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While Google only announced its own browser last Tuesday and did not include an API in this first release that would allow developers to create extensions for it, Japanese developer

Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's leaving the company to work for StatusNet (formerly Laconica) as their chief architect. StatusNet

Warning: This post is frivolous and NOT topic-focused! May the blogosphere have mercy on me. So here are those baby names... Girls: Bloggia Blerta Post Ping (could work as a

When you visit a web site how do you know you're getting the best experience for you? That's the question the new Firefox add-on App Discover aims to solve. digg_url

First impressions. Short book, more of a novella than a novel. I finished it in one day (a day off work). Alex Garland, if you don't know his work,

Alex Iskold's post from last night, Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing, has generated over 70 comments as of writing. Many of them challenged the article - but it

Have you got a few minutes to spare to help make government activities more transparent? Watchdog organization The Sunlight Foundation launched a new project called TransparencyCorps today. Modeled after Amazon's

GeoXtract is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate your own data with Google Maps or Google Earth. Using this desktop application, you can create a personalized map with

Why didn't we think of this? Project management startup Smartsheet released a new core feature this week - integration of Amazon's outsourcing service Mechanical Turk. The Smartsheet interface will now

46,253 words. Here's the latest (chapter 49 onwards). Two more nights to go and I'll be finished. Yesterday was quite difficult and I wasn't satisfied with my writing. I couldn't