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January 2009 Archives

Personal Health Records: Lots of Interest, but Few Users
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 15, 2009 12:38 PM / 14 Comments
According to Manhattan Research, a healthcare market research company, personal health records (PHR) are slowly becoming more popular in the U.S., but concerns about privacy and a lack of understanding, Continue reading »


Feedly Adds Bleeding Edge Tech to Feed Reading Tool
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 15, 2009 9:44 AM / 9 Comments
Feedly, a magazine style feed reader that syncs with Google Reader, just released a very interesting and useful integration with Mozilla's Ubiquity. Ubiquity gives Firefox a command-line interface that makes Continue reading »


Wikipedia Celebrates 8th Birthday With New Tech for the Future
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 15, 2009 9:42 AM / 5 Comments
Few websites have made a bigger impact on the world than Wikipedia has and today the organization is celebrating its 8th birthday. Not content to rest on its laurels, Wikipedia Continue reading »


Hey Companies, Where Are Your iPhone Apps?
Written by Sarah Perez / January 15, 2009 8:37 AM / 55 Comments
A funny thing happened on the way to the airport. I searched through the iTunes App Store on my iPhone for a Southwest app that allowed for flight check-ins, only Continue reading »


Six New Blackberry Apps Keep RIM's Platform Fresh
Written by Sarah Perez / January 15, 2009 5:54 AM / 15 Comments
The Blackberry isn't dead yet. Although tech blogs and other news sites have given heavy coverage to arguably hotter smartphones like the iPhone, Android, and now Palm's new Pre, the Continue reading »


Calais 4.0 Released: Linked Data Meets the Commercial Web
Written by Richard MacManus / January 15, 2009 5:00 AM / 10 Comments
Thomson Reuters is today launching the latest version of its Calais web service and open API, Calais 4.0. Calais is a toolkit of products that enables publishers to incorporate semantic Continue reading »


Odds Are, You Now Have a TypePad Connect Login
Written by Rick Turoczy / January 15, 2009 2:30 AM
In November of last year, Six Apart announced a new community management tool, TypePad Connect, a service designed to give bloggers more insight and accessibility to the conversations taking place Continue reading »


Too Lazy to Click that StumbleUpon Button? Playericious May Be for You
Written by Rick Turoczy / January 14, 2009 11:56 PM / 7 Comments
Social bookmarking sites - as many of us know - are a veritable treasure trove of information, especially when it comes to common tags like "howto" or "webdesign." But sometimes, Continue reading »


Google Giveth, and Taketh Away: Google Video, Notebook, Catalog Search, Jaiku, and Dodgeball to Shut Down
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 14, 2009 7:18 PM / 53 Comments
A number of Google services just announced that they are about to shut down. The Google Video team announced that it will shut down uploads in a few months, while Continue reading »


Citizen Journalism Gets a Cash Infusion
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 14, 2009 5:29 PM / 1 Comments
Tonight, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Knight Foundation has just awarded a total of $5 million to a number of local journalism projects in the U.S. These projects Continue reading »


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