All tag results for ‘techcrunch’

Gmail Paper next year

“Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Now with Gmail Paper, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and it’ll be sent to you in the mail. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. And it’s totally free: the cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements printed on the back of every print.”

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Octopart - search engine for electronic parts

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Not Everythings Fine With Yahoo Panama

There are a couple bits of interesting YPN/Yahoo related news recently. The first is that Yahoo’s new product, MyBlogLog, happens to do Adsense tracking. This means that if you use MyBlogLog, Yahoo could be learning proprietary information about your Adsense to use to improve their competing YPN product: Read the more »

Yahoo! Pipes : Rewire the web

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Yahoo! Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator.

It is to web services, what the unix pipe ( the ‘|’ character) is to the command line.

With its nice visual editor, you can manipulate very easily multiple feeds, send them to other web services and so on…

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Wal-Mart adds insult to injury with IE-only website

We’ve known all along that the Wal-Mart Video Downloads service was going to be a Windows-only affair. It’s sad, but that’s the way that goes sometimes. Is it really necessary, however, to lock the website to Internet Explorer 6+ only? On Tuesday, TechCrunch reported that some coding mistakes on Wal-Mart’s page prevented the CSS from loading in Firefox; today, Design by CSS reports that rather than fix the errors, Wal-Mart chose to block other browsers from even trying to load the page. Classy.

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