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1. September 2009 | 22:39Google To Affix A “Slow” Scarlett Letter To Some iGoogle Gadgets
On its iGoogle Developer Blog today Google issued a warning to developers: Optimize your gadgets for speed, or we’re labeling them as “slow” in the directory. Starting in late September, Google says that any widget that doesn’t meet a speed requirement, will get a nice “slow” badge attached to its directory listing. The only detail it gives about the requirement is that it will get the badge if … (News Source: TechCrunch - 22:22:37)
iGoogle Working with Secure Gmail Connections [Igoogle]
Setting Gmail to always use a secure connection (connecting with https://) is a good idea for many reasons, but doing so had, for a long time, prevented users of Google’s customized iGoogle pages… (News Source: Lifehacker - 13:39:00)
Essence, a Rapidly Growing UK Digital Marketing Agency, Choose DediPower to Provide all its Managed Hosting Needs
READING, England, September 1 /PRNewswire/ — With clients such as Ebay, Google, Sony Music and Carphone Warehouse, Essence has firmly established themselves as an innovative and creative full service digital marketing agency providing services to some of the world’s most dynamic brands. (News Source: ITNews - 07:02:51)
UK Digital Marketing Agency, Essence Selects DediPower Web Hosting Services
DediPower’s managed hosting allows Essence to build an infrastructure allowing smaller clients access to the kind of technical resources that are usually associated with much larger sites (News Source: TopHosts.com - 12:10:37)
Netvibes Re-sells Tech To Germany’s T-Online In Its Race To Make A Buck
Recently NetVibes , the startup that lets you create a widget-filled customizable homepage, rolled out a free feature allowing users to create widget-based web pages, dubbed Theme Publishing. Ostensibly aimed at users, it also has one eye on potentially charging brands and agencies to create customised home pages. In other words, Netvibes is trying to monetize itself as fast as possible. To that … (News Source: TechCrunch - 09:52:36)
Security Fix Live
Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs answers your technology questions and offers ways to protect yourself from online security threats. (News Source: Washington Post - 15:00:00)
Google Expanding Access To Wave Soon, First “Hands-On” Impressions
At the end of next month, September 30, Google will expand the current “developer preview” of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. (News Source: Search Engine Land - 16:32:28)
TokBox & EtherPad: Video Chat Gets Real-Time Document Editing
TokBox is one of the most fully-featured video chat platforms available. Like TinyChat , ooVoo , and other services, it has a close connection with social networks and other forms of sharing content. But it didn’t have the kind of document-handling capabilities that could make it useful for more than just talking with friends and family or holding meetings. Now that’s changed, because by … (News Source: ReadWriteWeb - 19:51:44)
NetVibes Gets Into Website Design
NetVibes, the startup that lets you assemble all your favorite widgets, feeds, social networks, email, videos and blogs onto a customizable homepage, is rolling out a new feature today that lets users create personalized widget-based web pages. NetVibes’s tool, called Theme Publishing, is a visual design editor that lets users personalize and edit every part of their page’s’ theme, from images … (News Source: TechCrunch - 22:07:36)
Yahoo Still Considers Itself a Contender
Remember Yahoo? Apparently the company forgot to read my post about how its star has faded, and it isn’t yet ready to shut the doors and call it a day. Yahoo still feels it has a trick or two up its sleeve and deserves a seat at the grownups table with Microsoft and Google. (News Source: Network World - 08:52:51)
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