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22nd November 2011 19:00
For those of us who work with WordPress every day, it has been exciting to watch our beloved content management system evolve over the years fr…
22nd November 2011 19:00
In a blog post today, Klout announced that Google+ influence will become part of the Klout Score. Users were given the opportunity to connect their Google+ accounts to their Klout Scores back in September, and now that connection will pay off in the form of - you guessed it! - a higher Klout Score! What this really means is Klout wants you to connect all of your social networks to its service, and if you do the reward is a…
22nd November 2011 18:55
PressBooks, a simple online book production tool built on WordPress, launches to the public today. It lets authors use a content management system they already know to produce ePubs, typeset PDFs and other XML formats, as well as a Web version. The Web version can be private, or it can be free or paywalled to the public. PressBooks has spent six months working with authors and publishers to refine and test the tool. Big-time publishers like O'Reilly Media give rave…
22nd November 2011 18:45
New research sponsored by Facebook out of a Milan computer science university shows that the old saw of there being six degrees of separation is no longer accurate. Call it 4.7 degrees instead. The researchers used a random sampling of half a million Facebook users who were active in May 2011 and mapped their social graphs. Sponsor There were two academic research papers that were posted last night. One of them looks at how many friends people have, and found…
22nd November 2011 18:39
Two porn firms, including the company that runs Playboy’s website, have filed a lawsuit against ICM Registry over the creation of th…
22nd November 2011 18:30
How exactly should you gain visibility into the performance levels your customers are seeing when they use your Web applications? One method that's still in wide use is compelling users to install plug-ins and background processes. But for many users, that's not just performance monitoring, that's behavior monitoring. You don't want your analytics tool straying too far into the realm of potential privacy violations. Until HTML5 can fully implement its standard methodology for capturing browser performance specs, Web developers need…
22nd November 2011 18:21
Google News now highlights +1'd articles from people in your Google+ circles in its Spotlight section. Friends' faces and Google+ profiles are displayed next to the link, just like in Google's social search results. Earlier this month, Google News added the same feature for authors, showing Google+ info under their headlines. While today's new social features are limited to the Spotlight section, it adds another way in which Google News can personalize content for logged-in users using their social data.…
22nd November 2011 17:58
The Mashable Awards celebrates the best of digital, and perhaps no category showcases the digital world better than entertainment. From Game o…
22nd November 2011 17:38
Arnold Schwarzenegger, your contact lenses are calling. Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully built and test…
22nd November 2011 17:20
Twenty percent of teachers have personally experienced or knows another teacher who has experienced cyberbaiting, a new study reveals. Cyberbai…