Web Development - July, 2008

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New MSN Direct API sends locations from web to GPS

July 30, 2008 / Emil Protalinski

MSN Direct is a digital service which allows certain portable devices to receive information from MSN services. At CES 2008, Microsoft launched an MSN Direct feature called "Send to GPS" that lets Live Search Maps send information to a GPS device. Now the company has released a free application programming interface (API) that builds on this feature by allowing any website to offer visitors the ability to send addresses, business listings, or other locations directly from the site to GPS units. Microsoft claims that the new API for developers "is simple to integrate and uses standard Web programming techniques."

Microsoft cozies up to open source, donates $100,000 to Apache

July 27, 2008 / Ed Oswald

As part of a renewed embrace of open source, Microsoft will contribute $100,000 annually to join the Apache Software Foundation, as well as pledging new protocols to the Open Specfication Promise and contributing a patch for ADOdb.

Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support

July 24, 2008 / Stephen Shankland

Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project.

Drizzle project to trim down MySQL

July 24, 2008 / Chris Duckett

Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a project to create a trimmed-down, faster version of the database system aimed at web-based applications and cloud components.

WordPress 2.6 Supports Version Tracking, Google Gears

July 16, 2008 / Neil McAllister

Blogging is increasingly popular, both for individuals and businesses alike. That's because blogging software is one of the easiest ways to publicize information about your company. The best packages offer near-infinite customizability while still making it easy for new users to get up and running with a bare minimum of installation and configuration.

Google releases Web 2.0 security tool

July 11, 2008 / Matthew Broersma

Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that was designed to root out potential security flaws.

Google's new foray into image search

July 2, 2008 / Dan Farber

R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shared some details of future versions of image search. In the interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Pittman said that Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. In addition images can be matched with display ads and utilize geotagging information for various applications.

Adobe helps uncover 'invisible' Flash web content

July 1, 2008 / Steven Musil

Adobe is helping Google and Yahoo to uncover web content that was previously "invisible" to web searches.

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