 | | Announcing the 2009 Webware 100 award winners | | This week we announced the winners of the 2009 Webware 100. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to pick the best Web 2.0 sites and services. As with the previous years' awards, there were some surprises among the expected winners. Readers last year suggested that Webware 100 include not just products that win the popular vote, but also products chosen by the editors of Webware as the best available. We didn't want to second-guess the wisdom of our crowd, but we did nonetheless create an 11th category, Editors' Choice. In this category, you'll find some of the smaller and less-popular products in awards subcategories we created just for them, like Technical Achievment, Best Newcomer, and Best Twitter Rip-off. There's also a booby prize in our Editors' Choice: Failure to Launch. It's a tie.
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Webware.com |  | | New on Webware.com | | | Netflix coming to Windows Media Center
Posted by Greg Sandoval
Microsoft has struck a deal to bring Netflix's streaming movie service to Windows Media Center, the companies said Tuesday. Netflix's more than 12,000 "Watch it now" movies and TV episodes are only available to users of Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. XP users won't be able to access the service. Read more |  | Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services
Posted by Rafe Needleman
The new version of Flock adds support for Twitter and provides persistent access to Facebook Chat from any Web page. It even has a Twitter search widget on its home page. It has hooks into other services as well--all told, more than 20, including more social networks (Bebo, MySpace, etc.), media-sharing services like Picasa and YouTube, blogging platforms, bookmark organizers, and so on. Read more | | Yahoo's iPhone app gets spoken search
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
On Wednesday, Yahoo rolled out an update to its iPhone app. Yahoo Mobile 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch enables voice searches everywhere that the search bar is located in the app. You'll press the oneSearch field and see the large gray button prompting you to press and speak your inquiry. It then transcribes what you've said in order to pull up search results. Read more | | BillMyParents makes it easy for kids to spend parents' money
Posted by Rafe Needleman
There's a cute new payment service just launching: BillMyParents. It's a way that kids ("tweens," according to the founder) can shop in online stores and easily spend their parents' money--if their parents later agree to buy them the stuff they want. The system puts little BillMyParents buttons next to items in online retail. To check out, kids write optional notes to their parents about the items they want. Parents get e-mail notifications and can approve and pay for individual items directly. Read more | | Waze: The traffic of the crowds
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Currently running on 80,000 smartphones in Israel, Waze shows you traffic flows on highways, and unlike other traffic services, it also shows it on side streets, and it creates routing advice based on that data. The service allows users to report accidents, speed traps, cops by the side of the road, and other traffic-related items. Read more | | | | Extending your Web e-mail | | | How to back up e-mail to an online account
Posted by Dong Ngo
We recently blogged about Gmail's new feature that helps you migrate from other Web-based e-mail services to Gmail and received a lot of e-mails asking if there's a way to back up an offline POP3 e-mail archive to an online e-mail service. The answer is yes, but depending on what e-mail clients you use, it can require a little to a lot of work. We show you how to do it with your POP account. Read more | | Gmail now translates your e-mails
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Translation is making its way into more Google services this month, having just been added to Gmail's labs. If you get a message in a different language, there's a new link that'll show up in the top of the message that lets you translate it to whatever language you have Gmail set to. You can also set it up to do the translation to any language of your choice. Read more | | | | | | Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most |
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