| Wired Web News Feed 04/02/12 |
Extract.. What a week! Most of the world was obsessing over the mother of all IPOs ? Facebook. So no surprise, I had to include some good writing on the subject. Of course, I have already started looking beyond the social internet and got some good pointers fo |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/02/12 |
Extract.. I am totally convinced that the world of social media is not consolidating around one ?winner takes all? social platform.
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/02/12 |
Extract.. By now, every statement in Facebook?s Wednesday-afternoon S-1 filing has been pored over to death, published and analyzed, but there?s a simpler way of summing it up: Facebook is all about infrastructure. The ad revenue and user experience it relies |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/02/12 |
Extract.. We can lease cars and all kinds of other products, so why not a smartphone? TMNG Global, a consulting and strategy firm that works with all the major carriers, is introducing the first mobile device leasing program in the U.S., which will allow opera |
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| Wired Web News Feed 31/01/12 |
Extract.. Tim Cook has made his first major appointment since taking the reins at Apple, bringing in the head of British technology retailer Dixons, John Browett. He comes in to fill the gap left by the departure of Ron Johnson, the man who spent a decade buil |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/01/12 |
Extract.. Companies such as Google, PayPal, Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up to create a standard to help boost email security. They are part of a working group to create the DMARC standard, for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conform |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/01/12 |
Extract.. Hilton Head, S.C., is an island full of sandy beaches, manicured golf courses and lush green trees. But one thing the island community doesn?t have is good cellular coverage. The local government has decided to do something about it, and with the hel |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/01/12 |
Extract.. As a young CEO of a growing company, I find that the most valuable insight I?m gaining these days has been from other CEOs. Certainly this realization isn?t revolutionary ? YPO, EO, Mindshare and a host of other organizations are set up just for this |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/01/12 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/01/12 |
Extract.. Streaming music subscription service Rhapsody is expanding internationally by buying Napster?s assets in Germany and the U.K., the company announced early Thursday morning. Financial details of the transaction were not revealed.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/01/12 |
Extract.. The games themselves aren?t where the action happens; the strategy component is: when do you reach out into your social graph? When are you going to spam that list? How frequently are you gonna do that?
? Rob Tercek, moderator of a panel at Seattle?s |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/01/12 |
Extract.. LuxeYard, a members-only e-commerce website that sells discounted high-end furniture and home decor products, is launching Tuesday to users in the United States and Canada. Yes, it?s technically another flash sales site. But what?s interesting about |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/01/12 |
Extract.. Research in Motion, scrambling to keep up in a smartphone market it once led, has announced it has replaced co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with Thorsten Heins, the current chief operating officer. Laziridis, who founded the company in 1984, |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/01/12 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/01/12 |
Extract.. It is a rainy and soggy weekend in San Francisco. The gloomy skies make me want to go in the opposite direction and offer up some lighter fare for the readers while I return to my brooding. Have a great weekend, everyone.
Kodak is dying. Fujifilm is |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/01/12 |
Extract.. If you thought 2011 seemed like a big year for web startup funding, you were absolutely right. According to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), 2011 saw the highest level |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/01/12 |
Extract.. For anyone thinking the big data trend is a flash in the pan, some new evidence to the contrary. A hefty 75 percent of IT pros and developers responding to a new Linux Foundation survey have their eye firmly on this big data phenomenon.
More than thr |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/01/12 |
Extract.. Code 42, a Minneapolis, Minn.-based backup and software recovery company received a whopping $52.5 million round of capital from Accel and Split Rock Partners. This is the first investment from Accel?s $100-million big data fund. The new investment d |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/01/12 |
Extract.. Using text messages or iPhone apps to manage physical devices isn?t all that uncommon ? think Zipcar?s door unlocking app or Verizon?s new apps to remotely manage thermostats and lighting. But in India sometimes it?s the ?missed call? (the fee-less ? |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/01/12 |
Extract.. Phone company Verizon quietly launched its smart home products nationwide about three months ago, which enables customers to lock and unlock doors and windows, watch home video cameras remotely, and manage thermostats and lighting. This is the servic |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/01/12 |
Extract.. When I first got in touch with alternate reality game (ARG) creator Jan Libby to discuss interviewing her about her newest project, she asked if we could speak on Friday as opposed to Thursday, because ?We?re getting hit with a snow storm today, so i |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/01/12 |
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The Internet seems to have put 2011 and the holidays behind it. This was an unusually busy week, and the content that flows to me saw a big jump. Here are seven stories for you to read this weekend. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/01/12 |
Extract.. Kickstarter isn?t slowing down in 2012, but it has a high bar to reach in terms of matching its amazing 2011. Luckily, there are already some amazing new products that prove innovation isn?t in short supply at the crowd-funding site as we head into t |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/01/12 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/01/12 |
Extract.. One of the core things that people do on their screens in the car is GPS navigation and the ability to see which of your friends are nearby is something we think will be really interesting for people.
? Facebook Vice President of Partnerships and Pla |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/01/12 |
Extract.. Xavier Niel, the maverick founder of Iliad, the company behind Free.fr broadband service is about to redefine the mobile landscape, perhaps as early as tomorrow when he launches the much-talked about Free Mobile. In doing so, he will redefine what is |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/01/12 |
Extract.. There?s not a whole lot that?s sustainable, efficient, or eco-friendly about the yearly Consumer Electronics Show ? hey, it?s a massive gathering of tech enthusiasts that have flown into Las Vegas and are spending a week handing out schwag and showin |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/01/12 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/01/12 |
Extract.. Happy 2012. It is great to be back. I hope you are all rested and relaxed after the break and ready for some great reading. Here are the first of what will be many recommended story emails/posts:
Adriano Farano writes about a web beyond social in hi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/01/12 |
Extract.. The reason I?ve invested so much time and money (creating Industrial Light & Magic, a premier special-effects house) is because art is technology.
? George Lucas, in conversation with Marco R. della Cava of USA Today |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/01/12 |
Extract.. Among technologists, futurists and those working at cutting-edge companies, virtual teams and the realities of remote work may be fairly old news. But according to a recent article from the Canadian HR Reporter, the same doesn?t appear to be true for |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/01/12 |
Extract.. We are ruined by our own biases. When making decisions, we see what we want, ignore probabilities, and minimize risks that uproot our hopes.
