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Vysr took another step forward in their development of the “user-centric Web” earlier this week as they announced the opening of their RoamAbout platform to 3rd party developers. I’ve covered RoamAbout in the past and was impressed at the idea of being [...]

Have you heard of Drizzle? As detailed here, it's a lightweight, open source SQL database for the cloud and the web, being designed for massive concurrency on multi-CPU/core architecture. If that sounds a lot like MySQL, it should. Drizzle's code is derived [...]

Battery startup ActaCell wasn’t the only recipient of funding from Google.org’s RechargeIT program. Last night at the Plug-In 2008 conference, Google.org’s Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Dan Reicher, announced a $2.75 million investment in green vehicle startup Aptera Motors and [...]

Andy Grove, the former chairman of Intel turned plug-in vehicle advocate, challenged the attendees of the Plug-In 2008 conference on Tuesday to put 10 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on the roads in four years. Those plug-ins should be retrofitted from vehicles [...]

My daily routine is pretty consistent. Every morning I’ll wake up and battle with the thought of climbing out from under my warm cozy sheets and unwrapping myself from my duvet. I’ve heard that there’s a gene that determines whether [...]

In this case we might be preaching to the choir, but a recent announcment from Vimeo declared that they’d be deleting all gaming content from their site on September 1st, 2008. Vimeo’s blog post lists several reasons, but most notable to me [...]

WordPress for iPhone Available Now. :)! Reviews coming in: WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably [...]

When you’re next logged in over at Vodpod, give a glance to the right side of your screen and you’ll see your Vodpod neighbors. These are people who have video collections that are similar to yours — try following a [...]