Archive for June 20th, 2008
Next Entries »Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media
Friday, June 20th, 2008Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based on very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart, have launched their own blog advertising networks as well.
As we predicted, Technorati now joins them with the launch [...]
Create Your Own Flash Games At Sims Carnival
Friday, June 20th, 2008EA has launched Sims Carnival, a collection of Flash-based games that can be played, modified, and shared with friends. Users are free to play pre-designed games, or to create their own. To celebrate the launch, Sims Carnival has also opened a “Galactic Game Challenge” that will award the best designer a cash prize.
The site offers [...]
Adobe Breakthrough! Flash Working on the iPhone . . . In The Labs, On An Emulator, Oh Well
Friday, June 20th, 2008From CrunchGear’s Nicholas Deleon:
Adobe already has a version of Flash for the iPhone running on emulation software, and would, fingers crossed, be able to bring that over to the phone itself if Apple allowed it. That’s what Adobe said yesterday at its Q2 conference call. Or:
We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This [...]
It’s Firefox 3 “World Record” Download Day, But I’m Still Waiting
Friday, June 20th, 2008Today’s the big day for the official, no-longer-beta release of the Firefox 3 browser. There is even a campaign to make today, June 17, Download Day and “set a Guinness World record for most downloads in 24 hours.” They are shooting for 5 million. Although, I’m not sure that there was a previous Guinness record [...]
280 Slides: Like Apple Keynote, But Online
Friday, June 20th, 2008What happens when two former Apple employees - one from the iPhone team and one from the iTunes Store team - go off and start their own Y Combinator-backed startup? Apparently they come up with an online slideshow tool that looks highly reminiscent of Keynote.
280 North first presented 280 Slides (now available in public beta) [...]
The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized [...]
Yahoo’s First Search Gallery Apps Leaves You Searching For The Right Results
Friday, June 20th, 2008I want to love the search apps in Yahoo’s newly opened Search Gallery. I really do. Opening up its search engine to outside developers is an idea worth applauding (although it could still do more). That’s why I was excited when Yahoo announced its SearchMonkey platform, which essentially allows outside developers to create their own [...]
Hitwise Singapore: Category Spotlight: Health and Medical - Hospitals
Friday, June 20th, 2008This category contains the websites of hospitals, including nursing homes.
Total websites that ranked with currently selected options: 103 Category Contribution Percentage: 0.059% There are 3,979 Search Terms that drove traffic to this category over the
24 weeks ending 03/05/2008.
The data below is based on All sites - Weekly rankings for the week ending 03/05/2008 - Ranks [...]
Fast Mover: iProperty - www.iproperty.com.my
Friday, June 20th, 2008iProperty (www.iproperty.com.my) features a database of residential, rural, commercial and business properties for buying, selling and leasing in Malaysia. Fast becoming a popular website visited by Singapore Internet users, from April 2007 to April 2008 iProperty experienced a 21-fold increase in its market share of visits amongst all websites. Since January this year iProperty moved [...]
Singapore Stocks and Shares Online Update
Friday, June 20th, 2008According to Hitwise, the leading competitive intelligence service, Singapore Internet users continue to be highly engaged with the Stocks & Shares sub-category. Websites that belong to stock brokers or that relate to news and research services draw the most visits from Singapore Internet users amongst the Hitwise Business & Finance industry.
The Stocks & Shares sub-category [...]