Rounding Up Facebook Desktop App Week
Flash pre-installed Nokia devices are being shipped. (via)
The Adobe AIR team is obviously excited about Facebook’s AIR app. James, though, prefers TweetDeck. Facebook continued to be blogged about, by the Silverlight team about the WPF and Silverlight Apps previewed with the Facebook Openstreams API.
Tesla Motors is using Merapi and Adobe AIR.
WaiLam completed his tutorial series [...]
Android Goes Beyond Mobile?
We know Google Android was not designed just for mobile. We know there is a good reason the gOS hasn’t been released yet (because it’s here already). Now, Hewlett-Packard is considering replacing Microsoft’s Windows operating system with software developed by Google in some mini-PCs called netbooks, said people briefed on the matter.
H-P, the world’s largest [...]
Rounding Up Last Week: Outside RIA
GigaOm reports that the alleged killer’s rampant shootings at SiPort had not been triggered by layoffs as some news reports claimed, but by individual termination.
Online ad growth is braking with a screech. From a growth rate of 12.7% in 4Q07 to 2.8% in 1Q08 to 1.1% in 2Q08 to 0.61% in 3Q08. My naive theory is [...]
Rounding Up Last Week
<head> conference closed the tag this Sunday with a </head>. There was so much to take in, it might be too early to start waiting for the next round. Mark Grossnickle of ickydime has a day by day review. And thank you for the show, Aral.
Google Earth is now officially on iPhones and iPod Touches [...]
Quick Reminder About Head Conference
The web conference is to start in a few hours. The local conference hub registration is still open for the London hub according to Aral’s blog. I’m not sure about the remaining hubs in Brighton (UK), Manchester (UK), Fribourg (Switzerland), and San Francisco (USA), but at least the official website hasn’t changed the announcement that [...]
Head for the head Now
This is to remind all those interested in attending the <head> conference to head to this page and register before the $99 early-bird tickets close tomorrow. You can also micro-sponsor the conference for $199.
<head> is a global web conference being held from Oct 24-26, 2008 in what is being touted as a “green” way. Green [...]
Go Green with Black RIA
How can we develop green software with RIA technology? If green means using less energy then the main approach is to reduce the “richness” of a RIA. Here is an example and justification.
Blackle is a skin of Google search. They believe the blacken screen will same energy. I’m sure they’d like to blacken Google [...]
Ensure a Smooth Ride
Are you looking for an insurance quote? Does the mere thought of it dishearten you? You no longer need to sift the yellow pages for insurance agent numbers, nor do you need to hold your call to their annoying IVRS, all the while worrying whether the prospective agent may rip you off.
Insurance1.com is your source [...]
Unlocked Cell Phones
Ever since carriers started locking cell phones claiming that it is necessary to subsidize the cost of the phones, there has been a lot of discontent what with consumers feeling arm-twisted. At a time when designers are coming with better and trendier phones to serve people’s tastes, locking them is erasing the definition of a [...]
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