| Wired Web News Feed 12/03/10 |
Extract.. To settle a privacy lawsuit, Netflix is canceling a second round of its innovative contest to improve its movie recommendations. The lawsuit claims the anonymized user data given to outside researchers put users at risk of being identified.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/03/10 |
Extract.. App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools.
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/03/10 |
Extract.. Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/02/10 |
Extract.. Webmonkey is giving away two free passes to Google's upcoming I/O developer event. Read the full details and enter to win on our blog.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/02/10 |
Extract.. Google has taken the most popular features in Gmail Labs and made them part of Gmail proper. Other experimental features weren't so lucky.
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/02/10 |
Extract.. Plan all the details for your next trip — every rental car pick-up, every dinner reservation and every sightseeing stop — using free resources on the web. Then, tie them all together for easy e-mailing.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/02/10 |
Extract.. Google bought a boutique search engine startup Thursday that helps users get answers to questions by asking the right person in their social network to answer. Aardvark is the coolest search engine you've never used.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/02/10 |
Extract.. No matter how it ends up impacting Facebook, Buzz will go down in history as a transformative step in Google?s timeline. It brings a whole new utility to what is already our most critical social tool ? the e-mail inbox.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/02/10 |
Extract.. Google is set to turn Gmail into a communications dashboard with rolling status updates. It's a bid to keep up with Facebook and make Gmail the place users turn to when they want to send messages, no matter what the medium.
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/01/10 |
Extract.. The web video behemoth has begun experimental support for HTML5 video playback, letting users watch movies in the browser without Flash. Too bad it doesn?t work in Firefox.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/01/10 |
Extract.. It's easier than ever to share your photos online, but that doesn't mean you should put every last holiday snap up on Facebook or Flickr. Here are some tips for choosing which photos to share and which ones to ditch.
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/01/10 |
Extract.. Google lets users store files of any type on its servers now, adding another way for users to migrate their lives online. The search giant's competition with Microsoft and Apple takes on another front.
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/01/10 |
Extract.. Google's suggestion box has no idea what Islam is, but has colorful suggestions for other faiths. Some see cowardly censorship, but Google says it's just a bug.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/01/10 |
Extract.. Facebook's new privacy settings have a side benefit for marketers who want to know a lot more about you. It's easy for them to comb your profile for anyone who knows your e-mail address, no matter what your privacy settings are.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/12/09 |
Extract.. Your address is helpful to the postman. But if you know your latitude and longitude, you'll enjoy more-accurate maps and get more precise directions from your GPS.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/12/09 |
Extract.. Every netizen egrows up and out of MySpace. If you're just hitting that point, here's how to clean up your profile, stop notification messages from clogging your e-mail inbox and maybe even delete your account.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/12/09 |
Extract.. Google Wave is a powerful agent for collaboration and communication, but the free web app was built with so many forward-thinking ideas in mind, it can be confusing to use. Make sense of it all by following these starter's tips.
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/12/09 |
Extract.. Multiple sources say that Apple is in talks with Disney and CBS to offer TV subscriptions over the internet (presumably through iTunes). Still, even with this strategy it won't be easy for Apple to crack the digital video market.
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/12/09 |
Extract.. Mozilla thinks its Firefox mobile browser will help end the era of the app store.
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/12/09 |
Extract.. Thanks to widespread adoption by major players like Yahoo and Google, over 1 billion users now have access to OpenID. Too bad only a fraction of them know what it is and how to take advantage of it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/12/09 |
Extract.. Google has debuted a new URL-shortening service for FeedBurner and Toolbar, joining Bit.ly, Tr.im and other services that track click-through data on the short URLs being passed around on social networks.
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/12/09 |
Extract.. Now you can pass some text to Google's Translate tool and get an MP3 audio file of your phrase being spoken back at you. This new feature opens up a host of new possibilities for browser-based translation apps.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/12/09 |
Extract.. Facebook wants users to share more with the world and is pushing them that way with new privacy settings. Founder Mark Zuckerberg seems to be leading the charge with a totally open profile and widely shared candid photos.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/12/09 |
Extract.. There?s a lot of news to read online. How do you keep track of it day in and out? Here are some tips to getting the most out of your news using readers and keeping your feeds smartly prioritized.
