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Google’s ‘In the news’ search results now pulls from random sources — including Reddit

Oct07
by on October 7, 2014 at 12:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Google’s new In the news box for search results is surfacing some non-traditional “news” sources, including Reddit. Search Engine Land noticed that Reddit links were showing up in Google’s new search results field. Google confirmed that it was populating the field with more than traditional news sources. It told Search Engine Land, “We will be pulling from all over the web which means that we will present as diverse a range of voices as possible to ensure we get users to the answer they are looking for.” Of course Reddit being Reddit, when you currently search for “TSA,” this is…

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Hackers compromised Yahoo’s gaming servers using the Shellshock exploit

Oct06
by on October 6, 2014 at 11:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

The bash/Shellshock exploit has hit Yahoo’s gaming servers. But, the company says that no customer data was leaked. The exploits were first discovered by security researcher, Jonathan Hall. Hall pointed to two Yahoo Games servers that had been exploited. After Yahoo was contacted by Security Week it issued the following statement: A security flaw, called Shellshock, that could expose vulnerabilities in many web servers was identified on September 24. As soon as we became aware of the issue, we began patching our systems and have been closely monitoring our network. Last night, we isolated a handful of our impacted servers and…

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Hands on with Curbside: The app that lets you shop without getting out of the car

Oct06
by on October 6, 2014 at 10:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Today, I used an app to get a man in a tent to hand me toilet paper. Curbside is a new shopping app for iOS and Android that lets you choose and pick up items from local stores including Target, Crate and Barrel, Home Depot, Toys R Us and others. Once you’ve purchased your items Curbside says they will typically be available within an hour for pickup via tents that sit outside the stores. You don’t even have to get out of the car, just pull up, give them your name and away you go with your stuff. They don’t even…

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Paper, Threadless Make and Flowboard are using Adobe’s Creative SDK to update their mobile apps

Oct06
by on October 6, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Adobe launched its Creative SDK in June, and it has thus far been in private beta. Today, as announced at the company’s Max conference in Los Angeles, Adobe has now released a public beta of the software library that lets third-party developers tap into Adobe’s Creative Cloud technology. A brief demo by Threadless Make, a artist community T-shirt company, offered a glimpse of how developers will be able to tap into the product. Threadless Make demoed how it used the technology to help create T-shirts on an iPad by importing files, tweaking the design, styling it on a T-shirt canvas and submitting the finished piece on the iPad….

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Key visual mobile metrics to improve your app’s design success

Oct06
by on October 6, 2014 at 7:18 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Alon Even is the VP of Marketing at Appsee. Over the past few years there has been a dynamic shift with regards to how software and user interfaces are designed. Trends in design that have been the most prominent include 3D and Skeumorphic to minimal and flat. What brought about this change? Mobile went simple. Colors, designs, fonts, character sizes – all simplified. This trend, unlike others before it, has staying power. The overwhelming aspect of content delivery on such small screens can be remedied by utilizing a minimal UI approach. Simple design by no means dictates that your site has…

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