Rogue, a web browser based on WebKit and Adobe’s AIR platform that integrates directly into most of today’s popular games, allowing users to swap between their game and the web with a single hotkey. Gamers will be able to check their Email, listen to Pandora, watch Hulu videos, or casually browse the web at their leisure, jumping back into the game

http://rogue.gotgame.com/

via [techcrunch]

Labels: browser, fun, html, web_2.0

now it looks like YouTube is starting to add some honest to goodness high definition, 720p videos to the site. Members of the Video Help forums have spotted some videos available in HD, including the popular "Where the Hell is Matt" video.

via [downloadsquad]

Labels: fun, video, web_2.0

Springpads are free online notebooks that help you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do’s, contacts, appointments & more.

http://www.springpadit.com

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Labels: collaboration, communication, networking, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes.

With QR Codes the hardlink between the offline, physcial world and online, virtual world is established, so emily chang about mobile tagging...

for reading QR codes on the iPhone, you can use NeoReader

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Labels: flickr, fun, image_processing, iphone, mobile, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Create your own microblogging community and communicate with friends and other people that share your same interests. (Link: Twingr)

link: http://twingr.com/

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Labels: collaboration, communication, microblogging, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified...
now we can use many web services to get the exactly coordinates and information about our location.

link: MyGeoPosition
Tiny Geo Coder

related: GeoURL.org
GeoTags.com

Labels: fun, maps, mashup, search, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

portfolios are used to plan, organize and document education, work samples and skills...

with Flickrfolio you can create your online portfolio by feeding your flickr photos. the service is in closed beta, and seems to be free for use in the next month.

link: http://www.flickrfolio.net/

related: Carbonmade - Display and Manage your Portfolio Online

Labels: communication, flickr, fun, mashup, photo, sharing, web_2.0, web_apps

WolfenFlickr 3D runs in your browser, and allows you to walk around a floor of Wolfenstein 3D looking at images taken from Flickr as art on the walls. You can choose a Flickr search to use for the in-game images, or use a specific user account...

Wolfen Flickr 3D

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Labels: browser, flickr, fun, mashup, web_2.0, web_apps

With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or video at the forefront...

http://www.carbonmade.com

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Labels: collaboration, fun, web_2.0, web_apps

simpleCart means no databases, no programming, no headaches. A simple paypal shopping cart in under 11kb that you can setup in minutes. It's lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable.

simpleCart

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Labels: javascript, mashup, web_2.0

Japan’s iKnow Opens API for Cognitive Learning

iKnow, a social learning site launched last month by Japanese company Carego, have launched an API to allow third parties to 'add Cognitive Learning to applications, widgets and other mashups.

iKnow allows users to take virtual English and Japanese language lessons (other languages are promised for the future)...

http://developer.iknow.co.jp/page
http://www.iknow.co.jp/

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Labels: api, collaboration, communication, development, fun, mashup, web_2.0, web_apps

Ulteo takes an interesting approach to online desktop and office suites. Unlike other online desktops that offer some storage space and a few simple, browser based apps, Ulteo offers access to a virtual Linux-based operating system complete with a desktop and full Linux apps like OpenOffice. In other words, you get a lot more features from Ulteo than you do from Google Docs, Zoho Office, or EyeOS.

features that are included:
Firefox with Flash & Java, full OpenOffice.org office, KPdf to deal with your PDF documents, Kopete: the multi-Instant Messaging software that supports MSN and other protocols, Skype, Thunderbird + Enigmail (so you can encrypt your emails!), Gimp and Digikam to manage your pictures, Inkscape and Scribus to create great graphics and newspapers

http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/onlinedesktop

related links
Gallery of 10 most used web operating Systems
Desktop On Demand - free online desktop service

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Labels: browser, collaboration, networking, openoffice, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

easy scheduling, team tasks, messages, writing documents together.

Teamness is a software project from romania based bitground and a web application, which intended to organize projects, task and collaborative team workflows.

you can assign easy tasks and attach messages to them, manage and share files and whiteboards, set milestones correlated with tasks, create groups to gather similar data, subscribe projects RSS feeds to monitor the latest project activities and invite clients to watch the progress, customize the look and feel of the private space, multi-lingual interface...the application is developed in ASP .NET and C# and powered by MS SQL Server and IIS server.

have a look on my.teamness.com

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Labels: collaboration, communication, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

FilePandaOne-Click Hosting. uploading - link distributing - finished. Once again an alternative to other file sharing services.

url http://filepanda.com

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Labels: fun, sharing, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

....by aggregating popular media content in a flash based media-hub.

RADUS (pronounced like "radius," in case that's not obvious!) is a free online service that "streamlines content discovery and navigation, offering consumers quick and easy access to hundreds of mainstream and user generated news, sports, and entertainment channels from leading broadcasters, bloggers, directors, musicians, photographers, and more," as described by the company.

http://www.radus.com/

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Labels: fun, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

According to Orlis and Genbeta Post....Gmail users can add favorite gadgets to their webmail...


1. Check your Gmail settings and select your Google Mail display language 'English (US)' for getting all labs feature from gmail.
2. Then go to 'Settings' again and click on the button 'Labs'.
3. Enable the feature: 'Add any gadget by URL' (bottom of the feature list)
4. Go to iGoogle directory and select your preferred iGoogle gadget.
5. If you have found your lovely gadget, then click on the title of the gadget to get the button 'Share this gadget'!
6. Here you receive an URL, which points to the gadget xml file.
7. After you enabled the feature 'Add any gadget by URL' , go again to your Gmail Settings and you will find a new button next to 'Labs' called 'Gadgets'.
8. There you can insert the clipped url from your iGoogle App.



installation steps are better illustrated at How to Add Gadgets to your Gmail Account or here en espanol :)

have fun.

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Labels: gadgets, google, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Today Yahoo! is making Y!OS a reality for developers through the release of the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) , Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). Now, anyone on the web has access to Yahoo!’s tools and data to start building applications for Yahoo!’s vast audience and the web beyond....

This launch also marks Yahoo!’s first implementation of OpenSocial support. As a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, Yahoo! is committed to supporting the complete OpenSocial specification and is working with the community to expand the spec to include OSML and OpenSocial templates.

http://developer.yahoo.com/

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Labels: cloud_computing, collaboration, development, framework, opensocial, opensource, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Liferay is an open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructures.

Technologies Used: JBoss, Tomcat, Java J2EE/JEE, ICEfaces...

sourceforge download
Liferay

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Labels: collaboration, networking, opensource, social_software, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.

http://dimdim.com

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Labels: audio, collaboration, communication, networking, opensource, software, web_2.0, web_apps