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/12/09 |
Extract.. The popular web productivity suite now allows users to export all their documents as a single, downloadable Zip file.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/12/09 |
Extract.. The test-prep industry makes billions getting students to come to local test centers. Now a former industry exec thinks he can do it better and cheaper online.
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/12/09 |
Extract.. Microsoft showed off a slick new map application and some enhancements to Bing Wednesday. It's trying to win users away from Google's online services, and the search wars are definitely on.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/12/09 |
Extract.. It's starting to get a little Orwellian on the internet these days. Want to stay anonymous while you surf the web? Better use some military grade software, like Tor, to keep your surfing habits hidden.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/11/09 |
Extract.. You can't get Google to stop crawling the internet, but you do have some control what content it can see. Here's a guide to making sure Google searches for your name show only your classy side.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/11/09 |
Extract.. There's a possible new default search results page in the works at Google, but you?ll need a simple browser hack to see it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/11/09 |
Extract.. Woot.com, the net's often imitated deal-a-day site, launches a new site to scour the web for dozens of deals a day. Your wallet might be in jeopardy.
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/11/09 |
Extract.. Math wizard Arthur Benjamin shares three secrets to how to multiply big numbers — without a calculator and faster than even if you had one.
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/11/09 |
Extract.. If you're stuck making graphs with clunky desktop software — or with pen and paper — you?ll be interested to know there are some simple web tools for creating them on the fly. Specifically, Google offers some easy ways to generate graphs |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/11/09 |
Extract.. Microsoft's Bing will start featuring the übergeek search engine Wolfram|Alpha in its search results. The intent? To out-geek Google and impress searchers.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/11/09 |
Extract.. Google releases a tool for viewing and controlling all of your privacy settings on its various products -- search, productivity and social -- from one single location.
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/11/09 |
Extract.. Groupon seems to have figured out a magic formula for getting people to buy coupons for services in their cities. But will the discount service survive the recession?
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/10/09 |
Extract.. One of the most popular developers' groups on the free Google Groups mailing-list service is seeking a new home. The owners are fed up with Google's lack of attention to the service, which has led to poor usability and an abundance of spam.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/10/09 |
Extract.. Google's new experimental Social Search tool rolls content from your online friends into your web-search results. It highlights reviews, opinions and information from the people you trust the most.
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/10/09 |
Extract.. Flickr has released a new feature that lets people tag each other?s faces in photos. Much like the same feature in Facebook, it makes discovering photos of you and other people easier, but Flickr provides better privacy controls.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/09/09 |
Extract.. Flickr now allows photographers to share their photos using tags from OpenStreetMaps and FourSquare. Both location-based services allow you to identify buildings, parks and other locations by their actual place names, making Flickr photos more place- |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/09/09 |
Extract.. Gmail fails its users Thursday morning, the second time this month the popular and groundbreaking service has choked. Is this really the e-mail of the future?
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/09/09 |
Extract.. A local search startup helps web surfers find something to do nearby. Goby culls results from hundreds of public activities and events databases to deliver time-based results for any neighborhood in the U.S. Webmonkey takes it for a spin and chats wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/09/09 |
Extract.. Webmonkey's snags an exclusive interview with the fake voice of Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Twitter. The identity of the Twitter prankster will be revealed at LinuxCon on Sept. 21.
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/09/09 |
Extract.. The web software giant launches a new initiative to help its customers get their data into (and out of) Google's many free services as quickly and painlessly as possible. The move a huge win for the freedom of personal information on the social web.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/09/09 |
Extract.. A group of famous web standards and web design gurus have formed the "HTML5 Superfriends," a group advocating specific changes in the draft specification for the next revision to the underlying language of the web.
