blog before you think!

nice, the various APIs of the NYT can be accessed via YQL now.

interesting: Ident Engine – a JavaScript library which builds lifestreams (via)

yay, google barcode doodle.

Social Mention: API monitoring for social sentiment and alerts – Apigee launches an API for tracking social sentiments. (02.10.2009)

Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free – Actually I forgot: You can keep up to 1 gigabyte of data in SimpleDB without paying any storage fees. (02.10.2009)

YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI’s Next-Generation Codeline – Yahoo finally has officially released the YUI 3.0.0. (29.09.2009)

New in Labs: Hide read labels – Useful Gmail Labs feature which only displays labels with unread messages inside. (25.09.2009)

New Twitter Funding – Twitter confirms the $100 mio round of funding. (25.09.2009)

Shared Snapshots for EC2's Elastic Block Store Volumes – Amazon launches shared snapshots for EBS, which can be shared betweens various EC2s. (24.09.2009)

PostRank launches the first Publisher Engagement Analytics service – PostRank launches an analytics service tracking social engagement. (24.09.2009)

Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags – Posterous added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter. (24.09.2009)

Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki – Google launches Google Sidewiki, Google’s layer to comment the web. (23.09.2009)

MySpace Gets Twitterized – Twitter and MySpace now can sync their status updates. (23.09.2009)

Product Ideas for Custom Search – Google Custom Search gets its very own Product Ideas Page. (22.09.2009)

The holy tech flame wars – Pingdom has compiled a short history of flame wars. (22.09.2009)

Calling All Ideas – Google Reader gets its very own Product Ideas Page. (22.09.2009)

I’ve been using Readtwit for a couple of days and it seems to be a keeper. In a nutshell it builds a feed from the links twittered by your friends. Whenever possible the content of the linked article is injected too. You even can train it to ignore users or hashtags.

Yahoo! OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use – Yahoo now supports the OpenID Hybrid Protocol. (18.09.2009)

Log In with Your Facebook Username – Wow, beginning today, you also will be able to log in to your Facebook account with your username. (17.09.2009)

Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA – Google acquires reCAPTCHA and crowdsources the web to digitze the books. (16.09.2009)

Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours! – Posterous adds theming. Not sure if this is a good idea, most people will love it tho. (16.09.2009)

Testing 1-2-3: Announcing Facebook Prototypes – Facebook gets Google Labs like Prototypes. (15.09.2009)

Read news fast with Google Fast Flip – Google launches Fast Flip, a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. (14.09.2009)

Visual Search – Why type when you can see it? – Bing introduces Visual Search. (14.09.2009)

Making Your TypePad Blog Real Time – TypePad adds support for PubSubHubbub. (14.09.2009)

yep.

Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts – Facebook mimics Twitter’s people tagging via @-symbols. (10.09.2009)

Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python – Facebook open sources parts of FriendFeed as Tornado, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python. (10.09.2009)

The new Flickr iPhone app – Late to the party Flickr releases an iPhone app. (10.09.2009)

Twitter's New Terms of Service – Twitter introduces it’s new TOS. (10.09.2009)

Introducing Ning Apps for your Ning Network – Ning introduces Ning Apps and seeds it with 90 Apps or so. (10.09.2009)

Introducing the TweetDeck Directory – TweetDeck launches a directory. (09.09.2009)

You Might As Well Jump! – Wow, 10 years in the making Blogger gets ‘read more’ jumps. (09.09.2009)

Now S-U-P-E-R-sized – Google super-sizes the search box (and looks a bit dull.) (09.09.2009)

Introducing the all new Yahoo! Contacts API – Yahoo launches a Contacts API which can be accessed via OAuth. (08.09.2009)

RSS in the Clouds – WordPress adds support for Dave Winer’s RSS Cloud. (07.09.2009)

Focus on 4.2.0 – The fabulous Textpattern has a new release: 4.2.0. (05.09.2009)

Status feature coming soon to your Ning Network! – Ning Networks will soon have status updates. (04.09.2009)

Go ahead and j.mp – The URL-shortener bit.ly snaps the domain j.mp. (04.09.2009)

App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released for Python and Java, now with XMPP support – The latest version of the Google App Engine adds support for XMPP, one of the building blocks for the real-time web. (03.09.2009)

Introducing Facebook Connect for Mobile Web – Facebook launches Connect for Mobile Web. Users can publish Feed stories from their phones to Facebook. (03.09.2009)

New Feature: Use Feedburner to track your feed – Posterous now lets you use Feedburner to track your feed’s performance. (01.09.2009)

New feature: Brizzly Pics – Brizzly gets photo upload. (01.09.2009)

Introducing: New Showcase, Public Prezi Page – Prezi adds public pages and taps into the social. (31.08.2009)

Time flies. Five years ago Merlin Mann invented the ultimate analog productivity tool, the Hipster PDA.

