It’s the weekend, so time for our review the past week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why online video is set for a boost at the Olympics, analyzed a new mainstream RSS Reader, and checked in with Windows Live. On the trends side we answered Mozilla’s call for visions of the future of the Web, also looked into the future of blogging, checked out what big brands are doing with social media for the Olympics, and analyzed the gender of the Semantic Web (yes you read that correctly).
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Build A Custom Search Engine Using Your Social Bookmarks
Last week, Yahoo finally unveiled the long-awaited new version of the social bookmarking site Delicious. Along with the new URL, simply delicious.com , the site got a revamped UI and added new features like selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks. How...
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The register is reporting that China is about to take measures to clamp down on lip-synching: China’s ministry of culture has announced a clampdown on miming professional musos, marking an end to lip-synching and fake guitar strumming… …the new regs will not affect amateur performers such as Lin Miaoke, who famously mimed Ode to the Motherland at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The ministry’s Sun Qiuxia said it would first “consult with the public over the next few wee... more
If you’re a coach of a women’s gymnastics team, the ASSOCIATED PRESS has a report out today that might cause you to consider taking that hidden video camera out of the locker room.
(Mr. Camerman, I’ve got your tripod right here!)
University of Illinois police have served search warrants on the home, computer and e-mail accounts of a former gymnastics coach who’s being investigated after a video camera was discovered in a locker room.
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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 has just been released and is available for download
Take a look at www.microsoft.com/silverlight.
You can download the Silverlight 2 RTW SDK here .
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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser and cross device plug-in to build rich media experiences and rich internet applications. It significantly reduces development and deployment costs and provides enhanced Web audio and video streaming and playback. Silverlight is similar to (and in some way competitor to) Adobe AIR and Google Gear. [ Read Full Story ]
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Remember how we told you that Sony, like so many others, is quitting the rear-projection TV business ? Well, they finally decided to officially announce as much today, stating that come February its three RPTV plants would quit production of the sets and the company would focus its energy henceforth on LCD and OLED (huge surprise there). Don’t let the door-of-obsolecense hit your ass on the way out, RPTV. Read | Permalink | Email this | Commen... more
Russia launches last three navigation satellites
Airborne Internet raises important societal questions, allows porn surfing in coach
Optimus not prime for shipping on time
Crazy Guitar Hero Christmas lights mod
Crumpler’s Regifting Day
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A trade show held in Japan recently called AMEDIA showed off 18 new products aimed at helping the visually impaired better utilize technology. Among the devices on offer were an adaptive Braille display, which can convert text from a PC screen into the hand-read alphabet in real time, the REHA Vision "Color Talk," a handheld scanner which can recognize 220 colors and speak them to the user, and what appears to be GW Micro’s VoiceSense PDA (here being employed to help those wit... more
Google powered phones could be debuted as soon as February, according to speculation by APC .
It’s an interesting exercise in drawing the dots together to get to a completely unsupported conclusion, but there are some interesting facts APC has reported that are worth taking a look at:
You can bet that if Google’s handset partners lift the covers on their Android phones during the Mobile World Congress expo, which kicks off on February 11th in Barcelona - or if Google itself t... more
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