every time I’m trying to register their application for use on a new phone, Shozu forces me into solving ridiculous riddles like this one…please stop the captcha-madness!
still, Shozu is the most excellent tool for mobile photo-blogging, allowing to post pics & videos with a single push of a button to various destinations like [...]
Google just spiced up Docs & Spreadsheets with an improved file-manager, including – lo and behold – the ability to store documents in a folder-structure (initial folders are automatically built based on given tagging). don’t expect Gmail to follow this anytime soon, though
Mitch Kapor’s (inventor of Lotus 1-2-3, co-founder of the EFF) bookmark-synchronizing utility for Firefox-based browsers, foxmarks, is about to enter the market of human-powered search engines – a space currently heating up – not only since the recent launch of Mahalo. the search engine will utilize user-generated metadata on URLs to deliver – according to [...]
John Chow really has mastered the art of semi-organic link hustling building… in a recent post, the web marketeer asks for inbound links containing certain anchor-phrases (like “make money online“) in exchange for a pagerank 7 back-link from the frontpage of his blog. since the call is out since mid of may 2007, and literally [...]
on July 6th-8th, Adobe is hosting iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco, a BarCamp-styled gathering “to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of iPhone-ready web applications and web sites will be launched [...]
Jadam Kahn from Rocketsurgeon has started a new directory of Music 2.0-related services. the blog-styled listing already contains more than 200 entries, including short descriptions + categorization. the only thing I’m missing are site-thumbnails (I really don’t like those snap-previews) and a search-box…
The University of Washington’s Emerging Technology group published a few key-facts and guidelines for web-application developers targetting the upcoming iPhone, including User-Agent-string, javascript-limitations and user-interface conventions. No specific info yet on the Javascript(?)-hooks Safari will offer to make phone-calls or control the integrated Google Maps-client, but a good list of things to keep in mind…
update: [...]
Google finally released their own (there have been some more or less well-working rip-offs in the past) mobile version of YouTube at m.youtube.com! the mobile XHTML-application utilizes external video-player software for playback (Real Networks’ media-player in case of most current Nokia-phones). unlike Robert Scoble, who’s on a Nokia N95 going for 750,- USD, everything worked [...]
Attention: as of January 29th, I’ve decided to stop support for PHPTube! Due to recent changes in the YouTube uploading-process, uploading with PHPTube won’t work anymore! I recommend using the offical YouTube API, which can do uploads just fine! Since PHPTube is released under GPL, you’re of course free to adapt it!
You may want to try [...]
one for the weekend…
ps: above you can see YouTubes revamped embedded video player in action…just click the ‘menu’-button!
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