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February 2009 Archives

Webstock 2009
Written by Richard MacManus / February 16, 2009 9:06 PM / 2 Comments
Webstock, a conference for Web professionals, is happening in Wellington New Zealand this week. As usual it's a classy lineup of speakers and a number of international webheads will be Continue reading »


Black Out Your Twitter Photo: NZ Copyright Law Protest Goes Viral
Written by Richard MacManus / February 16, 2009 8:08 PM / 16 Comments
Social networks are making it increasingly easy to organize and propagate protests. One that caught our eye today is the New Zealand Internet Blackout, which is using a variety of Continue reading »


TinyChat - Disposable Chatrooms for the Twitter Generation
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 16, 2009 5:44 PM / 16 Comments
Even though we live in an age of instant Qik streams, video chats on Skype, and micro-blogging on Twitter, sometimes all you need is a simple chatroom for real-time text Continue reading »


ClikBall: A Slick New Way to Share Links, From the Creator of Userscripts.org
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 16, 2009 3:38 PM / 15 Comments
ClikBall is a handsome looking new application built in part by Jesse Andrews, the man responsible for Greasemonkey script repository Userscripts.org. Described literally, ClikBall is a browser plug-in that allows Continue reading »


5 Online Political Resources Everyone Should Know About
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 16, 2009 11:28 AM / 11 Comments
It's Presidents Day here in the United States but for most people it's just a day off work. Cynics, fair-weather political watchers, "Joe Six Packs" (did you want to avoid Continue reading »


Twe2: Free Twitter SMS Updates For Europe and the Rest of the World
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 16, 2009 11:27 AM / 15 Comments
In August 2008, Twitter killed SMS updates for everybody outside of the U.S., Canada, and India. Users in the U.K. can now only send messages from their phones, but can't Continue reading »


Facette: Organize Your Delicious Bookmarks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 16, 2009 9:55 AM / 4 Comments
Delicious, Yahoo's online bookmarking tool, only forces a very loose organization upon its users. While this straightforward method is great for most users, it can often make finding bookmarks harder Continue reading »


What Went Wrong with Fennec, a.k.a. Firefox Mobile?
Written by Sarah Perez / February 16, 2009 6:37 AM / 6 Comments
Only last week, the Mozilla Project proudly announced a "milestone release" of Fennec, the web browser also known as "Firefox Mobile." The much anticipated software was made available for download Continue reading »


Coming Soon to Africa: XLBrowser, a Mobile Browser Powered by SMS
Written by Sarah Perez / February 16, 2009 5:34 AM / 4 Comments
Mobile-XL, a mobile technology company, have just announced a partnership with Nokia, one of the world's top mobile handset manufacturers, to embed their company's XLBrowser into some handsets that will Continue reading »


Apture Packs a Lot of Media Into a Little Pop-up
Written by Richard MacManus / February 16, 2009 5:00 AM / 16 Comments
The most obvious feature of Apture is that it is a pop-up technology. Apture is a Javascript plug-in for publishers that adds contextual information to links - via pop-ups which Continue reading »


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