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Weekly Wrap-up: GoDaddy Supports SOPA and More
Dec 23rd
A list of SOPA supporters sparks outrage against domain name heavyweight, GoDaddy. David Strom reviews the new Hedy Lamarr biography. And, Marshall Kirkpatrick looks at the implications of Google’s AR glasses that may be coming sooner than we all thought. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.
After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web – plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more.
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GoDaddy’s SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers
For many, the list of companies supporting SOPA wasn’t a huge surprise. However, the fact that GoDaddy was among them caused many on Reddit to threaten a transfer of their domains on December 29, or “Move Your Domain Away From GoDaddy Day”.
Hedy Lamarr, The First Geek Movie Star
Richard Rhodes’ biography of beautiful and intelligent inventor/movie star, Hedy Lamarr is reviewed by David Strom. Lamarr, a prolific actress, famous for a racy movie in her teens and for a busy career in Hollywood, was apparently researching breast augmentation when she came up with her most famous invention, her technique for frequency-hopping radio communications.
Google Augmented Reality Glasses Could Come Soon, What Would They Mean?
Marshall talks about what life might be like with Google’s Augmented Reality glasses. The glasses, oft rumored, are apparently closer to reality than most of us realized. Looking at the future of life with these glasses seems bright and full of promise.
From the comments:
sparroww – “OK, let’s start with the obvious.
With these glasses and the right motion based software you can have the equivalent of an enormous monitor. You move your head to the right and it shows you your “right monitor”, same to the left, up down, etc.
People who work in situations where they need to look at the real world, but can benefit from a display can use this. Imagine a warehouse where all the employees know where to go, what to take off the shelf, where to put it, etc based on what their display tells them. Your dentist, doctor, etc, can look things up in real time while chatting with you without taking their eyes off you. For that matter then can do an easy side to side between your skin and the one they have on the display to see if this rash you have is serious.
Drivers will need to be careful using these, but it sure beats taking your eyes off the road to look at your GPS.Construction people can superimpose the plans over the building while their working on it. There’s so much more.”
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Study: Apps Are For Android, Games For the iPhone [HOT TOPIC]
The iPhone is the domain of the game. Android is the land of the app. 2011 showed some very distinct trends in user activity on the two major mobile platforms. A study done by Xylogic shows that of the top 25 app publishers for iOS, only one does not produce games. On the flip side, of the top 25 for Android, only about half are game publishers. More
10 Tips on Using Twitter Wisely
Twitter is far and away my favorite social network, but it does have its downsides. The 140 character limit? Nope, I actually enjoy the challenge of crafting meaningful messages in limited space. The problems come in when you have users who don’t quite understand the way Twitter is supposed to work, or when people or companies abuse the service. More
2012 Predictions, Mobile Edition: Dan Rowinski
2011 saw the biggest boom in personal computing since the Apple II invaded homes and offices across the world. This time around it was not a desktop computer, or even some fancy new laptop. The smartphone has penetrated society with such speed and to such depth that basic human interaction with information has yet to adapt to the change. Enterprises are scrambling to handle the era of “bring-your-own-device” and it is, at times, a painful process. More
Richard’s Top 10 Web Products of 2011
This time last year I listed my favorite Web products of 2010. I enjoyed that process so much that I’m doing it again this year. These are products that I liked and used the most during 2011, but I hope my list is useful to others too. More
Top Trends of 2011: Content Shifting
We wind down the top trends of 2011 with one that’s perfect for the holidays. Just as the frantic, real-time nature of the social Web hit fever pitch, the market trends this year made way for “content shifting.” It’s the simple idea of saving your articles, videos and podcasts for later. More
Kindle Fire Use Fastest Growing Tablet Since Original iPad
The Kindle Fire has been released to great fanfare, mixed reviews and millions of devices sold. The device’s growth trajectory has already outpaced that of any other tablet introduced to the market. Secondary statistics show that the growth of the Kindle Fire rivals even that of the original iPad when it was unleashed on the world in the beginning of 2010. More
Zynga Is Not First On Facebook’s Top Games Of 2011
Yesterday Facebook released its list of top games for 2011. Only four of those games were Zynga-owned. The number one and number two slots were filled by Disney Playdom’s Garden of Time, a game about locating hidden objects through time travel and EA’s The Sims Social, which is most similar the “real-world” virtual game Second Life. Zynga’s CityVille, a game all about building “the city of your dreams,” came in third. In the top casino games of 2011 category, Zynga took first place with Zynga Poker. Right now, 95% of Zynga’s gaming strategy relies on Facebook, and just last week Zynga went public. What does this mean for Zynga? More
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Search Engine Academy Washington DC Supports Employment For Veterans #Veterans – PR Web (press release)
Nov 8th
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Search Engine Academy Washington DC Supports Employment For Veterans #Veterans
PR Web (press release) "I've developed an SEO Work Study Program, and this is a great opportunity to introduce it to folks who are transitioning from active duty military status to civilian, and many of our wounded warriors, vets and active military women and men don't know … |
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StackMob Now Officially Supports Android Developers With New SDK
Oct 12th
Mobile backend service provider StackMob announced that it is unveilings its compelete platform for Android developers. StackMob, which is still in private beta but growing quickly, had only been targeted at iOS developers since its launch earlier this year. The StackMob Android SDK supports push notifications on all devices using Frozen Yogurt 2.2 and above.
