| New on Webware.com |  | Google hopes Go will give a browser boost
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google, ever eager to renovate the computing industry for the benefit of the Web and its own business, is working to link two nascent but potentially significant projects, its experimental Go programming language and its Chrome Web browser. Specifically, the company is building a foundation to let programs written in Go run directly within a Web browser endowed with Google's Native Client software. Read more |  | Twitter issues mulligan on new 'retweet' feature
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
It was a controversial new addition: Twitter had just started rolling out a new feature that built "retweets," a user-created way to quote other tweets, into the main Twitter application. But on Wednesday, plagued by errors, Twitter appears to have pulled the feature for further maintenance. Read more | | Clicker launches for all--watch it
Posted by Rafe Needleman
The online video directory service Clicker launched this week. If you watch TV, you will love this site. Clicker is not a full-on video search engine like Bing or Google, and it's not a video-viewing site like Hulu. It is, instead, a carefully curated directory of full-length video content, with several extremely nice features and user interface flourishes that make it a good first stop online if you're looking for an episode of your favorite show to watch. Read more | | Google cuts Picasa photo storage prices
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google has cut the price to store photos at its Picasa Web Albums site by a factor of eight. The photo-sharing site offers 1GB of photo and video storage for free, but now going beyond that limit costs less. The options now range from $5 a year for 20GB to $4,096 a year for a whopping 16 terabytes. Read more | | Two new remote Webcams: Mole and Vue
Posted by Rafe Needleman
The entry hall in my house has been a test bed for home monitoring cameras for years. I like to be able to record people coming into the house and see what's going on around the front door. Anyone with a family and occasional babysitters will understand. So I continue to look for simple, robust video-monitoring solutions, and vendors keep obliging by improving the state of the art in home remote cameras. The latest: Two interesting and very different products... Read more | | | | Webware tools | | | Google launches Maps tool for finding flu vaccine
Posted by Don Reisinger
Google this week announced a new Maps feature to help make it easier to determine the availability of flu vaccine. Users can now visit Google's new flu shot Google Maps page to find out if there is any vaccine available in their area. The tool will also be made available on the U.S. government's flu page, as well as the American Lung Association's site. Read more | | Facebook photo tagging gets automated
Posted by Matthew Fitzgerald
After a trial release in July, Face.com this week, launched Photo Tagger to the public. Photo Tagger is a free third-party application for Facebook that uses facial recognition technology to automatically tag photos of people. Facebook users can use Photo Tagger to automatically tag their photos, it uses facial recognition software to tag all of the photos in an album. Read more |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment