Data Services Like a Laser Beam to Cut Through the Allegory of the Cave: Infochimps Releases Meta-GeoAPI Data marketplace and platform Infochimps launched a set of big new features this morning: a common geodata schema that aggregates information about places from multiple sources and offers it up in one API, an automated method of visualizing crowded geodata sets on a map called The Summarizer and a new method of allowing location data to be… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Announcements VMware Improves View, and Extends Horizon Yesterday's VMware announcements were all about the data center and the global cloud ecosystem. Today the announcements are more end-user focused. Today the company took the wraps off VMware View 5 and updates to VMware Horizon. Aside from a scenic theme to the announcements, what's going on with View and Horizon? VMware View lets organizations… Joe Brockmeier View comments
Breaking Twitter Outage Affects Replies Engineers at Twitter are busy plugging away at the microblogging service's latest outage, which appears to be preventing many users from seeing replies and mentions from others. Twitter's support team confirmed the issue at 11:42am EST, but have not updated since, leaving many users frustrated and unsure of why they can't see replies. Among… Social John Paul Titlow View comments
Breaking Zite Acquired By CNN Personalized iPad magazine application Zite has confirmed that it has been acquired by CNN. The sales price is rumored to be in the $20 to $25 million range. Zite will not be branded exclusively to CNN and will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the news network. It is an interesting play by CNN. Zite is a powerful news reading iPad app with a… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Browsers Firefox Previews Browser For Tablets In a blog post published today, Mozilla user experience designer Ian Barlow previewed the user interface their Mobile Team is in the process of building for a tablet version of Firefox. Firefox for tablets, which does not yet have a release date, will be optimized to run on Honeycomb Android tablets. The browser will include features from… Mobile John Paul Titlow View comments