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/09/09 |
Extract.. A Google engineer tells the world why tired routers kept them from their Gmail accounts on Tuesday. The transparency about the outage is commendable for a company that wants the world to trust its services.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/09/09 |
Extract.. Gmail, Google's popular online e-mail service, went offline Tuesday afternoon, stranding millions who rely on the cloud computing service for business and pleasure.
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| Wired Web News Feed 31/08/09 |
Extract.. Skype is doubling the fees it charges to connect international phone calls, even thought the world is still stuck in a recession. Is Skype trying to make investors happy before its upcoming IPO?
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/08/09 |
Extract.. Yahoo announces new features in its search and mail products, despite a pending deal that will turn over Yahoo's search technology to Microsoft.
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/08/09 |
Extract.. An update to Google's web-based office app suite lets people share documents with large numbers of contributors via Google Groups. This large scale, near-real-time sharing feature arrives just weeks before the debut of Google Wave.
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/08/09 |
Extract.. The crowdsourced OpenStreetMaps project, a "Wikipedia for maps," in some remote places, it's more accurate than Google. The maps are editable by anyone and are easy to embed in your website.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/08/09 |
Extract.. Google releases a test version of its search engine for developers. Enhancements focus on speed and accuracy, both of which are already visibly improved.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/08/09 |
Extract.. The URL shortening service Tr.im is shutting down, taking all of its shortened links with it and angering fans of Twitter and Facebook who rely on such services to pass links to their friends.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/08/09 |
Extract.. The front page of the bookmark-sharing site Delicious has been redesigned to list popular links on Twitter, a sign the older site is eager to stay relevant among a bevvy of real-time link-sharing services.
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/07/09 |
Extract.. Microsoft unveils more details about Office Web Apps, its suite of browser-based editing tools designed to compliment its Office suite. The company's web apps are dumbed down, however, and may not impress those used to full end-to-end solutions like |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/07/09 |
Extract.. Google?s announcement of the Chrome OS yesterday was, although far from cryptic, lacking in information. Simple, fast, Linux-based and netbook-capable was about all we go from the blog post. Google has tossed another tidbit our way in the form of a l |
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/07/09 |
Extract.. The web?s governing body decides to stop working on XHTML 2, effectively signaling its death. The specification, once hailed as the markup language that would determine the future of the web, has been largely surpassed by HTML 5.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/06/09 |
Extract.. Travel-search company Kayak.com says Microsoft's new search engine Bing looks suspiciously familiar. The net largely agrees with the little guy, who sends a letter to the Goliath in Redmond, saying the software giant is confusing its customers.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/06/09 |
Extract.. The new, oddly named search engine from Microsoft has launched. It's functional and fast, but it still has a long way to go if it's going to seriously challenge Google.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/05/09 |
Extract.. Due to licensing restrictions, web designers are currently limited to using only six typefaces in their website designs. A startup plans to resolve the issues, which would free up designers to use whatever fonts they like.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/05/09 |
Extract.. Wired.com takes Microsoft's new search engine for a test ride, wondering why users have to search to find its really cool features.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/05/09 |
Extract.. Microsoft's new search engine is coming and the perpetual third place finisher shares a bit of the data driving its new product. The question is this: Will the answers Microsoft delivers be enough to unseat Google in people's minds?
