Creativebits’ reviews the 13 new Gmail features available for user testing via Gmail Labs.
The only one I really care about and have been waiting for a long time is the ability to place signature before the quoted text.
Related: Introducing Gmail Labs
An in-depth icon design tutorial using Adobe Illustrator from Smashing Magazine.
“This article explains the process of designing a simple pencil icon, one of the icons of the icon set. The tutorial is very detailed and in-depth, so you will hopefully be able to follow each step without any problems.”
The pencil icon can be found in the free Mikly Icon Set.
Yahoo! Pipes now provides data feeds via serialized PHP.
To get this, go to your Pipe -> More options -> Get as PHP. Right click the “Get as PHP” link to copy link location
Oil prices shoot up to $138 a barrel, a gain of $11 in a single day, making it the biggest gains ever. This speculative rise is supposedly due to a 1% drop in value of the dollar, Israel’s transportation minister, Shaul Mofaz, stating an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites looked “unavoidable.”, and Wall Street forecasting that oil will hit $150 a barrel next month due to rising demand in Asia.
Looks more like speculators looking for any reason to keep bumping up the price of oil. I wonder at what price world economies will start crumbling!?
Jimmy Carter on the Obama-Clinton ticket, “the worst mistake that could be made”!
“If you take that 50 percent who just don’t want to vote for Clinton and add it to whatever element there might be who don’t think Obama is white enough or old enough or experienced enough or because he’s got a middle name that sounds Arab, you could have the worst of both worlds,”
If Clinton is more of the old, then she is not the change that Obama is looking for, so my guess is—he is not likely to choose Clinton as his running mate.
Data generation at 3GB/sec, 14 CPUs and 216 MP, Microsft’s Ultracam is insane! This is the camera behind the imagery on Virtual Earth.
“The results of this improved technology include: urban mapping with minimization of occlusions, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) with no spikes or holes, ortho-photo production from only the most central image portions, and support of automated image analysis.”
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including: jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools, dojo
This can be very handy in keeping up to date with the latest versions of the JavaScript libraries.
An embeddable timeline, which can extract information from twitter, facebook, upcoming, etc. and display on a timeline, which can then be embedded on any other web site.
Viygo is the intersection of space and time–a map of events creating a timeline for the world–from personal to public. The world is changing. The way in which we record our lives and world events is changing. From blogs to social networking to video, the world is telling its story each day, every hour, on the web. But these events exist outside of a framework of time–Vigyo is that intersection.
Here is the twitter public timeline for example:
Tower Defense game created with Processing.js, by Will Larson. Source code available.
Papervision3D, an open source 3D engine for Flash. Here are a few examples:
Mindomo, an online mind mapping tool. See demo
Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.
Google to announce a preview release of Friend Connect, a new service which will allow any site to provide social features by tapping into existing social connections. Sound like more Google junk to add to the sidebar! First it was Google Social Graph, and now Google Friend Connect.
“Google Friend Connect is about helping the ‘long tail’ of sites become more social,” said David Glazer, a director of engineering at Google. “Many sites aren’t explicitly social and don’t necessarily want to be social networks, but they still benefit from letting their visitors interact with each other. That used to be hard. Fortunately, there’s an emerging wave of social standards — OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, MySpace, and others. Google Friend Connect builds on these standards to let people easily connect with their friends, wherever they are on the web, making ‘any app, any site, any friends’ a reality.”
It does not look like Google has go the right Social networking service yet, but let’s see what Friend Connect brings and how it fares.
With employees leaving paradise to either start their own companies or to join companies like Facebook, CNN Money takes a look at Google’s troubles with retaining its top talent.
Yes, it’s making gobs of money. Yes, it’s full of smart people. Yes, it’s a wonderful place to work. So why are so many people leaving?
Photo Credit: ordoesitexplode
Arianna Huffingtion reports McCain’s Freudian slip on The O’Reilly Factor, admitting that he did not vote for Bush. But soon after McCain goes on to say that he did vote for Bush, both in 2000 and 2004.
Doesn’t admitting having voted for Bush, especially twice, make one look stupid! What makes people vote for these fools?!
Photo Credit: marcn
Compfight, a very handy search tool for flickr. A quick way to search for originals, as well as pictures released under Creative Commons.Compfight looks and works better than the search available on the flickr site.
