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Delicious Gets New Look, Loses Dots
Posted: August 1st, 2008, 1:15pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Social bookmarking pioneer Del.icio.us released its redesign about a year after its announcement, dropping its vaporware label in the process. A 'del.icio.us' by any other name would taste as sweet? Possibly. The site's makeover is impressive, but there's little to report in new features -- unless you count the dropping of periods in its title.
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New Gmail Features Protect Your Inbox From Prying Eyes
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 2:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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New enhancements to Google's online mail application give users more control over their privacy. Gmail now keeps a log so you can monitor your account, and it lets you sign off from a remote computer.
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Adobe, Google, Yahoo Alliance Makes Flash More Searchable
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 11:15am EDT by Monkey Bites
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With help from two of the titans of the industry, Adobe improves the indexing of content and links created for its Flash player software. In Monkey Bites.
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Google Trends Adds Site Comparison Feature
Posted: June 20th, 2008, 7:24pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Google Trends adds a feature that graphs daily unique visitors of competing websites. The feature allows the site to compete with Alexa, Compete and Comscore.
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Reddit Embraces Transparency, Gives Away Source Code
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Social news aggregation site Reddit has released its source code under an open source license. More than just a PR move, it is a noble commitment to the open web.
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MySpace's New Look Helps Quell the Clutter
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Is the ugly duckling of social networks growing into a beautiful swan, or is MySpace's redesign just lipstick on a pig? Webmonkey chats with the user-experience designer behind the site's refresh.
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Firefox 3 Racks Up 8 Million Downloads on Its First Day
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 3:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Mozilla shatters all expectations by recording a whopping 8 million downloads of its Firefox 3 web browser in the first 24 hours of its release. The company waged a worldwide campaign to be the most-downloaded software application.
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Screaming-Fast Banshee Media Player Hits 1.0
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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iTunes-like media player Banshee released a speedier version of its software today. 1.0 sports some cool features to make playing music on Linux a whole lot more desirable.
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Gmail Labs Invites Mail Addicts to Come in and Play
Posted: June 6th, 2008, 4:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Google has rolled out an enhancement to its popular web-based e-mail service. The new Gmail Labs lets users test drive additional features before they make their way to the public version of the service.
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Microsoft Vows to Keep Windows XP Alive for 'Nettops'
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 3:15pm EDT by monkey_bites
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The software giant says it will continue to sell and support Windows XP on low-cost computers designed exclusively for surfing the web, checking e-mail and other less-demanding tasks.
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Wikia Search Launches Wikipedia-Style Search Engine
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 3:10pm EDT by Monkey Bites
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The community-editable search engine project headed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales relaunched Tuesday. Its new user-friendly editing tools let visitors adjust results to their liking, ostensibly enhancing the service as they search.
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Android Comes to Life: Video, Pics of Google's iPhone Challenger
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 8:00pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Check out our exclusive screenshots of Android, Google's nascent operating system for next-generation mobile phones. When it's released later this year, it's sure to give the iPhone a run for its money.
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Android's Slick Debut Steals the Show at Google I/O Conference
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 6:25pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Google chose its developer conference in San Francisco to debut key features within its Android mobile operating system for smartphones. By showing off a few apps that clearly challenge Apple's iPhone, the demo won the favor of the attendees. Google also announced some enhancements to the developer products Gears, App Engine and Google Web Toolkit.
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Adobe Releases Free Betas of Creative Suite 4's Web Dev Tools
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 4:30pm EDT by monkey_bites
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Software maker Adobe has released free preview downloads of three of its tools for web developers: Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. The company hasn't released any details about the next versions of Photoshop or Illustrator, but the improvements seen in the first three betas show promise for those to follow.
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Delicious Library 2 Arrives, Adds More Than Just Eye Candy
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 3:45pm EDT by monkey_bites
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The latest version of the media-cataloging application Delicious Library has been released. The update not only shows off Mac OS X Leopard's impressive animation capabilities, but it also includes much-requested functionality like iTunes integration, faster performance and library sharing.
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FriendFeed Rooms Let Social Networkers Tune Out the Noise
Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 12:00am EDT by monkey_bites
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Social web users are constantly being bombarded with a dizzying amount of information -- such as trite updates about their friends' pets. A new feature from the social networking aggregation site FriendFeed gives its users the ability to interact with tight groups of their friends and discuss only topics they care about.
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Where Has All the Tiny Data Gone? Microformats Go Missing in Firefox 3
Posted: May 22nd, 2008, 1:45pm EDT by monkey_bites
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The once-promised integration of tools for dealing with microformats in the Firefox web browser has been shelved by its creators. One of the leading proponents of the semantic data format has an explanation.