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Flickr Goes Big With Larger Images, Responsive Redesign
Flickr, the photo-sharing service that started them all, is teaching its competitors some new tricks with a redesign that takes a responsive approach to images, serving up bigger, better images across devices."
Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:52 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesBack Up Your Gmail Account With Gmvault
The more you rely on cloud-based services, the more important good backups become. If you're using Gmail, Gmvault makes it a snap to back up your account, ensuring you have a copy of your data even if the Gmail cloud someday blows away."
Mon, 07 May 2012 15:51:08 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGitspective: A Facebook-Style Timeline for Your Code
What's more interesting than seeing what your friends are up to? Seeing what your code is up to of course. Check out Gitspective, a Facebook-style timeline for GitHub."
Wed, 09 May 2012 20:06:24 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesMicrosoft Puts ‘Windows Live’ Brand Out to Pasture [Updated]
Microsoft is ditching its "Windows Live" branding for the upcoming launch of Windows 8. Instead most of the same cloud services will become Metro-style apps in Windows 8."
Thu, 03 May 2012 16:32:02 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesEasily Upload Photos With Flickr’s New Drag-and-Drop Tools
The popular photo sharing service Flickr is harnessing the power of HTML5 to make it even easier to get your photos on the web. With Flickr's new HTML5 uploader photo sharing is just a drag-and-drop away."
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:12:33 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesHack Swaps Google’s Search Plus Your World Results for the Wider Social Web
Developers at Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have put together a demonstration of just how much relevancy Google sacrifices in order to push Google+. There's even a bookmarklet available that will swap the Google+-only results for a wider range of social "
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:09:58 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle Abandons Anonymous Accounts With New Signup Form
Google is experimenting with a new signup form that eliminates the ability to create anonymous accounts."
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:47:21 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesOffline Gmail, Now With More Mail
Google has launched an improved version of its offline Gmail web app for Chrome. The updated version can now store up to a month’s worth of email offline."
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:59:00 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle Easter Egg Brings a White Christmas to Your Web Browser
Google's latest Easter egg brings snow and frost to its search results page. Just type "let it snow" and powdery white pixels will slowly bury your screen in wintry frost."
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:41:56 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle Adds Google+ Info to Gmail Contacts
Google now includes Google+ profile information within contacts lists, both in Gmail and in the standalone Google Contacts manager. In addition to Google+ information about your contacts any Google+ circles you’ve set up will now be available inside"
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:50:20 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGetting Started With Twitter’s Embedded Tweets Feature
Somewhat lost amidst the news of Twitter’s revamped interface is a slightly more interesting tidbit for web developers: Twitter posts can now be embedded in other pages. The new Embedded Tweet feature works just like a YouTube movie, offering a sho"
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:43:48 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesCrashing Google Wave Finds New Life in Open Source
Google will shut down its Google Wave real-time collaboration software in April 2012, but the technology behind Wave lives on as "Wave in a Box," Google Wave sans Google."
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:26:12 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesLatest Stats Say We’re Building a Fatter, Slower Web
Thanks to a diet of ever-richer JavaScript files and more sophisticated CSS, web pages are fatter than ever. If bandwidth speeds and browser improvements can't keep pace tomorrow's web may end up slower than today's."
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:55:23 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesNew Google Bar Hides Navigation, Showcases Google+
Google is rolling out a major design change on its homepage, ditching the familiar links to Gmail, Google News and Maps. Instead the new "Google bar" puts the emphasis on Google+ and sharing content with friends."
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:59:02 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesArchive Your Social-Network Life With ThinkUp 1.0
The new ThinkUp web app wants to help rescue your online social life from the clutches of Twitter, Facebook and Google. ThinkUp 1.0 can make backups, archive conversations and make sure your data remains in your control."
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:41:01 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesBusinesses, Brands Invade Google Plus
Google's fledging social network introduces "Pages" so companies, brands and other non-persons can get in on the +1 social fun. Curiously, there's no verification process for Pages -- grab yours while you can."
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:48:49 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesBackup Your Flickr Images in Your Own Parallel Dimension
Like most of the web you’re probably waiting for the other shoe to drop on the much-loved, but seemingly beleaguered, Flickr photo service. Let’s face it, Flickr’s parent, Yahoo, hasn’t exactly had a banner year and the company al"
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:24:14 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle Reader Gets a ‘+1’ Makeover
Google Reader, the company's popular RSS feed reading application, is the latest Google service to abandon its own sharing tools in favor of Google Plus. The new Google Reader matches the minimalist look of Gmail and Google Docs, but users may miss Reade"
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:27:01 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesRevamped Gmail Looks Nice, But Performs Badly
Google is prepping a major redesign of Gmail, which is, for now, wholly optional. That's good news because while the new site looks good, it's still slow and buggy enough that Google might want to consider adding the beta label back to the Gmail logo."
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:40:15 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle Plans to Charge Maps Developers
Google Maps will remain free for small-time developers, but high-traffic sites will soon have to pay. The company says that charging the heavy users will help ensure that the popular Google Maps service remains free for the rest."
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:18:28 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle Maps, Now With Virtual Helicopter Rides
Google has announced a new 3D preview option in Google Maps. The Google LatLong blog refers to the new route preview as “helicopter view,” since it offers an aerial view (courtesy of Google Earth) of your route, a bit like taking a helicopter "
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:41:12 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesAdobe Acquires Typekit Web-Font Service
Adobe has purchased Typekit, one of the driving forces behind the growth of creative web typography."
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:13:16 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesDelicious Bookmarking Relaunches Sans Yahoo
The newly revamped Delicious bookmarking service has relaunched. While the new Delicious is missing a few features, and has been demoted back to beta status, long time users will be happy to see that someone is finally giving the original king of online b"
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:01:59 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesAutomate and Sync Your Web With ‘If This, Then That’
The awkwardly named, but fantastically useful, Ifttt.com (short for “if this then that”), has come out of private beta and is now open to everyone. Ifttt is a service that hooks together other web services so that you can automate common tasks"
Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:58:11 GMT | Tagged: Web ServicesGoogle, Mozilla Team Up to Create a Smarter, Action-Based Web
Google has announced a new set of APIs for its Chrome web browser, which are designed to connect applications and sites across the web. Web Intents, as Google is calling its new meta-website API, allows websites to pass data between each other -- for exam"
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:53:22 GMT | Tagged: Web Services
Simplify Your Stylesheets With CSSPrefixer
Woolly, the CSS sheep. CSS 3 has some awesome new features, like 3D transforms, smooth transitions
Twitter Improves Privacy Options, Now Supports ‘Do Not Track’
Like most social sites, Twitter tracks your every move around the web. Now, however, the company has
Build Faster Mobile Websites With ‘Adaptive Images’
Responsive design means your website can adapt to any screen size, but without some extra help your
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