What?s worse, ?we are often confident even when we are wrong,? writes Daniel Kahneman, in his masterful new b |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/01/12 |
Extract.. Caterina Fake plans to launch her new company to the public in 2012. She says while 2011 has been about being heads down and working with the team, 2012 will be much more about going out and interacting with users.
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/01/12 |
Extract.. Dennis Crowley, the CEO of FourSquare, explains how as a company grows, the chain of communication changes and it's a difficult balance to make sure the company can be as transparent with 100 people as it is with 20 people.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/01/12 |
Extract.. The past few years have been nothing if not a boon for entrepreneurs looking to cash in on venture capitalists? lust for all things cloud. All the activity has been great, and we?ve seen some exciting new companies emerge and prosper ? companies suc |
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| Wired Web News Feed 31/12/11 |
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So here we are ? the last day of 2011 and the end of the first year of me writing my occasional newsletter, Om Says. Being on a break, I decided to not read the web and instead go analog and read a lot of books to nourish my mind. For me, it was an |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/12/11 |
Extract.. I mean, if you think about what most people do when they get home from work in the evening, it?s decompression time. The consumer?s in a good mood.
? Steve Yankovich, vice president for mobile for eBay, in a New York Times article by Stephanie Cliffo |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/12/11 |
Extract.. In GigaOM?s third article in our series on New Year?s resolutions from 12 tech leaders, Coffee & Power co-founder Philip Rosedale explains why he wants entrepreneurs to think really, really really big, and way outside the box in 2012.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/12/11 |
Extract.. Netflix had a rough year, for sure: The company has taken its lumps from users, analysts and investors ever since it announced a major price hike and an ill-advised plan to spin off its DVD-by-mail service into a separate business called Qwikster. Al |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/12/11 |
Extract.. Lose your love handles; call your Mom more often; get that promotion ? if you?re like many of us, you?re already thinking over some New Year?s resolutions that will make you a better ?you? in 2012. But how are the tech industries? thought leaders app |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/12/11 |
Extract.. The best thing about the holidays is playing with your new gadgets ? and the worst thing is struggling with your new gadgets. But fear no more: We have compiled a few key tips for new owners of the Roku media player to improve their set-up and get th |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/12/11 |
Extract.. Smartphone and tablet purchases have been on the rise for several years, but 2011 was a turning point: This was the first year that these mobile devices outsold desktop and laptop PCs. The effect ? and perhaps some of the cause of this ? is a love af |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/12/11 |
Extract.. Let me get a jump on wishing you all a very happy Christmas. I am hoping that you are spending your holiday with your loved ones and enjoying the warmth of the family. On an outside chance you are still checking your emails and looking to read someth |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/12/11 |
Extract.. The smartphone boom is unleashing a new era of pricing transparency to consumers able to use wireless apps and search engines on their mobile devices in stores to check if they are offering the best deal. But retailers are fighting back harder than e |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/12/11 |
Extract.. Yep, it?s that time of year where we look back at the trends of the year and then look forward to what we think the next year has in store. We know these lists have become a bit cliche by now, but they really do enable us to reflect on the big pictur |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/12/11 |
Extract.. The business model for standalone wholesale wireless network operators, such as LightSquared or what Clearwire hoped to be, is broken. But in the coming year, a new and ultimately more successful model is poised to emerge, one that will transform the |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/12/11 |
Extract.. Jaaga has several floors
The road to optimal productivity and happiness at the lowest cost is paved with pallet racks, the Internet, yoga and local organic leafy green salads, according to Freeman Murray, the co-founder of Jaaga, which is pretty much |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/12/11 |
Extract.. It?s not news that more and more businesses are allowing workers to bring their smartphones and sometimes tablets of choice to the office. But would you have guessed that two of the most highly regulated industries (finance and healthcare) would be t |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/12/11 |
Extract.. Cricket in India is the equivalent to soccer in much of the world, or football in the U.S. ? it?s a national past time and an industry that generates billions of dollars. So there?s a good chance that in the same way that fantasy sports leagues on th |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/12/11 |
Extract.. Much of the past few weeks focused on the new Galaxy Nexus, which is no surprise: The hardware pushes some new limits with a screen that rivals a high-definition television. Hardware is only half the story, however, as Android 4.0 addresses many of t |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/12/11 |
Extract.. The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/12/11 |
Extract.. Cloud presentation service Prezi is stepping up its campaign to become a serious alternative to PowerPoint by closing a $14m round of funding.
The investment, led by Accel, is a significant boost for the site, which claims more than 7 million users w |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/12/11 |
Extract.. TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people outsource errands and other small jobs, has raised $17.8 million in a fresh round of funding.
The new round, which serves as TaskRabbit?s Series B, was led by LightSpeed Venture Partners. The San Fr |
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/12/11 |
Extract.. The practice of inducing users to download an app by offering them virtual goods or currency in a mobile game got knocked around earlier this year when Apple banned the practice for new and updated iOS apps because the campaigns apparently gamed the |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/12/11 |
Extract.. Dante Malagrino (far right) at Structure 2011.
Embrane, the not-so-stealthy startup that?s one of several hoping to make it big on the concept of virtualizing the network, launched on Sunday. The company, founded in 2010 by Dante Malagrinò, has raise |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/12/11 |
Extract.. We?ve already told you what to get the cord cutters in your life ? but what about the web video enthusiast? Below are several suggestions based on ages, interests and more!
If your seven-year-old keeps stealing your iPhone to watch YouTube:
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/12/11 |
Extract.. Google rolled out its Wallet software earlier this year, but few people have been able to try the mobile payment service. Sprint is the main Google Wallet partner and the applications requires both the Wallet Android app and a near-field communicatio |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/12/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/12/11 |
Extract.. With computer programmers in demand, new start-ups that aim to train people in coding skills are also becoming hot properties.
