Zoho Takes Yahoo and Google Logins - Interview with Brad Neuberg - Magnify Publisher Plugin for Wordpress - Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope - Processing for Javascript - Free Line Report for 5.16.08

Magnify.net has created a plugin for all the multimedia junkies out there who use Moveable Type or Wordpress as a blogging platform. The plugin is called Magnify Publisher, and it allows you to easily search and embed media from over a dozen sites like YouTube and Flickr, all from within your blog’s admin panel.

We have a link to an interview with Brad Neuberg, one of the men behind Google Gears. He talks about the next generation of the web, and how he and many others are paving the way to a more interesting future with better integration of our online and offline worlds.

Zoho, the free online office suite, just added the ability to login with your Google or Yahoo ID. Eliminating the need to sign up or create a new account will hopefully encourage more users to try Zoho. When asked why they didn’t just add in support for OpenID and receive even more users and traffic, Zoho evangelist Raju Vagesna said that they plan to do that soon, but wanted to address users’ immediate needs.

Hot on the heels of Google Sky comes Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope. This application bears much resemblance to its Google counterpart, but while Google Sky can be viewed in your web browser, World Wide Telescope needs to be downloaded. It is rumored that the Microsoft application has a better interface, but so far that is unconfirmed due to that fact that it is Windows only.

And finally, for you Javascript programmers out there, we’ve got a cool little library from John Resig, called Processing.js. It’s John’s birthday and he’s giving you a “reverse birthday gift” — it’s a Javascript port of the API for the programming language Processing, complete with its powerful graphical drawing tools. If you have no idea what any of that means, don’t worry, just be thankful there are guys like John Resig out there making the web a better place and pushing the free line for all us non - programmers


Free Phone Calls With Google Grand Central - Free Line Report 5.6.08

We have a link to an article that lists some free tools that you can use to make any Word Document work for the web.

Here’s a link to Google’s new GrandCentral software. Currently it is in closed beta, but you can request a phone number from the website, and when it goes live you can get free phone calls from any device connected to the Internet.

Another link, this time to the top free tools for going in and fixing Javascript code.

Google plans to create an oceanographic map called Google Ocean. It will allow you to browse all the different places deep under the sea — in 3D.

After being down for over three days in a row, Twitter has announced that it will reprogram their entire site from the ground up.


Google Opens App Engine - Tripit - CushyCMS - The Free Line Report 4.14.08

Google has opened up its own application engine. Currently, it’s only available to the first 10,000 users, so you better hurry if you want to get in on the beta test. It’s free to use with up to 500MB of storage and over 5 million monthly page views.

Tripit is a new social networking application that allows you to keep in touch with your friends while you travel, and helps you plan your trips abroad.

CushyCMS is the latest in fast and free web content management – it lets anyone without the knowledge of HTML or Javascript or any web coding create sophisticated and powerful web pages.

Check out our link to a free clone of Super Mario Brothers written entirely in Javascript.

Times Online has a  list of the top 25 greatest blogs of all time.


(中文版 Chinese version) Google Opens App Engine - Tripit - CushyCMS - The Free Line Report 4.14.08

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我刚刚从一次没有网络连接的假期回来,阿,只是想休息一下,不过今天还是得回来继续工作。首先,给网络程序员的好消息,Google开放了他们自己的程序引擎!我们之前报道了Google将会发布它的BigTable数据库服务 -- 不过这还只是冰山一角。原来,Google是打算发布一个拥有数据存储和显示完整环境的程序引擎。目前,它只发放给前一万个用户,所以如果你想参与内测的话还是尽快出手。它提供500兆的免费空间和每个月500万的访问量。

Tripit是一个新型的社交网站,它能使你在旅行的时候也能和朋友保持联系,或帮助你计划国际旅行。它会帮你保存旅程,你可以从手机读取,然后当你和某个朋友有相同目的地的时候它就会提醒你这样你们就可以找个地方喝一杯了。

CushyCMS 是一个新推出的快速免费的内容管理系统 — 任何一个没有HTML,Javascript和网络编程基础的人都可以用它做出复杂专业的网站来。在FreeLine我们使用的WordPress,不过 只要它免费我们就会一直用它。他们刚刚开始了内部测试,注册人数增长很快,所以千万别错过了。