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/05/09 |
Extract.. Google services stopped working for users around the world Thursday morning, with outages reported from Europe to the American Midwest. Some users have no problems reaching Gmail or Google's search page, while others just can't get to the services th |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/05/09 |
Extract.. Facebook has banned Newsfeed RSS, an application that delivers all of your friends' Facebook activities as an RSS feed. Facebook believes keeping track of your friends using RSS is a violation of their privacy, which means its newly "opened" platform |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/04/09 |
Extract.. The social networking giant announces a new set of developer's tools that will enable third-party applications to directly interact with users' Facebook streams. Significantly, the new Facebook Open Stream API also supports the nascent Activity Strea |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/04/09 |
Extract.. Discord is brewing over Digg's new Diggbar. It serves a third-party site's content within a frame, a practice long-despised by web purists. A few sites have gone as far as blocking it from showing up.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/04/09 |
Extract.. Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin outlines free software's biggest advantages in the changing world of sour economies, powerful smartphones and cloud-based computing.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/03/09 |
Extract.. Goverment agencies are now clear to start using Web 2.0 tools, thanks to recent agreements that clear up legal issues. That means the stodgy old .gov sites will soon be sharing videos and Tweeting their every move, just like all the rest of us.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/03/09 |
Extract.. The new web service MixTape.me makes it easy to build music playlists and share them with your friends. But unlike other playlist sharing apps that have been shut down by the RIAA, MixTape.me keeps it clean and legal by pulling MP3s from legit source |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/03/09 |
Extract.. Yahoo's free e-mail service was returning errors for many users Monday. The company says it's working to resolve the issue, but angry users are venting their frustrations on social websites, underscoring the painful reality that descends when web-bas |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/03/09 |
Extract.. Ever say something in an e-mail that got you into serious hot water? Google now gives users a five second window to "undo" any Gmail message before it's sent out over the tubes.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/03/09 |
Extract.. The new geo-location web service Shizzow encourages users to broadcast their whereabouts, along with a quick note about what they're doing, to their friends. Context for the "where" data of location-aware services adds social value to a trend some fi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/02/09 |
Extract.. Google recently demonstrated an offline version of its Gmail web app for mobile phones. Curiously, the company used the experimental HTML 5 markup language — and not its own Google Gears plug-in — to power the demo.
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/02/09 |
Extract.. Twitter hits the mainstream, where people are using it for all sorts of practical purposes. Where's the fun in that? We interview six Shorty Award winners and nominees to find out.
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/02/09 |
Extract.. The latest Gmail Labs feature lets you combine several different views of your e-mail inbox on one web page. But the default settings are bare-bones, so here are some tips on how to get more out of Gmail's new split-screen interface.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/02/09 |
Extract.. Google has given users of its popular Calendar web app the ability to read their events without being connected to the internet. The company's efforts, however, only extend halfway — in contrast to Google's other offline offerings, users can't |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/02/09 |
Extract.. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Many people have sent an e-mail while angry, exhausted, inebriated or just by mistake that they later regretted. Now, Google has a way to help protect you (and others) from such a faux pas.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/01/09 |
Extract.. The bookmark sharing site suffered a catastrophic loss of user data Friday it says will take "days, not hours" to resolve. The failure has users questioning the reliability of other web-based storage services.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/01/09 |
Extract.. The internet giant teams up with academic researchers working on tools for end users to test their broadband connections for traffic-shaping. Google launched three such tools Wednesday, including one that specifically sniffs for BitTorrent throttling |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/01/09 |
Extract.. Search giant Google is ceasing development on Notebook, its free web app for clipping and saving text, images and other bits of info found of the web. Thankfully, several competing web apps like Zoho, Evernote and Diigo make it easy for Notebook user |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/01/09 |
Extract.. Wired.com has discovered a user-interface flaw in Google Docs that opens up shared documents to be edited by anybody on the internet. We found out about it by accidentally doing it to ourselves.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/12/08 |
Extract.. Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/12/08 |
Extract.. LimeWire juices up its peer-to-peer client with a new version that lets you share music, video and images. The private sharing feature makes it remarkably simple to specify exactly what you want to share — and, perhaps more importantly, with wh |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/12/08 |
Extract.. Yahoo's photo-sharing service debuts a new user interface for its mobile site, adding video playback capability for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Support for watching videos on other handsets will be rolled out in the near future.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/11/08 |
Extract.. The grand-daddy of video sharing sites has finally moved to a default widescreen player with an HD-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio, a feature most other video sharing sites have had for many moons. The move to widescreen playback comes just after YouTube' |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/11/08 |
Extract.. If Google's algorithms weren't giving you what you wanted, you now have the
power to customize search results pages, as well as post, view and rank
comments. The changes you make to results are seen only by you, but comments
are public.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/11/08 |
Extract.. Check out eight examples of how you can use CSS and little else to make beautiful data
visualizations: bar charts, scatter plots and even standards-based sparklines.
