Bookmarks vom 04-02-2009

Mozilla's latest newsletter is out today, and it includes a couple of nice tutorials pertaining to Firefox and Ubiquity (a powerful Firefox extension that I covered here). The first tutorial, from Robert Nyman and found on the Mozilla Add-Ons Blog, delivers step-by-step instructions on how to develop an extension for Firefox. The second tutorial is video-based and shows how to easily build and share commands for the Ubiquity extension.

The investigative possibilities that FriendFeed now offers are quite impressive, if you can bring just a little creativity to your search query construction.

Facebook will celebrate its fifth birthday. The grown-up site has come a long way since its college-only days, and what better way for Facebook to share the love then to give its 150+ million members free gifts?

Where you are is as important as what you're looking for. That's why more and more services are looking to location as a filter for providing relevant information when and where we need it. So it only makes sense that Google – a company known for its ability to deliver relevant information – get into the location-aware app game. Today, they jumped in with both feet by releasing Google Latitude, a way to keep track of your friends' current whereabouts – and let Google have a view into your nomadic or sedentary habits.

So how do I use Twitter? I guess the first thing to say is that I am not a huge Twitter success story. However, Twitter is turning into the third facet of my online presence, alongside my blog and podcast. With that in mind, let me share a few tips that have helped me better use this interesting new tool.

Das Betriebssystem des T-Mobile G1 ist Android. Ein offenes Betriebssystem für Mobiltelefone. Neben der Möglichkeit Android selbst zu verändern, ist es ausschlaggebend für den Erfolg, dass man Apps installieren kann. Das iPhone hat es mit dem App-Store vorgemacht, Android macht es mit dem Market nach. Noch ist dieser noch spärlich bestückt, doch täglich kommen neue Apps dazu. Einige vom iPhone portiert und andere sind reine Android Apps.