Google Friend Connect, the Google service which allows webmasters to enhance their websites with social networking features without coding, has just been updated. It has a new set of features intended to permit users to get to know each other better and in the same time, webmasters can customize the website experience and content. (more…)
If you are looking for a convenient and unobtrusive audio player for your web pages, Yahoo! Media Player provides a lightweight and fast solution for your visitors to listen various audio files without leaving the current page or load Windows Media Player. (more…)
Adobe Systems Incorporated has just announced the partnership with Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, to provide a revolutionary environment for the development of cloud based rich Internet applications: Adobe Flash Builder for Force.com. It integrates two powerful platforms, Adobe Flash and Force.com platform to improve the development productivity of enterprise Flash cloud applications. (more…)
Lee Brimelow, a well known evangelist at Adobe Platform, has just posted a new FLARManager free video tutorial on how to create Augmented Reality (AR) applications in a simpler manner, as compared with FLARToolkit, the AS3 ported version of ARToolKit software library for creation of AR apps. (more…)
On Facebook Connect enabled websites, Facebook users can easily share content on their wall and authenticate to the respective websites to post comments based on the Facebook account data. Since its launch in December, 2009, Facebook Connect has been implemented in more than 15000 sites, devices and applications worldwide. Now, as the entire Facebook website, Facebook Connect will be available in 64 languages and locales, this milestone marking the official extension of its degree of internationalization. (more…)
Through the newly released Jetpack 0.4, Firefox 3.5.1 users will be able to record audio directly in the web browser. Initially made for the simplification of Firefox add-ons development, Jetpack 0.4 comes with two new features: Audio Recording APIs and Page Mods APIs. Based on the audio encoding APIs, developers will be able to create add-ons which allows users to record high-quality audio in Ogg-Vorbis file format, directly from within the browser. The files can then be played back easily with new audio tag support introduced since Firefox 3.5.
Facebook just launched a Facebook Connect-enabled social widge, Facebook Fan Box, which will allow you to introduce into any website pages your Facebook Page information stream, only by copying and pasting four lines of JavaScript code in the page template. Even more, the websites visitors will be able to become fans without the need to go to the main Facebook website and you will also get in real time the updated content of the information stream published on your Facebook account, according to the Official Facebook Blog:
According to a recent Google study, the web based applications response speed has a great influence over the user experience and can be analysed in correlation with its current features or new elements that could be added in the future. Therefore, the need for speed is obvious in case of all client or server side software, because an optimized time for the application response to a query will result in a better user experience. In order to provide a starting place for the people who need to know the details of the factors which affects web sites performance and how to implement the best strategies and practices to get the maximum possible web applications speed, a new website intended for developers was deployed on code.google.com/speed.
When you need to quickly build a small website, many of the existing free content management systems could have more customization options than needed, and as a consequence they are harder to setup. LightNEasy is a lightweight PHP content management system with a minimum amount of configuration parameters. Practically, without having HTML or PHP knowledge, you are allowed to rapidly deploy a simple website with ten or twenty pages in no time. The pages structure is compliant with the requirements of main SEO principles, therefore the website will be correctly indexed by the search engine spiders.
Hunch, a new decision engine was just launched. It is based on collective knowledge principle, which ensure an increased efficiency of decisions. The user must ask to a set of questions and at the end, Hunch engine will provide a concrete answer, as well as other alternatives, if the answer is not compliant with the user’s expectations. Being powered by a mathematical framework, the decision making algorithm is programmed to determine Hunch to learn from the users answers in order to refine the delivery of decisions.
File extensions are important attributes for the applications which allows you to process the information existing in a certain file. Practically, a file extension is the suffix added after the dot (.) sign and the operating systems use the letters contained in the filename suffix to assign a compatible application to open the file.
If you are new to cloud computing, it is a model which delivers the web platforms or software as services, such that anyone having just a modern web browser is able to deploy fast websites and applications, without buying and configure the necessary hardware or software. With more than 100,000 business applications already running on it, Force.com provides a set of tools and applications in the “cloud”, which speed up the development process up to five times and reduce the final product deployment costs with a half, as compared with JAVA or .NET platforms.
The latest Adobe hosted web service, BrowserLab, was launched as a free preview for webmasters who want an instant report about a certain website compatibility across multiple web browsers. BrowserLab is a tool for testing websites compatibility with various web browsers, providing multiple viewing options and comparison tools, alongside highly customizable preferences.
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