| Google Docs Gets Drag-and-Drop Uploads Google just announced it's extending the drag-and-drop functionality in its online office suite, Google Docs. A few weeks ago, it introduced an image uploader for docs that worked the same way as the new feature does - you simply drag a file from your computer's and it will immediately upload to "the cloud," (the cloud, in this case being the... Continue Reading »    The Mobile Web Takes Over for Generation Y Mobile browser maker Opera has released its latest report on the mobile Web and this time it's come to a conclusion you'll arrive at soon enough as the family gathers for the holidays and everyone under 30 has their nose buried in a mobile phone the whole time - "Generation Y chooses the mobile Web". In fact, most 18-27 year-olds... Continue Reading » Tim Berners-Lee Calls Facebook a Walled Garden - Is That Fair? This week the Web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, published an article in Scientific American promoting open standards and net neutrality. In the article, he takes aim at Facebook for being a "walled garden." He claims that Facebook and other social networks are "walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the... Continue Reading » Blekko and DuckDuckGo Partnership Shows How Startups Can Take on the Big Guys We seem to make a lot of predictions that new features and products launched by the likes of Facebook, Google, or Twitter are going to be "killers" of some sort. Facebook Places, for example, could be a "Foursquare killer." Facebook Messaging could be a "Gmail killer." A new analytics product from Twitter will be a "Klout killer." Often, as... Continue Reading » Oracle Wins 10 Times More Than the Record Industry Ever Has for Copyright Infringement ... Continue Reading » Where in the World is Mobile Web Usage Highest The future of the web is mobile. However, the web analysts at Royal Pingdom have found that mobile web usage currently is spread unevenly across the world. The geographical areas that are accessing the web via mobile phones at the highest rates today actually aren't Europe or North America. Based on data from StatCounter for October 2010, Asia... Continue Reading » Plug an HTML5 Photo Editor Into Your Site With Aviary Feather Aviary, a New York startup that provides web-based media editing tools, has announced today that it now offers a simple photo editing widget that can be plugged-in to any website with ease. Called Feather, the tool uses HTML5 to let users quickly and easily remove red-eye, add text, crop photos or perform other simple image editing tasks. Aviary... Continue Reading » Like Water? Track the BP Oil Spill Aftermath Online The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, from April 20 to July 15, was probably the disaster most extensively covered online. BP itself launched a social media channel for it. Oilholic let you track the spill as it spread, as did NOAA. The White House answered spill questions via YouTube. But what about the aftermath? "Out of sight, out of mind"... Continue Reading » Apple Poaching RIM Sales Staff If you still think Apple isn't taking the enterprise seriously you'd better think again: Apple has hired at least five former RIM sales staff in the past in the past 18 months. The Wall Street Journal discovered the defections on LinkedIn, and Apple confirmed that each of the employees the Journal found are indeed Apple employees. Here's the... Continue Reading » Curated.by Launches Public Beta, Brings Collaborative Curation to the Web Curated.by - a collaborative curation tool that helps users organize anything and everything with a link, from Wikipedia to Tweets to this here blog post - announced the launch of its public beta today. The space is heating up, with Storify and Keepstream both making their own efforts, and it will be interesting to see how Curated.by's latest... Continue Reading » College Credit for Improving Wikipedia - Just Don't Cite it in a Paper! The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia often gets a bum rap for being a poor source of information, and many educators discourage - or even ban - their students from using the site. But the Public Policy Initiative is a pilot program undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation that, in conjunction with a number of universities, is making verifying... Continue Reading » Microsoft Hires World's Leading Geo-Dissident to Join Bing Maps Team OpenStreetMap is a global map edited by volunteers, like the Wikipedia of the mapping world. Founded in 2004, the project is a fascinating collection of local knowledge and is a lot of fun to participate in. Last month OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast announced that he was leaving for-profit Cloud Made, the primary company behind OSM. Today he... Continue Reading » | 
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