November 25, 2007
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits from around the Web gathered by Frank Gruber for the week ending November 25, 2007.
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October 11, 2007
Putting a name with a face can sometimes be a rather taunting task in public. However, online Polar Rose is looking to help solve this problem by leveraging facial recognition technology and the power of people online.
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August 27, 2007
Shareaholic makes it easy to submit the web page you are currently viewing in a Firefox browser to Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, Google bookmarks, Magnolia, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Twitter.
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July 9, 2007
AdaptiveBlue, a company founded by Alex Iskold a contributor to Read/Write Web, offers a couple of different ways to create a smarter browsing and personalized experience by connecting users with an array of services. By leveraging Mozilla's platform AdaptiveBlue has created BlueOrganizer, a Firefox extension that makes it easy to...
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May 26, 2007
With the official public beta launch of Yoono Buzz It!, a free social Web clipping and annotation plug-in for FireFox you may want to get to know Yoono. Yoono is a socialized search community featuring a patent-pending recommendation engine. It aggregates bookmarks, RSS feeds and annotations/notes to rank over 70...
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March 19, 2006
With the release of Firefox 1.5.1 still fresh as the morning dew, Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0 alpha. It is not even a beta product and could be very raw so I have opted to wait to try it out on my own computer. David Chartier did try it out...
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December 24, 2005
I have seen this orange icon before in the bottom right corner of the Firefox browser. It does not solely represent RSS or XML or Atom but all of these different types of feeds at one time. As Jeff Jarvis mentions in his recent post: "...there’s a movement rising to...
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December 21, 2005
A Firefox extension for Performancing was released by Nick Wilson and his team yesterday (December 20, 2005) according to this post on the Performancing Blog. Performancing is a browser based product that allows you to post to an existing weblog via the browser. This is very similar to a feature...
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September 23, 2005
I just downloaded the last version of Mozilla's Firefox browser, 1.07, here which addresses several security problems that were recently uncovered. The flaws which were addressed were rated as “highly critical” by many security alert aggregators dealt with the buffer overflow as I mentioned in this post on Somewhat Frank....
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September 21, 2005
To compete with the free web browser offerings of Firefox, IE and the soon to be released social browser Flock, Opera has decided to start offering all version of it's Opera browser free of charge. Previously, they offered two versions, a free version with advertisements and a pay version without...
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September 19, 2005
Flock is a new web browser that is creating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It is set to debut to the general public sometime in October according to the recent post on Flock's blog. Flock is built on the Mozilla Firefox framework but has added a number of...
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September 19, 2005
I am happy to announce that Splog Reporter had added yet another way for users to report splog by adding a bulk import list feature. In response to several users requests we added the feature to allow users the ability to upload a comma-delimited file of splog URLs to Splog...
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September 10, 2005
I am a big Firefox supporter and use it over Internet Explorer whenever I can. Mozilla has posted the latest Firefox browser version 1.5 Beta 1 (Deer Park). It can be downloaded by visiting the Mozilla Firefox Project here. The release comes on the eve of Tom Ferris of Security...
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