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FastPencil: Turn Your Blog Posts into a Published Book
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 20, 2009 9:42 AM / 4 Comments
Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers Continue reading »


Was Chrome OS a Disappointment?
Written by Sarah Perez / November 20, 2009 8:28 AM / 29 Comments
It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. Continue reading »


Adobe's Upgrades Acrobat.com, Launches New Mobile App
Written by Sarah Perez / November 20, 2009 6:43 AM / 3 Comments
Adobe's online office suite, Acrobat.com, is getting its first major upgrade since the service left beta back in June of this year. The new release, launching tomorrow, is an entirely Continue reading »


What Twitter's New Geolocation Makes Possible
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 19, 2009 4:34 PM / 10 Comments
Twitter turned on its long-awaited Geolocation API today, meaning that users can opt-in to having their messages annotated with their exact locations. The significance of this is made clear by Continue reading »


YouTube Videos Get Automatic Captions
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 19, 2009 8:53 AM / 6 Comments
Google just announced that YouTube can now automatically generate captions and subtitles for videos in English. For now, this feature is only enabled on a handful of partner channels, but Continue reading »


A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network
Written by Richard MacManus / November 18, 2009 7:50 PM / 9 Comments
HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to Continue reading »


Ebay Founder Omidyar Shuttering His Twitter Project Ginx, To Launch Online News Site
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 18, 2009 11:46 AM / 0 Comments
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced this morning that he's closing down his Twitter client Ginx early next year and instead focusing on an online local news project. We reviewed Continue reading »


Microsoft Announces IE9: Focus on Standards and Speed
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 18, 2009 10:01 AM / 14 Comments
Microsoft just announced that it started work on Internet Explorer 9 three weeks ago. Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, showed an early build of Continue reading »


Leaving a Vulgar Comment Online Might Cost You Your Job
Written by Sarah Perez / November 18, 2009 7:50 AM / 58 Comments
A backlash against anonymous commenters and trolls seems to be underway. Only last month, a court case was settled where anonymous commenters ended up having to pay big fines to Continue reading »


New Tech Spec Licensing Agreement Could Open Floodgates of Web Innovation
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 17, 2009 11:33 AM / 1 Comments
After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a Continue reading »


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