This is good news to all followers of global IT trends, especially tech bloggers who watch movements among technology companies: CrunchBase, the tech company database owned by TechCrunch.com, is now publishing their very own freely-accessible API!
To put it simply, CrunchBase is an impressive repository of IT companies and their technologies. It is an excellent starting point for researching into such companies. For example, if you were out to get an overview of Google Inc., you would do well to start here (go ahead, click on the link!).
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The Nokia N82 is one impressive mobile camera phone. While its predecessor, the N81, was a rather klunky music phone, the N82 definitely lives up to expectations.
Case in point: the N82 5-megapixel camera is equipped with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash, autofocus, plus a secondary CIF camera in front for video calls.
The photo of me here was taken with an N82. I didn’t apply any effects to it, except to resize and sharpen it. I know it’s a bit grainy — but that’s because my friend Rodney didn’t use the flash.
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Good news to Flash-crazy Webmasters: Google now indexes Web content found inside Adobe Flash® files! Until recently, search engines’ crawlers were not able to "see" Flash content — text inside Flash movies, Flash menu links, etc. Ergo, Web sites built with Flash did very poorly in search engine rankings. Well, that’s about to change now.
Ever since Macromedia rolled out their awesome vector-based animation platform, Flash has provided the Web designer with a way to wow their clients. Web sites that contained Flash movies became some of the best-looking online presences. But the problem was, Web sites built entirely with Flash — no matter how beautifully-crafted it was — were not searchable. For a huge number of Internet users, if a site is not indexed by Google or Yahoo!, it doesn’t exist.
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