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Yahoo's New VideoTagGame Lets You Tag Within Videos
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The transfer of human intelligence to the machine is something the internet makes easy to do. With reCAPTCHA, we keep spammers at bay while helping digitize old books, Amazon's Mechanical Turk lets us crowdsource small tasks to a dynamic human workforce available on demand, and Google Image Labeler makes the tedious task of tagging fun. Now Yahoo is trying to tap into that human machine through their new VideoTagGame, a game that encourages participants to tag sections within a video for better retrieval. Sponsor The first VideoTagGame ran back in summer of 2007 during a Yahoo! party in Ams... (original story)
Pyjamas: Build AJAX Apps in Python
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According to the Pyjamas website, many people, when discovering Google Web Toolkit wonder why they can't use Python instead of Java. With Pyjamas, this is now possible. Sponsor Similar to GWT, a Java software development framework, Pyjamas is a cross-browser Web App development API that allows yo... (original story)
IBM: Talking Web Will be Commonplace in 5 Years
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Every year IBM releases a "Next Five in Five" list, a list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years". This is the third such list, and it mentions a "Talking Web" among the 5 items. You will talk to the Web and the Web will talk back, according to IBM. In the future "you will be able to surf the Internet, hands-free, by using your voice - therefore eliminating the need for visuals or keypads." In fact this is already starting to happen, as recent iPhone releases from Google and Say Where show. Sponsor We can definitely see... (original story)
The intersection of social media and the cloud
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The competition for the next wave of enterprise computing has heated up since Microsoft announced its Windows Azure strategy a month ago. While the jury is out in some quarters about Microsoft's ability to actually deliver the reliability, security, and even the interoperability that is promised, t... (original story)
Google Updates Street View: Better Because It Has Seattle
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Google has rolled out an update to Google Maps, and has expanded Street View to include many new locations including my home town of Seattle! That makes it exciting to me, and obviously it's exciting for everyone else on the internet because now there are miles and miles of new streets to investigate for hilarity, strange occurrences, and of course yourself. I've already scoured half of my routine locations looking for that familiar face, but no dice. (original story)
My iPhone Is a Mac, My Android Is a PC
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I've been using an Android G1 phone for more than a month now on a daily basis, but I still haven't given up my iPhone. The more I use them both, the more that I realize my iPhone is a Mac and my Android is a PC. That is not necessarily a bad thing—except for when my Android crashes (which is a lot). Okay, it does not actually crash so much as it freezes up, forcing me to wait until it figures things out. Which it usually does. Except that one time when I plugged it into the wrong mini-USB charger and it gave me the screen of death: a white danger triangle with a cell phone flat on ... (original story)
Today is the Second Annual Blue Beanie Day
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Today marks the second annual "Blue Beanie Day," an international online event in support of web design standards and accessibility. Participants post photos of themselves wearing blue beanies, or stocking caps, to their various online accounts in honor of web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman. Zeldman's blue beanie dominated the photo on the cover of his widely loved 2003 book, Designing With Web Standards. We're big fans of web standards here at ReadWriteWeb and we'll tell you why. Sponsor As we wrote in our coverage of the first annual Blue Beanie Day last year: standardization creates a p... (original story)
Can Panels.net Make Useful, Real Time Pop-ups?
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You've probably seen lots of services that put pop up windows on top of links in web pages - usually for advertising and often in unhelpful places on the page. Could something like that be done well, though? Serial entrepreneur Craig Barnes believes it can be, and he's been working on it for more ... (original story)
Reports Of New Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Hard To Believe
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The UK's Times Online is reporting that "Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion." The report is filled with lots of juicy, specific details that lend it credence, but don't make a lot of sense when you drill down into them. The new deal, according to ... (original story)
EFF To Apple: Free Speech Isn't a DMCA Violation
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Apple has always been very protective over their proprietary software. The company doesn't want anything but iTunes to control an iPod - and for good reason, too. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/EFF_To_Apple_Free_Speech_Isn_t_a_DMCA_Violation';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';The iTunes Store is a money-making machine with over 65 million active customers helping the company sell billions of songs, videos, and apps. Despite iTunes' popularity, however, there are still those out there who would rather run their own software. Sponsor Reverse-Engineering iTunes In order to make ... (original story)
Newspaper Death Spiral Continues; Industry Advertising Contracts $5 Billion So Far This Year
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The newspaper industry in the U.S. continues to shrink at an alarming rate. According to the Newspaper Association of America,, total industry advertising (both print and online) in the third quarter was $8.9 billion, down 18 percent from the year before. The oniine portion of that was $750 mill... (original story)
CabEasy Looks To Pair Off Strangers For Half-Priced Taxi Fares
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With the economy as turbulent as it is, most people are trying to save a few bucks whatever way they can. CabEasy, a 1-man startup that launched earlier this month, is looking to help people save some cash on their Taxi rides. The site allows people to post a public listing of their upcoming tax... (original story)
The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide
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Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true of first-time CEOs. Thousands of new web companies were born in the last few years, and ... (original story)
Get Notified When Your Favorite Website Is Not Down Anymore
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A fan of extremely simple, straight-forward web services? Then you probably know about funny pet-projects like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe or IsTwitterDown (variations apply). Here's another one for your bookmarking pleasure that won't make you go back to the website every time: NotifyMeWhenItsUp lets you enter any website or service and sends you an e-mail notification when it's back up (and only when it was effectively down). Simple, clean, obvious, free, and as far as I can tell it works like a charm too. Update: I just got an e-mail a couple of minutes after publishing from one Milov Patel... (original story)
MIT to Open Source Mobile Web Code
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Several months ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the Mobile Web Project in an attempt to provide up-to-date university information for its faculty, students and visitors over mobile devices. Early next year, Information Services and Technology (IS&T), the central IT department at MIT, and the team responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the software, plans to open source the code. Sponsor The MIT mobile site offers a staff and student directory, a campus map, the shuttle schedule, an event calendar, class announcements for students, emergency informat... (original story)
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