The PogoPlug is a very simple gadget combined with a web-service based from CloudEngines company San Francisco, that use the Internet to add new functionality. In this case really great file and media sharing from your external harddrive or flash usb etc to the internet. as we can read from their developer page, they have developed an API for developer to write applications, that leverage the Cloud Engines connect service to gain access to devices and services exposed by the user from their home.

really nice idea!!

here is a video interview with CloudEngines Daniel Putterman, CEO and Jed Putterman, VP of Products, show off how easy it is to share file and photos with Pogoplug, recorded from scobleizer and his fastcompany.tv

via [fastcompany]

Labels: electronic, gadgets

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Labels: gadgets, google, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Individurls makes it super simple to create your own custom Popurls or Alltop style news aggregation page. The feature set is pretty straightforward. You can add new sites to your page, re-order them and delete them. It has a bookmarklet to make it easy to add a site to your page, and it looks and works great on the iPhone.... it was created by Daelan Wood with lots of help from SimplePie, a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ‘simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’.

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Labels: communication, gadgets, html, iphone, mashup, mobile, sharing, utilities, web_2.0, web_apps

Pencil is a free and opensource tool, released under the GPL version 2, for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. it makes use of “SVG support in Firefox 3 to implement the shape rendering.

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Labels: development, firefox, gadgets, mozilla, opensource, software, utilities, web_2.0

Yahoo has just launched their entry into the growing world of "track your location" sites with the release of Fire Eagle...
You can feed your location to Fire Eagle from your GPS unit, cell phone, laptop, etc, then their applications can use it for whatever task you give them permission for. [read on]

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Labels: collaboration, gadgets, iphone, maps, mashup, mobile, networking, search, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

Sprout has launched a new tool called Fankits that allows brands to offer a completely customized version of the company’s WYSIWYG flash widget and application builder. The first customer is Sony, who is using Fankits... [read on]

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AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money

AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform that allows you to make money from ad views generated in your Open AIM application...There are no fees to participate, and monthly payments are issued only via PayPal.

For example, the TinyBuddy IM mashup applies AOL’s OpenAuth API along with WebAIM in an IM client that works on the iPhone and iTouch, as well as in standard browsers

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...with zembly, you easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, targeting the most popular social platforms on the web. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, meebo apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications.”

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Mobaganda.com is a nifty new site from Jason Stirman, creator of the novel site, ohdontforget.com.

Mobagana is an online event planner, built on the Google App Engine, generates a Webpage that you can subscribe and e-mail out to all of your friends, without a lot of extra bells and whistles ... There's no signing up, no logging in. The site is described as Evite, without all the bloat, clutter and unnecessary crap. It does what you need it to do plain and simple ... track who's coming and who's not.

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Labels: collaboration, communication, development, gadgets, google, web_2.0, web_apps

Imagine the Wii with 3D vision. The console would understand if you were behind an object and images would move accordingly and you could reach out with your hand to “touch” items on the screen. The technology is real and it works and PrimeSense, a small Israeli company, is trying to release it into the wild.

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