MSN Messenger for Mac: Microsoft Doesn’t Get It October 3, 2006
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Microsoft recently released a new version of MSN Messenger for Mac and although the improvements are nice, there is still much that could be worked on.
Slackware 11.0 Released October 3, 2006
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Announcing Slackware Linux 11! The first Slackware release more than a year in the making, this edition of Slackware combines Slackware’s legendary simplicity, stability, and security with some of the latest advances in Linux technology.
Inside Google’s Manhattan Office October 3, 2006
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Great pictures of the newly built Googleplex in New York. An insiders look to what it means to be googley ! Looks like a fun place to work. Some Inside Pics…
Costumzee: the Halloween Wisdom of Crowds October 3, 2006
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Vertical metasearch engine Costumzee relaunched late this summer to offer costume search with all the Web 2.0 trimmings. (You could say it came back from the dead, just in time for Halloween.) Costumzee got a write up over at Search Engine Watch this morning. Search by tag, see related costumes, review costumes, give costume ideas ratings by stars, build your profile - it’s a little hard to find the RSS URL for a search but other than that Costumzee is very 2.0 and the company knows it. You can also view other users’ lists of costume ideas .
The most important part of the site is that users can make their own costume suggestions , this is more than just a one way trip through affiliate links.
New Look For Netvibes October 3, 2006
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Netvibes quietly released an updated look and feel this evening. Read about the release on the Netvibes blog here
Key additions to the service include:
- Module search
- New web/blog /video search with results within netvibes
- Customization of look and feel
- MySpace module
Netvibes says in their blog entry that the new release “will change the way you use and view the web” and includes user interface enhancements as well as a bunch of new modules. Putting the question of whether or not this update is as significant as the blog post suggests aside, Netvibes has certainly had a big impact on its users. They have collected over 5 million passionate users and $15 million in venture capital during its brief year of existence.
Google PageRank explained yet again October 3, 2006
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With the new update in Google Pagerank, here is an article from Matt Cutts that give more insights into Google Pagerank.
Moblogging purse takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize October 3, 2006
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Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of hackers, press and others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day. After 24 hours of hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in the Yahoo courtyard the first evening), 54 projects were demo’d to the crowd of about 400 people. Over 3,000 pictures from the event tagged (’HackDay06″) are on Flickr here.
Black Box Nation, a team of three fashion designers turned hardware hackers, unanimously swept our first open Hack Day event by mashing together a purse fitted with a Nokia camera phone, Bluetooth GPS, a pedometer and Flickr’s Zonetag API. Every few steps, the purse snaps a photo and moblogs it, creating a photo diary of the day. Creators Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy all get to fight over the 32″ plasma TV they won. And if Diana looks familiar to you, she was the nerdy aspiring fashion designer on Project Runway.
