So some ex-Google-tards decide to leave Google and make their own search engine. Right, since so many great things have come from ex-google-tards. The best is, what, FriendFeed? With the exception of all these "Web 2.0" zealots, it's pretty much just pure rubbish.
But anyways, they made Cuil. Or is it Cuill. Though you pronounce [...]
Brightcove. Why the fuck do they even exist?
First, the embedding is horrible. It takes a while for the video player to load. Even if you had just had that page open before, it's still going to take about 10 seconds to come up. How long does YouTube take? Next to none. I don't ever [...]
Google released their new Google Gears app, which allows you to use some of their apps offline.
Neat right? Too bad it currently only works with Google Reader. And too bad it working with Google Reader kinda sucks.
In order to get it to work, you have to install Google Gears, that's a given. Once it's installed, [...]
Sputtr, come on. You're just about as bad as SimpleWeather.
Sputtr is a site that allows you to search multiple search engines from one page. Woo hoo! It also looks to be done in PHP, for some reason. Why PHP? Who know, since a static HTML file is more than enough.
Want proof? Here's a nice sputtr [...]
You invented IRC!
So Meebo's new Meebo Rooms feature launched last night, and it's a totally spectacular, original idea. It's like a chat room, but instead of just having a boring chat room, you can watch a video next to it. No more of that link and having to click-through shit for us. I mean, that [...]
Neat. Looks like last.fm just added flash widgets, or at least, I think they just did. I might have been slow in finding them.
Anyways, instead of having just an image based on your chart, it's now a fancy flash "widget". I guess images aren't Web 2.0 enough. Which means, instead of about 120 bytes of [...]
Been meaning to write about this, but have just been really busy. Apollo is a Rich Internet Application (RIA), that allows you to build desktop apps using HTML, JavaScript, Flex, and other web technologies. There are a few samples of applications that can be made on the sample page. Really, it looks pretty neat, [...]
We all knew this was coming, especially since Viacom was getting all uppity about it pulling 100k of their videos, starting their own video site, and then making a deal with Joost. So now, they've sued them for a cool $1 Billion. Nothing like a lawsuit being a nice round number instead of being an [...]
I was checking out Spotplex (The actual site is having some problems it looks like), but I saw that they're outlink.php page consisted only of what seemed to be:
<script language='Javascript'> location.replace('$_GET['url']'); </script>
Decided to see if I could an XSS going. So I tried http://www.spotplex.com/outlink.php?url=http://google.com' (Warning, may crash you)
Firefox locked up. IE 7 just says server [...]
Ning is pretty cool. The video shows you can do custom CSS and other neat things. I've only found the ability to change the header name and color. Or change the questions that it asks you for the profile.
They also have a feature to edit the php code itself, and use SFTP to upload whatever [...]