…Fire Eagle is about helping you take your location to the Web and giving you control over how, when and with what your location is shared. You choose which applications can share and update your location. You choose how much information you want to share – from as broad as country or state, to as detailed as zip code or cross streets, and everything in between. You choose when and how to update your location.
Category Archives: yahoo
Wahey, new Delicious is out!
Over the past few days we’ve been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs. Today we’re taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com.
Zimbra Desktop allows offline access to Yahoo/Gmail/AOL Mail
Nice app for managing your e-mail from a desktop application for PC, Mac and Linux:
Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk will play nicely together
Buried deep inside the press release announcing the Yahoo-Google search advertising deal, is an interesting point about the company’s respective messenger clients:
In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.
Yahoo preview Web desktop platform
Today Yahoo are entering the world of Web desktops (“Webtops”) with BrowerPlus, a plugin for your browser that makes building rich applications a lot simpler.
Included is an example Flickr uploading application that allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop onto the browser.
My favourite Safari Extension
Inquisitor is a fantastic search add-on for Safari, and it’s recently been updated to version 3. Basically, it enhances the Safari search box by suggesting results and allowing searches on sites other than Google. Pretty essential, I would say.
Yahoo Glue – a richer search experience
Tired of a list of blue links after performing a search? Yahoo! Glue is now in Beta on the India search site, and it shows how search can be enhanced by related content. An example search for “taj mahal“, for instance, pulls up Flickr pictures and a Wikipedia link along with traditional search results. Pretty neat.
Search safely
Yahoo search has now integrated McAfee’s SiteAdvisor into it’s search engine which means dodgy sites serving up spam and malware are flagged up:
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Preview
As part of Yahoo’s plan to open up their search technology to external developers, a new tool called SearchMonkey is now being previewed. SearchMonkey allows you to add data services that can be used to present richer, more useful search results. Sign up for more information:
Best Web 2.0 Apps
These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners:
Welcome to Webware 100 Awards 2008
(Lots of lovely logos, too!)