I’ve been using a slightly modified version ever since, see the Next Action Balls Series

Netvibes Powers T-Online.de, Germany’s Largest Portal – Netvibes teams up with T-Online Germany, which uses it for the personalizes start page ‘meine Seite’. (28.08.2009)

APIs as Dark Matter: our vision for Apigee – Apigee thinks about APIs, the dark matter of the web. (27.08.2009)

We just launched a URL shortener. Are we insane? – Clicky too launch their very own URL-shortener service clicky.me. (26.08.2009)

Disqus version 3: Introducing Disqus Comments and Disqus Profile – Disqus introduces the new version of the commenting system. (25.08.2009)

In the future, everyone will monetize their 15 minutes – YouTube extends the Partner Program to popular indie-clips. (25.08.2009)

Static Maps API v2: Encoded Paths, Polygons and Geocoding – Google’s Static Maps API now supports Polygons. (25.08.2009)

Convert doc to jpg, doc to gif, doc to png and more – Zamzar adds support for converting various formats to .png. (24.08.2009)

The evolution of Mail, Messenger and Search – Yahoo gives an overview over the new features for Mail, Messenger and Search. (24.08.2009)

Video chat from iGoogle – iGoogle adds support for video chat. (21.08.2009)

MindMeister for iPhone finally in the App Store! – MindMeister has released an iPhone app. (20.08.2009)

Design Patterns, Now More Open and Social – Yahoo improves the (interesting) Patterns Library. (20.08.2009)

Location, Location, Location – Twitter is getting ready to roll out a Location API. (20.08.2009)

Towards a programmable web: PubSubHubbub for Google Alerts – Google hooks up Google Alerts with PubSubHubbub. (19.08.2009)

The Best of Both Worlds: Microblogging on TypePad – TypePad adds a microblogging feature. (18.08.2009)

URL shortener speed and reliability shootout – Pingdom compares the performance of various URL-shorteners. (18.08.2009)

By Popular Demand, We’re Keeping the Term Extraction Service – Yahoo keeps the Term Extraction Service alive. (18.08.2009)

Blogger Joins the Hubbub – Blogger has rolled out support for PubSubHubbub. (17.08.2009)

The Future of News Will Be Social – Facebook teams up with the Huffington Post to create Social News. (17.08.2009)

Folders now have their own bookmarklets. – Instapaper provides bookmarklets for folders. (16.08.2009)

WP.me – shorten your links – WordPress launches its very own URL-shortener. (14.08.2009)

Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books – Google Books encourages authors to license their works under a creative commons licence. (13.08.2009)

What’s your social mojo? – Yahoo has developed a Twitter mashup which finds out your Twitter personality type. (13.08.2009)

Project Retweet: Phase One – Twitter will fully integrate Retweets. (13.08.2009)

Joyent Sells Strongspace and Bingodisk to ExpanDrive – Joyent has sold Strongspace to ExpanDrive. (13.08.2009)

A flurry of features for feed readers – Google Reader tries to get more social and adds sharing to other services. (12.08.2009)

Jonathan LeBlanc: YQL and YUI – Video introduction to YQL and YUI. (12.08.2009)

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request – Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. (10.08.2009)

a tiny thread – a new toy from Joshua Schachter which provides minimalistic threads for Twitter (you also can misuse it as a informal listmaker.)

momb kittenfied

Maybe app of the year: the Kittens Bookmarklet

Sharing Made Easier: Email and Tweet Your Bookmarks – Delicious explains its new sharing features. (07.08.2009)

Delicious Search Gets Even Faster and More Powerful – Delicious explains its new search. (06.08.2009)

PubSubHubbub support for Reader shared items – Google Reader adds support for PubSubHubbub (for the shared items.) (05.08.2009)

Want to try out Brizzly? – Brizzly says hello to the world. (05.08.2009)

New and Delicious – Delicious launches a new release pt. 2. (04.08.2009)

Delicious Homepage Gets Fresh – Delicious launches a new release pt. 1. (04.08.2009)

New Flickr Search – Flickr improves its search. Nice. (04.08.2009)

Going Google with Google Apps – Google kicked off an advertisement campaign with billboards. (03.08.2009)

Tweet Your Blog – Blogger promotes Twitterfeed. (03.08.2009)

brizzly is a new Twitter client which (like totally) rocks. It supports all basic features of Twitter of course, at its core it is a supercharged Tweet-reader for folks who really want to read the Tweets of their followers though.

Welcome to Apigee! – Apigee – the Google Analytics for APIs – launches. (31.07.2009)

Use Google Docs & Google Checkout to Sell Online – Sell stuff via Google Docs and the Google Checkout store gadget. (30.07.2009)

A hearty welcome to NewsGator users – Google Reader picks up NewsGator online users. (30.07.2009)

Wolfram|Alpha's Got the Write Stuff – Wolfram|Alpha shows off a few language hacks. (29.07.2009)

Google Apps + OpenID = identity hub for SaaS – How to use Google Apps as identity hub. (28.07.2009)

New Front Page! – Twitter has redesigned the front page. Not sure, if this is an improvement for new users. (28.07.2009)

The launch years of today’s most popular websites – Pingdom takes a look at what year the 50 most popular sites have launched. (27.07.2009)

Improve FriendFeed for your friends by recommending subscriptions – FriendFeeds wants you to promote other users to your friends. (24.07.2009)

Xoopit + Yahoo! Mail = Moving beyond that massive digital shoebox – Yahoo acquires Xoopit, a tool for improved photo sharing for email clients. (22.07.2009)

Introducing My Career, a free set of professional network tools – Plaxo launches My Career and taps into the waters of business networks. (22.07.2009)

Welcome home to the new Yahoo.com – Yahoo introduces the all new Yahoo. (21.07.2009)

DiggBar and Digg Short URLs – Digg changes the rules of its URL-shortener during the game and redirects URLs to Digg only. (21.07.2009)

FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more – FriendFeed releases a beta of the new version of its API. (20.07.2009)