Tag: WEBSERVICES

YourSpins is a social network site dedicated to those who love remixes. To start remixing your music, you'll need to download a plug-in for your media player (Windows Media Player, Quicktime and WinAmp are currently supported) as remixes are created from within the player. From there you'll be able to download the completed song with all the associated parts from the site to start your remix. ...

Instructional videos or online reviews can sometimes be difficult to follow. Depending on watch you're watching it might be nice to have a second video displaying additional information that would aid in the presentation. Viddix may have found the answer to this in the form of their iPanel. Once you've uploaded your video to the website, you'll need to add cuepoints. These cuepoints allow you to ...

Ever wish that Derek Zoolander had decided to open a night school? Or maybe opened a secondary school, so that once those kids that couldn't read good or do other stuff too well got better at it, they could go on to learn to do other things? What if Zoolander teamed up with the University of Phoenix, and offered online courses? Your prayers have been answered, sort of. Gramlee is an online service ...

Omnisio is a free web-based video editor that lets you snip and paste videos from YouTube, Google Video, and blip.tv, with support for more sites coming soon. The site is similar to online photo-editing sites like FotoFlexer, but applies the same idea to video. You don't need any desktop software other than a sturdy online browser with Flash support. The three sites still provide for a very ...

So, your octogenarian parents or grandparents may not be clued in to Facebook, or Myspace but, a new player in the field is hoping to capitalize on just that segment of the market. Grandparents.com, launching in fall, promises to provide grandkid friendly activities, travel ideas, expert tips on grand-parenting and a social networking component which allows granpap and nana to share experiences ...

Oh brother. AllofMp3 is notorious; Chased by governments and the music business alike, it struggled on longer than anyone could have predicted. It seems the saga of the now dead site isn't entirely over, as a Russian court has just told Visa that their decision to end the merchant contract held by the rouge mp3 site was against Russian law. It means little for the already dead AllofMp3.com but, ...

For many of today's growing companies SalesForce.com is a part of life. Its suite of software tools are too well developed to ignore and too complex to recreate on your own. SalesForce likes this market position; they've fought hard to get it. In order to keep it they've begun to invest heavily in products and services that will allow them to "simply outclass" everyone else in the industry. ...

Its time to get your Jang widget on! Jangl lets users communicate with anyone, without revealing what your mobile number is, or exchanging that number with anyone else. We covered its launch back in August. Now they are aiming at taking the widgets by storm. This is officially the time for widgets. Little desktop bits aimed at making our beloved services more accessible. Jangl has entered the ...

Amazon recently released its fourth quarter results, and the fact that developers joining Amazon's web services grows over 55% each year struck struck Larry Dignan. I didn't think that this many developers were into this feature as I haven't heard too much about apps that have been created. We wrote about wrote about Amazons S3 service when it launched in March 2005. The service allows developers ...

Microsoft shocked me a bit with this one. If you use Microsoft's web service specifications (XML, SOAP, UDDI, etc), you don't even have to reference Microsoft or mention that what you're using is from them. They have stated that they won't enforce their patent. What? Microsoft not wanting credit for one of their ideas? That's cool. As a developer, there are plenty of restrictions and rules you ...

This is pretty huge. Facebook, the #2 social networking site in the U.S., has released an open API that allows third-party developers to "make remote procedure calls to Facebook on behalf of a Facebook user." The current version of the REST API allows applications to get information about a Facebook user's profile, friends, photos, events, messages (but of course requires said user to be ...

If you're wondering what all the Ajax buzz is about, and where it's going, Dion Hinchcliffe has written a great article over at his blog entitled State of Ajax: Progress, Challenges, and Implications for SOAs. Hinchcliffe writes, "Because Ajax is a sincerely compelling synthesis of the ubiquitous features found in the most popular Internet browsers. Practitioners of Ajax get high-intensity ...

Here's a fun little Flickr API app built by user kastner -- Spell with Flickr takes an input string and converts it into a ransom note-esque series of images, each a photo of an individual letter found on Flickr. You can click on an individual letter in the results to swap it out for a new image. ...