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Tuesday, 22nd November 2011

Socialize Releases Action Bar 1.0

The team at Socialize has released a new action bar that centralizes the user interface of its mobile engagement platform. Developers can now drop the Socialize SDK into their app and create an bar where users can interact within the app through Facebook, email, text and Twitter and also use in-app commenting. The new action bar can either be a…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Heroku Launches PostgreSQL Standalone Service

PostgreSQL is getting a lot of love from cloud providers this year. It was the first RDBMS chosen for OpenShift, and VMware gave the elephant a big squeeze earlier this year as the platform for its "database as a service." Now Heroku is launching PostgreSQL as a standalone service. Folks using Heroku as their PaaS have been able to make…

Joe Brockmeier comments

How To Unplug for the Holidays

This weird, wired century makes it difficult to let go of business and be present for the holidays. So many of us have powerful computers in our pockets, making it hard to resist checking our various Web thingies under the Thanksgiving dinner table. It's important to have a strategy for managing and prioritizing work over the holidays, so we can…

Jon Mitchell comments

Klout Score Adds Google+ Public Posts

In a blog post today, Klout announced that Google+ influence will become part of the Klout Score. Users were given the opportunity to connect their Google+ accounts to their Klout Scores back in September, and now that connection will pay off in the form of - you guessed it! - a higher Klout Score! What this really means is Klout wants you to…

Social Alicia Eler comments

PressBooks Launches E-Book Platform

PressBooks, a simple online book production tool built on WordPress, launches to the public today. It lets authors use a content management system they already know to produce ePubs, typeset PDFs and other XML formats, as well as a Web version. The Web version can be private, or it can be free or paywalled to the public. PressBooks has spent six…

Jon Mitchell comments

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