News Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google's Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google's interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google's eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries… Frederic Lardinois View comments
News Britannica Wants to Be More Like Wikipedia: Lets Users Contribute According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica is about to open ups its articles to edits by its users. Jorge Cauz, Britannica's president, tells the SMH that readers will soon be able to make edits to existing articles and create their own content. These updates, however, will be vetted by Britannica's staff, which… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting to Live? Imagine you're at a concert where your favorite band is playing for the last time. Or you're watching President Obama get sworn into office. Or maybe you're just sitting around with your family under the Christmas tree watching your children open gifts. What are you doing in all those scenarios? If you're like most people today, you're probably… Sarah Perez View comments
News Need a Classier Way to Bum a Ride? Use FriendlyFavor FriendlyFavor, which was released today, does one thing, and it does it well: manage favors. The service lets you request favors from your friends, and offer favors to your friends. With FriendlyFavor, you can ask your friends for help with your move, or easily offer tickets to a basketball game to all your friends. FriendlyFavor then provides… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Music Understand Your Electronica: Mugasha Makes Sense of Long DJ Sets (Invites) If you're into electronica, you've likely grabbed some sets from your favorite DJs. And while DJ sets are a great way to get fresh content from some of your favorite artists, they all suffer from one annoying drawback: a set is usually a single file devoid of any track information. What's more, it's usually a huge file spanning one or more hours… Play Rick Turoczy View comments