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6 New Web Technologies of 2008 You Need to Use Now
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 with their utility and ingenuity — and become …
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LimeWire Adds Private File Sharing
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 whom you wish to share it.
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Facebook Connect Goes Live: Let the Identity Wars Begin
Facebook announced the general availability of its single sign-on technology Thursday, presenting a clear challenge to OpenID. Facebook Connect allows users of the massive social network to log in to and interact on participating websites using their Facebook IDs.
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Flickr Updates Mobile Site, Adds Video Playback for iPhones
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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YouTube Goes Widescreen, Paves the Way for Hollywood Features
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's announcement that it will soon begin hosting ful …
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TypePad Takes on WordPress, Disqus With New Comment Engine
Blog software maker Six Apart has debuted TypePad Connect, a new distributed comment system for blogs. It lets commenters use the same login across multiple blogs, build a profile and follow the activities of their friends, much like similar discussion systems from WordPress and Disqus.
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Google's SearchWiki Lets You Customize Your Search Results
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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New Mac Virus Threatens Only the Weak-Minded
Poor Mac users just can't get a decent virus that's on par with the threats Windows users face. Because yes, there's a new Mac virus lurking, but unless you're incredibly stupid, there's no need to worry.
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Create Imageless Graphs and Charts
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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Let Google's My Maps Be Your Geo Database
Store geolocations inside a My Maps mashup and access the data anywhere on the web. The RSS feed produced by Google can be read by other services, or on your own site with the Google Maps API.
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Microsoft to Offer Free Virus Protection Software for Windows
Microsoft's new Windows antivirus package will furnish XP, Vista and 7 users free protection from viruses, spyware and other malware, starting in the second half of 2009. While it'll replace Microsoft's current paid service, we don't suggest throwing away any third-party solutions just yet.
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Why Adobe Configurator Will Revolutionize How You Use Photoshop
To help make Photoshop more flexible and bit easier to work with, Adobe releases Configurator — an add-on that makes it easy to customize Photoshop panels to suit your needs. The real power of Configurator lies in the ability to swap your creations and download tools from other Photoshop users …
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Shout Out Your Whereabouts With Shizzow
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 friends know which coffee shop's WiFi your laptop …
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Will Flagging Be Social Media's 8-Track?
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 the past?
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New YouTube Feature Lets You Watch Your Neighbor's Videos
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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Hotmail Users Slam Microsoft's Redesign
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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Intersquash Makes Any Website iPhone-Friendly
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 for them.
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OpenID Is Here. Too Bad Users Can't Figure Out How it Works
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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How to Recover Your Google Account
Google has a great record for keeping its services going, but it isn't infallible. Several heavy Google users have been complaining of being locked-out of their accounts for up to 15 days. Don't rely on the cloud to keep your data safe, find out what to do if it happens to you.
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Build a Local Search App With Google's APIs
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 quick and dirty map hacking, then moving on to …
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