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Google launches limited API support for OpenID
On Wednesday Google formally announced its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, offering some site owners a way to let users log-in and register for new accounts using existing Google account information. Read more »
Google details 'reboot' bug, Android security fixes
Google has begun releasing some details about the vulnerabilities it patched in two updates to Google's Android operating system software in the T-Mobile G1 smartphone. Read more »
Google defends privacy credentials
Google has defended its privacy credentials following a claim by Microsoft's privacy chief last week that the search giant was a decade behind Microsoft when it came to privacy. Read more »
Google anonymises IP data
Google this week said it would anonymise user data received through search requests entered in its search engine and Chrome browser. Read more »
Google plugs e-mail address leak in Presentations
Google has acted quickly to patch a flaw in the newly-released Presentations online tool that allowed everyone viewing a presentation to collect the e-mail address of everyone else viewing the same page. Read more »
Control your search with new Google experiment
Google is experimenting with a new Web search interface that allows people to influence the results they get by indicating whether or not they like particular results. Read more »
Google pleads with Viacom for YouTube privacy
Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright-infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago. Read more »
EU needs more than cookie control from Google
Google's move to cut the lifespan of its cookie's to a rolling two years may not be enough to appease a European Union privacy group whose major concern is server log data use. Read more »
Google's changes rely on guinea pig users
Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website — both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces. Read more »
European officials question Google's privacy policy
A European Commission advisory group has raised concerns about how Google uses and manages users' search data. Read more »
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50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
What Chrome took from other browsers
If you've tried Google's new Chrome browser you would have noticed there's something familiar about it. It's no secret Google has adopted certain elements of other browsers. This article looks at seven features Chrome has in common with other popular browsers. Read more »
Why open source is bad for Australia
Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »
Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK
The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »
HTTP and HTML: The paradox of dominance
The saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail," makes me think of the mess that we're in when it comes to the dominance of HTML and HTTP. Read more »
Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »
What is cross-site scripting?
Cross-site scripting, also known as "XSS," is a class of security exploit that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the last few years. This article explains what it is and where the dangers lie. Read more »
Troubleshoot Apache with these tips
The Apache Web server is well-proven, but can still offer an administrator headaches from time to time when things go wrong. Read more »
Blog format truce proposed
In an attempt to lasso support from Google, a key proponent of the syndication format RSS has proposed that it merge with its challenger under the auspices of an Internet standards body. Read more »
Build a carousel with JavaScript
Next time you are thinking about using Flash, perhaps you should consider Javascript to build a carousel. Read more »
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Software in the courts
-- In week's Roundup explores Google's assertion that privacy no longer exists, the UK-based NASA hacker loses his extradition appeal, Microsoft becomes a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and the Australian Tax Office chooses Windows and only Windows, again, for electronic submissions. Read more »
Confessions of an accessibility sadist
-- If your mouse dies because of a software update, most people would rollback the update -- a small minority will continue to move forward regardless. All in the name of science and testing the world of accessibility. Read more »
Firefox runs amok - thanks to Google
-- A hidden feature of Firefox can result in the downloading of cookies and Web pages that the user did not intend by doing a Google search. Read more »
Turn Gmail into a personal Jukebox
-- Use Google's Gmail and the GSpace Firefox plug-in to create a music jukebox you can take anywhere. Read more »
Firefox 3's better performance and memory improvements
-- As beta 5 is due to come out next week, I take a look at some of the new features and improvements in Firefox 3. Read more »
While the big guys scrap at the big end, who's creating the little guy's computer heaven?
-- Having sampled Google’s new calendar, I, for one, can’t wait until full synchronisation between it and Outlook’s calendar is full and fluent, so I can dispose of another chain to my desk. Read more »
What's a Beta these days?
-- Betas are now so widespread that the term is becoming meaningless. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.