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/11/08 |
Extract.. Location-based social network Shizzow has launched in the tech-friendly Bay Area, following months of private beta testing in Portland. Like the location granddaddy Dodgeball, Shizzow focuses on connecting people in real life. Now you can easily let |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/11/08 |
Extract.. Who makes sure the hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute is appropriate? Ordinary users are counted on to do the work of flagging videos. How will this be done in the future, and will flagging be an example of the wrong way we did things in |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/11/08 |
Extract.. Video sharing service YouTube has rolled out a new search feature that
returns video results based on location. The site gets your current location
using optional controls inside your browser, and it gives you a list videos
with nearby geotags.
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/11/08 |
Extract.. Users of Microsoft's free webmail service are reacting negatively to the company's user-interface changes. Not surprising, seeing as how Hotmail users are clearly not fans of change to begin with.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/11/08 |
Extract.. You can produce an elegant, iPhone-native version of any website with an RSS feed using a new web app called Intersquash. You'll get a unique address and a bit of code you can put on your site to send iPhone visitors directly to the version made just |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/11/08 |
Extract.. The tipping point for the OpenID login standard is fast approaching, but it's still too confusing for mass acceptance. The web's biggest players -- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook -- are racing to solve OpenID's usability problem.
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/11/08 |
Extract.. Google's various tools for web developers make it simple to build a local
search app that lets your visitors seek out nearby restaurants and
businesses. We show you a few different ways to get the goods from Google,
starting with pre-fab options for |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/11/08 |
Extract.. Everyone's an expert on something. That's the idea behind wikis, where any
web user can contribute by adding their knowledge to a topic. No site is a
better exemplar of the power of groupthink than Wikipedia, the largest and
most well-known wiki on t |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/11/08 |
Extract.. The Twitter Vote Report, a website for tracking voters' experiences at the polls, is in full swing for election day in the United States. Twitter users can add their local stats to a dynamic map using a special set of shorthand commands and tags.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/10/08 |
Extract.. You don't need a GPS device to track your position any more. The latest testing build of Firefox has the ability to track a user's location by their WiFi access point. Haven't downloaded it? Browser plug-ins like Gears and Geode add this functionalit |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/10/08 |
Extract.. Cruz enters the already crowded browser scene with some
promising features. Among them is built-in Greasemonkey scripting, an
open plug-in architecture platform, built-in TinyURL support and the
ability to break up your window however you like |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/10/08 |
Extract.. When financial times get rough, the rough start updating their
business cards. Focus on the basics, like your contact information,
before diving into fancy designs and card stock. If you want to stand
out, there's more to it than just that. Get |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/10/08 |
Extract.. There have been plenty of web applications created to edit your art online, but not much in the way of creating it. Sumo Paint proves it's possible with its online Illustrator-like application. The program is one more piece of evidence your tradition |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/10/08 |
Extract.. Your code is standards-compliant and it looks just right in Firefox. But Internet Explorer, not so much. While outdated browsers are still a fact of life, it's up to you to make your pages backwards-compatible. Why make visitors with up-to-date brows |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/10/08 |
Extract.. Social networking site MySpace is getting ready to roll out support for
OpenID, as hinted by some OpenID-specific links popping up in the code of
members' profile pages. If MySpace begins offering OpenID to its 120 million
users, it would be a huge b |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/10/08 |
Extract.. Google's free e-mail service now gives users the ability to reply to messages using one of several customized boilerplates. Stop the repetitive drudgery of retyping common replies ? just choose one of your saved canned responses from a drop-down list |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/10/08 |
Extract.. Some users are continuing to have problems with Google's free e-mail service Monday. It marks the latest bump in the road for Google's web services as the company tries to put a particularly bad week behind it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/10/08 |
Extract.. Forget asking search engines to take down the site for you. There's an easier way. Robots.txt is a file you can store on the root level of your web server to protect your personal files from showing up on search results. It allows you control over wh |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/10/08 |
