How Did Mac Fonts Get Their Names?

One day Steve Jobs stopped by the software group, as he often did at the end of the day. He frowned as he looked at the font names on a menu. "What are those names?", he asked.

First look at Windows 7's User Interface

Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7.

Sling.com To Launch

SlingMedia’s ambitious new video portal, Sling.com, is set to launch on November 10

A Sneak Peek at New Google Analytics

Google has polished up their Analytics service and added 7 brand new features (currently in Public beta) that really takes Web Analaytics to the next level.

Don Tapscott addresses The Horizon Project 2008

Data Personality is Important for Web Personalization

It has not been a lack of effective technology that has held back this new culture of open data sharing, but rather business models that have been over-reliant on laying a proprietary claim to some portion of that data.

Seth shares his thoughts about tribes

According to Godin, Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to a leader and to each other. Tribes make our world work, and always have. The new opportunity is that it's easier than ever to find, organize, and lead a tribe. The Web has enabled an explosion of all kinds of tribes - and created shortage of people to lead them. This is the growth industry of our time.

What is Wegor?

Wegor is a community site for sharing travel experiences. You can share your travel photos, describe your experiences in the travel blog and mark your journeys on the map.

Download Everything!

FilesTube.com is a search engine designed to search for files in various file sharing and uploading sites. This rapidshare search engine offers searching with options of different file formats and with the metadata information it has collected the results are high quality and relevant.

Bountii

A price search startup that claims to have "built a search engine capable of finding shoppers lower and more accurate prices than any existing price comparison service". The search is currently limited to electronics and appliances but will expand to include other products.

Quitter

A new service, called Qwitter, has debuted today, allowing users to find out when others stop following them on Twitter. From time to time, you are going to lose followers, whether it be because you have said something that your followers don't agree with, or because they no longer find your tweets relevant or interesting. Services like Facebook and Twitter intentionally don't expose the data for when someone de-friends or un-follows you because it can potentially be a sensitive issue. Qwitter is trying to tap into the "too curious for their own good" market.

Create No Download Screencasts in Seconds with Screen Toaster

The service is to screen capture software what Tokbox is to Skype - most of the functionality you need, without any downloads.

Their demo video, which was created with the software, shows how easy it is to use. Click start, bring up a different website, and click a Option-S to record. Hit Option-S again to stop recording, and it is instantly uploaded to the site in Flash for review and, if you like it, publishing. You can also set the screen recording size manually with a different key combination. And you aren’t limited to recording web pages, you can move the recording area off browser.

The service is written as a Java web applet and works on any OS that has the Java runtime. Vides can be embedded and viewed with the Flash plugin, like any online video service.

Last two quarters rough for VMWare

VMWare is a market leader in virtualization software, but can't seem to catch a break.

Firefox for mobile

How would you like to be among the first to get touchy-feely with the next mobile browser everyone's talking about?

Now here's a directory

A directory of web 2.0 applications and services

All the financial headlines and data the web has to offer



Aggregates the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading financial websites as well as each of the stocks that you choose to follow. Complimenting the headlines are daily stock charts and quotes as well as embedded detailed information and data for each company. Streetread Mobile, which just recently launched, offers all of this functionality and data but inside a mobile-friendly, fast-loading interface (compatible with any internet-enabled device).

Mogulus

Create live, scheduled and on-demand internet television to broadcast anywhere on the web through a single player widget. Service comes in two flavors: free (ad-supported) and pro (white-label, no-ads, pay for usage). Unique features include the ability to mix multiple live cameras, imported videos clips, and overlay graphics. Producers can broadcast live from a mobile phone; use a customizable flash player with integrated chat; and develop a branded channel page on Mogulus.com that incorporates interactive chat.

Feedly

A more social and magazine-like start page/RSS reader for Firefox.

Various Web 2.0 businesses that will do well in a down economy

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopins offers his insights to 5 Web 2.0 businesses that stand a shot at making through the current economic downturn.

Mobile multimedia discussions from your computer or phone. Check out their blog site.

The SixtyOne [beta]

A community for people who love new music. Sign up to earn reputation for rating and recommending good music, bookmark songs and create personalized radio with your favorite artists, discover music with friends or follow others with similar tastes.

You License

An online music community offering free music licensing and giving music artists a platform to showcase and sell their music. Content buyers are then invited to search, bid for musical content and license the rights to them directly from the artist.

Sun and Social Media

This is the perfect starting point to find out just what Sun, as a company, has to offer students today. It covers everything from tech to Eco-responsibility, jobs to social media, this is the first student page that tells the Sun story from a student perspective.

5 Ways To Sell Social Media to Your Boss

Here are some suggestions for ways other companies have used social media tools. Consider how these could apply to your business. Be creative and don't think about what you could do - think about what your customers want. Then determine which social media tools can help you deliver what they want.

'Ask' and you shall get faster


Ask.com is cleaning up its act a bit with the latest (the 11th, I'm told) major update of the search engine, which launches on Monday.

New Xbox to streamline games store

The new Games Store will provide every game with its own comprehensive page, complete with tabs displaying screenshots, trailers, information about the title, and all available downloads pertaining to the game.

Nokia is gunning to be No. 1 on the mobile web


With its series of new Internet phones, the global leader in handset sales aims to outrace rivals.

Now you can track green news on Twitter

Here are some of the "green" feeds you can keep up with on Twitter. Some simply provide instant links to freshly published stories, while others mix in commentary and personality. Check out who they're following to find even more feeds.

Smush.it

Yahoo, which has considerable expertise in maximizing Web site performance, has long offered advice on how to speed up sites up by minimizing photo size. Now it's released a tool to help Web programmers automate the process.

The Web-based tool, called Smush It, can perform multiple operations to shrink graphics file sizes without impairing visual appeal, Chris Heilmann of the Yahoo Developer Network said.

iPhone 2.2: Safari Redesign

With the iPhone v2.1 software out of the door, Apple is hard at work on v2.2. From this first glimpse it looks like Apple, now that the major bugs have been squashed, is adding some new features.

Cisco uses social media to make routers sexy

In March of this year, Cisco launched the ASR 1000 Router Series. No big deal, but for the fact that it was delivered completely via social media.

Five ways to use social media to reach people who don't use social media

Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they don't trust them? Here are some interesting strategies to change that mind set.

Amazon Kindle...2

Amazon makes enhancements to it's popular product.