Microsoft Research Opens Social Search Engine

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Microsoft Research Opens Social Search Engine

Microsoft Research is throwing their hat in the social search game with the release of an experimental search engine called U Rank (found via LiveSide). U Rank, which is US-only, allows users to share, edit, annotate, and reorder search results.
“We believe that finding something on the web is only the first step for many [...]

20 Places to Find Your Next Web Development Job

Posted by Asuka_Aki | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 14-10-2008

20 Places to Find Your Next Web Development Job

As the world economy continues to look shakier by the day, and major corporations have begun to trim work forces, it might not be such a bad idea to start looking for a new job. Sites like Craigslist, Monster, and HotJobs have a lot of listings, but they’re not well filtered. Searching for [...]

Googleplex Calendar Apparently Turned to April

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Googleplex Calendar Apparently Turned to April

It’s been a strange week at Google. Maybe the company is just trying to cheer themselves up after a brutal month on Wall Street that has seen their stock lose more than 20% of its value and been cut by a handful of analysts, but Google has released a pair of features on two [...]

SitePoint Named Finalist for 2008 My Business Award

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SitePoint Named Finalist for 2008 My Business Award

Though we didn’t take top prize, SitePoint was in good company among the two other finalists for the Hewlett Packard E-Business award at the 2008 ActionCOACH MyBusiness Awards. SitePoint was chosen as a finalist from among 500 entrants, which we’re very proud of.
SitePoint’s Marketing Manager Shayne Tilley, Web Developer Alex Walker, and co-founder Mark [...]

Yahoo!: Mainstream Has No Idea what OpenID Is

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Yahoo!: Mainstream Has No Idea what OpenID Is

Yahoo! today released the results of the OpenID usability study (PDF). The good news, says Yahoo!, is that after being explained the idea behind OpenID, most participants saw the utility of being able to sign into multiple web sites using a single sign-on and not having to sign up for more than one account.
The bad [...]