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Friday, June 20th, 2008Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just don’t have the PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to let anyone build their own semantic search application on top of its technology. Hakia looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search queries using its own quality index of trusted, [...]
Kaltura Releases Revamped MediaWiki Extension
Friday, June 20th, 2008Kaltura, the open-source video platform, has released a new version of its MediaWiki extension that allows users to embed and edit video, images, and audio on wiki pages. MediaWiki is a wiki software package that was initially developed for Wikipedia and has since been used by a number of other sites.
Kaltura says that the new [...]
Update: Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way
Friday, June 20th, 2008It is not easy being No.2. As we hinted yesterday, Reddit, the news voting site that was bought by Conde Nast in 2006, is making the code behind its site open source. (The code can be found here). That means anyone can now make their own Digg-like site. Not that there has been any [...]
Twitturly Living Up To Its Potential As Great News Source
Friday, June 20th, 2008I wrote about twitturly in April. The service scans Twitter, looks for links that people are talking about then organizes them by popularity on the home page, and the stories then degrade over time. Anyone who uses Digg, TechMeme, Reddit or other news aggregators will feel at home there.
Right now, for example, the page is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Shareholders Blast Yahoo Over Microsoft Bid
Friday, February 29th, 2008In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Yahoo said that seven shareholder groups have filed lawsuits against the company’s board of directors since Microsoft announced its unsolicited bid to take over the company.
The class action lawsuits charge that Yahoo’s board has breached its fiduciary duty to the shareholders in its response to [...]