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Popular single page aggregator OriginalSignal has relaunched and is now much more than just an inflexible startpage for lazy people - it’s added a list of features that make it more useful than ever.

The site displays the newest headlines from a selection of the most popular blogs on a variety of topics. The first few lines of each post are displayed when you hover over a headline. New items since the last time you viewed the page are highlighted in read. That makes it very easy to pop over to OriginalSignal throughout the day and see if the selected blogs have been updated without even reading the headlines.

To be clear, I’ve been one of those lazy people using OriginalSignal for months now, instead of taking the time to compile my own startpage to supplement my feed reader. With today’s relaunch though, OriginalSignal brings more to the table than ever.

The first page was on Web 2.0, then several others were added over the past few months and today the site has added pages on Science, Games, 15 Blogs, Apple, World news, Politics, Sports, Finance, Marketing, Movies and Video. There’s a “most popular” section for each page, divided by the day, week and month.

In addition to new topical pages, the site now includes search provided by Yahoo!, the ability to resize fonts in the display, change the order of the feeds shown, grab a widget to display a page’s feeds on your blog and perhaps most importantly, view a river of news version of each page on a mobile phone. There are several other feature updates in addition to these and the site looks quite different now as well.

The video page displays screen captures from the most recently added videos on YouTube, MySpace Video, Yahoo Video, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Break.com, Dailymotion and Grouper. If porn offends you, you’re liable to see something you don’t like on the video page at any given time.

Start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes or Webwag still provide more flexibility and full fledged RSS readers are essential - but OriginalSignal is a handy, quick aggregation tool that offers some content and some functionality for almost everyone. It’s an easy way to familiarize yourself with a handful of popular blogs. I expect the new version of the site will be an even bigger hit than the first.

If single page aggregation is something you’re interested in, make sure to check out Popurls and Brian Benzinger’s post reviewing the many services doing something similar.

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Source: TechCrunch
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/53310627/

Once-a-month blogger, occasional web designer and UK based family guy Andy Boyd has posted a screen capture of blog search results appearing on the front page of a regular Google web search. A number of other bloggers have picked this up but no one else has been able to reproduce Boyd’s experience. It’s a believable scenario because Google recently added blog search to Google News last month and to Google Alerts four days later. The UK, where Boyd lives, is frequently a testing ground for new Google features right around the corner.

Obviously real estate even on the very bottom of the first page of Google results would be great for the blogosphere. If Google Blogsearch can’t get rid of all the splogs in its search results though, it could lead to some level of backlash against blogs in general. I don’t know anyone who’s as good at excluding splogs as Ask/Bloglines - they only display blog search results from blogs that at least one Bloglines user has subscribed to and they have algorithms to prevent gaming of that safeguard as well.

If Google really does take the bold step of including blog search on the front page of its web search results, it will be the first major search engine to do so. Blogs are included in general search results (see the search results for gay men social networking for example) and may have such good search engine optimization natively that they don’t need a special place on the page - but it could only help broaden exposure to the medium.

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Source: TechCrunch
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/53261160/

Israeli startup AniBoom, a Flash video site for original animated short films, officially launches tomorrow, although the site has been live since late September. To kick things off they are holding a $50,000 contest for the most highly rated films - $25,000 to the winner and five additional $5,000 prizes.

Jeff Pulver noted them as well a couple of weeks ago after meeting the founders. The quality of the content so far is excellent, although copyrighted material is showing up on the site already.

One of the currently highest rated films is embedded below.

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Source: TechCrunch
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/53282937/

Open-jACOB Draw2D is a JavaScript library that allows you to create drawings and diagrams.

The User interface allows interactive drawing by using your standard browser.
No additional software; no third party plug ins. Just run it and use it.

Open-jACOB Draw2D is the graph component of the Open-jACOB online
Workflow editor. The purpose of this experiment is to see if a Visio-type workflow
editor tool could be developed in a web browser - It is possible.

Check out an interactive demo.

