The NY Times has officially launched its MyTimes personalized feature today following a private beta started in April 2006. In a scaled-down RSS reader, users select feeds they want to add: initially, these are the picks of editors - in my case, a selection of blogs from technology columnist David Pogue. These picks [...]

The NY Times has officially launched its MyTimes personalized feature today following a private beta started in April 2006. In a scaled-down RSS reader, users select feeds they want to add: initially, these are the picks of editors - in my case, a selection of blogs from technology columnist David Pogue. These picks are added to a Netvibes-style startpage. Since the intial trial, they’ve added more editors picks, more widgets for your page (Flickr, bookmarking, weather etc) and the ability to create multiple, tabbed startpages. It’s nothing new for those of us used to the sites it’s cloning (Netvibes, Pageflakes etc), but neither is it a misstep: it’s extremely useful for those NYTimes readers who want more control, but aren’t aware of the opportunities on the open web. Recommended: Piczo Layouts at Mashcodes! Share This

FoxyTag is a mobile application that alerts you to upcoming speed cameras while you’re driving. On your phone you’ll see tags marking a speed trap when you’re within 15 seconds of a speed camera. The application is interactive in that users help build up this database of speed tags. Mark the [...]

FoxyTag is a mobile application that alerts you to upcoming speed cameras while you’re driving. On your phone you’ll see tags marking a speed trap when you’re within 15 seconds of a speed camera. The application is interactive in that users help build up this database of speed tags. Mark the various types of speed cameras you encounter along your journey, whether they be fixed, moving, or invisible.

Now FoxyTag has done a couple of Google mashups, making its service available on your iGoogle start page as a Google Gadget, as well as on a Google map as a Mapplet. So now you can find, and map out, where speed traps are known to be, directly on a Google Map. Convenient.

In other Google Maps news, Google will be creating a transit guide for the New York metropolitan area, and Google Maps has also announced its policy change for Street Views. Google Maps embed code has been simplified for ease of use, too. The L.A. Times has recently added a homicide Google Maps mashup to its online service. See here for more Google Maps mashups.

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Properazzi, the European search engine for finding properties for rent or sale, is getting ready to re-launch a new version of its site early next week. Some of the new feature include an improved search interface with several search filters, like property price, type, size, and a bunch of features like balconies, fireplace, air-conditioning, parking included, [...]

Properazzi, the European search engine for finding properties for rent or sale, is getting ready to re-launch a new version of its site early next week.

Some of the new feature include an improved search interface with several search filters, like property price, type, size, and a bunch of features like balconies, fireplace, air-conditioning, parking included, etc. There are now three different ways to view property listings–a list view, standard view, or gallery view. Properazzi will now save a history your recent searches, so you won’t need to repurpose your search filters for every search query. As Properzzi doesn’t have user accounts, this history is based on your computer. Adding accounts wouldn’t hurt, especially since another new feature is the ability to save listings as favorites as well. Listings can also be sent out to your friends (or to yourself).

Additionally, Properazzi is also announcing that it’s grown to be the world’s largest property search engine, with over 4 million listings in 49 countries. Surprisingly, the US isn’t one of those countries. Others in this space include BlockHunter, Zillow, Trulia and ePerks.

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Yahoo! has made a couple new major updates to its Yahoo! Mail application that enables people to connect in a few more ways.

The new version of Yahoo! Mail now includes some intuitive communication features that make it a little easier for contacts to stay in touch. The first is the ability to send instant messages from Yahoo! Mail to mobile phone numbers. Mail users can now choose to send IM's to mobile numbers in the US, Canada, India and the Philippines without leaving Yahoo!'s web mail interface. Users simply enter a mobile phone number, type a message and send it.

The second Mail integration is the ability to send instant messaging straight from Yahoo! Mail to Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users. This opens up chatting to millions of other IM users, straight from the Yahoo! Mail interface possible. These new features make it easier to connect with friends by converting emails to instant messages to text messages.

Yahoo! Mail IM and mobile feature enhancements will begin rolling out to users worldwide today. And if you are into adding a few new colors to the interface to spice things up, there are six customizable color themes available.

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Google has been providing Google Maps-based public transit directions for a few years now. If you happen to live in Portland, San Diego, Pittsburgh, or a handful of other cities, that is.

But Bloomberg is reporting that Google Transit is about to add directions for the largest public transportation system in the country: New York City.

Earlier this year, Google added subway stop information to New York City maps. But there was no way to get directions from one stop to another. According to Bloomberg, Google is working with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New Jersey Transit to develop the trip planner.

No word on how long you'll have to wait to get your New York subway directions from Google. In the meantime, you might want to check out HopStop, which recently launched a mobile version of its trip planner. Unlike Google, which currently has routes for smaller cities, Hopstop covers New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.

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Personalized webpages are all business when it comes to the New York Times personalized My Times page.

Like other start pages, Netvibes, iGoogle, PageFlakes, MyYahoo and Windows Live, MyTimes allows users to pull in all of their important everyday RSS news and build a single resource. Widgets like weather, Flickr, stock quotes and crosswords can also be added to pages. Sections can be dragged around and reorganized like the other offerings as well.

Where MyTimes differs is that readers can choose to have their pages set up by Times journalists for news and entertainment. Offering a first hand look into their sources of information.

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Uno de nuestros lectores, MacDuc, nos manda un curioso apunte sobre la comercialización del iPhone en Alemania. Ahora que las últimas noticias del teléfono de Apple giran en torno a la liberalización de los terminales, en el país germano las operadoras y vendedores de telefonía móvil están obligados por ley a vender los teléfonos libres.

MacDuc nos comenta que los contratos son un poco ˝leoninos”, para que a las operadoras les resulte rentable vender terminales libres, con planes de permanencia bastante largos y duras penalizaciones por cancelación de contrato.

MacDuc, muchísimas gracias por la información

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Año 2.007. Logotipo ganador del concurso de ideas convocado para la elaboración de la imagen corporativa del Gobierno de España. Año 1.996. Logotipo del Gobierno Federal de Alemania creado por MetaDesign a partir de la idea nacida en un concurso de estudiantes. Supongo que a esto es a lo que se llama una Europa sin fronteras… Tags: Diseño, [...]

Año 2.007. Logotipo ganador del concurso de ideas convocado para la elaboración de la imagen corporativa del Gobierno de España.

Año 1.996. Logotipo del Gobierno Federal de Alemania creado por MetaDesign a partir de la idea nacida en un concurso de estudiantes.

Supongo que a esto es a lo que se llama una Europa sin fronteras…

Tags: Diseño, parecidos razonables, Gobierno, España, Alemania

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