Eliot van Buskirk on Wired’s Listening Post blog is reporting that a source has informed him of what could be a pretty darn interesting development in the world of social networking. Van Buskirk writes that social networking site Facebook plans to allow its members to embed third-party widgets on their profiles, “allowing users to embed outside audio, video and other content onto their profile pages for the first time.”
There are so many kinds of widgets out there now that I can barely keep track. There are Yahoo Widgets (the widgets formerly known as Konfabulator), Apple’s Dashboard, Google Widgets and now Opera has them too. And of course, they’re all different.
Mozilla Corp. yesterday released the second alpha version of what will become its Firefox 3.0 Web browser. The release is the latest milestone in a plan to put the open-source browser in users’ hands during the second half of the year.Dubbed “Gran Paradiso,” the preview is still geared toward “Web application developers and our testing community,” according to release notes on the Mozilla site. The company warned general users to steer clear and stick with the 2.0.x and 1.5.x production versions.
So, after months (years) of speculation and rumour, Apple has finally announced the iPhone in all its glory.
PcTips box has already covered the initial communications aspects, and what it might mean for UK consumers if and when it arrives in Britain, plus reactions from the likes of Orange and Nokia (scroll to end of this article for the links) so in this article I’ll take a look at the key features of this ‘revolutionary’ new mobile phone.
Howdy! Just wanted to let you know about some exciting news from the Google AJAX Search API team. For those of you who aren’t sure what that is, the AJAX Search API allows you to add Google search results to your web pages in interesting ways. Just after our June launch, the ALA’s Library 2.0 blog featured a post on how it could be useful for libraries.
