP8 video quality question. Some say VP8 isn’t as good as H.264, aka AVC, but Google points users to the WebM [...]
Yahoo goes social, MSN gets a facelift and Chinese Supercomputer is No.2 Fastest
Yahoo to turn subscribers’ e-mail contact lists into social networking base – users get a week’s notice before Yahoo launches the new features and there’ll be a single button on the site for opting out entirely
Take a tour of Mars through the eye of a telescope (soon, anyway!) – Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope Ready for [...]
Free tools to build robots, beach babes cause chaos and AppFabric speeds up web applications
Microsoft dangles free tools for aspiring robot developers – giving away newly updated Robotics Developer Studio – bundled with some non-robot-specific tools – for free
Google Goes Open Source With WebM, VP8 Codec used to run video in Web browsers and devices under a royalty free license
Microsoft releases AppFabric caching software, BizTalk Server beta – release [...]
Spotify for movies, man escapes from knife wielding robot and Google gets told off (again)
Voddler, the Spotify-for-movies, lands on Android – cloud based service is being tested showing movie trailers only first, then you’ll get to see full movies and the ability to share playlists. A must for any film buff!
Researcher offers arm to knife-wielding robot – brave researcher Sami Haddadin escaped unharmed – although the safety feature was [...]
Apple Screws Developers, Boy Sues Mom for Facebook
Boy sues mother for Facebook harassment as she argues ‘parental duty’. Although I want to agree with the mom, changing your kid’s Facebook and email password is a bit much. Maybe talking with your 16-year old over a drink would provide for a more amicable solution? Oh yeah, you also might want to actually have [...]
Silverlight Analytics for RIAs, an Open Platform
One of the biggest issues facing the monetization of rich internet applications is the fact that traditional web analytics don’t work when you build an application that is built on a runtime like Silverlight, Flash, or Java. The application packages are pretty much isolated from the rest of the page so trying to determine click-thru [...]
Microsoft Research, YouTube Outage, Twitter Fails, Courier Craze
In an honest dialog about previous failures, Microsoft discusses the importance of the long tail in search.
Outages Take YouTube, Wikipedia and Twitter Off-Line, web freaks out, but reassured a few hours later.
On the back of yesterday’s Telegraph article, Facebook responds. Facebook Does Not Cause Syphilis. What’s the phrase? Correlation does not [...]
What We Found Out Yesterday
Coffee vs. Tea, the battle rages on as new evidence comes to light about the health benefits of coffee. Gordon Brown announced major open government initiative. Nintendo dives in with new platform. Youtube and Viacom duke it out in the court of public opinion, while Google continues the good fight against communism. Finally, virtual goods are the big ticket items for 2010!
