Hack of the Day Hack of the Day: Travel the World With Facebook Places In these economic times it can be hard to justify spending thousands on airfare, hotels, and party-life travel destinations. So save your money and let geolocation services do the work for you. If you want to visit an exotic location, then Facebook Places and a few browser tweaks are all you'll need. Hack Jay Cuthrell View comments
NYT TweetPhoto Becomes Plixi, Presents New Vision for Location-Based Services TweetPhoto is the kind of service you probably interact with every week, without even realizing it, if you don't actually use it yourself. The social photo-sharing platform is integrated into 250 third-party applications, including Seesmic, TweetDeck, Echofon and others. While media darling Foursquare makes headlines for reaching 3 million active… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Security Never Hand Out Your Password Again: Twitter Goes OAuth Today's the day - the "Oauthpocalypse" - that Twitter users and developers (well, mostly developers) have been anxiously awaiting. It's the day that Twitter will begin using OAuth rather than basic authentication for third-party applications, a move that has implications for both users and developers alike. At 8 a.m. today, Twitter shut down basic… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Browsers SublimeVideo Launches HTML5-Video-Player-as-a-Service SublimeVideo, an HTML5-based video player from Switzerland-based development and design firm Jilion, has launched SublimeVideo.net, an HTML5 Video-Player-as-a-Service. The goal of the new site is to provide tools for Web publishers that will allow for the easy deployment of zero-maintenance HTML5 video on a website in a matter of seconds, and… Sarah Perez View comments
Virtualization Zenoss Announces Monitoring for VMWare's Cloud Director It may well mark another milestone in cloud computing that we have been hearing so much buzz lately about cloud monitoring. No longer is it simply questions of "should we move to the cloud," but questions of "okay, we're committed to the cloud. How can we tell what works?" Along those lines, Zenoss announces today that it will be the first… Audrey Watters View comments