Yahoo! announced today that Fire Eagle - the open platform that allows users to manage and store information for developers - is now open. This new platform allows a networked service to use the platform and to respond to the users’ location in order to help them find friends, local information, or services that are in the area.
Norway has released Opera 9.5 web browser last week for Linux, Mac, and Microsoft computers. The new browser includes new Opera Link features that allow you to bring your favorite bookmarks with you everywhere you go. It allows you to work with the Opera desktop browser and the Opera Mini browser for cell phones.
The new browser also adds a note-taking ability. By logging in, you can jot down shopping lists or copy directions for access on another computer or handset.
MySpace has become the hottest social-networking site on the internet even beating out Facebook. Members are going to have to deal with a makeover that is being called MySpace 2.0. They are using the new face of MySpace will take six months and will be used to widen their appeal and bring in even more people.
If successful, the digital makeover could signal the next stage of growth at what is already one of the world’s most popular websites. MySpace anticipates an influx of social-networking neophytes and businesses to its new-and-improved site.
A brand new version of the Firefox browser is ready to be released Tuesday with upgrades on speed, design, and security. Several of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve the bookmarks.
The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new “Places” feature lets users quickly access sites they recently bookmarked or tagged and pages they visit frequently but haven’t bookmarked. There’s also a new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list — similar to what’s already available on Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 7 browser.
AOL said that it will start to provide access for European customers to its web ad-selling unit Platform-A. They hope that this will give them more resources and time to create a shop for buying online ads all in one easy step.
The platform, which was created last year and has stumbled in the U.S., allows advertisers to make purchases across its ad network. In Europe, it will align AOL’s existing advertising operations there, which include Advertising.com, German Web-ad firm Adtech and British affiliate network buy.at.
Google launched their new Google Site Search today. The new program is a re-branded version of the Google Custom Search Business Edition. Site Search helps to provide businesses with a way to offer Google search on their own personal web sites.
“Search continues to be the way people find information,” said Google enterprise product director Matt Glotzbach. “It has really taken over as the navigation paradigm for the Web. We’re really set on addressing that and creating a hosted search offering that’s accessible to everyone.”
The EU data protection agency in Europe is concerned by the fact that Google’s map service has the ability to focus on street level images and place them on the Internet. Google’s Street View has the ability to give users 360 degree, ground level views of a specific street in 30 different cities in the U.S.
On Saturday Microsoft withdrew a forty six billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo. Microsoft changed its mind after having raised the bid to thirty three dollars a share, five billion dollars above what the current value is. This offer had a value of thirty one dollars a share in January and the stock for Yahoo closed Friday at $28.67 a share.
Photoshop by Adobe is the most popular and easy to use photo editing software on the market. They have been around for awhile now and have proved to consumers that they have what they need to make turn their photos into something more than just a picture – but to make it a memory to treasure. In order to make themselves more available to a wider variety of people they have decided to release their basic version of Photoshop for free online.
Customers are still having a few problems with Netflix after their site was down for almost 11 hours. Steve Swasey – the spokesman for Netflix – said that customers will still not be able to access their recommendations and ratings section of the site.