Ventures that teach computer programming, design and other once-nerdy skills to the masses are surfacing nationwide and dra |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/12/11 |
Extract.. Mike McCue, the co-founder and chief executive of Palo Alto-based mobile reading app Flipboard, has one simple ambition: to turn Flipboard into your social reading platform. A year after successfully launching its iPad application, the company on Tue |
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/12/11 |
Extract.. StumbleUpon has undergone a major makeover. On Tuesday the company will unveil a totally redesigned website, a rebranded logo, and a new ?channels? feature that lets users subscribe to content streams curated by celebrities, publications and brands.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/12/11 |
Extract.. Zipcar?s CEO, Scott Griffith, has always had a passion for three things: cities, transportation, and technology. And he believes ?Zipcar represents the most important innovation in transportation in a generation.? A bold claim, but the company has be |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/12/11 |
Extract.. I have been writing about online video since 2006, and I can?t tell you how many times I must have typed the words ?web series? in that time. It?s a phrase that the industry has been using since the very beginning to denote serialized content deliver |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/12/11 |
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Thanksgiving gave me an opportunity to take a much-needed break last week, and that meant skipping story recommendations as well. I am making amends now, so I have taken two weeks worth of reading materials and sorted them into seven must-read links |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/12/11 |
Extract.. YouTube unveiled its largest redesign yet Thursday, bringing user personalization and the video web site?s growing selection of programming topics, or ?channels,? front and center.
The change comes as YouTube beefs up its offerings to compete with br |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/12/11 |
Extract.. MasterCard and mFoundry, a mobile banking specialist, are poised to help banks launch potentially hundreds of NFC-based mobile wallets with a new partnership. The collaboration will allow banks that use mFoundry for their mobile banking apps to add s |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/11/11 |
Extract.. This past spring, the team at Path realized it was time for a change. The San Francisco-based startup had debuted its flagship photo sharing app (accompanied with a serious amount of media buzz and some mixed reviews) in November 2010, and had spent |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/11/11 |
Extract.. With its new Idol 10 software, Hewlett-Packard brings together key Vertica and Autonomy technologies acquired over the last year for an assault on knotty big data problems.
Where most businesses have focused on relational databases to track transacti |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/11/11 |
Extract.. Hulu is looking to launch in Germany, according to a report by German media news site Horizont.net. Hulu?s SVP Johannes Larcher and consultant Olaf Kroll are currently talking to German TV networks to strike content deals for a launch in the country, |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/11/11 |
Extract.. YouTube in 2011 is a very different beast from its early days as a depository for funny cat videos and video blogs. Now that the site has fully committed to bringing professional-grade content to its audience with one hundred original channels, the a |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/11/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/11/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/11/11 |
Extract.. Douban is a social network with a renaissance culture. It?s not a product that just any user can fully appreciate upon first log-in. Douban?s rich contents include detailed book, movie and music reviews, forums that reflect specific cultures, a virtu |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/11/11 |
Extract.. Apple Inc. has been taking small but important steps toward a shift in the way its customers access their digital content beyond the downloadable software that has been vital to the company?s success.
In recent weeks, Apple has been looking to recrui |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/11/11 |
Extract.. I cannot for the life of me think of any conceivable source for the story in the Mail on Sunday except those voice messages on my mobile phone.
? Hugh Grant testifying against the Mail in the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/11/11 |
Extract.. Spotify song sharing is like the new FarmVille, and its auto-sharing turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for folks who didn?t quite understand just how frictionless Open Graph sharing would be.
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CNET?s Molly Wood, from a much-discussed Friday ar |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/11/11 |
Extract.. For over five years, I have been writing about the convergence of data center, Internet and software-development technologies that has become known as cloud computing. I started writing on my personal blog in December 2006, then went on to write CNET |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/11/11 |
Extract.. Our GigaOM RoadMap conference last week kept me so busy and left me so exhausted that I didn?t get a chance to do much reading. So I decided to skip recommending any links last weekend. Time to make amends! Here are a bunch of fresh links for this we |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/11/11 |
Extract.. Facebook unveiled its green data center and energy efficient servers in Oregon this Spring, but now the social network giant has achieved another milestone: it?s been granted a LEED gold certification for the Oregon data center, which uses 52 percent |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/11/11 |
Extract.. Mobile shopping tools like RedLaser and ShopSavvy have been a huge help in letting users compare prices through barcode scanning and decide if the product they?re seeing in store can be found for cheaper nearby or online. Now, those apps are letting |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/11/11 |
Extract.. The release of Avatar ? represented the pivotal moment for digital cinema, with digital technology forming the bedrock of the modern cinema environment
? David Hancock, an analyst with IHS Screen Digest, names Avatar as the major catalyst in the acce |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/11/11 |
Extract.. The release of the Kindle Fire has many pointing to Amazon?s vision for the tablet as a breakthrough. After all, with it?s low price, curated approach to the crowded world of Android apps and a content-first approach, it looks like someone finally go |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/11/11 |
Extract.. I know that this is a bit scary for a lot of people who have made their career working with Flash. I completely get that. However, I think it is a HUGE opportunity for the Flash community. As browser support for richer content and motion graphics imp |
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/11/11 |
Extract.. Imagine watching professional football religiously all year long. Then imagine that it?s finally time for the Super Bowl, and, suddenly, whoever is in charge of the NFL announces that some team you forgot even existed is playing, because it won a who |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/11/11 |
Extract.. Although a few new Android devices were introduced this week, my attention turned towards one that was announced in September. The Samsung Galaxy Note still isn?t available in the U.S., but consumers in Europe are enjoying the Android device and its |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/11/11 |
Extract.. A year and a half after Steve Jobs endorsed it in an unusual essay, a set of programming techniques called HTML5 is rapidly winning over the Web.
The technology allows Internet browsers to display jazzed-up images and effects that react to users? act |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/11/11 |
Extract.. When?s the last time you made a physical photo collage? Probably been a while. But the idea is familiar to most people and it?s an easy way to creatively express yourself. That?s what a new iPad app called Mixel from New York City startup Lascaux is |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/11/11 |
Extract.. Walmart is ramping up its mobile strategy and releasing a new iPhone app that provides a number of features aimed at improving the shopping experience for users, who are increasingly interacting with the retailer with mobile and social tools in addi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/11/11 |
Extract.. When you?re in the market for a specific thing ? a good pair of running shoes, a nice restaurant, or a new novel to read ? there are lots of ways to do research. You can read through user-generated reviews on sites like Amazon and Yelp, or you can fi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/11/11 |
Extract.. Intuit has been competing fiercely with Square in the mobile payments market with its GoPayment app and card reader. But it hasn?t leveraged all its resources and relationships to really attack this market. That?s starting to change.
