We all like to know what the future has in store for technology, and I came across a video that demonstrates what Microsoft has planned for real-time collaboration. With services like Google Docs that support collaboration, there is no doubt that this will only become more advanced as time goes on.

Here’s the video demonstration (6 minutes and 44 seconds long):

The

Pandora has become a pretty popular way to find and listen to the music on the web.  Their music discovery service helps users find other songs that they might liked based upon a song that they know they already like.  After naming that song, the service goes to work and creates a station that is filled with music that is analyzed to be similar to the song that

The first I had heard of Gender Genie was in our Forum when Max posted about it. Gender Genie is supposed to be able to determine the gender of an author by analyzing text using an algorithm. All you have to do is copy in a sample of the text, and it will give a male score, and a female score. If the female score is higher, then they presume the passage was written

Jack Slocum became pretty popular when he built a WordPress comment system that was unlike any others you might have seen. The concept behind the comment system was to let users leave comments almost anywhere they would like on a post, instead of just at the end.

It basically divides a post up into “blocks” where each paragraph is considered to be a block. Users can then leave comments for that block by simply

A few days ago we wrote about Firefox Companion for eBay, which at the time was in the private alpha stage. They’ve moved along into a public beta, so now you can try it out for yourself. It’s really only worth it if you’re experienced with eBay and use them on a regular/semi-regular basis.

The download site will automatically recognize if you are using Firefox, and if you are you’ll just download

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Yahoo! refuses to be left behind in the world of online communication, so they too have launched their own Web Messenger. Their new messenger service is completely Flash based which is nice because of the cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility that it offers. It will work in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even Opera.

After logging in I noticed a small popup that announced two

Tutorial Thursday

We knew that there was a new method coming that would let you sync Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning with Google Calendar, but we weren’t sure what form it was going to come in. It was thought that this would be a built-in feature but it looks like they took an alternative route by delivering the synchronization capabilities in the form of an extension called Provider for Google