Extract.. Flock, the web browser custom-built for surfing social networking sites, receives an update. The new version is built on Firefox 3 code, has more controls for following MySpace friends and has a new feature for automatically posting videos and photos |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/10/08 |
Extract.. Are your pages invisible? They may not be to you, but they could be to search engines if you haven't published a proper sitemap. A sitemap is a simple document that tells search engines where to find your content, which of your pages are more importa |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/10/08 |
Extract.. Learn how to monkey around with your favorite websites by writing your first Greasemonkey script. These simple scripts for Firefox can be used to alter the behavior or display of just about any site on the web, like adding extra buttons to Yahoo mail |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/10/08 |
Extract.. Click once in the wrong site and hackers will be able to both see and hear you through your own webcam and mic. The vulnerability is caused by clickjacking, a method of highjacking your mouse clicks. Creepy? We'll show you how to avoid it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/10/08 |
Extract.. Several superstars of the tech world have started up their own blogs, allowing us to bask in their deep thoughts and cower from the brilliance of their devastating insight. If only some of them would post more often.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/10/08 |
Extract.. A new button in YouTube's comment interface plays back the user's comment as an audio file -- an idea originally proposed in the xkcd web comic. The hope is that users will scrutinize their own words before posting, but whether that will curb the fam |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/10/08 |
Extract.. A new experimental feature for Google's free e-mail service forces the user to stop and answer simple math questions before sending after-hours messages on Friday and Saturday nights. Curbing your drinking, however, is still up to you.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/10/08 |
Extract.. Using APIs in your web application calls for handling streams of raw data. If your program is going to interface with one, you probably want to dirty your hands with XML data first. If you're coding with the PHP programming language, there's a simpli |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/10/08 |
Extract.. Using APIs in your web application calls for handling streams of raw data. If your program is going to interface with one, you probably want to dirty your hands with XML data first. If you're coding with the PHP programming language, there's a simpli |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/10/08 |
Extract.. Protect yourself from password sniffers, phishers and other data-snooping thieves with these tips and tricks for accessing your web-based e-mail account securely. Got extra knowledge to pass on? Add your own advice and help our readers stay informed. |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/09/08 |
Extract.. A recently uncovered exploit in mainstream websites such as YouTube, the New
York Times and ING Direct allows attackers to gain control of users'
accounts. In the case of ING's website, an attacker could transfer funds out
of a user's bank account wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/09/08 |
Extract.. The company known to set standards is instead adopting them. Microsoft joins the list of big companies that include Google, Yahoo and Nokia in adopting the jQuery JavaScript framework in its development environment. In a surprise tack, Microsoft move |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/09/08 |
Extract.. The latest buzzworthy web service to emerge from Google's labs is Moderator, a simple question-and-answer tool. Meant for use at live events, users can vote for the questions they want answered first. The service is built on Google's App Engine, and |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/09/08 |
Extract.. MooTools is the web framework that lets you write JavaScript your way, but organizes it and makes it more extensible so you can write it once and use it again and again. Start with learning how to target objects on the page with part one of Adam Duva |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/09/08 |
Extract.. Facebook is the belle at the social network ball right now, but we're scratching our heads searching for meaning. Why are people flocking to Facebook? Is it a another fad or another example of how social networking sites carries the pulse of internet |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/09/08 |
Extract.. Amazon has announced that it will soon be launching a content delivery network service designed to help even small websites vastly improve their file download speeds. Like its other services, S3 storage, EC2 hosting and more, Amazon?s new offering wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/09/08 |
Extract.. Tim Berners-Lee, one of the web's founders, has been arguing for a rating system to combat misinformation on the web. But trying to define "truth" is a fool's game, and any such system is doomed to failure. Much like the web, our minds are imperfect |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/09/08 |
Extract.. What good is a webmonkey's resume these days without some mobile experience
to spice things up? We'll show you how to create an SMS notification app
