Blogs

This week, Apple released a preview version of Safari 4. Actually, they released the first version of it a few months back, and have now updated it. It's available as a free download if you have an Apple Developer membership.

There are a variety of new features included in Safari 4, broadly falling into three categories: CSS improvements, HTML 5, and developer tools. Two of the items in the HTML 5 category are of particular interest for building applications that consume APIs or mashup content. These are cross-site XMLHttpRequest and Cross-document Messaging.

If you're like most developers, your goal is to create the most confusing and frustrating experience for your user audience. While I hope you read that last line with a double-take, that's just the type of environment we produce for users with disabilities when we don't consider accessible design. Some claim it's too difficult or that the demand just isn't great enough to warrant the

Here's a great opportunity to show off your app-building skills to the vast ICQ messaging community -- over 31 million active users worldwide. ICQ or 'I Seek You' first launched a dozen years ago introducing Instant Messaging. But now for the first time  ICQ 6.5 Open Xtraz (Beta)  has opened it's product to the developer community.

In May Truveo and TopCoder started a competition for developers to discover the Truveo APIs and see what they can make with their video search engine. The TopCoder community responded with 93 custom built applications featuring some pretty cool stuff.

We understand that some of our users have been vocal (well, that's an understatement for some of our loyal users :) so AOL is continuing our commitment to the Mac platform by releasing the second beta for AOL Desktop for Mac 1.5, the next version of the all-in-one Internet application.

With the economy seemingly in a decline, the Beijing Olympics set to begin in a week and Jon Miller joining the Yahoo Board tomorrow (see Alleyinsider), the activity in mobile continues to excite. Apple stores post 'Out of 3g iPhones' daily even though cracks are appearing in the botton of the new 3G iPhones Opera has released their beta browser (for Windows Mobile only), mSpot has hit 4 million subscribers to their mobile music/video service and Skyfire has made

For all you Winamp junkies, Winamp launched a new blog this month: http://blog.winamp.com. They're going to highlight developments and contributions from the Winamp community. They've got a great community and I'm sure it will quickly become an impressive list of stuff that you can use with your Winamp media player. Client updates and tutorials are also going to be a big part of the discussion.

just wanted to clarify a few things regarding the Vidoop ImageShield integration for AOL/AIM OpenID users:

• All Vidoop ImageShield Passwords are stored in AOL. No information about user is shared with Vidoop.
• The Vidoop ImageShield is used as a 1st factor login credential, unlike Verisign VIP Token, which is a 2nd factor login credential.
• At this time no image ads are used in the Vidoop ImageShield.

AOL today announced three new iPhone OS applications: AIM, the leading instant messaging service; AOL Radio, the most popular online radio service and recent recipient of an Apple Design Award; and Truveo, the leading video search engine are available as free downloads from the Apple App Store beginning today.