HTML5 is the next version of the Web’s markup language and is enjoying increasing popularity amongst the developer community. The level of interactivity it enables has probably been the most talked about feature of HTML5, largely due to Apple’s controversial refusal to allow Adobe’s Flash technology onto its mobile devices. As a result, HTML5...
TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has just wrapped. In the feverish air of anticipation we carefully cultivate during the Disrupt season, you may have missed some of the talks, panels, launches, or startups that have taken place here at this incomparable conference. Don’t worry. We’ve collected all the content by our writing and video teams...
Twitter, then known as twttr, was born just over 5 years ago – but in Twitter-time that’s ancient history. What did it look like when it launched? I’d never seen a screenshot of the original Twttr home page until old school megablogger Jason Kottke posted one tonight, along with links to a few other...
Not to be outdone by MOG’s announcement today, rival Rdio has just announced via email that it will be revealing an free version of their service without advertising. How does that work? Well according to an interview with the SF Gate COO Carter Adamson says that new users will get a free trial and...
Judging by trademark applications and domain name registrations, it appears that AOL is preparing to announce a social networking site called NVIBE. AOL registered NVIBE.com on September 9, and they applied on the same day for five trademarks that describe interest- and location-based social networking services. AOL acquired Bebo, another social networking site, for...
We’ve long argued that price increases for pay TV packages were making the traditional cable or satellite subscription too expensive for a growing number of Americans. Bernstein Research Senior Analyst Craig Moffett issued a research note Wednesday that not only backs up that claim with some real data, but paints a damning picture of...
In a world awash with an ever-expanding number of location-aware sets of data, what’s a person to do who wants to make a great map? Spanish conservation-centric User Experience design shop Vizzuality today launched a simple, attractive, free and open source tool for curating and publishing geospatial data called CartoSet. “It’s great to see...
Balancing an open source community with commercial interests can be difficult, which is why HPCC Systems sought the help of Bruce Perens before open sourcing the code for its eponymous big-data-processing software. I covered the open source news last week. Afterward, open source pioneer Perens directed me to an essay he wrote on the...
A Little Background A “task” on ifttt follows the “If this then that” format. For creating tasks, ifttt has “channels” for many of the Web services we use. The “this” part of the task is called a “trigger,” and each of the channels has a set of triggers for the common things you do...
Apple has today released two new EFI firmware updates for Macbook Pro and Mac mini models, fixing some Lion issues and prepping the devices for the new $999 Apple Thunderbolt Display. Notable is the fact that the Macbook Pro update appears to add the Lion Internet Recovery feature that it had previously lacked. The Macbook...