One of the best parts about Google Drive is its real time collaboration. Real time collaboration is only available in Google Drive documents or apps built with the Realtime API though. Now Mozilla is working on bringing that level of collaboration to the entire Web.
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Esri DevSummit is just around the corner and that means that tons of news and updates will be rolling out of Redlands. This means that its also a great time to poke around the ArcGIS Online resource Center, EDN, and the other community resources from Esri. A number of product updates and announcements have been rolling out from the project managers so I encourage you to spend some time looking around. FYI, those of you not headed to the Springs for DevSummit (no I won’t be there either) you’ll find comfort in knowing that word has it that videos will be released relatively fast from the event so you should have loads of goodies to view next week – be sure to also follow #Devsummit on Twitter!
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One of the benefits of building apps for Android and iOS is that developers can use push notifications as a way of keeping users engaged. A game can remind players of a special in-game event, or a dining app can remind users that their favorite restaurant is offering discounts. These kind of messages will now be available on Kindle Fire through the Amazon Device Messaging API.
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Google Play is slowly, but surely, growing into a powerhouse distribution platform for Android apps. By that, I mean more and more developers are bringing their previously iOS-exclusive content to the platform. Some of that success can be attributed to Google Play quickly becoming one of the more developer friendly platforms around. The latest release only serves to make Google Play even better.
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The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn’t notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did.

What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones.
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As you go through your work week, and if you’re involved online, you’ve probably received dozens of propositions by SEO (search engine optimization) professionals who guarantee to move you up the search engine rankings if not get you to the top of page 1 on Yahoo.
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Google has simplified the domain verification process required in Webmaster Tools and Google Apps. The search engine announced that together with eNom and Go Daddy webmasters will have a faster way of verifying their sites in certain Google services. As per the new service offer, customers of Go Daddy and eNom can go through a simple sign-on process and verify their ownership of a domain without much fuss. (more…)

Google has launched a new educational resource program titled – Webmaster Academy. This program has a set of educational materials to teach beginner webmasters about the workings of Google search and also guide them towards bettering their web sites. (more…)

The World Wide Web is buzzing with ideas and advice to rise back again after being pecked by the Penguin. Webmasters are contemplating on ways to beat the Penguin and we have been discussing for ways of Penguin recovery too. (more…)