Archive for February, 2009

CommunityOne Open Developer Conference Comes to New York City

February 20th, 2009 Social Guy

CommunityOne - Open Developer ConferenceCommunityOne East is a two-day event that will bring together developers, students and technologists to focus on open source innovation and implementation. The conference programs are the result of a public call for papers and will offer more than 30 sessions led by contributors of dozens of open source and community projects such as MySQL, GlassFish, JavaFX, OpenSolaris, NetBeans, Groovy, PHP, Apache, Android and more.

CommunityOne conference, slated for March 18-19, 2008, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Growing in popularity since its launch in San Francisco in 2007, this is the first time CommunityOne will be held on the East coast. There is no charge to attend CommunityOne on Wednesday, March 18. (more…)

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busuu.com – Learn Languages for the Price of a Lunch!

February 19th, 2009 Social Guy

busuu.com

Some time ago we already did a review of the free online community for learning languages busuu.com, learn new languages completely for free.

Now, they have re-launched the site offering the following new features: (more…)

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Who Died Today? Tributes.com Makes Sure You’re Always in the Know

February 19th, 2009 Social Guy

Tributes

Last week, WSJ writer Jeffrey Zaslow reported that, starting next month, the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press will be offering home delivery just three days a week. So, readers who’ve made a daily ritual of perusing obituaries with their morning coffee – and who won’t go out to buy the paper or go online – aren’t necessarily going to learn about the deaths of their acquaintances.

But what if there was a technology that kept readers informed about obituary news, anywhere and at any time of day?

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Introducing Yahoo! Mobile – Your Personalized Starting Point to the Internet

February 17th, 2009 Social Guy

Yahoo

Yahoo! announced the upcoming launch of its new Yahoo Mobile service, a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet.

Yahoo Mobile will be available on the mobile Web, as an app developed for the Apple iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows Mobile. Yahoo Mobile initially will be available today through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in Q2 2009.

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sfeed.com – Shopping Microblogging

February 17th, 2009 Social Guy

sfeed

sfeed.com is a shopping microblog that brings people and products together. Sfeed changes the way you discover new products from the web and share your findings with your friends and followers.

sfeed makes it easy for you to bookmark your favourite items from any webshop and let your friends and followers know of your activities. You can follow other people to see what they bookmark and exchange ideas and comments about products. With set editor you can quickly create visual collections of items, scale items and even remove their background for a more seamless result.

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