The software com |
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/11/11 |
Extract.. OrderWithMe (tagline: group-buying from factories in China) emerged as victor of the Startup Battlefield at the fantastic TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing conference. Here?s an embed of the pitch deck they used?let it be an inspiration and resource for oth |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/11/11 |
Extract.. The chilly weather is here, and that means all of us have a little more time to sit at home and read and, of course, enjoy time with the family. To supplement your newspaper, here are seven of my recommendations:
Narcissism is good, or something li |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/11/11 |
Extract.. We need to ask how do we regulate the Internet? You can?t have a market without property rights. The idea that you?ll have no enforcement should be greeted with laughter. I?m not seeing any alternative come out.
? Robert Levine, author of Free Ride: |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/11/11 |
Extract.. The Nest thermostat (in cooling mode).
The iPod of thermostats is sold-out until 2012. Nest Labs, makers of the connected, smart, ?learning? thermostat, say on their website that the hot thermostat is ?sold out through early next year.? In the meanti |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/11/11 |
Extract.. Web companies often upend industries. But they can labor for years to fully make money on their revolutions.
Take Google Inc. When the Internet titan came onto the scene in the 1990s, the company first focused on building technologies for searching t |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/11/11 |
Extract.. The bankruptcy of Beacon Power will likely draw attention to the flywheel industry, as Beacon was one of the better known companies in that field. So how exactly are flywheels used for energy storage, why do companies buy them, and why has the techno |
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| Wired Web News Feed 31/10/11 |
Extract.. Netflix subscribers can soon watch more episodes of ABC shows like Desperate Housewifes, Grey?s Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters, thanks to an extended licensing agreement between the video subscription service and Disney. Episodes will, as it?s usua |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/10/11 |
Extract.. Since getting taken over by Gawker founding editor Elisabeth Spiers, The New York Observer has shown a real eagerness to explore the web?s potential ? which includes the launch this spring of Betabeat, a tech blog devoted to covering the burgeoning N |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/10/11 |
Extract.. Wow! Was that week chock-full of news or what? Frankly, sometimes it was hard to remember what was happening. Nevertheless, here are some good and mind-nourishing pieces for the weekend that you can actually enjoy and learn from.
The noise during th |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/10/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/10/11 |
Extract.. Startups want to lure student interns from universities like MIT (pictured.)
Exclusive. If you?re a college student, a summer internship at a top Silicon Valley tech company can be a pretty sweet deal: The pay is good, the perks are many, and perhaps |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/10/11 |
Extract.. Inkling, the company that makes interactive, digital versions of textbooks for the iPad, has thus far focused on making products aimed at college students. But the San Francisco-based startup is set to debut its first title that could appeal to peopl |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/10/11 |
Extract.. VMware CEO Paul Maritz has been banging the drum for a new era of application development tailored to a world of cloud computing, big data and multi-platform delivery, and NoSQL is often seen as an important part of that evolution. That end, the Spri |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/10/11 |
Extract.. It may seem counterintuitive, but in the cloud computing era, location does matter, at least when it comes to where data is stored and processed.
Data centers are becoming the market exchanges of the new digital economy so the closer a business can p |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/10/11 |
Extract.. Last Tuesday marked the premiere of two very different web series ? a teen-skewing action comedy produced by a major studio and an independent sci-fi thriller ? but one big thing in common: Both chose to debut exclusively on Facebook.
Aim High, creat |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/10/11 |
Extract.. The past week was full of news, and I am pretty sure you are all caught up on it. However, it is time to sink your teeth into meatier writing, so here are a few stories you will enjoy.
Enough about you. It is an honest post about our narcissistic on |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/10/11 |
Extract.. Thin Film Electronics ASA, a maker of disposable memory used in toys, has developed a way to add computing to its circuits through a partnership with Xerox PARC. This means it can offer thin, disposable tracking tags for a few cents apiece, and it co |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/10/11 |
Extract.. With nearly two years of development under its belt, stealthy startup Qwilt is ready to launch, with a product it says can help network operators manage the huge amounts of video traveling over their networks. And it?s doing so with some serious back |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/10/11 |
Extract.. At a Hong Kong press event to unveil the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Google finally shared details of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the next version of Android. ICS is meant to clean up the user interface found in Honeycomb, the current platform for |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/10/11 |
Extract.. Livefyre, the software platform that embeds live commenting on websites, has secured $4.5 million in a new round of funding. The San Francisco-based company says it plans to use the money to hire more engineers and salespeople and expand its products |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/10/11 |
Extract.. STANFORD, Calif.?Hundreds of Silicon Valley?s elite streamed into Stanford University?s Memorial Church on Sunday evening for a service commemorating Apple Inc.?s late co-founder Steve Jobs.
Guests, many of whom were wearing black, arrived amid inten |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/10/11 |
Extract.. Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain opens her new documentary Connected with a personal confession: She once faked having to go to the bathroom during dinner so that she could check her email on her phone. For many web-addicted people, |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/10/11 |
Extract.. The Googleplex, Google?s corporate headquarters in Mountain View California, is legendary for its perks. Employees have access to unlimited free meals, haircuts, dry cleaning, massages, and even onsite medical care.
Yet earlier this year, when Google |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/10/11 |
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Extract.. Websites that help consumers manage their frequent-flier miles are the hot new thing in travel. And that bugs Southwest and American airlines.
The two carriers have sent ?cease and desist? letters in the past year to several websites that track trave |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/10/11 |
Extract.. It?s challenging to be the lone remote worker in a team where most of the members are located in the same office. You miss out on opportunities like impromptu meetings, informal gatherings at the water cooler, and most offline collaborative activitie |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/10/11 |
Extract.. There?s a lot of talk about the democratization of data, but simply making data sets publicly available leaves unresloved a couple of key problems. One is that users have to know the data is available, and the other is they have to know how to work w |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/10/11 |
Extract.. Gallium Nitride-on-diamond wafer technology
Can diamonds be a geek?s best friend? De Beers, the global diamond conglomerate, certainly thinks so. Element Six, a De Beers subsidiary focused on manufacturing synthetic diamonds, has opened a new venture |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/10/11 |
Extract.. In December 2009, just in time for the holidays, the extremely obscure web series The Guild produced a series of parody ads entitled ?The Guild Sells Out!? The concept simultaneously satirized the kind of over-the-top merchandising familiar to any c |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/10/11 |
Extract.. This week saw highs and lows for news relating to the next version of Google Android and a flagship phone to feature the new mobile platform. Samsung and Google had planned to hold an event at next week?s CTIA trade show, where presumably both the op |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/10/11 |
Extract.. I hate them. It?s like making believe there?s another kind of sex. There isn?t another kind of sex. There isn?t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.
