Seesmic has aquired the desktop Twitter client twhirl that is based on Adobe AIR. Loic Le Meur writes about the acquisition on his blog.
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MischMasch 2008-04-03
Amazon.com has launched Amazon TextBuyIt that allows customers to buy via mobile phone text message.
The German iTunes Store finally offers TV shows. Now waiting for films to show up too, but seems to work stable now.
Shortly after WordPress 2.5 Automattic released bbPress 0.9, the new version of the plain and simple forum software.
German based photo and video hosting service sevenload relaunched it’s website at the weekend. Already announced to go live on monday the service was unavaiable most of the day. On tuesday the site still had severe hickups, but seems to work stable now.
MischMasch 2008-04-01
Flickr have added the new Find your friends feature. Now you can look for people using Flickr by importing your friends using Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail address books without any password sharing. Hopefully soon more web applications will go the same way and won’t ask for login/password anymore.
Google has started to roll out an offline version of Google Docs powered by Google Gears. So when will there be Google Gears support for Google Mail?
Some April Fools’ Day hoaxes: MOO.com announced the Mighty Card. BarCamp Leipzig has been relocated to Köln. Erik Spiekermann has become a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and was appointed to Microsoft’s board of Directors.
MischMasch 2008-03-31
There may still be people around remembering mixtapes. Now Muxtape offers to create your mixtape online and share it with your friends. Just sign in with your e-mail address, upload up to twelve songs and choose a colour for your Muxtape. Or just listen to this tape, that tape or one of the tapes on the main page.
Dan Cederholm brings up an important topic again. Like its predecessors IE8 does not resize fonts set in pixels. As it seems this is less a bug than more a decision.
Craigslist, the classified site already listing big german cities for some time has added German as one of new languages beside French, Portugese and Italian.
WordPress 2.5 is out since saturday. Among all the new features are: search now covering posts and pages, built in Gravatar support, media library for images, music and videos with multi-file uploading, built-in galleries, full-screen writing and more. The new dashboard interface was created in collaboration with Happy Cog Studios.
Last week I stumbled accross several links to a 20 year old song by Rick Astley: Never gonna give you up. First I did not understand what it was about. Then I learnt that it was an internet meme. Most links are leading to YouTube videos. Others should not be clicked or only be used at your own risk, like Internet is serious business or Rickrolling.com. If you follow these links I am not responsible for any damage. But my favorite video so far is a JavaScript guru getting rickrolled the first time doing karaoke.
MischMasch 2008-03-20
Peach is an open movie licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license that will be avaiable later this year. The trailer can already be seen. For those who have not seen Elephants Dream being the world’s first open movie, you have to watch it. Being licensed under Creative Commons Attribution means everybody can freely reuse and distribute the content of these movies.
Dan Cederholm‘s article Safari 3.1 Develop Menu pointed out the new Develop menu in Safari that is not activated by default. Now it’s possible to deactivate images, style sheets, JavaScript or access the Web Inspector.
MischMasch 2008-03-18
Today Apple released Safari 3.1 for Macintosh and Windows. Safari got a lot of faster. Good to see that searching in the source code works and the search string is highlighted again. Safari now allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector. And this version of the browser seems a lot more stable again. The last months I experienced a lot of spinning wheels, especially after watching flash videos online. I keep my fingers crossed that Safari won’t freeze or crash that often.
Facebook announced today that they will introduce new and improved privacy settings that will allow different settings for different groups of friends. Moreover Facebook Chat will come soon, for now not Jabber compliant and without an API.
MischMasch 2008-01-17
Today Yahoo! announced that they will support OpenID. This means that all 248 million Yahoo! accounts will be OpenID compatible. Yahoo! OpenID service will start January 30th.
The Commons is a project by the Library of Congress and Flickr. On time about 1500 out of over 1 million images were published on Flickr. Everyone is invited to tag these images. More information can be found on the Flickr Blog.
MischMasch 2008-01-16
Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL. (via O’Reilly Radar)
Eric Meyer made some changes to his reset styles. He promises that there will be a separate page for the reset styles soon.
MischMasch 2007-12-19
Dean Hachamovitch on the IEblog: Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone”. More by Molly E. Holzschlag: Yes Ladies and Gentleman, We Have a Smiley. Only a few days after Opera filed a complaint with the European Commission.
Dopplr is now open for registration without invitation.
MischMasch 2007-12-01
Today is December 1st and it’s the beginning of the Advent season. As in the recent years there are two nice Advent calendars with web design tips and tricks. The first one is Adventskalender by the Webkrauts, the second one is 24 ways.
And don’t forget that today is also World Aids Day.