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Firefox update postponed for a week, but to offer added Windows 7 support

by Heather Wood on Oct 16, 2009 at 02:20 PM

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.6 will not be released this week as originally anticipated.  Instead, the new version of the web browser will be available on October 21.  This falls on the day before the release of the new Windows 7.  The update will include added support for the… Continue Reading »

Twitter goes down again

by Sue Walsh on Aug 17, 2009 at 05:49 AM

Twitter went down for a short time Saturday morning for reasons unknown.  They simply called it “unexpected downtime.”  In a blog post the company announced that once again they had to take their API offline as part of the repair process.  This frustrated many developers and users of third party… Continue Reading »

Third party apps suffer as Twitter continues to battle DDoS attack

by Sue Walsh on Aug 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM

Two days ago Twitter was knocked off line by a large scale DDoS attack and although back online, the site is still under attack and fighting to keep from being knocked offline again. Some of the steps they’ve taken have affected third party apps that use Twitter’s API. As a… Continue Reading »

OneRiot release public API for realtime web search

by Shawn Ingram on Jul 9, 2009 at 10:29 AM

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the “real time web” or the “social web,” and how through services like Twitter and Digg search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing are becoming less relevant in finding up to date information.  A few search engines have noticed this and have… Continue Reading »

Mozilla introduces Jetpack, a new way for users to create add-ons

by Natesh Sood on May 21, 2009 at 06:13 PM

If you use Mozilla Firefox, as I’m sure most of you do, then you are probably familiar with add-ons, pieces of code that allows Firefox to perform different functions.  They are all free to install and Mozilla touts that 1 billion add-ons have been downloaded and installed.  In an effort… Continue Reading »

Evernote releases API

by Shawn Ingram on Oct 17, 2008 at 06:22 AM

Seems just about every web service recently is releasing their API in an attempt to become more open.  The fantastic note-taking and organizing app Evernote can now be added to the list.  After announcing their plans to do so a while ago, Evernote finally released the API on Wednesday, allowing… Continue Reading »

Google Books on booksellers’ websites

by Cheng Hung on Sep 25, 2008 at 09:42 PM

Seeing how Google has taken over almost every web service, it is no longer a shock to hear updates on Google’s vast range of products. Google has caught my attention with its latest enhancement on Google Books.  In its efforts to further increase the usage of their Google Books service,… Continue Reading »

12seconds takes on 3 partners, adds a new API

by Jodie Andrefski on Aug 21, 2008 at 07:47 PM

12seconds just today launched their application programming interface (API) as well as announced it’s first three partners: Tweetdeck, Blippr, and Phreadz. With the goal of 12seconds being to be the go-to platform for video status updates, they needed this step forward of a strong API. The company is happy with… Continue Reading »

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