August 21st, 2007
Touchpoint Gallery: The New Place for Your Kids’ Art
Norm blogged about how Touchpoint Gallery is like having infinite refrigerator space for your kids’ artwork.
August 16th, 2007
Netscape Launches Beta 3 of its Social News Browser
Netscape has launched a new beta version of its browser, Navigator. If you had not heard about it already, its a browser with features of their social news site built in, such as voting, submitting, tracking your friends etc. It’s a must-have for any hardcore Netscape user.
August 13th, 2007
Note to Pligg: You Can’t Sell SourceForge Accounts
by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Social Media
Filed under: Social Media
This is just a quick follow up on my previous aside. As Michael Arrington reported, Pligg intends to sell it’s SourceForge account. However, the SourceForge terms of use very clearly state that you can not sell or transfer your profile under section 4-h and also section 9. Someone should probably alert the owners of Pligg […]
August 12th, 2007
Pligg for Sale
Open source Digg-clone Pligg has announced they’re selling the pligg.com domain and site as well as the SourceForge account where the project resides.
August 12th, 2007
coRank Launches API
coRank has launched the first version of an API. For those who don’t know, coRank is a site that lets you set up and host personalized social news sites for free. Think Blogger for Digg clones. Thanks to the API, you can create your own social news site and integrate aspects of it into other […]
August 10th, 2007
My Pownce Doesn’t Crash Anymore
by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Pownce
Filed under: Pownce
If you’re like me, then you haven’t been able to use the Pownce desktop application because it throws an error within seconds of running it. And it looks like I am not alone. Well, no longer.It turns out that the Adobe AIR runtime doesn’t get along well with all graphics drivers. The use of transparency […]
August 9th, 2007
Rumors of Netscape’s Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Netscape
Filed under: Netscape
There’s a rumor going around that Netscape, as we know it in it’s social news form, is to be discontinued by AOL. The rumor stems from AOL having launched a “new” Netscape branded portal, which is basically a re-branding of AOL’s portal.
At this time it is not clear who Michael Arrington’s sources are, however as […]
August 9th, 2007
Taking Stock of Touchpoint’s Open Source Adoption
by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Touchpoint Studios
Filed under: Touchpoint Studios
Over at Touchpoint, I wrote about all of the open source software that we use on a daily basis. It turned out to be a lot more than I imagined. It made me appreciate all of the ways open source software makes my professional life easier.
But then I remembered that it also has an impact […]
August 9th, 2007
Google Gets on the Meta-Journalism Train
It occurs to me that Google’s new comments-from-relevant-parties feature on Google News is similar to meta-journalism a la Netscape. Here’s an example.
August 8th, 2007
Rock Your Firefox With Smart Digg Button
Mozilla recently released a Facebook application that lets you profess your undying devotion for Firefox Add-ons. Don’t forget to show some love to the Smart Digg Button.
