Google App Engine will support XMPP to allow communication in real-time. (Via Google App Engine Blog)
Some readings on HTML5 from last week: Jeremy Keith writes about his thoughts on HTML5, and so does Jeffrey Zeldman in his article Loving HTML5. The HTML5 Super Friends have significant concerns about some aspects of the HTML5 specification.
O’Reilly’s ETech Conference will be discontinued. (Via Tom Coates on Twitter)
Categories: MischMasch.
Tags: ETech, Google, Google App Engine, HTML5, Jeffrey Zeldman, Jeremy Keith, XMPP
Apple will release Snow Leopard, the latest version of the Mac OS X, on August 28th. Most important seems to be the transition to 64-bit applications. The upgrade will cost only $29 or 29 €.
Jason Santa Maria announced the launch of Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces. Typedia makes it easy to classify, categorise, and connect typefaces. (Via Jason Santa Maria)
The new edition of Jeffrey Zeldman’s book Designing with Web Standards can be preordered. The author wrote a blog post about what is new in the third edition of DWWS.
Nokia announced a netbook today. The Nokia Booklet 3G will be Windows based. A first video can be found on YouTube. (Via Fee Beyer on Twitter)
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Tags: Apple, Designing with Web Standards, Jason Santa Maria, Jeffrey Zeldman, Mac OS X, Nokia, Nokia Booklet 3G, Typedia
Local review site Qype launched Qype Italia. The Hamburg based company is now present in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Brazil and Italy. Currently reviews are written in English, French, Spanish, Portuese, Polish and Italian. (Via Blonde 2.0)
The Panel Picker for SXSW 2010 is live. Now you can browse through all the programming proposals and you can vote for your favourties.
Microsoft will continue to support IE6 until 2014. There are a lot of online campaigns aiming to kill the 8 year-old browser, but it seems this will be a very slow death. (Via BBC NEWS | Technology)
URL shortener tr.im, that announced to shut down and then re-opened again, will become public domain, 100% community-owned, operated, and developed. (Via tr.im URLs)
37signals are working on a global namespace that users will have a single username and password for all 37signals products. This will be more userfriendly and will make it easier to implement tighter integration between their products. (Via Signal vs. Noise)
EveryBlock, a hyperlocal news site, has been acquired by MSNBC.com. (Via The Everyblock Blog)
The Los Angeles Times web site was redesigned. But now it is quite hard to distinguish the links from the rest of the text. (Via Jens Meiert on Twitter)
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Tags: 37signals, Everyblock, IE6, Los Angeles Times, Microsoft, MSNBC.com, Qype, SXSW, tr.im
Facebook acquired FriendFeed. For the time being FriendFeed will continue as it is. News about the acquisition have been on Mashable, Current, TechCrunch and everywhere else. Some people think it was a good move, Steve Rubel names it the best news he has heard in awhile, Tara Hunt guesses that it is a talent acquisition and a lot of people are not happy with this news. (Via FriendFeed Blog and Facebook Press Room)
URL shortener tr.im shuts down because of lack of monetization. Links will work until at least December 31st, 2009. (Via Mashable)
There is a new release of the Qype API including JSON support, read/write and no more OAuth for reads. (Via Qype on Twitter)
Microsoft sells it’s online interactive ad agency Razorfish they have been owning since the aQuantive acquisition in 2007. (Via Mashable)
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Tags: API, Facebook, Friendfeed, Microsoft, Qype, Razorfish, tr.im
Google acquired On2 Technologies, creator of high-quality video compression technology, to improve video quality on the web. (Via Official Google Blog)
A big group of startups have started the initiative IE6 No More to support help to kill Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6. The web site explains why people should abandon this old browser and provides code samples that can be implemented in every web site. This campaign is supported by Weebly, Posterous, DISQUS, Justin.tv and many more. (Via Mashable)
The new Google Chrome beta is faster, has an improved New Tab page and Omnibox, allows to add themes to the browser and has new HTML 5 capabilities. On time this new version of Google Chrome beta is only available for Windows. (Via Google Chrome Blog)
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Tags: browser, Google, Google Chrome, IE6, IE6 No More, Internet Explorer, On2 Technologies, video