Let the fun with google maps begin. Not to long ago I blogged about Target painting their logo on top of a building for indexing, now…What seems to be a prank has shown up…. check the link below.
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Edgeio Edges Toward Launch
Another great idea will be opening its Web 2.0 doors soon in the form of classified items and blogging. This new service, Edgeio, will allow you to post the classified ads to your blog (much like people do at craigslist or ebay) and tag the post as “listing”. This will get picked up by the Edgeio system and the people that browse that system can find the products they are looking for. I think the concept is ingenious and I may just have to start researching more uses for tag specific uses myself.
The way Edgeio works is that bloggers would post items they want to sell right on their blogs, tagging them with the word “listing” (and eventually other descriptive tags). Then, Edgeio will pluck them as it constantly crawls millions of blogs looking for the “listing” tag and index them on Edgeio.com.
Also, Edgeio sends a trackback to the blog, providing a way for the blogger to go to Edgeio and modify the listing, adding other tags such as “autos” and other data that will further help the listing appeal to potential buyers.
HOW TO: Candy Bar Instructions
Seriously…if you need instructions to open a candy bar, you REALLY shouldn’t be eating it. What’s the world coming to when Hersheys thinks people need help tearing into a bar of chocolate? Is this stuff NOT made for children anymore? Do kids even read instructions when an adult gives them candy so they know the proper way to open and enjoy it?
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Songbird to Launch Tonight : TechCrunch
I am eagerly anticipating the Mac version of this one. It could have a dramatic effect on the podcasting landscape if people could have the ability to create and share playlists of podcasts and podsafe music through podcasting sites. Follow link for screen shots.
Songbird, the eagerly anticipated new media browser and web player built on the Mozilla (Firefox) engine, will launch (for Windows) later tonight or this morning. Mac and linux will come later.
Since songbird is a web browser in addition to a media player, user will be able to browse web sites. If audio files are embedded in the site, they will be displayed separately and can be played, downloaded, included in playlists, etc.
Because Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform it will be fully extensible by third parties with minimal developer skills – XML, CSS and Javascript. Extensions will work across all platforms – windows, mac and linux. Songbird is also open source and developers may modify the source code.
Could Ajax Wash Away ‘Smart Clients’?
Microsoft has started another push to say that web applications (these days, those including AJAX) can not do everything that locally base applications can. I disagree. I used to consider myself to be a power user, but 99% of what I do now i can do through online only apps such as Writely.com (MS Word) , NumSum.com (MS Excel), HipCal.com (MS Outlook), Gmail.com (MS Otlook Express), Flickr.com (MS ?) and others. Check out this snippet, and read the rest from the link..
A key premise behind Microsoft’s “smart client” pitch is that Web apps are not as good as fat/rich/locally based ones.
Microsoft defines smart clients as software that combines the best of Web apps with the best of locally hosted ones.
Microsoft’s smart client elevator pitch: Web apps can’t handle all the complex tasks that smart-client apps can. They can’t gracefully switch between connected and disconnected states. And they can’t take advantage of all the rich graphics and processing power that smart-client apps can.
Microsoft has been pushing the virtues of smart clients for at least two years. But this year, the company is intent on getting that message to stick.
But not everyone thinks you need Microsoft’s .Net, Visual Studio and Windows environment to write powerful, savvy apps. There’s an alternative camp that’s gaining some mind share. They are backing a programming model known as “Ajax,” which translates roughly to “asynchronous JavaScript and XML.”
Adaptive Path, a consultancy that does Web design work for companies large and small, is the firm that coined the Ajax moniker.