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Enables realtors and landlords to communi cate with passerbys at their properties 24/7. It lets users
Defining The Open Web
Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here
Quick: Find the Bug or Gotcha with named _scope
Think fast! Where's the bug? named_scop e :active, :condition s => & #91;"activ ated_at <= ?"
OpenAjax Publishes Future Browser Feature Wish List Results
What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests p rioritized
jQuery 1.2.6 out and it's even faster
1.2.6 is now out and the events handling f unctionali ty is 103% faster: CSS Selectors are 13% fa
Stroke UX, Synthetic Life and BMW: Geometry and Functions In N Adaptions
Three videos that made me think: How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks) Neuroanato mist Jil
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Enables realtors and landlords to communicate with passerbys at their properties 24/7. It lets users create text messages that are sent to prospective buyers upon request with a summary of their listing and a link to a mobile web page that provides m
Bizroof
An easy to use CRM and group calendar. It's not only a way to keep your contacts and communications with them centralized, but also a bridge to get everyone connected by sharing your schedules. Offers free basic accounts. For business, the service he
PodiPodi
The PodiPodi widget lets you offer your website visitors an increasing list of useful features and functions available with a simple keyboard shortcut. On a PodiPodi-enabled website, pressing shift-space activates the widget. Users can search Google
Ecovian
A green living community website for sharing sustainable living information and finding eco-friendly resources in major US cities. The site allows users to share green living tips, find great sources of local and organic food, natural clothing stores
Roxer
A free online service "where anyone can make stunning and fully functional web pages online using only a web browser. To rearrange content, just click and drag items where you want them. To change text, just click and type. To move content from one p
LiquidID
This is an OpenID provider that distributes aliased information (such as email) to OpenID enabled sites instead of your actual information. You still receive all email (but not spam) as LiquidID provides an automatic redirection service.
Startups Send Bat Signal to San Francisco
Posterous
A simple blog - just signup and start emailing anything you want to your blog.
Busuu
An online community for learning languages where our user can improve their language skills by directly having access to native speakers from around the world using our video-chat application and peer-to-peer learning features (e.g. writing reviews e
Come2Play
An open source application program interface that allows developers to create, enrich, distribute and monetize multiplayer network games, without requiring them to apply any complicated programming techniques. [Beta]
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Viewpoint: Information Technology Is "Broken"
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The Planet Hosting News Desk wrote: SYS-CON Media Website (www.sys-con.com) and email servers were affected from Saturday's explosion at The Planet hosting facility together with 9,000 servers which belonged to more than 7,500 customers.
Microsoft Will End Up Buying Yahoo Anyway
Yahoo! News Desk wrote: Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo got stupid advice from their investment bank advisors and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts in how to sell a company in a multi billio...
SOA World - HP Delivers!
HP News Desk wrote: Somewhere out there an ode is being written to HP - and some lady investor is explaining to her husband about her abiding crush on HP's CEO, the 'Great Deliverer'
HP May Accidentally Kill Black Duck & Palamida
Kirstan Vandersluis wrote: HP and its FOSSology initiative further legitimizes open source use for the large corporation. This is good news for Black Duck and Palamida, as they depend on open source adoption for market growth. Their business model must evolve, though, just ...
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