The StackMob Android SDK will be available immediately though the first 300 that sign up will be given priority. StackMob released the news this morning. StackMob is one of the leading startups in the “backend as a service” ecosystem that is lowering the bar for developers to create dynamic apps with all the functionality a sophisticated infrastructure can provide.
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StackMob provides value by providing its SDK that can any device that can access a REST API can utilize. Now that StackMob is available on both Android (C2DM) and iOS (APNS), developers can seamlessly send push notifications across platforms without having to worry what platform users are on. StackMob also has new URLs for the universal push notifications along with the iOS specific URLS. Check out the StackMob blog post here explaining some of the details of the new release.
It is the appropriate time for StackMob to officially get into Android. Some developers in StackMob’s private beta had been using the service for Android but they had not made the SDK publicly available. It can be found here on Github. The Android application ecosystem is also on the verge of evolving as developers start to create apps that are as elegant as iOS but with the power and geekiness of Android. As developers search for ways to push the bounds of their apps and find news ways to monetize, services like StackMob that provide easy integration to more complicated processes will become more important.
Some individuals in the developer ecosystem wonder about the need for backend services like Parse, Kinvey or StackMob or even Urban Airship, which dabbles in the space as well. The thing that many application startups is that they do not often have the expertise or the pool of resources to hire a team specifically focused on the backend of the app. Talent is used to create the user experience first. If an app developer significantly grows, it will eventually price itself out of the business models of StackMob etc. because it will be easier to hire in house. Yet, for the backend service providers, that is a good problem to have. They helped an app grow from tiny to gargantuan, benefitting along with the app and the ecosystem the whole way through.
Android fragmentation also makes it necessary for StackMob to move head first in to the space. Fragmentation is the bane of the Android developer because it takes resources to test and develop backwards. This will be fixed once Ice Cream Sandwich is ubiquitous, but that point is not coming quite yet as Froyo and Gingerbread dominate the ecosystem. It will take more than a year for ICS to be the majority Android flavor.
“We’ve listened to our growing Android developer community to ensure we continue to address their unique needs for simplicity, flexibility and most importantly scalability for data driven application development,” said Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob in a press release.
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OpenStack Competitor OpenNebula Releases v3.0, Supports Hyper-V
Oct 3rd
Last week, the news was about OpenStack, by way of the first commercial rendition of the open source cloud operating system from a new firm called Piston Cloud. Having emerged from a NASA project, it’s easy for OpenStack to steal the spotlight.
This week, the latest rendition of a slightly older project is being released, and it too has a commercial rendition. It’s version 3.0 of OpenNebula (not to be confused with the NASA Nebula project based on what’s now called OpenStack), and its origin is in the laboratory as well – in this case, since 2009 at Switzerland-based physics lab CERN.
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Unlike OpenStack – whose philosophy, its leader told us, is to use as few tools independent of the client’s existing environment as possible – OpenNebula (often shortened to “ONE”) uses a reasonably rich set of dedicated tools, including a command line environment and a browser-based UI called SunStone. But like its competitor, OpenNebula’s goal is to offer a hypervisor-agnostic platform for data centers to pool together whatever assets they have, with whatever assets they may eventually have.
“OpenNebula is an open-source project aimed at developing a production-ready cloud management tool for building any type of Cloud deployment, either in scientific or in business environments,” reads the development group’s Web site. “OpenNebula releases are tested to assess its scalability and robustness in large scale VM deployments, and under stress conditions… Because two datacenters are not the same, OpenNebula offers a open, flexible and extensible architecture, interfaces and components that fit into any existing data center; and enable its integration with any product and service in the Cloud and virtualization ecosystem, and management tool in the datacenter. OpenNebula is a framework, you can replace and adapt any component to efficiently work in any environment.”
One of the more notable additions to version 3.0 – one which may be familiar to admins of general-purpose operating systems – is access control lists (ACLs). In ONE, this is a fairly uncomplicated system: Individual users have ID definitions, and such definitions may be combined into any number of groups. Using the command-line tool, the admin invokes the new oneacl command to create an instruction line in its entirety, encased in quotation marks, and appended to the ACL. That instruction may grant a user or group express permission to use, create, delete, or manage (among other operations) a resource such as a VM or a host. The operation being granted and the class of resource are each represented by single letters. So there’s no tricks here.
“For instance, using ACL rules you could create a group of users that can see and use existing virtual resources, but not create any new ones,” reads the version 3.0 documentation. “Or grant permissions to a specific user to manage Virtual Networks for some of the existing groups, but not to perform any other operation in your cloud.”
