E-Books Pottermore: J.K. Rowling Launches a Mysterious New Website Avid Harry Potter fans followed a series of online clues yesterday that led them to Pottermore.com - a fairly standard "coming soon" website with a magenta background and a couple of owls... oh, and a signature of one very famous author: J.K. Rowling. Audrey Watters View comments
Tools Develop Windows 8/Metro Style Applications Today with Metro Dynamis Metro Dynamis is an early alpha release library based on JQuery for designers and developers wishing to build HTML5/CSS/JavaScript websites in a style similar to the Metro UI used by Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8. You can get an early look at it by signing up for the newsletter. Meanwhile, some members of the Microsoft Platform and Tools team… Hack Klint Finley View comments
Virtualization Every Manager's Guide to Virtualization by Dan Kusnetzky Have you ever wanted to give your manager a short book that would explain all the different ways that you can virtualize something in your enterprise? Now you can, thanks to virtualization guru Dan Kusnetzky. He has been around the virtualization industry longer than anyone I know and has a very engaging style. His O'Reilly eBook, Virtualization: A… David Strom View comments
TWiOT Imprisoned Syrian Blogger a Fake Gay Girl in Damascus a straight man in Scotland. When the "cousin" of blogger "Amina Abdallah Arraf" reported her abduction, people around the world were upset. This lesbian, half-American Syrian blogger seemed like someone they could relate to. Soon, questions arose and, in part due to the efforts of NPR's Andy Carvin, it came out that this was… Curt Hopkins View comments
Browsers Firefox Semantic Browser Recommendations Mozilla is always experimenting with how content is searched and discovered in Firefox. Mozilla Labs has released a new experimental feature today in its Prospector series. Called Predictive NewTab it supplements the fixed list of top sites presented to users when they open a new browser tab in Firefox. The idea is to use the semantic data of… Dan Rowinski View comments