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Google's knol competes with Wikipedia

The Official Google Blog notified that the company started working on a new project which will be a free online encyclopedia. The project is called "knol", defined as a unit of knowledge. Unlike Wikipedia the key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors.

"The goal is for knols to cover all topics, from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions," says Google.

December 17, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts

24 ways published an amusing suggestion to impress your friends by creating statistics for tracking Christmas cheer with Google Charts.

Google Chart API is a tool added to Google Spreadsheets which allows you to build a URL that will dynamically create a chart for you. It allows you to create diverse types of charts: columns, bars, lines, pie, scatter, add labels and a legend.

December 15, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Opera sues Microsoft of standards compliance

Opera filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft. Opera accuses Microsoft of abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the Windows operating system and by hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.

"We are filing this complaint on behalf of all consumers who are tired of having a monopolist make choices for them," said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera.

December 15, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Yahoo! Flex Skin Available

Yahoo! Flash Blog notified that a new cool skin for all default Flex components is available on the web. The new skin follows the look and style of UI components used throughout Yahoo! and balances the outward glossiness with some serious usability chops. Read More

December 15, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe

Adobe Flex 3 Beta 3 relased

Adobe released Flex 3 public beta 3 on Adobe Labs. This final public beta release focuses on overall quality and performance. Concurrent with this Flex release is the third public beta of Adobe AIR, also included with Flex.

Adobe Flex 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems.

December 15, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe AIR Beta 3 released

Adobe released the beta 3 version of Adobe AIR. This runtime is required to run any Adobe AIR application.

Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

December 14, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Mini-review & Competition Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 book. The friendly people of friends of ED are giving away 5 books! Read More

December 13, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Winners of ASP.NET AJAX in Action Book Competition

Thanks to the friendly people of Manning are giving away 5 books!;ASP.NET AJAX in Action. Take a look to see the correct answer and if you're one of the lucky winners. Read More

December 12, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Firefox 3 beta goes portable

Mozilla released Firefox Portable Edition packed with Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1. This package allows you to test all the latest features in the upcoming version without disrupting your current Firefox installation. Read More

December 12, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe launches BRIO beta

Adobe launched a preview of the next generation of Adobe Acrobat Connect, codename "Brio." Brio is a web meeting service built with collaboration in mind for individual professionals and small businesses. Read More

December 12, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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