Yahoo! Mash Beta – New social networking site
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Yahoo is on the verge of releasing it’s new re-vamped social networking web site called Yahoo! Mash. After the failure of Yahoo 360, rumors started that Yahoo would be coming out with a new site that would go against the powerhouse social networking sites like MySpace, FaceBook, and Orkut. However, it’s now official and current in private beta testing. You can get invited to use the new service by going to InviteShare, sign up and then request an invite for Yahoo Mash.
Yahoo launches MapMixer and Shop By Color features
Posted on September 13, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Last night Yahoo released two new cool features, one for maps and the other for shopping. Using MapMixer you can take a map that’s already been created, like a University map for example, and then overlay that map onto Yahoo maps with full support for zooming and panning. MapMixer morphs a Yahoo map with your own images to create a hybrid map.
The example map shown below takes the Unviersity of Southern California campus map and overlays it onto Yahoo maps. Yahoo automatically creates 5 levels of zoom and detail for your map, so you don’t have to worry about any of that. You simply have to get it aligned and scaled correctly.
Windows Live Writer Beta 3 released with many new features
Posted on September 6, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Microsoft has officially released the Beta 3 or 2008 version of Windows Live Writer. This release not only has many new features, but also fixes a lot of bugs! The new version is much more responsive from what I’ve seen so far, so if you’ve been a little annoyed at the slow interface, you’ll be happy now!
Here are a couple of the new features included with Windows Live Writer 2008:
Google Pack now includes StarOffice as a free download
Posted on August 15, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
According to a press release from Google and Sun almost two years ago, a concerted effort was going to be made to make Open Office more widely available to the public. Now, suddenly and without much fan-fare, you will find that the Google Pack page includes the once $70 version of StarOffice for free. StarOffice uses the same code base as OpenOffice, but StarOffice has added a number of features, including a spell-checker, thesaurus, Windows fonts, and clipart.
Windows Live Search Images now includes facial recognition filters
Posted on July 30, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 2 Comments
Windows Live Search Images facial recognition filters are probably the coolest thing to be added to search since Google came along. It’s quite impressive and very addicting! The new filters allow you to search for a face, a portrait photo, or for black and white photos.
For example, here’s how a regular search for “Bill Gates” would look like without the filters:
As you can see, there are close ups, photos of him at conferences, caricatures, and group photos. Now if you search with the face filter as so: “bill gates” filter:face, you get the following:
New Firefox Add-ons web site from Mozilla
Posted on March 31, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
If you’re browsing the Internet with Firefox and just can’t get enough of the add-ons that it has to offer, then you’ll be happy to hear that Mozilla has created an entirely separate web site so that users can easily browse through thousands of extensions and themes that allows a completely customized browsing experience. The new site also has new set of testing, support and developer tools for the Mozilla community to make it easier for developers to create customized Firefox extensions.
