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Tuesday, 31st May 2011

Twitter Gets a Follow Button

Twitter has begun offering an embeddable button for one-click subscription to a Twitter account associated with any website, called the Follow Button. Previously, a website owner could link to their Twitter profile page off-site but users had to visit that Twitter page and click to follow the account from there. Users interested in…

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Cloud Providers

Heroku Gets Node.js and More in New Beta Version

Heroku, the platform-as-a-service provider that Salesforce.com acquired last year, has added Node.js to its existing Ruby offering as part of its new public beta called Celadon Cedar. Other new features include consolidated logging, real-time dynotype monitoring and instant roll-backs. The first question asked at the post-acquisition press and…

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Creative Commons Mapping Community GeoCommons Launches 2.0 Version With HTML5 and More

Web based mapping platform GeoCommons launched its 2.0 version today with a long list of free, enterprise and API features that bring the service up to date on contemporary web technologies. GeoCommons is a community site run by GeoIQ, a private company that sells software and support to enterprise customers. Data and maps posted to GeoCommons…

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Evernote Developers Contest

Online notes platform Evernote has been growing rapidly over the past year and is putting some of its venture funding to good use: A developer app-building contest with $100,000 worth of prizes. Evernote has raised around $45 million with its latest round a Series C $20 million injection in October 2010 from Sequoia Capital. Developers can use the…

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Hey Kids, Build Your Own Video Games With Stencyl

Although it's getting a lot easier to build your own video games, many of the tools out there for doing so require you have a background in programming. Not so with with Stencyl, a new game creation studio that launches today. "Our goal is to build the ultimate game creation experience, one that democratizes the game creation process by…

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