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Hulu Comes to the Desktop
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 28, 2009 11:34 AM / 11 Comments

Hulu, the popular online destination for streaming TV shows and movies, just opened up its new Labs project and one of the first projects to come out of the Hulu

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FileRide: A Different Kind of Social Network
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 25, 2008 10:32 AM / 6 Comments

FileRide is a Stockholm-based social network with a twist: FileRide creates a social network for you, based around the files that are already on your computer. FileRide, for example, lets

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New Adobe AIR App Delivers Live Video From FOX News
Written by Sarah Perez / September 5, 2008 8:11 AM / 2 Comments

Are you addicted to the news lately? Here in the U.S., it's election season which means that easy access to live news coverage is a must-have these days. There was

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The Future of the Desktop
Written by Guest Author / August 18, 2008 3:22 PM / 35 Comments

Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run

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Fanbase: An Adobe AIR App For Music Fans
Written by Sarah Perez / July 29, 2008 5:57 AM / 2 Comments

Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has just launched an Adobe AIR app called Fanbase. This desktop app offers fans a way to connect with their favorite artists

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Smart Desktop Organizes Your Info, Both Online and Off
Written by Sarah Perez / July 28, 2008 6:03 AM / 5 Comments

One of the software programs mentioned at this year's IORG conference (see our coverage here) was SmartDesktop. This program uses machine intelligence to automatically organize your information by project so

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Yahoo Gives IMAP Access to All Users Through Zimbra Desktop
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 23, 2008 11:26 PM / 9 Comments

Just last week, we wrote about rumors that Google would be bringing offline access to Gmail and Google Calendar using Gears very soon. Today, Yahoo announced that it will be

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Adobe AIR Goes to Work: 6 Apps for the Corporate Desktop
Written by Sarah Perez / June 12, 2008 5:00 AM / 13 Comments

By now, you've heard of Adobe AIR - the cross-OS runtime that lets you run rich internet applications on your desktop. We've covered several of our favorite apps in the

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Weekly Wrapup, 7-11 April 2008
Written by Richard MacManus / April 12, 2008 12:30 PM / 3 Comments

Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. The big news was Google App Engine - we provided extensive coverage and analysis. Also this

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Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop
Written by Josh Catone / April 8, 2008 2:51 PM / 31 Comments

Yesterday on this blog Sarah Perez wondered how important is offline access for web apps? Her conclusion was that offline access is important now, but not as important as it

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