using a text service, Google's geocoder API and a bit of server-side
programming. For our example, we |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/09/08 |
Extract.. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, announces a new foundation focused on extending the capabilities of the web and bringing the internet to the far corners of the earth. He outlines three specific goals: to advance 'One Web' that is fre |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/09/08 |
Extract.. It's one of the simplest blogging systems around -- just post an image, a
video or a snippet of text and get on with your busy life. We'll show the
basics of setting up your own Tumblr site, then give you some tips for
dressing up your "tumblelog" by |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/09/08 |
Extract.. Yahoo's photo sharing website rolls out some changes to its default user
interface. The changes to Flickr, which lets logged-in users see
more photos on their homepage and gives greater visibility to the
activities of their friends, are intended to i |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/09/08 |
Extract.. Google provides a set of simple APIs called GData which let you write data to most of their web services quickly and easily. We'll show you how it's done in this tutorial by creating an automated backup system for your office docs using the Documents |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/09/08 |
Extract.. Thanks to a bit of hand-holding from Google's engineers, users of Internet
Explorer 6 can access some of Gmail's more advanced features. But rather
than attempting to keep its ancient browser alive (some 25 percent of web surfers
are still using the |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/09/08 |
Extract.. Coding animated selection tools and text effects can be a nice
but time consuming task. Why reinvent the wheel? JQuery is a library
of code which sits on top of JavaScript to quickly and easily insert
useful functions into your web site. Blow y |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/09/08 |
Extract.. Picasa upgrades its desktop and online components of photo-aggregation and editing tools. Most notably, Picasa Web Albums now has the ability to identify and filter photos by facial
recognition. It's a little creepy, but it gives Google's photo sof |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/09/08 |
Extract.. :
From DNA to 80 digits (and counting) of pi, Wired.com readers take their geek tattoos pretty seriously.
We asked you to flash your decorated flesh, and you obliged with pictures of some pretty wild skin art. Now it's time for the rest of the wo |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/09/08 |
Extract.. What better way to celebrate the long weekend than by enjoying a nice bottle of chenin blanc? Except that you forgot to pack a corkscrew on your jaunt to the Hamptons. Don't fret -- we'll show you how to open a bottle of wine with nothing more than a |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/09/08 |
Extract..
These athletes are turning the stereotype of the inarticulate jock on its empty head. But they have more on their minds than endorsements and bad calls. Just try to match the pros with their prose.
"Life comes at us in stages. Sometimes, thos |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/08/08 |
Extract.. Ever want to run Google Docs or Zoho from your desktop? Unfortunately for travelers, web apps by nature are shackled to its internet connections. Now, you can cut the ethernet cable and free web apps from the web using Fluid and Google Gears.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/08/08 |
Extract.. Your favorite music sites let you listen to songs all day for free, but only as a stream -- if you want to load one of those songs onto your iPod and take it with you, you'll have to go buy it. But your browser stores streamed MP3s temporarily on you |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/08/08 |
Extract.. The founders of social networking service FriendFeed want to improve RSS,
the current standard for publishing website content to subscribers. Their
proposal, called the Simple Update Protocol (SUP), would provide more timely
updates and allow readers |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/08/08 |
Extract.. Mozilla released a new, experimental add-on for Firefox Tuesday which adds a human-language text interface to the web browser. Now users can manipulate web services by typing one line of text, setting a whole new paradigm for how we interact with app |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/08/08 |
Extract.. The social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia.com is releasing its code under an open source software license, enabling site builders to incorporate bookmark-sharing into their own web projects. With the release, planned for September, Ma.gnolia hopes to bui |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/08/08 |
Extract.. The CSS 3 specification is not yet complete, but today's browsers aren't waiting by the sidelines to embed its rich features. Safari, Opera and Firefox are on board, so why aren't you? Start using the cool new CSS 3 features, like rounded corners, to |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/08/08 |
Extract.. A security vulnerability in Google's web-based e-mail service can be easily
side-stepped by adjusting your account settings. And you should do it now,
because in a matter of weeks, Gmail is about to get a lot less secure.
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