Facebook Speed Dating on the Oregon Trail: Facebook App Becomes a Dating Service Imagine that one day you are playing a game on a social networking site and the next day you discover that this game has been replaced by a video speed dating application. That is exactly what is going to happen to those who have been playing the Oregon Trail game on Facebook. As Webware's Josh Lowensohn first reported, the video dating site… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features What We Use: A Tour of RWW Desktops (Mac & PC) It's all about the web apps these days, right? Everything important's in the clouds? Not so fast! Spend some time separated from your physical computer and you'll likely be reminded just how much time and care you've put into setting it up like you want it. Even in this era of web app hype, we still love a good piece of desktop software, don't… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Browsers Yahoo's Inquisitor Makes Your Browser's Search Box Smarter While separate search boxes have long been a standard feature of every major browser (except for Chrome), their functionality and intelligence has not gone much beyond autocompleting searches. Yahoo is trying to change this with its Inqisitor plugin for Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. This plugin not only autocompletes your searches, but… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Browsers Cruz: A Smart, Multi-Pane Browser Think you've found the best browser to surf the web with? You may be selling yourself short. Mac users with Leopard should check out the latest entrant into the browser world, Cruz. Cruz lets you easily set up multiple panes in your browser, with sophisticated controls. That's just one of the many things it does, but it's the feature we… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT Amazon's EC2 Comes Out Of Beta - Now Supports Windows Just one day after Rackspace announced its challenger to Amazon's suite of cloud computing services, Amazon announced that it is taking its EC2 cloud computing service out of beta and that EC2 will now feature support for Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server. Until today, EC2 only supported a number of Linux distributions and OpenSolaris… Frederic Lardinois View comments