There are a bazillion social network aggregators out there (Mike attempted to round up some of the most notable ones here). FriendFeed is the most visible of them all for two main reasons: it was founded a group of ex-Googlers and, as a consequence, benefits from a clean and easy-to-use design.

But FriendFeed’s going to have some serious competition from a TechStars startup called Socialthing!, which makes it even easier to get an overview of what your friends are doing on the web.

Socialthing! officially goes into private beta today and will let in the first 1,000 TechCrunch readers who use the invitation code “TechCrunch” to sign up (you’ll have to wait a few days to get your account, however). The service primarily differs from FriendFeed in the way it determines which of your friends to track. While FriendFeed actually requires users to create their own list of friends on FriendFeed, [...] Continue Reading…

FriendFeed is the new hotness and many people have asked for an API to take the service to the next level. There aren’t any example apps built yet, nor has there been much developer feedback yet. A whole lot of things just became possible, though.

As for technical details: FriendFeed is first releasing Python and PHP libraries, there’s an undisclosed access limit and oAuth authentication is "coming soon" (we hope so).

If you’re less than on fire about APIs and their potential - check out our post called APIs and Developer Platforms, A Discussion of the Pros and Cons - and know that 16 of the 18 authorities quoted in that post were interviewed entirely through a 3rd party Twitter client using that API.

If you’re a Twitter user you know how essential to Twitter that company’s API has become, an estimated 80% or more of Twitter use comes in through the [...] Continue Reading…

Most business in today’s open market are demanding their websites & web application to have multilingual support. This is in order to attract non-English speaking audiences to increase their customer base and make people comfortable using the application in their native language. But for this, it would require an existing business application to be customized to support native locale. The process of producing an application that can be localized for a particular country without any changes to the program code is called Internationalization.

Internationalization

Following are the list of things one needs to take care while making an application to implement Internationalization.

1. Producing Content in Unicode

You need to make sure that all files which contain the multilingual content are in Unicode format. By default most text editors will store your file in ASCII which does not support other language characters. So after saving any content in ASCII format and loading it, [...] Continue Reading…

Mozilla is on a spree to revolutionize the way we use web applications today, just like Mozilla WebRunner. Naming it as a killer app just wasn’t doing justice to it. So I felt an urge to bring to the notice that it isn’t just any other app.It will be, probably the next biggest thing that the web will be seeing after Ajax.

Ajax had redefined the web application just a couple of years ago. It definitely changed in the way web apps were being developed. This promoted rise of different interesting possibilities that more than widened the eyeball of a regular surfer. Web Operating Systems were at that time being touted as being able to replace the desktop operating system altogether in the future. But all these breath taking ideas have fallen flat to a place where the idea is still traditional. The usage of web browser.

Web applications have and [...] Continue Reading…

High Tech Computer (HTC) is developing a mobile phone that will use the open-source Android software created by Google for its operating system. The phone will be called Dream and have a large touchscreen LucidTouch-Profile Feb-08 and full QWERTY keypad. The handset is over 5 inches long and 3 inches wide and has a keypad that swivels out from underneath the screen.htc.gif

HTC is not the only company that is developing a mobile phone around the Android operating system. Samsung has joined the hunt to create a device that utilizes Android.

HTC was the first company to announce it was building a phone around Android. Other members of the Open Handset Alliance, a group dedicated to promoting Android, are also believed to be developing handsets designed around the operating system. Over 30 companies have joined the Open handset Alliance. Samsung and Motorola are two manufactures who belong to the alliance and [...] Continue Reading…