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Facebook will enable geolocation — will you expose yourself?

Filed under: Internet, Security

Until now, geolocation has been one of those quaint, semi-useful buzzwords: ‘… now with geolocation!!!’ Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare — the main exponents of exposing your location — might not be small, but they pale in comparison to Facebook. With the announcement that Facebook will be enabling geolocation next month, Pandora’s Box [...]

Open source FeelHome provides simple, cross-platform remote access to your files

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source

Want to make sure you can access the files on your home (or work) computer from wherever you are — on any computer or web-enabled device? FeelHome is a hassle-free way to get the job done.

The open source server app is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows (Windows [...]

Harmony helps you doodle with the magic of Javascript

Filed under: Fun

While we’re on the subject of other web technologies that do things we’re used to seeing from Flash, I thought I’d show you Harmony. It’s a very neat little toy (or proof of concept, I guess) that is written in Javascript, and it uses a technique called “procedural drawing”. It’s a similar concept [...]

Google Apps Marketplace launches

Filed under: Business, Developer, Google

The announcement for the new marketplace is actually going on right now. Head on over to the Google Code YouTube Channel to watch the live broadcast.

Google Apps, if you’re confused by the sheer number of ‘apps’-related terms used in conversation nowadays, are Google’s in-the-cloud business solutions. Today’s launch does not represent [...]

Gowalla hits webOS with a slick new client

Filed under: Palm, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

We covered location-based game Foursquare’s webOS client earlier in the year, noting that competitor Gowalla had a client for the Palm Pre and Pixi ‘in the works’ - and today, just in time for SXSW, the Gowalla webOS client has appeared in the App Store. As with [...]

Spectrum Analyzer showcases HTML5 Audio’s potential

Filed under: Audio, web 2.0

You know those IQ test questions, “An apple is to an orange as a ________ is to a wall”? Well, HTML5 is to HTML4 as a photon torpedo is to a snowball hurled by a sleepy five-year old. Or something. If that sounds jumbled, it’s just because HTML5 is challenging my [...]

FourWhere introduces search for location-based social networks

Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Maybe you’ve heard of Foursquare — that trendy mobile app that lets you and your friends check in when you go somewhere — but chances are you haven’t heard of FourWhere. It’s a search engine for location-based social networks, starting with Foursquare, but planning to expand to [...]

We fair humans of Earth believe Internet access to be a fundamental human right

Filed under: Internet

Today seems to be ‘rights for all!’ day, or something. It’s quite easy to get rights and privileges mixed up, which is the only explanation for the results of the BBC World Service survey: four in five people believe that Internet access is a fundamental right. Like the right to marry, or freedom [...]

Delicious lands in Google Chrome Extension Gallery - it’s official, and very beta

Filed under: Google, Browsers

It’s still a bit rough around the edges at this point, but the new beta bookmarking extension from Delicious is a big improvement over its last offering.

In case you hadn’t seen the last version, it was pretty much identical to using Delicious via a bookmarklet — and not very exciting. The new [...]

Mobile Minute: Free EA games for UK and Ireland Palm Pre users!

Filed under: Palm, Freeware, Mobile Minute

With Palm’s webOS App Catalog finally starting to roll out paid applications around the world, EA Mobile and Palm seem to be enticing folks to start using the App Catalog with a trio of free games. Unfortunately, in order to nab the three downloads — Need for Speed Underground, Monopoly [...]