A while ago, I looked around the social web and wished that it could be
less static. Sure, you can leave a comment on a blog or write a text
blurb on your social networking profile. But what if you want to
express yourself in a more fun way, with 3D graphics and real-time
avatar interactions? That's what Googles Lively is all about - a 3D
virtual experience that is the newest addition to Google Labs.
Yahoo! Released an API for it's search engine called BOSS (Build your Own Search Service). The open search web services platforms goal is simple: to
foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to
build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access
to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful
infrastructure.
Yahoo! has reacted on the new aggressive initiative of Carl Icahn and the renewed interest of Microsoft with a formal press release:
"Yahoo!'s Board of Directors continues to stand ready to enter into negotiations with Microsoft Corporation for an acquisition of Yahoo!. Indeed, as recently as June, Yahoo!'s independent directors and management approached Steve Ballmer about just such a transaction, only to be told that Microsoft was no longer interested even in the price range which they had previously proposed."
Read MoreWith the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns your excellent Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.
Read MoreRatproxy, released under an Apache 2.0 software license, looks for a variety of coding problems in Web applications, such as errors that could allow a cross-site scripting attack or cause caching problems.
Read MoreMicrosoft is rumoured to have approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup. It is believed that the company has held discussions with Time Warner Inc. and News Corp.
Read MoreAdobe announced
the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically
improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet
applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Flash Player
technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of
the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently
undiscoverable by search engines.
Mozilla has proposed ship dates for Firefox 3.1 that, if approved, would produce an alpha release next month and a final no later than early 2009.
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