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Red Hat’s Project Spacewalk could make it the hub

31 Jul 2010

In the nine weeks or so since the debut of Spacewalk, we’ve been blown away by the level of interest, the contributions, and the excitement generated by the project…
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Back in early 2007 Red Hat let slip that it was planning to release its Red Hat Network code as an open-source project. In June of 2008, [...]

VideoSurf demo nearly lives up to pre-show hype

31 Jul 2010

If a friend sends you a clip from the service it will start and end at the exact timeline they select. When you’re prepping a clip yourself, you can also scrub to the spot you want and e-mail it to them without leaving the page.
(Credit:
VideoSurf)
Ideally this technology could be licensed elsewhere. Considering it can [...]

Marc Andreessen dings Google’s Friend Connect

31 Jul 2010

Update at 5 a.m. PDT Wed., May 14: Andreessen’s analysis of Google Friend Connect has been added.
Marc Andreessen sees a number of companies suffering from the same disease.
We will support Friend Connect in two ways:

Instead of using Ning or an alternative service to create a companion social network for a Web site, savvy users could [...]

Obama’s inauguration The most interactive

31 Jul 2010

Campbell used her cell phone to send pictures and text messages to her sister in Florida, her brother-in-law in New Jersey, and her brother in Virginia.

Andrea Williams takes a picture of herself in Washington on Tuesday to send to her family.

Countless others also used their handheld devices to share the historical moment with loved ones. [...]

5 television shows I want added to Hulu

31 Jul 2010

That’s why I’ve compiled this list of five television shows that I’d like to see added to Hulu.
The Sopranos
I’m certainly one of them. But after catching up on Battlestar Galactica and watching the same five episodes of The Office over and over again to memorize Dwight Schrute’s lines, I’m left wanting more.
Another huge HBO hit, [...]

Real estate site offers Google Street View

31 Jul 2010

The combination presents Google’s view of a particular property from the road and lets users virtually pivot around to see the surrounding area. It works in the 40 cities where Google has supplied imagery for its Street View service.

Trulia builds a Google Street View into its real estate search results in areas where it's available, [...]

Iterasi getting public RSS feeds and widgets

31 Jul 2010

He also expects more people to jump onboard as the platform expands to include
Mac users, which should be happening in the next few weeks–right around the time the long-awaited auto-archiving feature makes its way into users hands. “We’re close to having it ready,” Grillo said “and RSS is going to make it far more [...]

Google Voice A push to rewire your phone service

31 Jul 2010

When a message from an unknown number arrives, you can save it with the caller’s name through the Google Voice interface, and it will show up in your Gmail contacts, too. A “contacts” tab at Google Voice borrows heavily on the Gmail contacts tab.

Also, reading the text lets you quickly home in on the caller’s [...]

Football player pitches video game to GOP

31 Jul 2010

Developed in 2004, the computer-based game gives players points for answering financial management questions correctly, while wrong answers cost a team yardage. Like a regular football game, the team with the highest point total after four quarters wins the game. The game comes with a classroom curriculum that Visa has freely provided to public [...]

Make free, easy social polls with Polls Boutique

31 Jul 2010

Polls Boutique, which is a play on words from the 1989 Beastie Boys album, is a free polling service that’s great for creating simple polls with statistical depth and a great sense of community. Like Polldaddy, which we use extensively on Webware and used for Webware 100 voting this year, and more recently on CNET [...]