I’m always suspicious when a company claims to have made its product or service available for mobiles. Is the new version different than the regular offering? And is it something I’d even want to access from my cell phone? In regards to Clusty Mobile, a search site, the answer to that first question is “yes.”
Version 5.0 of the Virtual Earth API Available
Over at the MSDN blogs Virtual Earth program manager Andy McGovern has come up with the following update: "we’ve been busy poking around the Virtual Earth forums and blogs, listening to corporate customers and mashuppers alike, and coming up with a list of the top features and fixes that would make the best mapping API even better—better for end users, but mainly better for you, the developer. We think you’ll like what we’ve come up with." The following are just some of the new features:
– import polylines and polygons using GeoRSS feeds.
Deleted YouTube Videos Still Available
When it receives a complaint from content owners regarding copyrighted videos, YouTube is usually pretty quick to comply with regulations and pull down the infringing clips. As it turns out, those clips may still be available for viewing and/or download on YouTube’s servers.
The news doesn’t seem to be getting any better for YouTube.
Snap Preview Available On Xanga
Snap.com has made the Snap Preview Anywhere, a Web site service that delivers site previews, available to all members of the Xanga.com weblog community. Snap Preview Anywhere allows visitors to a Xanga weblog to have access to previews of linked sites.
“Our users have really embraced Snap Previews," said Bob Hiler, VP of Advertising at Xanga.com. "The response has been tremendous – less than 0.1% of our millions of users have opted-out of having Snap Previews on their Xanga sites."
FeedDemon 2.1 Now Available
A new beta version of the popular FeedDemon RSS aggregator for Windows is now available.
Office 2007 Technical Refresh Now Available
The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (wow! spiffy name!) is now available for download. Just go to this page.
Firefox 2 Beta 2 Available To You
The obligatory notice about the Firefox 2 Beta 2 browser being a developer preview release made available for testing purposes only has been duly noted.
EJB 3.0 Book Available For Download
The book “Mastering EJB 3.0” is in its fourth edition and may be freely downloaded along with its Enterprise JavaBeans source code examples.
DeskBrowse Available For Free
It’s “lightweight and has a very responsive interface.” It’s “innovative,” and offers “blazing speed.” Maybe I watched too much racing yesterday, but this sounds like a sports car. But no – it’s DeskBrowse! And now it’s free. Mac users everywhere can rejoice.
Thinking Up A Great Domain Name That’s Still Available
I’d be a zillionaire if I earned a dollar each time someone complains that all the great domain names are already taken.