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.

Pencil is also nominated for Mozilla's firefox3 add-ons contest, Extend Firefox 3.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487

developer is dương thành an: http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/

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Fire Eagle is a service, imho especially for mobile devices, that helps users share their location online with their friends and with other sites and services to get the right information just in time.... perhaps another iPhone application :)

Mickey from Google Earth Blog explains it as follow:

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]

You can find some of favorite apps by exploring the Application Gallery!
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net

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Remix your own widget!

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]

url http://www.sproutbuilder.com/

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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

http://dev.aol.com/aim/money

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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.”

http://zembly.com/
http://blog.zembly.com/

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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.

http://www.mobaganda.com/

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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.

PrimeSense could add 3D vision to consoles

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Hahlo 3, a Twitter webinterface for iPhone and iPod Touch with a good-looking user interface and all the features the advanced Twitterer demands.

http://hahlo.com/

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According to James McGill

Street View in the API gives developers the power and control they need to embed this functionality in their own websites in whatever way they wish. The API allows you to embed one or multiple panoramas in any location on a site and move, remove, hide and unhide them as necessary.

» View Inline Demo

one feature is the ability to control the embedded viewer using Javascript functions on the GStreetviewPanorama object. The panTo function changes the current point of view by performing a smooth animation between the current and target view.

Google Streetview documentation, reference, demos

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