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Yahoo rolls out redesigned homepage
Posted by John Kilhefner Categories: Corporate News, Design, Internet,
Yahoo is rolling out its redesigned homepage today, as promised by CEO Marissa Mayer in a blog post last Wednesday. In it, Mayer wrote that the newly designed landing page will be more "intuitive and personal." The redesign was tested in January, and now will start rolling out to everyone "over the next few days." The new page is more streamlined than ever, giving more prominence to Yahoo's most notable services: email, news, finance and sports. What's more, Yahoo now has a stream in the vein of Twitter. The stream has an infinite stream of news, as well as social features such as the ability to see content recommended by Facebook friends.
Read More | Yahoo
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Google Drive now allows site publishing
Posted by John Kilhefner Categories: Google, Internet,
Google Drive users are now able to publish web content via their Drive storage using a public folder available from any browser. Web content published through Drive will also be able to host JavaScript, so you'll be able to run web apps on your page. Google, being the stickler for simplicity, demands published content remain static, and any outbound links must be addressed in a way that shows up in layman terms.
Read More | Google Apps Developer
Apple prepping to push banner alerts on iCloud.com
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Internet, Rumors,
It looks like Apple is prepping a small upgrade to iCloud.com with the introduction of iOS-style banner alerts. As you can see in the image above, a test banner was accidentally pushed out to some users. This will likely replace the pop-up window alerts that Apple currently uses on the iCloud web client. Banner alerts are also set to be included in the next version of OS X, Mountain Lion.
Read More | AppleInsider
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview now available
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Internet, Microsoft, Software,
Perhaps taking a page from Google and Mozilla, Microsoft surprised attendees at the Mix 11 conference Tuesday with the introduction of Internet Explorer 10 platform preview.
The release comes just four weeks after Microsoft unveiled IE9. Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch (left) said during a keynote at Mix 11 that IE10 builds on the performance breakthroughs and native HTML5 support developed for IE9, which will lead to the adoption of HTML5 with a long-term commitment to the standards process.
IE10 Platform Preview 1 is available for download now on Microsoft's Web site.
"We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows," Hachamovitch, corporate vice president for IE, wrote in a blog post. "IE10 continues on IE9's path, directly using what Windows provides and avoiding abstractions, layers, and libraries that slow down your site and your experience."
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Google Chrome OS Announced, Hits Netbooks in 2010
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Corporate News, Google, Internet, PC / Laptop, Software,
Google just announced Chrome OS, their entry into the operating system world. According to the Google Developer Blog, Chrome OS will be a lightweight, open source OS platform meant to “power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-zize desktop systems,” with the goal being a practically instant-on system that takes you right into the web. Chrome OS will be able to run on x86 and ARM chips, which means 32-bit computers, including Intel Atom machines, can play nice, along with mobile platforms. All-in-all, Google aims to make the Internet the bulk of the operating system, with Chrome OS just providing some supporting architecture. Offline mode will undoubtedly be supported, since it’s built in to the Google Apps suite of products. Google says they are already working with OEMs, and we should see devices that are running Chrome OS hit the market in the second half of 2010.
The competition in the OS space is heating up, and the biggest winner, from where we sit, is going to be the consumers. Game on.
Read More | Chrome OS
Gossip Girl Won’t Go to the Web
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, The CW, Gossip, News, Ratings,
Fans beware. If you want to get your Gossip Girl fix, you better plan ahead. In hopes of creating more buzz for its popular freshman show, CW is going to make the drama’s five remaining episodes less available to the public.
Although the show has generated strong word of mouth during its debut season, network execs are still concerned about the cult hit’s bottom line. Yes - people are watching…but it’s how they’re watching that really matters. While streamlined videos allow Johnny-come-latelys to get caught up, that service detracts from the program’s daily numbers.
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NBC Sticks With Their ‘Deal’
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Games, Prime Time, NBC, Ratings,
Realizing Howie Mandel and his ladies are still a force to be reckoned with, NBC has chosen to stick with its ratings hit for a while longer. Deal or No Deal was originally scheduled for replacement next month; now its removal has been placed on hold.
Quarterlife, a drama about several twenty-somethings, had been in line to take the game show’s Monday slot on Feb. 12th. Now the program will be getting a a new home. Come March 2nd, the series taken straight from the web will air Sundays @ 9pm (this follows a special preview on Feb. 26th). This reshuffling will move the premieres of Monk and Psych on USA’s sister network to Sunday, April 6th.
(For an update on the scheduling changes, check out our Revamped Programming Schedule.)
Variety
Self-Googlers, Come Out of the Closet
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Google,
For those of you who admit to googling yourself or others, you are not alone. An actual study shows that 47% do it, up from 22% in 2002, with 74% having only done it once or twice and only 3% doing it regularly. When queried about how much information is released, 60% of Netters are not concerned about the amount that is out there. The survey was done by telephone and contained data from experts in the field of privacy, identity management, and searching.
Read More | Pew
The Freelancer’s Toolset
Posted by Jenny Lewis Categories: Internet, Misc. Tech,
While perusing del.icio.us bookmarks over the holiday, I came across technology and productivity blog Codswallop’s fantastic Freelancer’s Toolset. Yoav Ezer posted this list of 100 tools for freelancers back in May, and barring a few recent developments in the web app universe, it’s exhaustive and incredibly helpful. With apps covering organization, calendaring and to-do’s, money, storage, project management and productivity, writing and design, security and privacy, mobility and contact, marketing and networking, business and legal, contact and feedback, website tools, printing and packaging, revenue building and giving, and more - just about anything that a freelancer can use on the web to further their business can be found on this list.
Read More | Codswallop
Morning Coffee Stimulates Your Web Surfing
Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Internet, Software,
If you have a daily routine of perusing the same exact websites, have we got something for you. It’s Morning Coffee, an add-on to Mozilla’s Firefox browser. After installing it, Morning Coffee appears as a button on your toolbar. Configure it by adding the urls of the websites you love to check out each and every day. Once it’s set up, click the Morning Coffee button and your fave sites will automatically open in separate tabs! You can even configure different websites for different days of the week. Cool! This writer installed it from here and is very, very pleased.
Read More | Morning Coffee Firefox Add-on via Geek Sugar
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