News Notifixious' Superfeeder: Getting Closer to the Real-Time Web RSS feeds have become the backbone of the Web 2.0 movement, but as we are moving towards a real-time experience on the web, RSS is starting to show its age. To update your subscriptions, you have to regularly poll these feeds. This, of course, is a major problem for RSS readers and notification services which often have to deal with a substantial… Frederic Lardinois View comments
NYT Is Adobe Overhyping AIR's Success? Adobe AIR, an excellent cross-platform run time for web-connected desktop applications, has been downloaded 100 million times in under one year of availability, according to a post on the AIR team blog today. We like AIR, a lot, but the hype smells funny to us. Venture Beat says Adobe is winning the platform race and TechCrunch says that AIR is… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features 8 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009, 2010 Analyst firm Gartner has just released a report that highlights eight up-and-coming mobile technologies which they predict will impact the mobile industry over the course of the next two years. According to Nick Jones, vice president and analyst at the firm, the technologies they've identified will evolve quickly and will likely pose issues that… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
NYT SEAmail: Applying Semantic Technology to Email A prototype email system being developed at Stanford University is designed to bring the power of semantic technology to our inbox. Called SEAmail, short for "semantic email addressing," the system will help its users route email to the correct person or persons without needing to know their names or email addresses and without the need for… Sarah Perez View comments
Apple Collaborative Whiteboard Turns iPhones into Linked Sketchpads If two minds are better than one, then two minds with two iPhones must be even better. But how can you get those two great minds working together and thinking alike? Try Whiteboard, a new app that turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a collaborative workspace for sketching and sharing ideas in real-time. Rick Turoczy View comments