The Archives
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04.17.07Adobe Labs - tools leveraging the social networkI've been looking a little bit around Adobe Labs the past couple of days as I await the availability of Creative Suite 3. I'll definitely be buying Design Premium or Web Premium, as I use several of the tools (despite the fact that the cost terrifies me). In doing so, and looking more closely at several of the products on Labs, I've gotten pretty excited about the social networking aspects Adobe are putting into several of these upcoming products. In particular, I'm impressed with: knowhow, which incorporates social bookmarking from del.icio.us (see the knowhow account here) with task/tool-based contextual help. This ...
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10.26.06Mash that APITwo of the defining features of Web 2.0 applications are the concepts of web applications having an API allowing users to access features and information from the application and repurpose them to their own ends, and (speaking of repurpose) the concept of mashups, where a new application leverages the APIs of two or more other applications to create a unique, third entity. ProgrammableWeb provides a huge grid matrix. of APIed (is that a word) Web 2.0 applications where you can see just how much creativity is being released here (if only we could end hunger and poverty on the heat that ...
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12.05.05Q-Unit - Fiddy and Queen mashupI'm a big fan of the art of mashup, and this one is the duck's nuts! Q-Unit is 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' (mostly) and Queen's Greatest Hits in one very special package! Do your ears a favor!
