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February 2009 Archives

Sunday, 22nd February 2009

Real-Time Web Comes Alive with Mobile Blogging Platform, Zcapes

Zcapes is a new "augmented reality" application that lets you instantly transform any object or event into a mini blog using your mobile phone. But this is no ordinary blogging platform. Instead of focusing on publishing, Zcapes focuses on integrating streams from the "Live Web" into whatever blog you create. The end result is a Zcape page that…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

Twitter Track is Back Thanks to New Service from Particls

Particls, the one-time RSS feed organizer and alerting service, has today launched a new project they're calling "Particls Fountain." Although it's hinted that the service will eventually do much more, today its goal is simple. Particls Fountain will function as a replacement for the long-gone Twitter Track feature that once allowed you to follow…

Social Sarah Perez comments

Biometrics for Identification or Authentication Still Has a Way to Go

PC manufacturers have been introducing biometric technologies into their products over the past several years; the implication being that such technologies are inherently more secure than the traditional password, especially given the lack of attention given to password creation by the majority of users. Several years ago, MythBusters proved…

Lidija Davis comments

Times Open: Developers Gather to Discuss The New York Times APIs

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Times Open strategy, the program that focuses on making the data of The New York Times more accessible to the developer community. We heralded the launch of the program, covered the first available API, and marveled at the access to content the APIs have begun to provide. Now the Times has taken another…

Social Rick Turoczy comments

Introducing Microsoft's Gazelle: A Web Browser as a Multi-Principal OS

Late last week, Microsoft Research released an interesting paper [PDF] about a Web browser it calls Gazelle that's constructed in such a way to act like an operating system with the browser kernel exclusively protecting resources and sharing across Web sites. The idea behind Gazelle is to create a browser that is more secure for the now typical…

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