Tech writers love to write about Facebook’s platform, but what about the similar app platform that MySpace launched earlier this year based on Google’s Open Social? There hasn’t been a lot of talk about how healthy that app ecosystem is. New data suggests that it is doing quite well.

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Amazon and IMDB have just launched a new music database wiki site called SoundUnwound. How does it stack up to IMDB as a database resource? Hint: IMDB could learn a thing or two.

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Google is apparently hard at work on an open source web browser project. No, not Firefox. Google is working on an internal project called Chrome. So what’s it all about and where does that leave Mozilla, which Google has supported for years?

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Ten years ago the Internet landscape looked very different than it does today. Of the top 10 web sites of July 1998, just a handful are still relevant players on the web ten years later. Which are they? What happened to the others?

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Why is it that the one set of people who should have the most at stake in reading and understanding technology privacy policies and EULAs — the users — are the one set of people who they’re clearly not written for?

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A pair of recent studies reveals that social networking isn’t yet a truly mainstream activity in many places — and it might actually be worse than that. A lot of people are beginning to tire of social networks and lose interest. Could social networking have been just a fad?

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10 years ago, starting an Internet business was a pricey proposition. Times have changed, and it no longer takes millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch most web applications. It still takes some time, and money though, so check out our list of startup funding methods.

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Sure, you use Firefox for web development. But all those plugins can really slow things down. Given the recent inroads Microsoft have made on their flagship browser, would you ever consider switching (back) to IE?

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This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy hearing real opinions and not holding back — Rasmus doesn’t hold back. Just a short background, Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP and still continues […]

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Sure, you use Firefox for web development. But all those plugins can really slow things down. Given the recent inroads Microsoft have made on their flagship browser, would you ever consider switching (back) to IE?

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This week was strangely quiet. Nothing much on the frameworks front; Open BlueDragon and Railo kept to themselves. Hmmm, looks like everyone is heads down coding… let’s see what they’ve got for us.Code n’ ConceptsAdobe have released a technote briefly demonstrating how images can be streamed. And if you’re working with CFIMAGE, Scott Pinkston reminds […]

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Well, I had intended to title this “On my way to…” but my travel has taken longer and my net access has been shorter than I had anticipated. Anyway, I find myself now in the lovely town of Szeged Hungary. Szeged is a small, attractive little town with tree-lined streets that has been converted to […]

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Well, I had intended to title this “On my way to…” but my travel has taken longer and my net access has been shorter than I had anticipated. Anyway, I find myself now in the lovely town of Szeged Hungary. Szeged is a small, attractive little town with tree-lined streets that has been converted to […]

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Well, I had intended to title this “On my way to…” but my travel has taken longer and my net access has been shorter than I had anticipated. Anyway, I find myself now in the lovely town of Szeged Hungary. Szeged is a small, attractive little town with tree-lined streets that has been converted to […]

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We’re at it again.If you missed your opportunity last week to pick up a copy of the excellent pocket guide, Adobe AIR For JavaScript Developers (that’s the dead-tree version), then now’s your chance to grab a copy again.We just set live the second of Akash Mehta’s tutorials on building applications with AIR, Learn Adobe AIR, […]

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