Analysis How the New Goo.gl Compares to Other URL Shorteners Google's URL shortener Goo.gl has launched its open service and companion website to the public this afternoon. The service looks a whole lot like upstart innovator Bit.ly. "I guess Oscar Wilde was right, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery," Bit.ly's John Borthwick told us in response. "They took all the basic features and copied from… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Gaming Mozilla Takes Aim at Flash-based Casual Games Mozilla, home of the popular Firefox browser, has announced a new effort to challenge the dominance of Adobe Flash in the casual gaming market. Called Game On 2010, the effort is an international competition that will highlight "games built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser." The crux of the issue is no Flash allowed. Critics… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
International 2000 Years Since Anyone's Heard Babylonian Poetry Read Aloud - Click to Hear It Now We have seen Babylonian language, whether we recognized it as such or not. It's that stuff on every ancient tablet in every adventure movie you've ever seen that doesn't have a crane or a guy dancing (that, scientifically speaking, is Egyptian). The writing system, quite possibly the first humans devised, consists of lines and wedges. The… Curt Hopkins View comments
Apple Blank Label's Dress Shirt Customization Comes to the iPad It has long been said that "the clothes make the man," and if that man is on the cutting edge of technology, he's probably an iPad owner. So what better way for the fashionable male of 2010 to properly outfit himself than by designing his own dress shirts on an iPad? This is what international startup Blank Label hopes will happen thanks to the… Mobile Chris Cameron View comments
Google Report: Google Plans to Introduce JPEG Alternative to Speed up the Web In its drive to speed up the Web, Google plans to introduce a new image format today that can cut the file size of an image by 40% when compared to a standard JPEG file. According to CNET's Stephen Shankland, this new image format, WebP, is derived from Google's WebM video technology and will make its debut later today. Google's lead product… Frederic Lardinois View comments