Google Google Gets Rid of Black Bar Google has replaced that ubiquitous black bar with a Google search bar that more closely matches the gray, red and blue design scheme that has rolled out across so many of its Web properties this year. Instead of text links to the various Google services across the bar, they now appear in a drop-down menu under the Google logo. The new bar… Jon Mitchell View comments
News BitNami Bundles Plugins with WordPress and Drupal Stacks BitNami is going beyond the value-add of bundling popular open source "stacks" of software to start including popular plugins and modules for the software. BitNami is starting with WordPress and Drupal by adding popular plugins for each of the popular Content Management Systems (CMS). We've covered BitNami before. The service started by… Joe Brockmeier View comments
Advertising WordPress Announces WordAds Yesterday, WordPress announced WordAds, a program for hosted WordPress.com blogs to make some money off their sites. The first ads will come from the WordPress partnership with Federated Media announced at Web 2.0 this October. Interested users must apply to join WordAds, and it requires a custom domain, a service for which WordPress charges. In… Jon Mitchell View comments
Analysis The Five Signs That an Application is Ripe For the Cloud When you're in the process of establishing your cloud architecture, figuring out what can be moved to the cloud, and when it should be moved, is job one. That can seem like a daunting task, depending on the size of your organization, the number of applications in use, the complexity of your network architecture, and so on. But it's not as hard as… Bert Huelman View comments
mobile Mobile Apps to Get ERSB Ratings The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and CTIA, a cellular trade association, announced a rating program for mobile apps that will be instituted by a variety of partners in the near future. Just as video games have ratings from the ESRB, now too will mobile apps. The app stores for the major U.S. carriers in AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments