Instead of re-inventing the wheel and explaining Diaspora again, I'll lift a few paragraphs from my earlier article discussing Diaspora. What’s Diaspora? Diaspora is a distributed, privacy-aware, open-source social network that will allow individuals to control their node for social networking. Similar to WordPress, Diaspora will offer a hosted solution and a self-hosted … [Read more...]
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Now Available
The Internet Explorer 9 Beta is now available for download and features a host of new changes. Some of those changes include a streamlined design, the ability to pin sites in Windows 7, new tab features, a notification bar at the bottom, and hardware acceleration, amongst other new features. It's said to be faster, allow you to focus on the websites you're visiting, integrate … [Read more...]
Netflix Coming To The Great White North (Canada)
On the bottom of the Netflix website login you'll now find a button to switch to Canada. You can also head over to www.netflix.ca to find the site and updates (although you'll normally be redirected to the US site if that's where you hail from). The site proclaims Netflix is "Coming this fall to Canada!" Along with the website, an e-mail was sent out to Netflix Affiliates … [Read more...]
Google Rolls Out Instant Search With Google Instant
Google hosted a special event today and announced an innovation to their primary product, web search, by making it instant. The new feature is called unsurprisingly, Google Instant. It takes the place of auto-completing your search query and now instantly gives you instant results predicted based on what you're typing. Autocomplete is still there to assist but below the … [Read more...]
Gmail Reveals Contacts Update and Forces UI Changes
Gmail decided to update its look again this afternoon. I was greeted with an alert that announced the fact to me but I had already noticed the change before the alert popped up because there are noticeable interface changes. You can find the full list of changes on the Overview of what's new in Gmail help page. It was also announced earlier today on the Gmail blog. So, … [Read more...]