Archive for April, 2008
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Preview
As part of Yahoo’s plan to open up their search technology to external developers, a new tool called SearchMonkey is now being previewed. SearchMonkey allows you to add data services that can be used to present richer, more useful search results. Sign up for more information: Yahoo! SearchMonkey: Oooh ooh oooh
Best Web 2.0 Apps
These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners: Welcome to Webware 100 Awards 2008 (Lots of lovely logos, too!)
Yahoo! Developer Network site redesign
Useful Javascript/PHP/Ruby resource, with lots of tutorials and code samples… now even prettier Yahoo! Developer Network
Web Company Logo Competition
Design Solution, my former employers, are looking for ideas for a new logo. There’s a $500 prize for the best idea, and anyone is welcome to submit a design: Fresh Ideas for Web Development Company Logo. $500
MySQL: Open Source, mostly.
Interesting shift of focus from Sun/MySQL: MySQL will start offering some features (specifically ones related to online backups) only in MySQL Enterprise. This represents a substantive change to their development model — previously they have been developing features in both MySQL Community and MySQL Enterprise. jcole’s weblog: Jeremy Cole’s take on life. » Blog Archive [...]
Flickr Code launched
Flickr Code is a “one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community”. Includes the open source code for the new Flickr Uploadr tool which runs in a XULRunner environment. Flickr Code
“Programmers Wikipedia” Coming Soon
stackoverflow.com is a new project from Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, intended to be “the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit”. Worth keeping an eye on…
Useless Mac Applications #1 : Sherlock
Bundled with Mac OS 8.5 – 10.4, the Sherlock search tool became less and less useful as time went by. Apple claimed that Sherlock was “dramatically better than standard web browsers at retrieving and displaying some of the most practical and useful information available on the internet” without ever explaining why. The US-centric content was [...]
Update your Facebook, Twitter and IM status from one application
MoodBlast is an excellent little app that allows you to update your status from one place. It currently supports the following services: Skype iChat Adium Twitter Tumblr Pownce Jaiku Facebook Unfortunately, MoodBlast is Mac-only, but there is a web application called HelloTxt that looks like it will achieve the same thing. MoodBlast HelloTxt
New Flickr Video feature is a Good Thing
24 hours since the launch of the new video functionality on Flickr, and many members are up in arms. I must admit, when I first heard about the idea of video on Flickr a year ago, I was also sceptical. The photo sharing features were very pure and clean, and I thought that adding video [...]