Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

Google just announced its odd Google Media Server, a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it available to DLNA devices like the PlayStation 3, XBox 360, and most Media Center PCs. Google Media Server is a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google ...

Finding a good dotcom domain name (without paying a hefty premium for it) has long been a virtually impossible task, leading otherwise obscure countries to offer up domain extensions like .tv, .to, and .fm. to allow you to register something with some semblance of being a real word. However, the ...

If there’s one thing Habbo’s online virtual world is good at, it’s making a big deal out of anything and everything. And the recent milestone of 100 million users is nothing to snuff at. In true Habbo style, they threw a big bash and gave the 100 millionth ...

I’m sure you’ve seen the Austin Powers-inspired Capital One commercials, promoting the new customization options for credit cards, allowing you add your own images. In the hopes of embracing the web’s media-sharing prowess, Capital One is allowing users to tap into their own Flickr accounts in order to ...

The 10 hours of video uploaded every minute to YouTube could be a problem for Google’s infrastructure. Video files are fat and people don’t want to wait long once they press play, which means keeping them requires a trade-off between fast access and cheap storage. A range of companies are ...

The Wolff Olins' 2012 Olympics logo is taking on a new look, tailored to the UK to celebrate the Olympic flag being handed over to London on 24 August. It will roll out from this week on, and will be applied to marketing materials which relate to the London 2012 ...

This is one great week for widgets. RockYou received a hefty round of funding yesterday, and today marks a dually beneficial partnership between white label network solutions company KickApps and widget maker and distributor Clearspring. This partnership is especially focused on the marketing potential of joining forces, as ...

We first mentioned a plan devised by television network operators BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to form a joint Web-based video venture, code-named “Kangaroo,” last November. Which seemed rather intriguing at the time. It would allow users to do all manner of things with different pieces of content, including rent ...

Orange is kicking off one of its most innovative online marketing campaigns to date.

Experiment using the new Rentals service on UK iTunes. The direct links can be used on the movie website / widget / social media space to direct users directly to the rentals. This could be added as an extra stage after the promotion of the DVD release.

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 ...

Microsoft Live Messenger is the latest to integrate Facebook chat, meaning you can talk it up with your Facebook friends directly from Microsoft’s instant messaging client, according to a report on allfacebook. This integration is a passive and useful way in which Microsoft can utilize the social network into ...

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 ...

This is AMTV using the Clearspring platform, this allows the widget to be easily embedded and tracked. Clearspring