Cloud Computing Collab.net Launches CloudForge for Cloud Development and Deployment Collab.net began operations in 1999 providing various open-source desktop development tools. The company is most famous for Subversion, used by some 5 million developers for source version control. Beginning today, it combines some of the tools acquired since then (including Codesion and TeamForge) to create a fully integrated cloud… David Strom View comments
Social Web How We'll Get Beyond the Emoticon There’s a sarcasm font. It’s brilliant, actually. Reversed italics, slanted left instead of right, perfectly conveys the tone of sarcasm. But sarcasm is practically the default state of online communication. What about the rest of the spectrum of human emotions? Social Jon Mitchell View comments
Android Why AT&T and Verizon May Love Windows Phone - But Can't Live Without the iPhone AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the nation’s two largest wireless carriers, intend to market the heck out of Microsoft Windows Phone to prevent Apple from gaining a stranglehold on the U.S. smartphone market. But the strategy has many pitfalls, including the fact that the carriers still can’t afford to live without the iPhone. Bottom line, their… Mobile Antone Gonsalves View comments
Gaming Why Casual Games Won't Kill Hard-Core Gaming Mass Effect. Grand Theft Auto. Halo. Farmville? The gaming industry has long been dominated by franchises with hardware-crushing graphics, hundreds of hours of tightly scripted gameplay, and multiyear development budgets of $50 million or more. But now the hottest titles are mobile or Facebook games that took a couple guys a week to knock out… Play Cormac Foster View comments
Social Networks Who's Winning The Battle For The Interest Graph: Facebook, Google+ or Twitter? Do you use Google+ more than Facebook? Are you an avid Twitter user, but not so active on Google+? Do you auto-share online media, such as songs or news articles, onto Facebook? These are just some of the questions being asked in the ongoing evolution of the "Interest Graph," succinctly defined by software engineer Adam Rifkin as "WHAT people… Social Richard MacManus View comments