Up until version 2.2, OpenNebula supported VMware Server, VMware ESX, KVM, and Xen hypervisors. The new release adds support for Oracle’s VirtualBox (acquired from Sun) and Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Upon hearing the news last week, Microsoft’s open systems general manager Sandy Gupta heaped praise on the project: “Given the highly heterogeneous environments in today’s data centers and clouds, we are seeing enablement of various Linux distributions including SUSE, CentOS, Red Hat, and CS2C on Windows Server Hyper-V, as well as emerging open source cloud projects like OpenStack – and now OpenNebula.”
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Latest Adobe AIR for Mobile Devices Supports NFC
Sep 27th
Hackers will have fun building Adobe AIR apps for mobile devices that incorporate Near Field Communication (NFC) sensors, now that AIR version 3.0 enables software access to hardware data including vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors and NFC.
The API is likely to lead to some really fun capabilities. Imagine all the accessibility and beauty of Adobe AIR, combined with the real-world location and frictionless data transfer capabilities of NFC. Hot.
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ReadWriteWeb has written extensively about NFC and its future, including the possibility that they might appear in the iPhone 5. Presumably if it does, Apple will offer a hardware API for it as well.
Android devices have NFC APIs, but presumably such capabilities baked into AIR would enable a new level of ease and power for developers seeking to build apps that let users swipe their phones over tags to register their locations, perform transactions and take other actions still yet to be determined.
The other side of the story is that NFC may never catch on widely and Adobe AIR is not loved by all, either. Nothing is perfect though and this might be pretty good.
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Bing Now Supports Google’s Crawlable AJAX Standard?
Jul 3rd
In 2009, Google proposed a standard for crawlable AJAX. A few months later, that standard went live and while I thought it was great Google was providing options to content owners to ensure their sites were indexed well, I noted at the time that “this method doesn’t work for search engines…
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MozyPro Supports New Mobile App
Jun 22nd
Online Backup vendor Mozy has come out with a new update to its mobile app that will add support for MozyPro users and support for multiple languages.
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When we wrote about Mozy’s new iPad app earlier this year, it wasn’t yet available for the business Pro accounts. Now both the Android and iOS apps are available for business accounts. This means through the MozyPro Admin Console (which you can see here), IT folks can control those employees who can access, view and share files that have been backed-up to Mozy’s cloud service. MozyPro costs $4/mo per desktop with 50 cents per GB per mo of data backed up. Servers cost an extra $3/mo. You can download the app on Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
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Google Now Supports “Author” Tag
Jun 7th
Google announced support of the authorship markup, enabling content sites to help identify their authors on the site and across the web. The markup links up authors to content, for example, this content would be linked up to my name and can be used to find all the stories I’ve written here…
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Catch’s New Annotations API Supports Structured Data, Lets Apps Talk to Each Other
May 31st
Catch is often thought of as an Evernote competitor, thanks to the company’s simple, note-taking applications for iOS and Android. But more recently, the company’s APIs were found integrated into a high-profile mobile application: Google’s official app for its I/O developer conference. In the Google I/O app, Catch was used to help attendees create and manage conference notes using the Catch service.
As it turns out, there are today over 40 apps using Catch’s APIs, including those from the BBC and TED, plus recipes and horoscopes apps and others. And now, with Catch’s newly launched annotations API and its support for structured data, Catch can enable different mobile apps to talk to each other.
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Prior to the release of Catch’s annotations API, the service supported only text, location, photos and voice in its notes. But sometimes, explains Catch CTO Andreas Schobel, you want to add structured data, too.
Developers can now do just that by registering new annotation types with Catch. For now, this is done by sending emails to developer@catch.com. Soon, a self-service registration page will be available to make the process even easier.
According to the Catch developer site, the annotations types currently have the following properties:
- namespace: A grouping for common annotations, generally relates to the application that uses them (health tracker).
- key: The key for the particular annotation.
- id: The id of the annotation type is composed of the namespace and key as namespace:key. The id is used for manipulating annotations in the Notes API.
- unique: Whether the annotation can have multiple values per note.
- processor: The method by which annotation values are processed. Built in processors are string, boolean, and number. Numbers have built in unit conversion.
So how does this annotations API allow apps to talk to each other? Well, for example, instead of having a note field in an app where you recorded your weight daily as text, that information could be saved as data. Then a second app could read that data. In the weight-tracking example, the second app could translate pounds to kilograms, for instance, or it could correlate your weight with your daily blood pressure readings, which the second app provided.
Another basic example of annotations are the starred notes Catch implemented into its own note-taking apps recently, which allows users to save their favorite notes.
These are very simple examples, of course, but the possibilities of annotations made available via API are interesting, especially in terms of sharing data between different applications – even those from different developers.
Catch provides three different ways to leverage its service – via an HTTPS REST API, open-source libraries or through Android Intents. Interested developers can learn more about Catch at developer.catch.com.
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