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Let's hope Facebook can integrate FriendFeed's special sauce

RE: Let's hope Facebook can integrate FriendFeed's special sauceIf you want to know when somebody comments on your page, then you can signup for notifications here: http://friendfeed.com/settings/notifications You can request email or IM notifications for comments on your own items, things you have commented on and more.Waste of timeSocial...

Tags: Friendfeed, special sauce, sauce, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-10-18

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News to know: Droid, Moffat, Android, Amazon, 3D HDTV, Net Neutrality

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Verizon unveils 30-second ad for Droid Android phone; slams iPhone Jason Perlow:DROID aims to make Apple...

Tags: Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Sam Diaz, Matthew Miller, Net Neutrality, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Let's hope Facebook can integrate FriendFeed's special sauce

Even since I have been stalking my high school buddies on Facebook in 2004, I can remember the thrill I got inside: "Man, this site is addictive, and I don't see it going away any time soon". As with any growing engine, you...

Tags: Facebook, FriendFeed, Web Servers, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-18

BurgerTime Deluxe 1.0 (Mac)

Let the culinary capers commence as Namco proudly serves up BurgerTime Deluxe for Mac! Enjoy a full course in the extensive Story Mode, or just sit down for a light snack in Quick Mode. Join Chefs Peter Pepper and Sally Salt as they help their uncle thwart the dastardly Vinnie...

Tags: Food, Apple Macintosh, Snack, Macgamestore, Food & Beverage, Desktops, Manufacturing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-21

MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow (Level 100)

Designing and developing a great user experience is sometimes called the "Special sauce" of a successful solution, but how to interact and share the ideas with the customer? Microsoft Expression Blend 3 introduces some great new features and functionality with its latest release including SketchFlow. The attendee of this webcast...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Expression Blend 3

Webcasts 2009-08-19

Adobe goes corporate open source against Ogg Theora

Adobe goes corporate open source against Ogg TheoraAbsolutely, and it gets worse...This is just Adobe PR trying to pre-empt a possible win by "rtmpdump" at the SourceForge / OSCON awards (to be announced on the 23rd).For details on what Adobe *really* thinks about Open Source and Open Standards, read the...

Tags: Proprietary Formats, Theora, Adobe Systems Inc., open source, Ogg Theora, H264, corporate open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals

Salesforce.com's chief technology guru Parker Harris, speaking at Cloudforce London this week, mapped out the secret sauce that makes the company's multi-tenancy so special. Why suddenly expose details of something it has always previously kept schtum about? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Sapphire make the Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 even better

Sapphire has taken two of ATI's mid-range Radeon HD 4600-series graphics card, thrown away the reference specification and added its own brand of special sauce to make the cards even better. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Card, Radeon, Sapphire, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Fast Food My Way (Mobile)

Cooks in a hurry, take heart!In Fast Food My Way, Jacques Ppin the man who taught cooking to millions of Americans shares the techniques he honed in the most famous kitchens of the world to show you how to create simple, special meals in minutes.In this companion volume to his...

Tags: Food, Mobile, Kitchen, Soup, Peach, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-11-02

Palm Treo Pro officially announced, will come to U.S. as unlocked model only

It was no surprise to anyone that the Palm Treo Pro was coming since Palm themselves have been posting videos and images, but today it was officially announced. It was a bit surprising to see that no U.S. wireless carrier will be selling the Treo Pro and that it will...

Tags: Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-20

OS fingerprinting Apple's iPhone 2.0 software - a "trivial joke"

Just like every decent web service out there wanting to identify the iPhone's mobile Safari browser in order to serve custom applications, in this very same way malicious attackers would like to remotely identify iPhone devices through a basic pen-testing practice known as OS detection or OS fingerprinting. It seems...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Operating System, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers

It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different people, at different times, in different languages, on different machines? Search giant Google has to deal with this issue all...

Tags: Google Inc., RPC, XML, Programming Languages, Storage, Networking, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-09

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Reddit: open source not special sauce

Social news site reddit today announced that it is open-sourcing the majority of the site's code, including parts of the algorithm that determines what stories hit the front page. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Reddit, Site, Open Source, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Apple moving up in green rankings

Apple moving up in green rankingsEnvironmental FascistsJust in my 30 years on the planet...Gum never came in blister packs that people throw out.Pop came in glass bottles.You never saw crazy packaging like those for memory cards that have like 50 x more plastic than the card that is housed inside.Groceries...

Tags: Food & Beverage, hydrogen fuel, Apple Inc., bottle, hydrogen, glass bottle

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Gmail task list feature spotted in the wild

One of the most requested features, that has been noticeably missing from Google Calendar and Gmail from the beginning, is a task list. This feature has been on Google's own task list for a long time, but unfortunately it's long overdue. Now for the good news -- there...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Google Calendar, E-mail Providers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Flash H.264 support and new pricing/availability for Flash Media Server 3

Flash H.264 support and new pricing/availability for Flash Media Server 3Still no standards...support from ether of these 2 wieners. I think if these guys want to break into big time media distribution they need to "actually" support a standard format and allow streaming from non-proprietary streaming servers. It is perplexing...

Tags: Corporate communications, H.264, Darwin Streaming Server, H264, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Google Calendar close to launching a task list feature

Google posted a message on the Google Calendar discussion group that drops a hint that all the engineers on Google Calendar are working hard to get task lists into the service. This has been one of the most requested features since the service launched and even before -- which...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Calendar, Team Management, Management, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-10-14

Fast Food My Way Hi - Res (Mobile)

Cooks in a hurry, take heart!In Fast Food My Way, Jacques Ppin the man who taught cooking to millions of Americans shares the techniques he honed in the most famous kitchens of the world to show you how to create simple, special meals in minutes.In this companion volume to his...

Tags: Food, Mobile, Kitchen, Soup, Peach, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2007-10-04

EU opens antitrust probe against Qualcomm

EU opens antitrust probe against QualcommWhine, whine, whineThat's all I'm hearing. "They're charging us more than we want to pay - go get 'em, EU commission."QUALCOMM and MicrosoftPress from QUALCOMM. This very much is related to Microsoft."May 04, 2006 — QUALCOMM Incorporated and Microsoft Corp. today jointly announced a...

Tags: Corporate law, Benefits, Qualcomm Inc., Microsoft Corp., antitrust

Discussion threads 2007-10-01