Archive | October, 2010

With WebP, Google Aims To Replace Yet Another Elemental Web Format

18. October 2010

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Viagra | Adderall || Levitra online The image accompanying this post is encoded with JPEG compression, a standard which, while it has been improved somewhat, has been more or less in its present form for almost two decades now. Over those two decades, images have changed their role on the [...]

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Facebook Photos Going Hi-Res So You Won’t Have To Squint To Relive Your Memories

16. October 2010

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Facebook has established itself as the biggest photo sharing service on the Internet — by far. But until fairly recently, the maximum size of uploaded photos was a frustratingly small 604 pixels, doing nothing to take advantage of the increasing ubiquity of high-resolution cameras. And that’s a problem when your friends are using Facebook as the [...]

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comScore: Facebook Passes Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S.

14. October 2010

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comScore just released its latest online video data in the U.S. for the month of August; showing that viewership remained steady since the previous month. According to comScore, 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in August for an average of 14.3 hours per viewer (178 million users watched online video in [...]

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Android Market Finally Improves International Support

11. October 2010

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Talk to an Android developer about their biggest gripes with the platform, and one the the top bullets on the list — probably even higher than the fragmentation issue — is that fact that Android Market has had weak support for international users. Up until now developers in only nine countries were able to sell paid applications, [...]

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Goo.gl Is A Go. The “Stablest, Most Secure, And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web”

8. October 2010

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Google’s URL shortener just opened up to the public, with a standalone site. Launched last December, Google’s Bit.ly competitor, Goo.gl can now be used for any links on the web. And Google promises that the shortener is the “stablest, most secure, and fastest URL shortener on the web.” From the blog post: There are many shorteners out [...]

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