Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
5 Trends Affecting How We Connect Through Social Media
Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow her on Twitter @yuliz.No matter how much we open up on the web, creating ...Read More
Gmail Gets a New Contact Manager
Starting today Gmail users will be greeted with a new and much improved version of Contacts designed with two key functions in mind: simpler contact management and a Contacts experience that is consistent with the rest of Gmail.New features include keyboard shortcuts that mirror Gmail's keyboard shortcuts, a sort by ...Read More
How Freelancers Might Use Social Media in the Future
This series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.For freelancers, social media has been a real game changer, and brings networking to a ...Read More
7 Perfect Posterous Themes for Multimedia Blogs
Posterous has been around since 2006, but the super-simple blogging platform is still relatively unknown when compared to blog giants like WordPress and Tumblr. If that sentence didn't mean anything to you then, ironically, Posterous was designed for you.The platform takes all the functionality and impressive visuals from (sometimes complicated) ...Read More
TweetDeck and Echofon First to Get Twitter’s Real-Time User Stream
Twitter has begun testing User Streams, a new Streaming API that will finally give Twitter desktop apps real-time capabilities and streams.According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, Users Streams is now in "a limited testing period for desktop clients." This is the first time that the User Streams API ...Read More
5 Ways Social Media Helps Promote Good Health
Alexander B. Howard (@digiphile) is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He will share open source technology news at the OSCON convention in Portland, Oregon, on July 19-23.This March, a report on chronic disease and the Internet by ...Read More
Meet the New and Improved MapQuest [SCREENSHOTS]
Say hello to the new MapQuest: it's faster, cleaner, and completely redesigned and rebuilt from the ground-up.MapQuest, acquired by AOL in 2000, has long been a staple of the web, bringing online mapping and direction tools to the web in 1996. While it's still one of the web's most ...Read More
Facebook Location Features Confirmed and Coming Soon
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed to press in London today that Facebook will indeed be launching location-based features in the near future.According to several reports, the young CEO told attendees at a local Facebook Developer Garage event, “We are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon.”This confirmation is ...Read More
Knight Foundation Awards $2.74 Million For Future News Tools
So what’s the future of news? A Local Wiki platform that allows citizens to easily maintain news about their community? A tool for that would allow news organizations to create real-time ads? Or is it mapped news integrated with social sites? These are just a few of the examples that ...Read More
Ex-Twitter Employee Didn’t Want to Work for an “Ad Company”
5by5’s Dan Benjamin interviewed Twitter’s former lead developer Alex Payne and the two discussed Payne’s views on the company and its business model.Payne joined TwitterTwitter as its 8th employee, but he recently left to co-found the new startup BankSimple, where he acts as Chief Product & Technology Officer. As Twitter’s ...Read More