The Tribune Launches Several YouTube Channels

Friday, November 30th, 2007

As many content providers have done in the past year, The Tribune is launching branded YouTube channels for its newspapers and television stations. This initiative comes from Tribune Interactive, which is a division of Tribune Company. The group is launching a branded channel for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, ...

ShopIt Launches Inventory and Shopping Widgets on Netvibes

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

ShopIt has grown a bit since our last mention of the widget store-creation site, and it’s got plans to grow even further. It’s teamed up with Netvibes to offer two distinctive modules for your personal start page. The modules should be available in the coming weeks. Timing ...

Google Knows Where You Are Too; Launches “My Location” for Mobile

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Google has released a new version of Google Maps for mobile, which includes a new “My Location” feature that approximates your location by using information from cell phone towers. This means that instead of typing in your current location to get directions, Google knows already knows where you are, ...

AOL Mobile Launches in the UK

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

AOL’s mobile portal is growing, with a launch today in the UK. The aim is to provide a real Internet experience for mobile users, mirroring the AOL web experience as closely as possible. You’ll get the same front page content that you’ll find on AOL’s website, like web ...

Retrevo Launches Consumer Electronics Search Tool

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Retrevo has just launched what it likes to call “the lazy mans guide to shopping.” The site pulls together information on consumer electronics products from thousands of different web sites to try and offer users a comprehensive guide to buying things ...

Renkoo Launches Beeta

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Congrats to Adam, Joyce, and the rest of the Renkoo team on the launch of their beta (beeta). I think George gives a decent one-line description of the service: Renkoo is essentially Evite on crack; an efficient, featureful, real-time way to coordin...

EVMS 2.5.4 Released PHPSecurity.org Launches

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.4 release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. This is the fourth maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.x series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. PHPSecurity.org, the companion ...

PHPSecurity.org Launches

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

PHPSecurity.org, the companion web site for my new book, Essential PHP Security, is now online. Many thanks to Amy Hoy for the excellent design! I've included the table of contents, the (unfortunate) errata, some reviews, and the code repository. ...

Ning Launches

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Earlier this year, I received an email from Marc Andreessen inquiring about some PHP security consulting. Being well aware of Marc's role in Internet history, I was curious to learn about his new project and eager to help out. Others were also curious...