happy new year!

The meaning of open – Google comes up with its own universal theory of openness. (21.12.2009)

Netvibes Wasabi Introduces a Whole New Way to Manage the Real-Time Web – Netvibes releases its Wasabi edition, which is worth a look. (14.12.2009)

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances – And Now How Much Would You Pay? – AWS provide a kind of marketplace for EC2 instances. (14.12.2009)

Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta – Google Chrome finally comes to Linus and Macs. (08.12.2009)

Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories – Google introduces living stories, a cool aggregator for news. (08.12.2009)

Relevance meets the real-time web – Google introduces the Twitter intgration. Has room for improvement. (07.12.2009)

Introducing Google Public DNS – Google introduces a public DNS. (03.12.2009)

Introducing Feather: A Lighter Way to Browse Videos – YouTube provides a lightweight interface. (03.12.2009)

What's Happening? – omg, Twitter changes its tagline to What’s Happening? (19.11.2009)

Burda Media new primary shareholder of XING AG – Burde acquires 25% shares of Xing. (18.11.2009)

Announcing TypePad Micro – TypePad launches a free Microblogging tool. (17.11.2009)

Evernote raises $10 million investment – Evernote gets a nice cash infusion. (16.11.2009)

Aardvark launches Social Search on the Web – Aardvark has launched publicly. (14.10.2009)

Birthday #4 – Remember turns four. (13.10.2009)

Waving hello! – The hello world posting of Google Wave. (12.10.2009)

4,000,000,000 – Wow, flickr now has 4 billion photos. (12.10.2009)

Bing maps is Looking Good – bing improves its maps. (10.11.2009)

Create and Share custom News sections – Google News gets a bunch of features for personalization. (04.11.2009)

The App Garden – Flickr has launched a playground for apps. (03.11.2009)

Bookmark sync and more speed in the latest beta release – Google Chrome now lets you sync bookmarks between computers. (02.11.2009)

First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud – The New York Times teams up with freebase. (29.10.2009)

Introducing Google Social Search – Google launches a poorly implemented Social Search. (26.10.2009)

Flickr! It’s made of people! – Flickr introduces People Tagging. (21.10.2009)

Tweets and updates and search, oh my! – Google hooks up with Twitter too. (21.10.2009)

Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You – Bing hooks up with Twitter. (21.10.2009)

Introducing Ning Virtual Gifts! – Ning introduces gifts as virtual currency. (20.10.2009)

Delicious is now about Y!ou too – Delicious starts to switch to Yahoo-Logins. (19.10.2009)

Publicize: Twitter – Wordpress lets you automagically tweet new posts. (08.10.2009)

It’s here: Brightkite 2.0 – Brightkite relaunches as Brightkite 2.0. (06.10.2009)

What is a browser? – And Googles tries to explain the concept of a browser. (06.10.2009)

Choosing a smart password – Google provides some tips for choosing a smart password. (06.10.2009)

Announcing Custom Times Feeds – The New York Times launches Custom Times Feeds. (05.10.2009)

Introducing free Geistesblitz app for iPhone – MindMeister launches Geistesblitz for the iPhone. (05.10.2009)

nice, the various APIs of the NYT can be accessed via YQL now.

interesting: Ident Engine – a JavaScript library which builds lifestreams (via)