Below are some of our favorite places to learn by watching on the web.

Thanks for this compilation! I'm fond of watching a variety of screencasts, not just for the educational content within, but also to be entertained. Some hosts are fantastic. I'll add these to the list:

At tomorrow's Google I/O conference, the App Engine team will be making a number of announcements.

While all of this is great progress, we're sure that many will be disappointed that App Engine is still limited to Python Apps. Shortly after launching Google App Engine, we created an interactive game that asked you to both predict what…

There are thousands of new services that pop up every day. Too many services imitate, and only a handful innovate. Competition on the web is stiff and users are demanding more from the services they join. Here's a quick look at what Facebook, Twitter, and Friendfeed did right.

Search The integrated search function on the Twitter site isn't all that useful. It took over a year for the feature to be implemented and like Facebook, Twitter apps do the job better. While search is basic on Twitter, search engines like…

Facebook has been in the news a lot lately for what it won't let users do…maybe it's time they start building more and more things that it will let users do. Sarah Perez has taken the time to offer a few things that could help the company continue to innovate.

I've been on facebook for ~3 years now. I remember how people revolted with every new feature - newsfeeds, beacon, etc. But people are generally resistant to change so that's understandable. Regardless, I find since I left college, I…

How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.

The questions we asked for our post titled “APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion of the Pros and Cons', for example, recieved answers via Twitter from people like Esther Schindler, senior online editor at CIO.com, Ray Valdes,…

Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he's calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast turn for the worse. “The mobile traffic just isn't there,” Beattie says, “It's not there now, and it won't be.”

the mobile web, together with locative mobile services has been announced since more than 10 years now, following the unfulfilled dream of the widespread use of video telephony. mobile applications tend to gravitate around specific services: take…

Google announced today that they would be adding the ability for users to work offline in their popular web office suite Google Docs. Offline support will be powered by the Google Gears API, which is a browser extension that allows developers to store application data offline and sync it back up again later when users are reconnected.

So what has been taking Google so long? Why isn't it eating its own dogfood and releasing more of its web apps with Gears support? What about Gmail? These are some important questions. The longer Google waits, the more time its competitors…

Adobe announced today that the pre-release alpha version of AIR for Linux is available immediately on the Adobe Labs site. Adobe shipped the 1.0 version of AIR for Windows and Mac last month but was forced to delay the Linux release.

AIR for Linux has been promised by Adobe “in upcoming releases” for a few months, and though Linux support won't provide AIR with a huge bump in users, it does help Adobe to demonstrate their commitment to the open source community….

MySpace leading the pack right now…but how long will that last looking at this data!?

The following graphic, credited to Raimo van der Klein (who runs a cool Mobile Web blog here), is a representation of where the main action is in Mobile Web. It shows that the intersection of Mobile with Communication is where the…

The timing couldn't be better for the release of Semantify, a new service from San Francisco's Dapper.net. One week after Yahoo! announced that it will begin indexing the semantic markup and meaning of content on the web, Semantify offers a remarkably simple way to get your website marked up semantically. Automatically, forever.

It's as simple as that, or at least it will be once all the little kinks are worked out. At launch the embed code is only available in PHP but the company says more options are right around the corner. The company rushed to get this service…

The social networking market and ecosystem are in major flux and the early trailblazer LiveJournal announced today the formation of an Advisory Board that puts to rest any suspicion that the site will be fading away quietly after it was sold to a big Russian media company.

Readers unfamiliar with the work of these luminaries should check out their blogs and Wikipedia pages. danah boyd's blog, Wikipedia page and the most popular URLs tagged danahboyd on Del.icio.us Larry Lessig's blog, Wikipedia entry and…

Yahoo! is moving in the right direction, and a very exciting one for all parties involved, and here’s why.

Too many people have unfairly characterized Yahoo! Buzz as not being social. A more fair characterization would be to argue that Yahoo! Buzz is not as democratic as some of its competitors, but it's still very social. First, the fact that user…

Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. Well, Last.fm also has an API that is used by many external services to add value and enjoyment for end users.

This service generates a tag cloud of artists similar to the one you’ve input, based on Audioscrobbler data. I generally don’t find such tag clouds to be overly useful, because music is very subjective - e.g. Bryan Adams isn’t very…