Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

A lot of hay has been made from the notion that the Web is the new platform, and that at some point we’ll just be booting up our computers to a web interface, and be done with it. The problem with that, or at least one of the problems with ...

Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe’s traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe Reader) into an online environment, allowing users to create, manage, and share Adobe documents ...

If you’re not a fan of Radiohead, you may not be particularly interested in the inside entertainment business news going on between Thom Yorke and Prince, but for those of us that follow the battle between the old and new guard in the mainstream music business, quite an interesting juxtaposition ...

Like all the other geeks in attendance, I couldn’t help myself from letting out an audible “whooo” when Google showed off an Android phone demo Wednesday that linked Street View to a compass (see video below). Sure it was just a demo, but watching the virtual-reality performance of photo-maps linked ...

While US-based customers of the iTunes Store have been privileged to purchase and download video content in the form of television programs and feature films, consumers in the UK have had to make do with TV offerings only. Soon, however, Apple will be announcing its start of sales of movie ...

While cruising around del.icio.us today, our own Stan Schroeder discovered a new Flickr-based visualization called Tag Galaxy, a Germany-based utility, which quickly mesmerized the entire Mashable crew. Think associate editor Paul Glazowski’s recommendation yesterday of MSNBC’s Spectra reader was a treat? Wait ’til you see this one. You start off be ...

Gone are the days where you did something so pedestrian as pick up a phone to order a pizza. Now you can employ Pizza Hut’s new application to do the talking for you! Adobe Air is a wonderful platform, no doubt about it. Still, who thought it would hit the mainstream ...

Facebook is quickly moving into the aggregation game, today adding a half dozen different services you can now import into your Mini-Feed. The new services include YouTube, StumbleUpon, Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, and Google Reader. To try it out, I added my Google Reader Shared Items. Much like FriendFeed, it ...

According to the BBC, websites will have to implement age verification for downloadable videos or video games. Online video services and video on demand services will be required to have age verification or “gate-keeping systems” which enable parents to monitor and control underage usage. The implementation will be overssen by the ...

eBay and by proxy Skype wants to do just more than IM and voice chats. And that is why they’re pushing the service, and its clients, into new directions — from telepresence to video to whatever they can think of next. (My inner skeptic says they have to keep that ...

The BBC has received more than 75m requests to stream or download BBC programmes via the iPlayer since its launch.

As go celebrities, so go other things in our culture. Today Seesmic got a HUGE win. The Indiana Jones crew, including famous movie stars and movie directors, are on Seesmic. Here, check them out: http://seesmic.com/cate http://seesmic.com/georgelucas http://seesmic.com/harrison http://seesmic.com/steven http://seesmic.com/karen There’s a lot more on this over on TechMeme this morning. These celebrities are so well known ...

If you’re a videogame buff, and have the desire to share captures of the action via the Web, chances are you’ll like this story. Now, as far as online video hosts are concerned, YouTube is king. No question about that. But in the realm of video game clips, some players may ...

iStockphoto moved beyond images last year with the inclusion of video for its stock media site, and today, it’s looking to move even further beyond images with the inclusion of audio tracks. These audio tracks will be royalty-free, and available for download starting this September. iStockphoto will also be applying ...

Seattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well. The product isn’t just about wikis - they also have social features (profiles, friends, etc.), and added ...

Sprout, the WYSIWYG tool for creating flash applications and widgets, has raised a $5 million Series B round led by Polaris Venture Partners. The company launched back in January at DEMO, and has since rolled out an SDK to allow developers to build their own components for the Sprout ...

As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own data portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details about the preview later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms: Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — ...

As expected, Facebook has conveyed its plans for the upcoming profile redesign to the developer community in order that they better prepare for the way in which these changes will affect the applications built on Facebook’s platform. What’s also expected, is the fact that nearly half of these changes revolve around ...

The channel, which was previously in beta, is now being promoted across the social network's homepage.

I’m justifying this gadget profile with the fact that it’s got a bit of social networking built in (or at least that’s how it was pitched to me by the tipster who sent me Conner Flynn’s writeup at Slippery Brick). This Lego mindstorm looking device is a new terrestrial radio ...