 | | Google gets into the URL-shrinking biz with Goo.gl | | Google ventured into new territory this week with the launch of a new URL-shortening service called Goo.gl. Unlike some existing and high-profile shorteners such as TinyURL and Bit.ly, Goo.gl is not a general-purpose link shrinker that users can access by going to a standalone site. Instead, it's been built into Google products, beginning with Google's browser toolbar and its Feedburner RSS service. Both of those services can now create shortened Goo.gl URLs that link to the source content while using fewer characters. This is especially important for sharing on places like Twitter, where there are size limits. In an introductory post on its official blog, Google said it may eventually roll out the service as a standalone site, but that for now it's being built into Google products. Such a feature would likely allow third-party sites to build Goo.gl link shortening into their own products.
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Webware.com |  | | New on Webware.com | | | Google project shows when Web content is hiding
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google published a tool Wednesday called Browser Size that lets Web developers gauge how much of their pages are visible in people's browsers. With its own analysis, the search giant found that a lot of people couldn't see the download button for Google Earth because they had to scroll before it would show in their browser. Revamping the page increased download rates 10 percent. Read more |  | Blippy launches the Twitter of personal finance
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Blippy is one of those ideas that at first sounds so hilariously misguided that you'd be forgiven to think it a joke: It's a service that hooks into your credit card so everything you buy gets broadcast to your friends. Eventually you'll even be able to Twitter your spending. Ack! Read more | | Get started with essential Chrome extensions
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
Even without extensions, Google Chrome's market share grew phenomenally during its first year. Now that the No. 1 most-requested feature comes baked into the Windows and Linux versions, it's time to look at some of the best extensions available for the upstart browser. Read more | | How to hide your Facebook friends list
Posted by Larry Magid
Last week Facebook announced new privacy settings that give users some additional control over what information they share, while taking away the ability to hide a few pieces of information from the general public. One particular piece of publicly available information--users' friends lists--caused a bit of an uproar from a number of sectors, including business people who don't necessarily want to expose their professional networks to the public and their competitors. It is also a concern to some parents who might not want their kids--or a list of their kids' friends--to be widely available. We show you how to hide yours. Read more | | TwitVid gets a real-time search engine, analytics
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
TwitVid, a free video host for Twitter, launched two new, useful features on Monday. The first is a real-time search engine that will let users sort through videos both on TwitVid and YouTube. The other is an analytics engine that lets video owners know more about who is watching their uploaded clips, and where they're from. Read more | | | | What's next for browsers: | | | Browser makers hope WebGL will remake 3D
Posted by Stephen Shankland
If you want to see the scale of browser makers' ambition to remake not just the Web but computing itself, look no further than a new 3D technology called WebGL. The WebGL vision is simple. You're running around in a video game universe, blasting radioactive aliens--but you got there by visiting a Web site, not by installing the game on your PC. Read more | | HTML groups tackle Webcam support
Posted by Stephen Shankland
The groups responsible for standardizing the language used to build Web sites have begun tackling technology to provide a direct interface to Webcams. The move marks another step expansion of the scope of the Web standard. Advocates are trying to make it a foundation not just for static Web pages, but for interactive Web applications; the latter benefits from the direct access to hardware that applications running natively on a PC enjoy. Read more |
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