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Category: Web services

All I want for Christmas: An IDE for HTML5

At the Web 2.0 Expo, I had an opportunity to check out a few sessions on the cool new features of HTML5. Let me just say this: HTML5 is going to change everything. The Web will become amazingly beautiful in a few years, all because of this new standard. But, more on that in a [...]

Sprout is Flash for everyone else

Okay, I feel like I have been waiting a very long time for this. And now it finally has happened. Someone has built a completely Web-based Flash application over at http://sproutbuilder.com. This is a momentous occasion for me. I feel like over the last two years, I have been wishing for this very thing to [...]

Diet.com brings calorie info to your mobile phone

Apparently a new feature from diet.com is making the rounds and becoming quite popular. The latest is that you can text message the name of a popular restaurant followed by a menu item to “D-I-E-T-1″ or 34381, and it will return all of the nutritional facts of that item. News of this feature has gone [...]

Vuvox is the next big thing?

The folks over at Vuvox (pronounced View-vox) will be coming to UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism on Wedensday, November 7 at 1:00 p.m. for a demonstration of their new product. So what is Vuvox? Well, it’s a very creative slide show editor. At least that’s the best way I can describe it. It’s smooth, [...]