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Google engineers are famously encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on side projects. The free time is a morale booster for Google employees, ensuring that they get time to “work on what they’re really passionate about,” according to the Google job page. Google’s 20% projects have yielded some amazing results, such as Orkut, Adsense for Content, and most famously Gmail.
Microsoft’s Office Labs takes a page from the Google playbook by allowing anyone who works at Microsoft to submit ideas to the Labs team for prototyping. “[Office Labs] is a proving ground for ideas that come from regular employees and interns who work anywhere in Microsoft,” …

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It’s always interesting to read about new models for launching and funding web startups. A few years ago Y Combinator shook things up with their then-novel approach to startup funding …

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Before Ajax and JavaScript, Java has been the programming language that was used in developing websites that offers enhanced web based experience. Although it may require users to download the latest version of Java before any of the Java based application could be implemented, the requirement of Java is nothing as users around the world are looking for ease website interaction.
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Java Enters RIA with JavaFX

When the Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin at the end of this week in Beijing, it will be the most web tech heavy Olympic Games ever put on. 5,000 hours of streaming video coverage will be pushed out on the web from Beijing, so much that 95% of CIOs think that the Olympics may break the Internet. But while the individual media companies that won the contracts to stream Olympic video are certainly winners (including NBC Universal, Google, and Brightcove), the big winner on 08-08-08 will be Adobe.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are supposed to be a coming out party …

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Adobe Wins Gold in Online Olympics

Mozilla Labs, the research and development arm of the Mozilla Foundation that is most famously responsible for the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client, has put out a call to designers, developers, and thought leaders to create concepts for the future of the web.
“We’re hoping to lower the barrier to participation by providing a forum for surfacing, sharing, and collaborating on new ideas and concepts,” writes Mozilla in a blog …

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Mozilla to Designers: Help Us Create the Future Web

Pasadena, California-based Central Desktop, which provides an SaaS collaboration and project management suite, is today announcing its “summer release,” which most prominently includes a new database API. The release is important because it will allow the three year old company’s …

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Central Desktop Adds Database API to Collaboration Suite

Most of us who know CSS are self taught. The problem with teaching yourself is that you spend most of your time learning only the stuff you’ll need every day, leaving little holes in your knowledge — dim and dusty corners inhabited by obscure facts you rarely use, but may be useful to know.
While editing the SitePoint CSS Reference I came across many valuable nuggets of CSS knowledge; things I only partially understood or was completely unaware of. Here are a few examples.
Terminology: Rule V Declaration
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Mining the SitePoint CSS Reference

Ads in websites could be considered as the lifeblood of any website. However, ads could be used as a means to attack especially Ajax based websites. JavaScript is known to be highly vulnerable to outside attacks. There are developers of Ajax based website who admit advertisements to ensure their operations continue. But this need is often exploited and …

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An ADsafe Ajax Based Website

A day after the release of Apple’s iPhone application store, that was the question that Jason Fried over at 37signals asked. “Most [apps in the iPhone App Store] are $10 or less with the bulk at under $5. If that’s where the market settles out, developers who planned on making a living selling iPhone software may be in for market whiplash,” …

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Can You Make A Living As an iPhone Developer?

Yahoo! today announced the release of their latest API: the Yahoo! Music API. The music API gives developers access to Yahoo!’s “catalog of artists, albums, tracks, videos, ratings and more,” according to the company. It allows developers to interface with Yahoo! Music’s database via “charts, search, similarities, genres, artists, and user recommendations and ratings.”
The REST-based API returns data in XML, JSON, and RSS and uses BBAuth to allow user authentication for Yahoo! Music users to access their personal data via external apps. Use of the API is currently limited to 5k queries per …

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Yahoo! Releases Music API