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Speaking at a conference in New York, Microsoft’s chief architect, Ray Ozzie, said open source is a bigger threat to the software juggernaut than Google is. He says open source developers are not restricted by the best interests of shareholders and potentially are, therefore, a stronger market force.
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Watch music videos of songs you listen to on Last.fm. Also, watch what your Last.fm friends are listening to. Main feature is the music wizard.
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A real estate mashup featuring homes on the California central coast.
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Rankings of the best cities for singles in the United States.
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Google search meets DOS shell, in a browser. If you miss command lines, then this app is for you. Feel right at home searching the Web from a shell prompt.
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If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.
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While large scale social sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube and Myspace have predominated the web-o-sphere over the past few years there still is a need for narrow content verticals in this arena. This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or [...]

When it comes to design of modern web-applications, Ajax is considered as a standard approach. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, search, tooltips and tables are developed using Ajax libraries and nifty Ajax scripts. Ajax is useful and powerful . However, when using Ajax, one should keep in mind its drawbacks in terms of [...]

Last week, Google announced the Google Maps API for Flash, the latest extension of their extremely popular Google Maps API. As they describe:
This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a [...]

Somewhat lost in the buzz of the announcement of Google Health, is the fact that Google’s also just launched the Health Data API. As they describe, the new GData API provides a variety of health-related functionality:
The Google Health data API allows client applications to view and update Health content in the form of Google Data [...]

The Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive , whose long-term goal is to present “one web page for every book ever published.” A recent release of the Open Library brought the total number of book records to over 13.4 million, including over 234,000 records with full-text for [...]

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Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Max Gladwell, of MaxGladwell.com , as a regular guest writer on sustainablog. Max Gladwell covers the nexus of social media and green living. We feel that these two trends and technological developments hold tremendous promise for improving quality of life for everyone on the planet.
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AdSense for Search is now powered by Google Custom Search. Yesterday, Google officially announced the availability of AdSense for Search for use in combination with the powerful Google Custom Search service, something not possible until now and potentially very welcome to both small and large professional web publishers looking for further ways to optimize their [...]

There are very few rules on microblogging platform Twitter. But if you use it for unsolicited “tweets” about male enhancement products, watch out: Twitter has started to shut down accounts that it has flagged as “spam,” reported blogger Jesse Stay.
Twitter employees confirmed the new tactic in their developer forum. “We’ve been considering this issue here [...]

For something so focused on navigation and geography, it’s a bit ironic that location-based social networks have to work their way through such a jungle: carrier partnerships, handset compatibility, creepy privacy concerns, and what-have-you. But one small New York start-up, Socialight, says it’s found a route: developers, developers, developers.

Socialight, which focuses on user-created city maps [...]

Yesterday I was in Internet purgatory. Today I’m back in the land of the living.

The occasion? Cable installation–an activity on par with going to get fillings at the dentist. It’s time consuming, and often a learning experience about the quirks of wherever you’re living. When my wonderful technician was done, I had play-off basketball and [...]

Microsoft, we get it: That Yahoo thing fell through, and picking up the pieces can be messy. But according to Kara Swisher at All Things D, Redmond just won’t give up. The company has reportedly put together a Plan B that it refers to as “Project Granola,” a name that makes “Zune” sound good.

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Update: Adobe has informed us that while the new Flickr connection isn’t live yet, it will be very soon. We will provide another update when we have confirmed that it is live.
When Adobe launched Photoshop Express at the end of March, it indicated that Flickr support would be next on the agenda, and today the [...]

All gold rushes must come to an end, and according to one new report, Facebook’s developer platform is no exception.

Facebook developer Jesse Farmer, creator of developer analytics service Adonomics, did an extensive amount of number-crunching after coming to an odd observation earlier this year: “Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community,” Farmer wrote in [...]

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Web 2.0 Badges - A set of free badges to download and use in your own designs.
Fresh Badge - Quickly generate your own badge.
adClustr - Starburst badges.
Deziner Folio - A collection of different badges.
BittBox - Free vector badges.
Official Seal Generator - An alternative to the typical badge.
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This Electronic Arts game uses the YouTube API to let you upload your in-game videos directly to YouTube from Spore.

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Export Basecamp projects to PDF. Creates reports for archiving, sharing and reading offline. Now supports images.

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A community-based expert system for answers, questions and problems. Integrates Yahoo Answers API.

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Online shopping based on Amazon eCommerce. Written as a hybrid of PHP and Perl. Stores data in flat files. More then 60,000 products in over 60 categories.

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Track news coverage about anything and view trends on a chart. Combines the Daylife and Trendrr APIs.

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Standards-compliant site that compares Amazon, Ebay, and Shopping.com. Uses a hint of AJAX on the search page for quick loading times.

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The history of computers, software, and information technology in a Google Gadget. Each day contains a historical reference to the people, inventions, and events that define the evolution of computers.

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Great eBay + Google maps mashup. Search for local listings by selecting distance from your Zip/Postcode. Just type in what your looking for and away you go. Click on the flags to see whats on eBay near you.

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Hab.la is a FREE service for chatting with visitors to your website using any jabber compatible IM client: iChat, adium, Meebo, Pidgin. Google Translate translates the conversations into the language of your choice, in real-time.
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Mapanui - a pocket map for your browser. Australia based.
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You can use these buttons freely for personal or commercial use. A link back to http://www.Designshrine.net is not necessary but deeply appreciated.
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You can use these buttons freely for personal or commercial use. A link back to http://www.Designshrine.net is not necessary but deeply appreciated.
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Adobe has updated Share, their service for document sharing and management, so that users can now convert uploaded documents into PDF and they also have exposed this functionality in the Share API. This is a useful enhancement that should broaden the utility of the service (we previously looked at the Adobe Share API in our [...]