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- Ajax.org Debuts Development-As-A-Service Platform For Javascript, HTML5
- PhotoRocket Lifts Off. Mission: Super Easy Photo Sharing. Destination: Everywhere.
- What 'The Social Network' Won (Three Awards, But Not Best Picture) #Oscars
| Ajax.org Debuts Development-As-A-Service Platform For Javascript, HTML5 | Top |
| Ajax.org is today introducing Cloud9 IDE , a fresh cloud-based development platform for JavaScript incorporating HTML5, and supporting Python, Ruby and PHP. The environment aims to enables developers to easily build, test, debug, and deploy Web and mobile applications with a minimum of technical skills and time required. If the name of the project ( Cloud9 IDE ) rings a bell, you may remember that it merged with Mozilla Skywriter , a Web-based framework for code editing, back in January 2010. | |
| PhotoRocket Lifts Off. Mission: Super Easy Photo Sharing. Destination: Everywhere. | Top |
| A couple of months ago, an SEC filing unveiled that Scott Lipsky , one of Amazon's first executives ever and later founder of aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft for a cool $6B ) was up to something new. His new startup, PhotoRocket , is all about ridiculously easy photo sharing from multiple devices, and it will be formally introducing its service at the DEMO conference later today. I had a chat with Lipsky and PhotoRocket CEO (and former VP at Yahoo) Gary Roshak ahead of the launch presentation, and came impressed with the product and its potential. You’d think photo sharing couldn’t be any easier than it has already become today, but you’d be wrong. What Photorocket does, or at least aims to do in the future, is basically obliterate the need to ever click an ‘upload’ button or email photos ever again. Available for Mac, Windows and the iPhone (iPad and Android ‘coming soon’), PhotoRocket lets you easily share photos with friends and family in a closed circle, but also make it super simple to share photos on Facebook, Flickr, Shutterfly, Twitter and a bunch of other destinations, with more continually being added to the fray. For sharing photos with individuals, PhotoRocket doesn’t require recipients to register or log in to view or download photos – although they can register if they’d like to spread photos on their own or purchase high-quality prints. But where PhotoRocket really shines is how easy the service enables users to push photos found on the Web (right-click, select, done) and on your computer (right-click, select, done) to social networking and online photo sharing services with a minimum of friction. The only small gripe I have is that there should be a number of basic editing capabilities baked into the product that would enable users to do things like cropping or resizing images before sharing, but I’m told some of those features will be included in future releases. Give PhotoRocket a whirl and tell us what you think. CrunchBase Information PhotoRocket Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| What 'The Social Network' Won (Three Awards, But Not Best Picture) #Oscars | Top |
| Despite losing Best Picture to The King’s Speech , Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s epic Facebook creation myth The Social Network did pick up three Oscars tonight, more than any film about nerds has ever garnered, unless you count A Beautiful Mind. The Social Network won Best Film Editing (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter), Best Original Score (Trent Reznor) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin) at tonight’s 83rd Academy Awards Ceremony. The film, which picked up four awards including Best Picture at the Golden Globes and was nominated for eight Oscars, was definitely the Twitter and tech crowd favorite but apparently not the Academy’s. We did indeed have something to to root for despite David Fincher losing to The King’s Speech’s Tom Hooper for Best Director, Jesse Eisenberg (who played Mark Zuckerberg) also losing to the very-deserving Colin Firth in the Best Actor category, and the film itself losing to The King’s Speech in the most important category of the night, Best Picture. The King’s Speech, with twelve nominees and four wins, was perhaps the “biggest dog in this fight, ” to borrow a term from the film. Traditionally the Best Editing award is usually an indicator of what film will win Best Picture (only nine films have taken the coveted Best Picture award without winning Best Editing) but that rule didn’t hold in this case. Both Inception and The King’s Speech beat The Social Network at sheer amount of awards won, at four to The Social Network’s three. Here’s the full list of what The Social Network won, what it was nominated for and who it was up against, via Slashfilm ( Bold = Winner). BEST PICTURE: Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The King's Speech 127 Hours The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter's Bone DIRECTING: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan David O. Russell, The Fighter Tom Hooper, The King's Speech David Fincher, The Social Network Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Javier Bardem, Biutiful Jeff Bridges, True Grit Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network Colin Firth, The King's Speech James Franco, 127 Hours ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini CINEMATOGRAPHY: Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins FILM EDITING: Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum The Fighter Paramount Pamela Martin The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter ORIGINAL SCORE: How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross SOUND MIXING Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick The King's Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland @keisertroll Tom Keiser I WANT TO THANK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL #reznor #oscars about 9 hours ago via web Retweet Reply @dtrinh Danny Trinh Sandra: "Jesse, you've inspired lonely young men around ye world hunched over keyboards." We got a shoutout! about 8 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone Retweet Reply @alexia Alexia Tsotsis Tech bloggers of the world rejoice! You don't have to write another post tonight. #Oscars about 8 hours ago via Seesmic Desktop Retweet Reply @parislemon MG Siegler The Social Network isn't cool. You know what's cool? The King's Speech. about 7 hours ago via Twitter for Mac Retweet Reply @brandchannelhub brandchannel The Social Network wins Best Editing nod, while Facebook won't let you edit what you post. #hmm #Oscars about 9 hours ago via web Retweet Reply CrunchBase Information Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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