Considering Meebo was one of the first IM clients to feature a pirate emoticon (type the letter P followed by a right parenthesis “P), it’s only natural that they celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day Last year, Meebo enabled Pirate Speak, where if you type “pirateon” your IMs will be translated into pirate [...]
September 19th, 2007 | Jeffro | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "News"
Netscape Finalizes Changes
Netscape is reporting that they have completed their planned changes to the Netscape.com website. According to Tom Drapeau, the Propeller social news experience will not be going away. Instead, within the next few weeks, Propeller content will be seen on both the Netscape.com portal and AOL News. Netscape also goes on to apologize about the [...]
September 19th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
FireFox 2.0.0.7 Released
Mozilla has finally released FireFox version 2.0.0.7 to the public. This release is nothing more than a security fix which squashes the recently discovered Quicktime bug. To download the latest version, visit the official FireFox home page.
September 19th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
Revver Pays Out 1 Million Dollars
Revver, one of the first video sharing sites to share revenue with it’s userbase have announced they have paid 1 million dollars to video creaters and sharers.
To coincide with this announcement is Revver’s one year anniversary. Doug Bresler, the creator of “Doogtoons” ended up being the one to receive an honorary check for the one [...]
First Big Move For Silverlight
According to AppScout, Microsoft has signed it’s first major deal involving Silverlight, Microsoft’s competitor to the Adobe Flash Player. The deal took place with Internap Network Services Corporation. The company will equip websites of several large radio groups with the Silverlight media player. Radio stations that will be participating in this deal include, Citadel Communications, [...]
September 12th, 2007 | Jeffro | 4 comments | Continued
Netscape To Propel New Social News Outlet
After recently announcing the death of it’s social news outlet, Netscape has announced today that they will be migrating it’s http://netscape.aol.com/ site into it’s new home http://www.propeller.com/. As Tom puts it,
It is important to us that you feel empowered to choose how you want to consume your news and participate in the community. As we [...]
Amazon Sponsoring Startup Contest
Amazon Web Services announced that they will be holding a STARTUP Challenge, or a contest of the best startup using their own API. The winner will receive $50,000 cash as well as $50,000 worth of AWS credits.
The grand prize winner will also receive mentoring sessions from an AWS technical expert, and an investment offer from [...]
WikiPedia Hits 2 Million Pages
The most popular, sometimes controversial online encyclopedia, Wikipedia has achieved another milestone today with 2 million user generated pages. The article which lays claim to the title had something to do with El Hormiguero, which detailed a Spanish Television show which went by the same name.
To lay credence to the information in Wikipedia, most of [...]
Google Reader Has Impressive Numbers
The hot news item of the day seems to center around a leaked GoogleVideo which was supposed to be a training video for ‘Noogles’ or new Google employees. The video contained quite a few interesting tidbits of information.
* Google Reader has two kinds of feeds:
- feeds that have one subscriber (two thirds from the [...]
NetWebApp Web 2.0 Directory
From the guys who brought you WebScriptLabs comes NetWebApp. NetWebApp is a web 2.0 sites and services directory with style.
NetWebApp features a clean, crisp design which makes browsing around the directory a breeze. Entries are organized by category, with each category being accessed via the top of the page. Each entry in the directory contains [...]
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