It’s official and this one ends the long saga of Microsoft’s acquisition offer to Yahoo! where they rejected. It’s also all over the blogosphere here, here and here.
a) http://mp3gle.net
b) http://www.seekmp3.info
c) http://woonz.com
d) http://groupzz.com
e) http://ssmunch.com
f) http://skreemr.com
Ssmunch looks cool but skeemr is a lot cooler.
–aj
A few words. User interface is awesomely cool and very new!
Food for the eyes. Full screen view, customizable new skins, tabbed messenger windows, new emoticons behavior (pops big and slides to a smaller one), Mac-like auto-save preference (no more clicking “Apply” to save settings), all power-less clutter, resizable contact list, and lastly hard to believe - no ADS!
Plainly, it’s very cool.
Download it now while it’s hot! (Vista only)
–aj
Ever wanted to build your own Piclens or develop an app like Spacetime or Searchme? Well, you can start with this new flash component found at Flashloaded.
“Displays images on an engaging interactive 3D wall using the Papervision3D engine. The wall can be flat or set at any curvature to create a truly unique look. The viewer can also scroll, tilt and zoom the wall freely. Includes a built-in preloader for seamless transitions between thumbs and large images. Over 60 parameters to customize your wall ensures unlimited number of looks and an enticing viewer experience. Available for ActionScript 3.0 (Flash CS3) only…”
–aj
This could be very useful someday…
This JavaScript Flash Sound API has other powerful controls like:
* stream
* autoplay
* onid3 - for ID3 tag displaying
* whileplaying
* and more..
Using SoundManager, you can easily create sound based web applications or more interactive background sounds for non-Flash websites.
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
DEMO
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/page-player/
–aj
Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions video. Get the slides here.
–aj
Ahh… the realities of a web soldier (designer/programmer/whatever you want to call them) - Internet Explorer. Just like a dream… Sometimes it’s a lot of fun and most of the time a nightmare.
So here’s a new tool to help us through the day aside from biting our fingers and pulling our hairs. IETester.
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Multiple IE is cool but I didn’t have any luck installing it on Vista (*cough* $uckS *cough*).
Sigh, Internet Explorer. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. 
–aj
Godaddy domains are ok. But hosting? Nah. I think free ones are a lot better.
Here’s another unsatisfied customer. BittBox:
I switched the DNS and this morning I canceled my GoDaddy account. I’m looking forward to this fresh start, and again, I apologize to those of you who were inconvenienced by GoDaddy’s incompetence.
Yeah. Go daddy. Gone.
–aj
Yahoo! AMP (Advertising Management Platform) coming in the 3rd quarter of 08. Will this be the “real” worthy Google Adwords competitor?
–aj
