| New on Webware.com |  | Michael Jackson tops Google, Yahoo search in 2009
Posted by Don Reisinger
The death of Michael Jackson in June launched a frenzy of Web activity and propelled the late pop star to the top of the search charts for 2009. That's the word from Google, Yahoo, and Bing, all of which have revealed their popular search terms for the past year. Read more |  | YouTube begins testing lighter 'feather' version
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
In a nod to efficiency, YouTube this week began testing a more lightweight version of its video player pages called "feather." Feather pages do a number of things to speed up the video-playing process, from defaulting to the standard quality version (instead of high quality or high definition), to removing various on-page features such as being able to control the size and coloring of an embed. The idea is to get the video playing as soon as possible with fewer on-page distractions. Read more | | Tools for creating holiday-shopping lists
Posted by Don Reisinger
Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just a memory, the holiday season is in full swing. For those of us who like to be organized when we hit the stores, creating a shopping list is really the best way to go. Unfortunately, though, there aren't many services that do a great job at creating those shopping lists. I've compiled a handful of services that perform well for anyone looking to get organized this holiday-shopping season. In this list, you'll find a few sites and a few iPhone apps to check out. Read more | | Google edges toward Rosetta Stone status
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google is making a new move to lower language barriers, offering the ability to translate search results from one language to another. Read more | | MOG looks and sounds good, but has big gaps
Posted by Matt Rosoff
MOG offered me a free trial to its subscription-based streaming music service, MOG All Access, which launched this week. The service costs five bucks a month, and gives you unlimited on-demand streams of more than six million songs from all four major labels and plenty of indies. While the sound quality is great, the selection, unfortunately, is not. Read more | | | | Hardware for Webware | | | Gmail gets an unofficial shortcuts keyboard
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Gmail has long had keyboard shortcuts, though learning them can be difficult. Enter the Gboard, a specialized mini-keyboard for Google's e-mail service. It debuts this Friday at an asking price of $19.99. The Gboard consists of 19 colored keys set in a standard size numpad-only keyboard. Clicking on any one of these performs that particular keyboard shortcut. Read more | | Boxee gets Clicker app, but not all Clicker data
Posted by Rafe Needleman
Just a few days ahead of the scheduled public beta launch of media app Boxee on Monday, the excellent Clicker Internet video directory has been ported to the platform. Clicker on Boxee is designed to be controlled from a remote, and it works very well. The Clicker service and Boxee appear made for each other. Read more |
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