Maurice Sendak, to Guardian reporter Emma Brockes, about how much he hates e-books |
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/10/11 |
Extract.. It?s still national holiday in China, waking up in a fine morning only to find a great IT hero has passed away made it the saddest day of my life. We all use Apple products, iPhone, iPad, Macbooks, etc.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/10/11 |
Extract.. Fall TV season is in full swing, and viewers are using Twitter and Facebook more than ever to chime in on their favorite shows. Question is: Which of the new pilots got the most traction on social networks? We asked the folks over at Trendrr.com to f |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/10/11 |
Extract.. Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers!
Both mobile and high-performance computing are placing huge power efficiency and performance demands on chips, but the $64,000-question is how long until such extreme computing use cases hit the ser |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/10/11 |
Extract.. Exalytics, a high-end server appliance for near-real-time business intelligence applications and a big part of Oracle?s big data response, debuted Sunday night at Oracle OpenWorld 2011.
The Exalytics box?the younger sibling of the Exadata database ma |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/10/11 |
Extract.. The shares of Chinese internet companies tanked in September amid acute regulatory uncertainty. In the US, the Justice Department is probing for potential criminal charges against the series of Chinese accounting scandals and frauds in March-May. In |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/10/11 |
Extract.. After a brief break, this week I return with some great readings that involve Biggie Smalls, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Google?s Larry Page and Amazon?s Kindle Fire. And just when you were feeling too smart, well, I got some news for you.
The age of |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/09/11 |
Extract.. A self-described ?guerilla? organization of students from Austria dubbed Europe v. Facebook, has been making life a teensy bit more difficult for the social networking giant.
Formed just a couple months ago, the group has so far lodged 22 complaints |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/09/11 |
Extract.. They say Apple has met its first real tablet competitor. And no, it is not Samsung or Motorola. Instead it is from a company that started out selling books on the Internet: Amazon. And while there is some truth to that assertion, I wouldn?t put a lot |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/09/11 |
Extract.. Retailers have found an interesting characteristic of consumers who browse their websites using tablets: They?re much more likely to pull the trigger on purchases than other online shoppers.
That discovery is making retailers focus on tablets ahead o |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/09/11 |
Extract.. myGengo, a startup that provides customized language-translation services, has taken on $5.25 million in Series A funding from London-based venture capital firm Atomico and 500 Startups.
Right now, the translation market has two main segments: a high |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/09/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/09/11 |
Extract.. There is a subtle genius to the latest iteration of the character/show/media property/brand known as all-caps FRED. The madcap preteen with a high squeaky voice, created and played by Lucas Cruikshank, may be simultaneously one of the most hated and |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/09/11 |
Extract.. Since launching in May, Samsung?s Galaxy S II has been the company?s fastest selling smartphone, even without availability in the smartphone-crazed U.S. That situation is changing as Samsung announced a version for Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile earli |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/09/11 |
Extract.. Social or not, #f8 is still a developer conference. No line 4 women?s room.
AllThingsD?s own @inafried, with one of the best tweets from F8 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/09/11 |
Extract.. The OpenStack posse is putting some gloss on the next release of the open-source cloud operating system.
A major goal of the newly available ?Diablo? release, is to boost useability of the OpenStack by administrators and users with a new dashboard. |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/09/11 |
Extract.. DataStax, a Burlingame, Calif-based NoSQL startup, has created the first commercial distribution of the Apache Cassandra database and has just closed an $11 million Series B funding round. The money came from new investor Crosslink Capital and existi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/09/11 |
Extract.. A yearly study that ranks the satisfaction level of personal computer owners is about to be released and the results are, well, kind of boring. ?Boring? in the sense that the same company that?s led the rankings for the past eight years is back again |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/09/11 |
Extract.. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings issued an apology to members on the company?s blog Sunday night, while also providing some insight into how and why the company badly mishandled communications in light of a pricing change announced earlier this summer.
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/09/11 |
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As social-media sites become more prevalent and individuals share more and more details of their personal lives online, I think we need to rethink the bounds of our right to privacy. Not to regulate technology or industries ? I actually think govern |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/09/11 |
Extract.. This is a moving weekend for me so I am going to keep the list of recommendations to read this weekend very short. So without much ado, here are some posts that are worth reading this weekend.
How 50 big companies got their name. From 3M to Amazon |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/09/11 |
Extract.. The fall TV season is starting, which can only mean one thing: Utter confusion. Not only are networks constantly switching around the on-air schedule of existing shows, but Fox decided to make things even more complicated by delaying the availability |
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AppFog, the Platform-as-a-Service startup that began life a PHP Fog, now supports both Ruby and Node.js applications. The expanded support comes as no surprise just more than a month after AppFog unveiled its new moniker and just a few weeks after i |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/09/11 |
Extract.. A group of investors have purchased the Meta Watch assets from watch-maker Fossil for an undisclosed amount, creating a team to focus solely on the connected watch market. The private company will be based in Dallas, Texas, supplemented by a research |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/09/11 |
Extract.. For over a decade, writer/producer Jane Espenson has been celebrated among television nerds; her IMDB profile includes work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Battlestar Galactica, Warehouse 13 and Game of Thrones, just to name a few. Right |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/09/11 |
Extract.. Back to work, this week has been one full of excitement and news. Amid all the buzz, it is fairly easy to miss out on some of the best (and contrarian) writing that was published over the past few days. Here are a few stories and a video for you guy |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/09/11 |
Extract.. As everything from cars to electricity meters gets hooked up to the Internet or cellphone networks, it isn?t just PCs that are vulnerable to cyberattacks, security researchers and government officials warn.
?The number of these networked devices has |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/09/11 |
Extract.. Gamification is growing up. First it?s got its own conference, a new certification program and now consolidation. BigDoor, a gamified loyalty platform, is announcing that it?s buying up web check-in rewards provider OneTrueFan.