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/open-jacob-draw2d

When I heard about JotSpot heading to the Googleplex I was excited to know that Abe Fettig (Jot) would be teaming up with the brains at Google Pages, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the world of WYSIWYG editing tools.

Google Pages just released a few features, and one of them is an improved process for working with images.

Firstly, the way you get photos up is simple and clean, but when when you have an image, you can click on it and you are shown a bunch of tools that allow you to manipulate the image inline, right there on the page.

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/google-pages-adds-nice-image-editing

qooxdoo has a new release that adds support for Webkit.

As mentioned above and already announced in our developer blog, qooxdoo now includes support for WebKit. We expect to fully support the next major version Safari 3.0 which will be based on the current development of WebKit. There is only limited support for Safari in its current version 2.0.4, though. Reason is, that Safari 2.0 still has many bugs that can hardly be worked around. Luckily, many of those bugs are already fixed in the nightly builds of WebKit. Besides the various bugs, Safari 2.0’s JavaScript engine and its execution speed is not competitive with respect to the latest versions of the other major browsers (Firefox 2.0, IE7, Opera 9). Good news is, that the current builds of WebKit are tremendeously faster than Safari 2.0, approximately by a factor of 7-8 for a typical qooxdoo demo.

Check out the release notes for full details on changes in this release.

Some of them are:

• Made qooxdoo completely XHTML compatible. Replaced all uppercase tag names with their lowercase variant.
• Improved NativeWindow to support the querying of the load state. Added events for “load” and “close”.
• Modified XmlHttpRequest and related APIs to respect the latest suggestions from Microsoft.
• Added IframeManager to manage visible iframes in order to protect the application events of the “surrounding” document from getting interrupted while switching document context (particularly drag & drop over embedded iframes)
• Added Resizer widget to allow of customization regarding the dimensions of any widget by the user.

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/qooxdoo-062-released

The Lollygag framework is a new Ajax framework for .NET.

As Steve the author put it:

We attended the first Ajax Experience conference in San Francisco and we got super excited about the potential for building Ajax applications. Since we have a Microsoft .NET background, we planned to start building Ajax applications using Microsoft’s Atlas framework. However, we quickly encountered several serious issues with Atlas. Doing simple things in Atlas, such as database access and form validation, turned out to be really difficult. We were also disappointed to discover that Microsoft has no plans to support its client-side Atlas framework in the immediate future.

We built the Lollygag framework in order to build true Ajax applications in the .NET environment. We wanted to build single page Web applications that never perform postbacks. All updates are performed through Ajax calls to the web server.

Features

• Powerful Widget Framework: The Lollygag framework includes a rich set of client-side widgets that you can use to display database data, perform form validation, and create rich animations. You declare widgets in a page in exactly the same way as you declare HTML tags.
• Autocomplete Support: When you declare Lollygag widgets in a page, you get full autocomplete support while you type. To get autocomplete support, you must use an XML aware development environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
• Declarative Database Access: Accessing database data with the Lollygag framework is easy. You can bind client-side widgets directly to data exposed by a database or you can bind widgets to data exposed by a business object.
• Secure Form Validation: When taking advantage of the Lollygag framework, you specify how a form field is validated only once. The validation is automatically applied on both the server and the client. Unlike other frameworks that only provide validation on the client, the Lollygag framework prevents malicious users from bypassing client-side validation and submitting data directly to the server.
• Rich Animation Framework: Lollygag includes an entire animation framework. You can take advantage of animations to create different effects such as fades and wipes.
• Cross-Browser Support: The full Lollygag framework works on the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
• Automatic JavaScript Compression: The Lollygag framework compresses all JavaScript sent to the browser automatically. Any custom JavaScript code that you write as a developer is also compressed automatically.
• Powered by .NET: The server-side portion of Lollygag is built on the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework. You can build server-side business objects using standard .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET. Lollygag client-side widgets can consume data exposed through server-side objects.

Hello World

Resources

How does it compare to Atlas? Read their thoughts on the matter.

Demos

Sample Application

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/lollygag-latest-non-atlas-net-framework