George

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Date registered: July 18, 2011

Latest posts

  1. ePages – Easy Solutions for Your Online Business — February 22, 2012
  2. Xbox 720 – Next Generation Gaming Console to Use Windows 8? — February 8, 2012
  3. IE10 Platform Preview — December 12, 2011
  4. Bibliogo – Mashup for Scientific Research — December 2, 2011
  5. Create Your Own Mashup — August 17, 2011

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  1. All About Mashups — 3 comments
  2. Real Time 3D – Delivered to Your Screen — 1 comment
  3. Kodu – An Alternative for Game Developers — 1 comment

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Feb
22

ePages – Easy Solutions for Your Online Business

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Great news if you’re about to open your first online shop – or if your old provider is beginning to really annoy you: ePages. Sounds simple and simple it is. And yet sophisticated. And functional. And cheap. Yes, we could go on and on. Instead, come join us for a peek into the world of …

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Feb
08

Xbox 720 – Next Generation Gaming Console to Use Windows 8?

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The next generation gaming console from Microsoft has been lovingly dubbed “Xbox 720” by those eagerly awaiting it’s announcement but how does Xbox 8 sound? Having announced the features of the new Windows 8 Phone operating system such as greater internet connectivity control and the ability to connect to wireless networks in under a second, …

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Dec
12

IE10 Platform Preview

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Exciting news for all web developers and mashup freaks: Microsoft just released its fourth overall preview of their Internet Explorer 10. Especially aimed at you, new features and better  HTML5 functionalities improve possibilities for the creation of Web applications. However, there is one caveat: The new release only works on the Windows 8 preview release which …

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Dec
02

Bibliogo – Mashup for Scientific Research

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I recently came across this fine piece of programming after weeding through the IT blogosphere. And since activity on this site has all but stopped for a while, I thought it was high time to get back on track and once more let you know about some of the exciting stuff out there. Bibliogo is …

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Aug
17

Create Your Own Mashup

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For those of you thinking about creating your own mashups, we can get you started with some easy steps through the process. This post is not so much about the coding itself but about what youll need to think about before getting started. First, you should think about the subject that you want to address …

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Jul
29

Real Time 3D – Delivered to Your Screen

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Computer Scientists at the University of Southern California are working on an application embedding real-time data in online maps. What they call geo-immersion is a technology that will go significantly further than previous generations of mashups. Based on everyday on-line mapping services like Google Maps, the folks at South Carolina had the idea to capture information from the real world and render it into virtual data …

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Jul
22

Kodu – An Alternative for Game Developers

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For those that used to work with Popfly, Microsofts Game Lab “Kodu” (speak: Code-ooh) might be an adequate replacement. For the longest time it was only available for XBox 360, but since 2010 a PC-version exists as well. Simple but fun games are quickly created and without source code or compilers its a simple way to program games …

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Jul
12

All About Mashups

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Since Popfly was mainly a Mashup tool, we should devote some time to the concept before starting off: A mashup (a term borrowed from the musical blending of two or more songs) is essentially an online application that lends services from third party applications and uses these services for its own purposes. The benefits are …

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