The purchase price was |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/09/11 |
Extract.. The unofficial end of summer has passed with the Labor Day weekend, and with it goes a three-month stretch of bad news for online video viewers:
Netflix announced and implemented a new pricing plan that increases the cost of DVD and streaming by as |
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/09/11 |
Extract.. Amazon.com Inc. said it is testing a major redesign of its Web site, an overhaul that could refashion the way people shop on the world?s largest online retailer.
The new site appears to have been streamlined for use on a tablet computer, online-comme |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/09/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/09/11 |
Extract.. People say that one of the great things about social media is that it makes the world a smaller, more connected place ? it lets us learn about strange and exotic places. Like Finland. Before today I didn?t know much about Finland, but add this to the |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/09/11 |
Extract.. The first weekend edition of Om Says was well received and many of you have encouraged me to collate this list every weekend. I am taking a much-needed break this weekend (and I started early), but I couldn?t leave without sharing some of the storie |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/09/11 |
Extract.. Hewlett-Packard Co.?s recent strategic moves have shaken the confidence of investors. Now customers of the technology giant are also getting nervous.
That applies to Ray Barnard, chief information officer of Fluor Corp., an engineering and constructi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/09/11 |
Extract.. Can the Internet help balance the budget?
Amid the conflict in Washington over how to reduce the deficit, two heavyweight computer scientists in the Bay Area have launched a website that aims to find politically palatable solutions, in part by giving |
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| Wired Web News Feed 31/08/11 |
Extract.. Subscription streaming music service Spotify launched an API on Wednesday that allows third-party iOS developers to integrate Spotify into their apps. Called libspotify, the new resource should allow for some fairly innovative uses of Spotify service |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/08/11 |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/06/11 |
Extract.. Google introduces a new sharing button for the web -- called the "+1" button. Ostensibly about making search better, the button also adds one more piece the search giant can use to build a Facebook competitor.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/05/11 |
Extract.. Regional codes may seem outdated, but movie studios like the idea of them for the sake of protecting publishers and distributors.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/05/11 |
Extract.. After more than 3 years of development, the World Wide Web Consortium has voted to move the HTML5 draft specification to Last Call status. That means HTML5 is about to crawl out of the dark pub and into the harsh morning light of the web.
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/05/11 |
Extract.. Bing is mixing more Facebook into its search results, gambling that social networking will make search better -- and that its rival Google can't keep up.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/05/11 |
Extract.. WikiLeaks has changed the way whistleblowers, document-leak sites and media organizations operate. In its wake, other similar sites where users can anonymously submit documents are cropping up, many with a hyperlocal or topic-specific focus. Here's h |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/05/11 |
Extract.. Adobe wants to bring fancy, magazine-style layout tools to web design and the company is turning to web standards to make it happen.
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/05/11 |
Extract.. When a webcam isn?t invasive enough: Now there are sites that let people track your browser history.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/04/11 |
Extract.. Friendster is erasing large chunks of their social networking profiles, as it transforms into a game and entertainment site. But with the deletion, we are losing a slice of history, including Mark Zuckerberg's profile.
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/04/11 |
Extract.. Google has announced the new WebM Community Cross License (CCL) initiative, designed to create a patent safe haven around Google's WebM video codec for HTML5 video.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/04/11 |
Extract.. Amazon's cloud-hosted Web Services experienced a catastrophic failure last week, knocking hundreds of sites off the web. But the real problem is not Amazon, it's the sites' failure to follow the key design principle of the cloud -- design with failur |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/04/11 |
Extract.. Google and Sprint paired to make using Google Voice simple for Sprint phones -- and it'd be a no-brainer, except for the caveats.
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/04/11 |
Extract.. Though using an open Wi-Fi network doesn't feel like hacking, a federal law sees things differently.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/04/11 |
Extract.. Mozilla is revamping the way Firefox add-ons are tested. The changes mean that fans of the new Aurora and Beta early release channels can test future versions of Firefox and still have working add-ons.
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/04/11 |
Extract.. Google is opening its Map Maker tool to the United States, hoping citizen cartographers will fill in the nooks and crannies. The tool has had great success in countries like India and Romania with no maps, and the company wants to try the system for |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/04/11 |
Extract.. Google Video will delete all its videos from the web on April 29. Google Video users will have until May 15 to download their old content, after that it's curtains for Google Video.
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/04/11 |
Extract.. Facebook isn't and won't create legions of new customers for online stores, a new report from Forrester Research says. The problem? People aren't that into shopping on Facebook, and when they do, they just want a deep discount.
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/04/11 |
Extract.. Add-ons can turn Firefox into the Swiss Army knife of browsers, but they can also make it dog slow. According to Mozilla, "installing 10 add-ons will double Firefox's start-up time."
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Extract.. Firefox 4 includes massive changes to how it looks and works. Some of the new features aren't immediately obvious, but once you learn them, they'll make your browsing easier.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/03/11 |
Extract.. With a baby step called +1, Google takes on Facebook and its popular Like button.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/03/11 |
Extract.. Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter, is returning to the lead the company?s development of new products and features.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/03/11 |
Extract.. A server might cost only $100 a year for a startup these days, but legal fees for new companies can run five times that ... per hour. Something's got to give, according to a new site aiming to partner lawyers and startups.
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/03/11 |
Extract.. You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it, so why are you doing it online? Every time you login to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection your risk pry eyes reading your data. There is |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/03/11 |
Extract.. Google added Wave-like collaboration features to its Google Docs service in order to make group editing of documents easier.
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/03/11 |
Extract.. Web developers say Apple is intentionally making their apps run slowly on iPhones and iPads because the software company doesn't get a cut of apps built on open standards.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/03/11 |
Extract.. A Bloomberg Game Changers documentary explores the people behind the rise of Twitter, with a little help from Wired.com.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/03/11 |
Extract.. Google users can now ban the sites that annoy them most from ever showing up in their search results. Think of it as the Hate button.
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/03/11 |
Extract.. Google is now showing off an experimental feature that auto-detects non-important e-mail and separates them into categories, letting you pull them out of your inbox.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/02/11 |
Extract.. Microsoft has announced it will expand its effort to bring Facebook into Bing's search results, displaying new annotations alongside any search result links your Facebook friends have liked.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/02/11 |
Extract.. The volunteer coder who created a way for web users to read the ostensibly iPad-only The Daily gives up. Turns out he found the content wasn't worth the effort.
