Feature Story: Build a Yahoo Music Mashup with Adobe AIR

Ever wanted to do more with your iTunes library? In this tutorial, Jack shows you how you can leverage the Yahoo Music API to create video timelines of your favorite artists—and get your hands dirty with Flex and AIR along the way! Oh, and there are more books to be won... Read more…

News & Trends

Report: 79% of Video Streams Not Monetized In-Video

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A new report out from video ad serving technology provider LiveRail indicates that video ads are playing very well with consumers, but advertisers still aren't biting. Only about 21% of videos have any in-video advertising at all, and video ads represent less than 3% of all online ad spending. Read more…

Joost Giving Up on the Desktop

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Word on the street is that Joost will soon ditch its downloadable P2P TV client favor of a browser plugin and will allow P2P streaming over a web-based site. Is that a smart move or is it too little, too late for the online video startup? Read more…

Trying to Decipher that EULA? Better Have a PhD

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Why is it that the one set of people who should have the most at stake in reading and understanding technology privacy policies and EULAs -- the users -- are the one set of people who they're clearly not written for? Read more…

MySpace Dev Platform Catching Up to Facebook

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Tech writers love to write about Facebook's platform, but what about the similar app platform that MySpace launched earlier this year based on Google's Open Social? There hasn't been a lot of talk about how healthy that app ecosystem is. New data suggests that it is doing quite well. Read more…

Just How Powerful Is Wikipedia?

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Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites in the world, but just how important are its entries in shaping public perception? If the number of times Google thinks it is an authority on a subject is any indication, then the answer is very, very important. Read more…

5 Ways to Fund Your Web Startup

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10 years ago, starting an Internet business was a pricey proposition. Times have changed, and it no longer takes millions or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch most web applications. It still takes some time, and money though, so check out our list of startup funding methods. Read more…

Social Networking: Not Quite Mainstream

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A pair of recent studies reveals that social networking isn't yet a truly mainstream activity in many places -- and it might actually be worse than that. A lot of people are beginning to tire of social networks and lose interest. Could social networking have been just a fad? Read more…

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Design

Feature Story: Are Graphics Tablets More Productive?

Lately I've been thinking about buying a graphics tablet. I've never before drawn on a graphic tablet before, and am used to either using Adobe Illustrator or the old-fashioned pencil and paper. Do you find graphics tablets to be productive? Read more…

Tech

Feature Story: The release of ColdFusion 9...

CF9 the shirt, that is. If you’re eagerly anticipating ColdFusion 9 – codenamed Centaur – you can now get the unofficial tshirt. As well as looking after your fashion woes, Kay wraps up the latest developments in the ColdFusion community from this week. Read more…

Business

Feature Story: Too Busy to Appreciate The Finer Things ...

I've been working day and night freelancing and it's been wearing me out. I've noticed the quality of my work has gone down at least 50%, and my motivation is almost sapped. The money is nice, but not at the expense of transforming into a zombie. Read more…