对于那些喜欢复古游戏的人,可以去看一下在我们网站上给出的一个完全用Javascript写出的克隆版超级马里奥。它克隆的并不完整,甚至到不到一关。但它有midi音乐,并且超小所以运行很快。看起来挺有趣,用来打发时间还不错。

最后,如果你想找些新的博客来看,别错过了时代杂志最新评出的25个顶级博客。可惜,我觉得这份榜单还不太完美,因为它没有我们的FreeLineReport或是Brad Fallon.com在上面。也许明年吧 — 不过至少现在,这份博客榜单的链接就在FreeLineReport.com。


Safari Now Supports Windows - Cool Ajax Scripts - Yahoo Plans to Increase Revenue 73% - Free Line Report 3.20.08

Apple has released a new version of the Safari web browser, but this one works on Windows. That’s right – Safari is still free to download and no longer just for Macs. There may even be a Linux version in the near future. Plus, this new version of Safari is sleek and smaller than before, and it supports all the latest web technologies like HTML 5 and CSS 3, and it allows you to use web applications like Gmail and Google Docs — offline.

Ajax and javascript can really improve the look and feel of your web site, but unless you’re a javascript programmer, that doesn’t help you very much. The Six Revisions blog for web development and design has links to ten cool scripts – all free – that you can install yourself to spice up your site. The list includes a free site tour creator and one called Image Flow that lets your visitors scroll through a group of images, just like an iPod.

Yahoo brought out a new three year plan to grow their revenue by 73 percent. Most of the projection involves beefing up key components like the click thru rates in search, display and video ads. These projections seem a bit optimistic juxtaposed against their current financial woes, but we’ll see.

Adobe announced that with Apple’s release of the iPhone Software Developers Kit, they can start making a version of Flash that will work on the iPhone. Until now, lack of Flash support on the iPhone has meant a weaker web browsing experience for iPhone users who could not access anything created in Flash — like half the internet.

Backed by Hummer Winblad, Slide Rocket is taking the functionality of Power Point to the internet, and even improving upon its features. Right now, the program is in private beta, and getting impressive reviews. When it is released later this year there will be a free version and two paid versions, giving you yet another way to create slick web based presentations.


(Chinese version 中文版) Safari Now Supports Windows - Cool Ajax Scripts - Yahoo Plans to Increase Revenue 73% - Free Line Report 3.20.08

**中文版视频:

Apple刚刚推出了一个新版本的Safari浏览器 ,不过这回是windows版本。没错—Safari仍然提供免费下载并且不光运行在苹果机,也许不远的将来还会运行在Linux上。另外,新版本的 Safari比以前更加小巧,它将支持所有最新的技术比如HTML5和CSS3,而且你将可以在离线状态下使用Gmail和Google Docs等网络程序。

Ajax和javascript确实能提升你网站的外观和体验,但前提是你要是个javascript程序员,如果不是的话就未必了。网站建设与设计博客The Six Revision提供了10个最酷的脚本 ,全部免费,你可以用他们为网站增添色彩。这个列表包括一个免费导航生成器和一个叫做Image Flow的滑动图片浏览器,就像iPod一样。

Yahoo拿出了一套在三年内提升73%收入的计划 ,绝大部分预测来自于提升主要组成部分比如在搜索、展示和视频广告中的点击率。这些预测看起来过于乐观并与现在的财政状况不符,让我们继续观望吧。

Adobe最近宣布随着苹果iPhone软件开发平台的发布,他们将可以为推出一款iPhone版的Flash 。目前为止,由于缺乏对flash的支持iPhone用户一直觉得不能浏览任何用Flash内容十分扫兴,总好像缺点什么。

由于有Hummer Winblad,Slide Rocket是个可以实现全功能Power Point的网站 ,甚至提供了更酷的功能。现在,这个程序正在内测阶段,并提供了华丽的预览。当它在今年晚些时候发布的时候会有一个免费版和两个付费版,他们将带给你全新的方式创建基于网站的Presentation。


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