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/02/11 |
Extract.. Google has updated its Social Search tool to add links, photos and relevant web pages from your friends to Google's normal search results. The changes build on Google's earlier social search efforts and help add a more familiar, human element to your |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/02/11 |
Extract.. Web developers were given a green light Monday to start using HTML5. Even though many are already using the still-unfinished language to code complicated web apps, the web's governing body made the transition official by announcing that HTML5 will be |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/02/11 |
Extract.. A new online dating site debuted this week, with ready-made profiles for an unwitting quarter million Facebook users. Facebook's not amused with the scraping, but the site's founders say it's just art intended to expose data usage in the age of socia |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/02/11 |
Extract.. In the latest throw down between Microsoft and Google, Redmond is creating a plug-in for Chrome to support the H.264 video codec.
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/01/11 |
Extract.. Facebook will allow users to use HTTPS while using Facebook, a long-awaited feature that will prevent snooping and account hijacking.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/01/11 |
Extract.. Google is now letting all Google Voice users turn their existing mobile phone numbers into a Google Voice number. But users should be aware what they are signing onto.
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/01/11 |
Extract.. The long-awaited ability to port your phone number into Google Voice is being tested and should be coming soon. But going for the holy grail of a single number to rule them all is more complicated than you might think.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/01/11 |
Extract.. In this podcast, Craig Fugate reveals the Federal Emergency Management Agency's social media strategy and discusses why everybody should prepare at home for anything from zombies to earthquakes.
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/01/11 |
Extract.. The larded legalese at the bottom of corporate e-mails is toothless -- until it's not.
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/01/11 |
Extract.. The federal government thinks identity and passwords need to be fixed to keep the internet healthy, but is declining, thankfully, to try to fix it themselves. Instead, they are pushing internet entrepreneurs to build something robust and open.
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/12/10 |
Extract.. Bing's got some new features for the web and mobile applications. They aren't revolutionary, but they might be handy enough that you'll find yourself a convert.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/12/10 |
Extract.. While you didn't need to be a "hacker" to join the forces to punish MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, it required a bit of tech savvy -- until now. A member of the Anonymous group has made a webpage that will let anyone start attacking servers with the cl |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/12/10 |
Extract.. Hundreds of millions of net users's online identities are on the way to getting a visual update from Facebook. New features include faces, faces and more faces, plus ways to show groups of your friends on your profile page.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/12/10 |
Extract.. We just received this invitation from Google to attend a Chrome-centric event this coming Tuesday. Our guess is this will mark the public debut of the much-anticipated Chrome Store ? Google?s directory where users can browse and install Chrome extens |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/12/10 |
Extract.. Xmarks has been saved from an uncertain future. The maker of the popular cross-browser bookmark syncing tool has been acquired by LastPass and will live on as a freemium service.
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/11/10 |
Extract.. Two creative, new search engines are sharing anti-spam methods in hopes of gaining some of Google's loyal users. Their efforts show that search innovation isn't dead yet or solely owned by Google and Microsoft.
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/11/10 |
Extract.. Google has opened up access to nearly the entire suite of Google services through any Google Apps account. Previously, services like Reader and Picasa were only available to users with free Google accounts.
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/11/10 |
Extract.. Google has unveiled a new ratings tool and recommendation engine for Google Places which covers most of the same ground as Yelp. It's called Hotpot, and the name isn't the only thing that's awkward.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/11/10 |
Extract.. Google is now warning users as they try to import their contacts into Facebook that the social network is a data dead end. It's the latest gambit in a fight to force Facebook to loosen its grip on user identity.
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/11/10 |
Extract.. Google is trying to save users from the back-click button, by giving them the option to see a visual preview of the page they are thinking of clicking on.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/11/10 |
Extract.. Thanks to the efforts of an online historical-preservation group, you can download the bulk of the seminal free–web-hosting site Geocities in a single, giant 652-GB file over BitTorrent.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/10/10 |
Extract.. Finding a dog groomer or a good sushi spot just got easier as Google introduces a new Place search that replaces a list of links with place listings that pull in data from around the web. It's yet another step in search engines drive to provide answe |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/10/10 |
Extract.. Introducing the new Wired.com-MAPLight.org widget that tracks political contributions, and slaps NASCAR-style sponsorship logos on lawmakers. Transparency never looked so good.
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/10/10 |
Extract.. Mozilla has released more details about its soon-to-arrive Open Web Applications platform. There are two key components: a directory where users can browse available web apps, and a new dashboard that will be baked into the browser interface where us |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/10/10 |
Extract.. The Social Network, the blockbuster sordid tale of the founding of Facebook, seems to have created a digital divide between Generation Y and the Boomers, according to a new poll.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/10/10 |
Extract.. The new Groups feature doesn't exactly replicate the real world habits it attempts to mimic, but it does make it easy to subdivide your list of Facebook friends into more-manageable clumps.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/10/10 |
Extract.. Some say Silicon Valley's focus on social applications means the country is falling behind in technology as money chases trivial pursuits. But Facebook VP Christopher Cox says connecting people is more important than building faster computers.
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/10/10 |
Extract.. Microsoft's upstart Bing search engine will soon become a default part of Firefox's search bar. When Firefox 4 arrives, it will feature some slight changes to the list of included search engines, offering, in order: Google (default), Yahoo, Bing, Ama |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/09/10 |
Extract.. Xmarks has had a change of heart. The free bookmark syncing service had previously announced it was shutting down, but according to a new post on the company?s blog, there's a chance Xmarks may soon be reborn as a paid service.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/09/10 |
Extract.. The free, cross-browser, cross-platform bookmarking sync service Xmarks is shutting its doors in January. Despite some 2 million users, the company has never found a way to make money and can no longer afford to continue.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/09/10 |
Extract.. The fight over whether Silicon Valley investors have been colluding to screw startups made its way on stage Monday, with few fireworks, but plenty of sublimated anger.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/09/10 |
Extract.. Bought too many daily deals online? Regret not buying one? Now there's a marketplace for the two camps to meet.
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/09/10 |
Extract.. In a twist on the old business of selling domains, Israel the country gets @Israel on Twitter from a guy named Israel, who runs an adult website -- with Twitter as the go-between.
