As you well know, Google Reader was retired yesterday. It went from the most popular RSS feed reader to defunct in a matter of 3.5 months. Now when you visit google.com/reader, you see the following message: Thank you for stopping by. Google Reader has been discontinued. We want to thank all our loyal fans. We understand you may not agree with this decision, but we hope you'll … [Read more...]

In case you have chosen to procrastinate, Reader, the popular RSS feed reader, is being put out to pasture by Google tomorrow. If you have been idling despite notification in mid-March, the time to migrate services is now. Many services offer a direct import from Google Reader, making the transition a very easy process. In case you wish to change services after the deadline, … [Read more...]

On Tuesday, Twitter retired v1 of their API and completed the transition to v1.1. As a result, you may see numerous areas of websites that are supposed to pull a Twitter feed but are actually blank. Twitter is hardly known for its stability or high-availability. You may have thought like I did that Twitter was just suffering an outage the first and maybe second time you saw the … [Read more...]

Previous Chrome Experiments have included sporting events and a Super Monkey Ball knock-off. The latest experiment is called Roll It and allows you to play skee ball using a smartphone and your computer in conjunction. Bring the boardwalk to the browser using Chrome and your phone’s accelerometer to recreate an arcade classic across two screens. Similar to the previous … [Read more...]

Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have standardized crowdfunding for a variety of projects. One type of projects, open-source software, has been around for far longer but has often faced gaps between interest in projects and funding. One website aims to fix that problem as a crowdfunding site specializing in open source projects. … [Read more...]