Extensions Broke Your Browser? How to Enter ‘Safe Mode’ in Google Chrome

Now that Google Chrome has entered the world of fully-extensible browsers, with its recent addition of extensions and Greasemonkey scripts , you’ve likely found yourself perusing the libraries and tweaking until your heart’s content. With that, however, comes the inevitable – browser crashes. While Google Chrome doesn’t have a safe mode in the same way the Firefox or Windows ..Read More

Google Reader Can Now Track Changes to Any Website – Even if it Can’t Find a Feed

Google just announced an interesting update to Google Reader. Google’s online feed reader now allows you to track changes on any page – even those that don’t feature an RSS feed. Google will create its own custom feeds for these sites and update the feed whenever it notices a change. Google Reader will display a short snippet of the ..Read More

OneRiot Launches New Real-Time Ads to Monetize Trending Topics

OneRiot , one of the leading real-time search engines, just announced the launch of a new advertising product for real-time apps. RiotWise Trending Ads will give OneRiot’s partners a feed of ads related to currently trending topics on the Web. These ads can, for example, be integrated in a user’s stream of updates in Twitter apps or displayed as ..Read More

Pandora’s Tom Conrad: There should be a PageRank for mobile apps

People can’t stop talking about discoverability — how a mobile application can stand out in an app store against 10,000 or 100,000 competitors.  Tom Conrad , chief technology officer at internet radio service  Pandora , threw out a few novel ideas for improving the process today during a panel discussion at  SDForum’s Business of New Media conference in Mountain ..Read More