Neowin News Feed for: Community

Reddit will allow users to up/down vote ads

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:26:13 +0000

Reddit are introducing the ability to up vote, or down vote ads depending on their relevancy to you. If an advert is unsuitable, Reddit will hide it if you down vote the ad. Read more...

Team Fortress 2, and the evolution of a player-powered economy

Paul Ferson — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:21:41 +0000

The economy in Valve's war-themed hat simulator has been changing drastically in recent months. One community operated site, TF2 Finance, has taken an in-depth look at how it has developed thus far. Read more...

Rebranding exercise: Microsoft Answers is now Microsoft Community

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:03:59 +0100

The Modern UI; its Microsoft's Marmite. Microsoft's current reimaging and rebranding continues onto Microsoft Answers, following the successful reimagining of Hotmail.com and Microsoft.com. Read more...

HTC offers invites to Windows Phone software + services beta [Update]

Andy Weir — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:17:25 +0100

HTC has extended an invitation to join a new beta program 'to experience the future of software and services for your Windows Phone today' - but you'll have to hurry... places are limited! Read more...

Facebook to the rescue - of a dog, with a jar on its head

Steven Parker — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:22:21 +0100

Social networks can be a wonderful thing as proven by a concerned citizen who was unable to collar a stray dog that had a jar stuck on its head, so turned to Facebook with a photo and a call for help. Read more...

League of Legends passes 32,000,000 registered players

Paul Ferson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:12:57 +0000

The developers of League of Legends have reported that their community recently passed the 32,000,000 player mark. Read more...

Microsoft teams up with Bill Clinton to fight 'digital exclusion'

Brad Sams — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:15:54 +0100

Microsoft and Bill Clinton are teaming up to fight the lack of broadband Internet access to low income families. Their goal is to provide access to students to combat 'digital exclusion'. Read more...

MySQL 5.5.13 Community Edition

Steven Parker — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:11:51 +0100

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts. MySQL delivers enterprise features, including: Partitioning to improve... Read more...

Contentteller Community Edition 2.0.3

Philipp — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:14:00 +0100

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Contentteller Community Edition 2.0.3 is now available. Starting with this release, Contenteller will be released under the original version numbering again. Contentteller is a powerful content management system written in the PHP scripting language designed... Read more...

Contentteller Community Edition 1.0.3

Philipp — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:28:00 +0000

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Contentteller Community Edition 1.0.3 is now available. This is another maintenance release that includes all updates from the commercial 2008.2 releases. Contentteller is a powerful open source content management system written in the PHP scripting... Read more...

Microsoft Announces Kodu Game Creator for Xbox Live Community Games

Neowin Staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:45:04 +0000

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Dell Creates Laptop and Community For "Digital Nomads"

maplecookie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:11:02 +0100

Dell has announced a new line of Latitude and Dell Precision laptops built for the consumer on the go. The new laptops have an increased battery life, can be customized in a wide... Read more...

Contentteller Community Edition 1.0.0 RC1a

Philipp — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:39:14 +0100

Contentteller is a powerful open source content management system written in the PHP scripting language designed for sites of all sizes and types. The free Community Edition is licensed under the terms of the GPL... Read more...

CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) 2008-06-28 Beta

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:42:17 +0100

The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in online anime distribution, and one of the... Read more...

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows Live Help Community too

HappyAndyK — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:03:12 +0100

Microsoft has silently removed the Windows Live Help Community service and the link now redirects to Windows Live Help. This is one of the many Windows Live services being dropped in recent times. And... Read more...

Neowin Community Game Awards 2007 - Results

Neowin Staff — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:12:08 +0000

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The Neowin Community Game Awards are unlike other "Best of Year" awards. Every step of the process is voted on by Neowin.net community members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you, the people... Read more...

Neowin Community Game Awards 2007 Voting

Christopher Vendemio — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:49:40 +0000

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

Mercury_22 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:55:38 +0000

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Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP introduces several significant features to Windows PowerShell 1.0 that extends its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control and managethe Windows environment more easily and comprehensively. Download:... Read more...

Neowin Community Game Awards 2007 - Nominations Begin

Christopher Vendemio — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:20:41 +0100

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In 2005, we started the Neowin Community Game Awards. Unlike other "Best of Year" awards, every step of the process is voted on by the members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you,... Read more...

The Steam Community officially launches out of beta

Todd Tanner — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:21:16 +0100

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Valve has officially launched The Steam Community after being in a beta testing phase for about a month or so. For those not in the know, The Steam Community (or TSC) offers some nice new... Read more...