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• MapQuest Launches Personalized Mapping Experience - My MapQuest

  MapQuest announced the launch of My MapQuest, a personalized mapping experience that lets MapQuest.com users save maps or routes and access them anytime from any browser or Internet-enabled mobile device. This latest enhancement to MapQuest.com, http://www.mapquest.com, delivers on the MapQuest promise of helping users discover: where is it, how do I get there and what’s nearby. Read more...

• Study Shows Truveo Is Most Comprehensive Video Search Engine

  Truveo’s video search engine provides the most comprehensive results of any major search engine online, according to an extensive study conducted by the search engine team. The study, conducted in August, looked at how well Truveo, Blinkx, Google Video, Microsoft Live Video Search and Yahoo! Video Search covered the top 100 Alexa-rated news, sports, TV, music and movie sites that have video content. The study showed that Truveo covered 86 of those sites; Blinkx covered 20; Microsoft Live Video Search covered 17; Google Video covered three and Yahoo! Video Search covered two. Read more...

• Truveo Developer Challenge Showcases 93 New Ways To View Video Online

  TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. Competing for a prize pool of $100,000, developers were set loose to build custom applications that use Truveo’s open API, http://developer.truveo.com, to build the next great video search application. Competitors leveraged Truveo, the world’s leading video search engine with a continuously-updated index of more than 200 million Web videos, to create 93 powerful new applications in just over two months of competition. Read more...

• Introducing Widgnet from Advertising.com

  On Widgnet widgets are transformed from clever little applications into hard-working revenue generators through two avenues: Widget Distribution and Widget Content Channel. Check it out today.

The Latest Articles

• The AIM Map Phone

  by Mark Blomsma
  June 11 2008
  Geocoding is hot. “Geocoding is the process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g., codes or geographic coordinates expressed as latitude-longitude) to map features and other data records, such as street addresses. You can also geocode media, for example where a picture was taken, IP addresses, and anything that has a geographic component. Read more.

• Porting your Facebook App to Bebo

  by Blake Commagere
  June 6, 2008
  Several Facebook developers have still not ported their apps to Bebo despite the ease with which it can be done. The team at Bebo has gone to great pains to ensure that porting your app from Facebook to Bebo is very, very little work. Given that you can access Bebo's audience of 80 million users by spending just a little time on it, you should begin your port immediately - my applications (Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves & Slayers) took me about 9 hours total to port over. Here's a quick guide to help you get started. More...

• Get Started with Userplane Desktop

  by John Fronckowiak
  May 2, 2008
  In conjunction with the release of Adobe AIR, AOL's Userplane introduced its latest version of Desktop based on the new Adobe technology. If you already have an existing online community, you can use the AIR implementation of Userplane Desktop, and rebrand it to serve your community. In other words, web sites and developers can build their own customized desktop application, after Userplane has done all the heavy lifting for them, so their users can receive individualized alerts, systems updates, and IM notification without being logged into the site. More...

• Creating a Custom Open AIM Chat Client Using Adobe AIR

  by Richard Bates
  April 23, 2008
  In today's business world, the web isn't just a static repository of information: it's a dynamic plane of communication that lets people instantly interact with each other. AOL's latest release of its Open AIM API supports this idea by giving Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex developers the tools to move messaging functionality into their applications to create full-blown communication tools. This article lays the groundwork for that leap to the next level of communication by showing you how to create a functional chat application that you can embed in your AIR or Flex applications. More...
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