March 10, 2010
We’re headed to Austin, Texas tomorrow along with the crew from Wired’s Underwire blog to attend South By Southwest Interactive. The week-long nerd fest starts Friday, and we’ll be reporting...
Flash: quick or dead?
A new study released Wednesday pits Flash Player’s video performance against that of native HTML5 video...
If you have Google Apps running on your domain, now you can install third-party apps that fully integrate with Google’s apps.
Google has debuted the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store where...
March 9, 2010
The biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday.Citing unnamed sources,...
Google has announced a new geocoding web service app authors can use to better plot locations on a map.
The new Google Geocoding Web Service includes some enhanced capabilities that not only make it possible for app...
March 8, 2010
Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities.
But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to the job listings on the company’s website.
A...
We’re giving away a pair of passes to Google I/O today.
A little over a week ago, we kicked off our contest, encouraging you to send us any HTML5 web apps or Google Chrome browser extensions you’ve built....
Github user Alan Dipert has posted the source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on the code hosting website.
You can download it and run it on any modern Linux installation. It seems to run on Ubuntu just fine, though PNG support is a little wonky. The good news is...
March 5, 2010
As you may have noticed, we’ve given Webmonkey an entirely new coat of paint.
The visual design has been refreshed — something we’ve been doing every couple of years since we launched in 1996 — and we honestly think the site has never looked better. It...
March 2, 2010
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day.But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference in Las Vegas, where, it has been...