GigaSize: sharing large files on the web

GigaSize is another solution for sharing large files on the web. while basic functionality is very similar to manifold competitors like YouSendIt or DropSend, GigaSize shines especially on its free offerings: users can share any number of files, each of up to 1gbyte size, for 45 days (max. 1 download simultanously), even without registering for [...]

free music downloads by Universal Music

in what could turn out to be the beginning-of-the-end for current digital-music business-models, newcomer SpiralFrog yesterday announced a major deal with the Universal Music Group, authorizing SpiralFrog to distribute UMG’s extensive catalog as free – though DRM’ed – and legal downloads within the United States & Canada. the free music-service is an attempt to offer [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt join’s Apple’s board

according to this Yahoo! Finance-article, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was elected to Apple’s board of directors earlier today. after announcing Google Apps, this looks like Google’s second slap in Microsoft’s face within a few days. Steve Jobs on Apple’s latest reinforcement:
“Like Apple, Google is very focused on innovation and we think Eric’s insights and experience [...]

dev: jQuery 1.0 released

John Resig has released jQuery 1.0, a light-weight (about 10kbyte), cross-browser javascript-library including all the usual AJAX-functionality, basic gfx and advanced event-handling. however, jQuery really is focused on DOM-traversing and -modification, allowing easy manipulation of stylesheets as well as selection & manipulation of DOM-nodes (supporting CSS and basic XPath as selector-languages). iterator-methods (think ‘foreach’) for [...]

flickr adds geotagging

TechCrunch reports tonights addition of geotagging-features to flickr. using a slick AJAX-interface, photos can be drag&dropped on Yahoo! Maps for adding geo-information. using flickr’s photo-organizer, batches of photos are easily processed in a single step. users can browse their own and public photos by geographic data and generate maps displaying all their photos. geo-features were [...]

Google Office launching this week

after almost two years of rumours, Google yesterday officially announced their plans on creating an online-office-suite. in a first step, well-known applications GMail, GTalk, GCalendar and GPage Creator will be offered under the brand ‘Google Apps for Your Domain‘. integration of word-processor Writely and Google Spreadsheet are expected to follow very soon. Google Apps will [...]

chumby: wireless info-device open for hackers

Michael Arrington (among several others) reports from foocamp (the friends-of-o’reilly un-conference held this weekend) about the announcement of chumby, a new wifi-enabled, touchscreen-based information-device. prototypes of chumby were spread among foocamp-attendees, and so far their blogposts give reason for envy

chumby is based on an ARM 266MHz CPU, 32 MB RAM, WiFi-adapter and a [...]

freenigma – GPG-encryption for webmail

freenigma is a firefox-extension adding GPG-encryption to GMail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. users familiar with cryptography can easily introduce less paranoid cautious friends to the service by using the invitation-feature. freenigma is currently rolling out beta-accounts.

how web2.0 are you?

Scott Schiller built this prove-of-concept, using javascript to sniff on visitors browser-histories. using the CSS pseudo-class visited:, any script can determine if a user has visited a particular URL before. this issue of course is many years old, but Schiller uses it in a fun way: by checking your browser-history for various web2.0′ish websites, his [...]

interview: Marten Mickos (MySQL)

Guy Kawasaki continues his stream of great interviews (see here and here), this time featuring Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB. MySQL AB is the company behind open source database-management-system MySQL, which is successfully powering applications at Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, YouTube or Second Life. I found it – positively! – interesting how Mickos recognizes free-riding [...]