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Archive for February, 2010
Facebook To Expand Credits For Developers
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010Facebook has announced it is expanding it Facebook Credits program launched in May, to make it easier for developers to integrate Credits into their applications. The Facebook Developer Blog offers more details. “Today more than 500,000 applications exist on Facebook, and the virtual goods within those applications (particularly games) have become an increasingly valuable part [...]
Yahoo Shows Developers How to Explore Planet
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010Yahoo has created what it calls the “GeoPlanet Explorer”, based on its geo platform API. The project utilizes Yahoo’s Geo Planet data such as: – Placenames – Latitude and longitude info – Hierarchical info about places Developers can simply go to the Yahoo Developer Network and go to the Geo section, and retrieve the API [...]
How Web Search And Search Engines Function
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010If you’ve ever wondered how searching for information on the web works, and why Google seems to produce accurate results search after search – thankfully, it seems to me, in spite of what you type in that search box at times – a feature story in Wired magazine’s March edition will give you some powerful [...]
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Testing Video Quality Between The Ogg And H.264
In: tutorial
28 Feb 2010My friend Jan has published some quality comparisons between the Ogg and H.264 video codec. For those who don’t know, Ogg Theora is the video container format and codec favoured by Mozilla for playback of web video in HTML5 whereas H.264 is a widely popular codec – one may say the industry standard – that [...]