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/09/10 |
Extract.. Google is now allowing any Yahoo user to sign in to Google using OpenID, the company announced Tuesday. Anyone with a Yahoo account can start using Google's web apps with a new one-click sign up process.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/09/10 |
Extract.. Six Apart is shutting down its Vox blogging service. Users have until Sept. 30 to export their data to another free blog publishing service like Six Apart's TypePad. After that, Vox will be gone.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/09/10 |
Extract.. There's a sign of hope for frustrated Google Apps users who feel left out of getting all the cool toys regular Google users get: Google is inviting select users this week to test out Apps with all the bells and whistles.
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| Wired Web News Feed 31/08/10 |
Extract.. Sites around the web — including Wired.com — are getting splashed with a mysterious dialog Tuesday, thanks to a change in the way Twitter handles user authentication.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/08/10 |
Extract.. Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/08/10 |
Extract.. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed patent lawsuits against some of the net's largest companies, including Google and eBay, alleging they are violating patents he owns on recommendations and displaying information to web users.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/08/10 |
Extract.. Yet another large web company has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that re-creating deleted user cookies violates federal privacy laws.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/08/10 |
Extract.. New advancements have made cascading style sheets much more powerful than they once were, but remembering all the new forms of syntax can be overwhelming. Sometimes, it?s simpler to let an automated tool do the hard work for you.
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/08/10 |
Extract.. Video sharing site Vimeo has taken the HTML5 plunge one step further with a brand-new "universal" embeddable player aimed at mobile devices like the iPhone or the iPad.
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/08/10 |
Extract.. Typekit, the web service that helps designers use elaborate typefaces in their page designs, is celebrating its one year anniversary with a big announcement: The company has added 16 of Adobe's popular font families to Typekit's ever-growing stable o |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/07/10 |
Extract.. Google mistakenly reported Thursday that China began censoring its web search again. It's a blunder that adds to a list of missteps over the last six months that have the net's top tech company looking unprofessional.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/07/10 |
Extract.. Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/07/10 |
Extract.. Reddit and Digg are the net's oil and water of social news services — with an ongoing rivalry. This handy infographic lays out some of the differences.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/07/10 |
Extract.. Google Buzz is launching a firehose feature for its API, making all public activities by Buzz users available to third-party applications as soon as they are published.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/07/10 |
Extract.. Facebook's U.S. numbers and usage for last month falls, following a month of spectacular growth. Some wonder if the United States is reaching peak-Facebook.
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/07/10 |
Extract.. Twitter users are finding it tough to use software on their mobile phones and PCs to stay up-to-date on the latest bons mots, because Twitter is limiting how often the software can ask for details. But is throttling to keep the service up just as ann |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/07/10 |
Extract.. Google is spending $700 million to purchase a travel-search software company that powers most online travel-search sites, including the one at Microsoft Bing. The stated motive: to get closer to the data to outdo all current travel sites.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/06/10 |
Extract.. YouTube shares some of what it's learned in its experiments with HTML5 video. The emerging standard is exciting and shows great promise, but it ain't no Flash.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/06/10 |
Extract.. The popular location-data-reporting service Foursquare was publishing users' locations publicly even when the info was intended only for friends. A clever coder snagged hundreds of thousands of check-ins and reported the breach -- but many users are |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/06/10 |
Extract.. The photo-sharing site Flickr has received a much-needed new coat of paint. Photos are bigger now, and photo pages have been simplified to reduce clutter.
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/06/10 |
Extract.. Google opens its innovative Voice application to all comers, letting anyone get a single number to catch calls from their landlines, cellphones and work phone numbers.
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/06/10 |
Extract.. Now, you can edit the videos you've uploaded to YouTube in your web browser. The new webapp has a long way to go before it replaces your desktop video editor, but it's a fun experiment.
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/06/10 |
Extract.. Furthering the integration of Yahoo and Facebook, photo sharing site Flickr now lets you post your new photos directly to Facebook.
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/05/10 |
Extract.. As expected, Google has released its newly acquired VP8 video technology under a royalty-free open source license. Firefox, Opera and Adobe Flash are all committed to supporting it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/05/10 |
Extract.. A group of internet identity experts has mapped out a proposal for the future of OpenID. They hope the changes will speed adoption of OpenID by making the system simpler for users and site owners.
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/05/10 |
Extract.. Wired.com called for an open source alternative to Facebook, and now one contender has raised $115,000 in donations in just days, and another with running code is seeking to capitalize on the anti-Facebook moment.
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/05/10 |
Extract.. Facebook's latest moves shows the company cares more about dominating the web than treating its users respectfully. It's time the web come up with an open alternative to return control to users.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/05/10 |
Extract.. The Web 2.0 Expo hits San Francisco this week, and there are dozens of sessions and speeches about the future of the web, browsers, HTML5, mobile, advertising and web apps. Here are our picks for the talks you don't want to miss.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/04/10 |
Extract.. Cool Twitter names are hard to come by, but now there's a service to help you get a hold of cool names that users have abandoned.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/04/10 |
Extract.. You've just delivered a killer presentation> Now share it with tools on the web, open-file formats and portable media.
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/04/10 |
Extract.. By creating your own profile page on the trusted website of your choice, you can gain control of how your identity is represented on the social web.
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/04/10 |
Extract.. As we predicted, Facebook is switching to an open standard to handle user authentication across its entire platform of connected websites and applications.
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/04/10 |
Extract.. Facebook has announced a set of plugins and protocols website owners can use to tap into the social network's 400 million users. The company boldly says it will spread 1 billion Facebook "Like" buttons around the web in the next 24 hours.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/04/10 |
Extract.. We look ahead at what could be coming from the social networking site during Wednesday's F8 conference for Facebook developers.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/04/10 |
Extract.. OpenID provides a safer, better way to log in to websites using only one user name and password all over the web. It's new and different, so it takes some getting used to. Here's our primer.
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/03/10 |
Extract.. Google's Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Buzz, tells us what it's like to run one of the most important consumer products on the web.
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/03/10 |
Extract.. The jinxed sex.com domain name is set to be auctioned off for more than a million bucks Thursday -- until creditors of the current, failed owner stop the sale with an odd emergency, forced-bankruptcy filing. The sordid tale continues.
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/03/10 |
Extract.. Classmates.com is offering to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of falsely leading people to believe their old schoolmates wanted to contact them. A proposed settlement would give $3 each to more than 3 million paying customers.
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| 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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