5/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Linkorama : VC 2.0 - An Entrepreneur's market - Notes from my panel at Web 2.0
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5/10/2005 @ 23:56 GMT
Linkorama : VC2 2.0 Panel - Jeff's notes from my Web 2.0 panel
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5/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
tehu : Burningbird Web 1.0 - Party like it's 1997 again - More frames ! New DHTML ! With Java and VRML !
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5/10/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jkottke : Sales of SUVs drop as gas prices rise - September sales of SUVs were down sharply from last year. "Sales of F-Series pickup trucks plunged 30 percent. Sales of Ford's large SUVs, including the Ford Explorer and Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator, sank by more than 55 percent each. At GM, over
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5/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
gleuschk : 214-748-3647 - Google Search - 18500 results for a phone number that also just happens to be the largest 32-bit integer
Rod Begbie : A lot of people have the phone number (214) 748-3647 - Which, coincidentally, is the largest number that can be held in a 32-bit integer. Remember, kids: Just because it's a number, doesn't mean you should store it in a number database field. [via] #
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5/10/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
gleuschk : download: OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC1 Downloads - been using it since yesterday -- feels nice
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5/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Linkorama : SocialText Opens Up Code to Promote Wikis - Enterprise wiki vendor SocialText is opening up the code to its applications in a move that will help promote the wiki platform and aid SocialText in the development of its products.
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5/10/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Linkorama : Socialtext to open source bulk of its software - InfoWorld on today's news
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5/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Fear the CSS Brace! - He never shoulda demanded a rematch.
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5/10/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : Eastgate: Eyelighter - "This featherweight ear clip shines an overdriven, ultra-bright white LED exactly where you need the light."
Matthew M. Boedicker : bright, lightweight ear-clip LED flashlight
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5/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : rentzsch.com: The Future is Knobs - "Initially I dismissed knobs as too complicated for everyday programming. However Future People discovered a glorious solution: cheat shirts that illustrate which way to turn the knob. Genius."
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5/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Morfik, web apps that also run on the desktop - Morfik seems to be working towards a WebOS like I wrote about in August...web apps that run on the desktop: "[Morfik's] technology combined with its tight integration of the browser, a database and web server, uniquely offers developers the opportunity to
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5/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google, Sun to jointly develop better news conferences - Google, Sun to jointly develop better news conferences: I link to this simply because of the headline
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5/10/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Memry, the game of Memory using Flickr images - I know you've always wanted to play Memory with pictures of me from Flickr and now you can. Memry works with any Flickr tag.
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5/10/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : New Friendster feature: "Who's Viewed Me?" - Friendster has a new feature...you can tell who has looked at your profile (feature is on by default and you can turn it off...if you're even aware of it in the first place). If I still used Friendster (not that I ever really did), I'm not sure how I woul
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5/10/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Switch to VoIP, get broadband free - Mark does the math for his mom: cable modem + Vonage is cheaper than local phone + long distance + dialup internet. Bottom line: switch to VoIP and get broadband internet access for free.
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5/10/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Linkorama : Working Together, Wherever They Are - "It's a virtual work space for tapping the expertise and knowledge of more people," said P. J. Rangaswami, chief information officer of Dresdner Kleinwort. "Conference calls and e-mail just aren't suited for collaborative work."
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5/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
gleuschk : Getting Engaged : Bridal Guide Magazine's New Etiquette for Today's Bride - Tradition suggests that the mother of the groom calls the mother of the bride to relay her congratulations and extend an invitation to meet
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5/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
gleuschk : Inside Higher Ed :: New Approach to Tenure - spearheaded by SU's Chancellor Nancy Cantor
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5/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : AirTroductions - AirTroductions is a social networking/dating site for frequent flyers.
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5/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
kayodeok : Tagging Roundup - Whether you're a novice or veteran, the following resources will help you understand how tags are quickly changing the Internet one word at a time
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5/10/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : The New "Application Server" [@lesscode.org] - "People everywhere are asking themselves what this mess of crap of technology they've accumulated is really doing for them. Its about time."
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tehu : isolani : OPML - the XML format with no friends - I like the title :-) Just say no to OPiuML. Maybe one day they will learn.
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5/10/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
plasticbag : Joss Whedon's Serenity hits #118 on the IMDB all time best movies - Whether this high opinion will last is unclear. Currently, however, it's beating Return of the Jedi, is the eighteenth best movie of the 00's, and the 38th best fillm ever as voted by women (but not by men)
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5/10/2005 @ 09:56 GMT
Linkorama : Wiki BoF - Unforunately we are full as of History (100)
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5/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
plasticbag : Yahoo! have only gone and bought upcoming.org - Now that's pretty interesting. I wonder what they'll do with that. Seems like everyone's going to work with Yahoo! nowadays.
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5/10/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Yahoo buys Upcoming.org! - have you heard the news? Waxy is going to Yahoo!
jkottke : Upcoming.org sold to Yahoo! - Andy Baio sells Upcoming.org to Yahoo! Congrats! I can't wait to see what he, Leonard, and Gordon do with the site on a full-time basis. And Yahoo! keeps swallowing my friends...
jimray : Upcoming.org acquired by Yahoo! - It kind of sounds like Andy and crew just became Yahoo! employees -- nothing about Upcoming actually being bought out
Simon Willison : Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree - This is really good news.
Nelson Minar : Waxy to Yahoo! - Congratulations, Andy.
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5/10/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Linkorama : Googerrymander - By listing Taiwan as a province of China, Google Maps is clearly succumbing to pressure from China to distort the international community's perception of the cross-strait situation, Huang said.
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5/10/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Linkorama : meta social app platform - That challenge also applies to Jotspot and any other company that fancies its chances as a meta social app platform.
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5/10/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Linkorama : Remember that startup that sucked? - However, having used over the years Lotus Notes, Groove, and having built the equivalent for the financial markets (now called Reuters 3000 Xtra), these kinds of platforms are only as good and interesting as the best applications that have been developed
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5/10/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Linkorama : Ning, the real 24 Hour Laundry - Given that we have been bombarded with social apps in recent months, its nice to see a “mother of all social apps.â€
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5/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : CoolMon - system stats on your desktop - CoolMon is a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else you wish to display on the desktop
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5/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Fishbowl: What's Wrong with OPML - The reason for this is that OPML, as specified, is a non-format. It's the alluring vapor of a specification that isn't there
znarf : The Fishbowl: What's Wrong with OPML [via] #
Paul Hammond : The Fishbowl: What's Wrong with OPML - An outline is stuff nested inside other stuff. So's XML.
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5/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Install & Configure Apache, PHP, JSP, & MySQL on Windows XP/2000 - This is a quick guide to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine
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5/10/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Video: New.net Installed through Security Holes - New.net provides a proprietary domain name system that allows it to sell nonstandard domain names to advertisers. These proprietary domains are resolved through New.net's own servers, so these domains are accessible only to users whose ISPs have chosen to
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5/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : No I Don't Want To Read Your Blog T-shirt - Rad
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5/10/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local - What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local: the upcoming.org team joins yahoo!
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5/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Lumberton, NJ giant demon statue
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5/10/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
cobra libre : an homage to walter benjamin: arcades, barricades and public sex [via] #
Steve Cook : John Mage, "An Homage to Walter Benjamin: Arcades, Barricades and Public Sex" - An article about the lost final work of one of the great philosophers of the twentieth century, who killed himself upon being turned over to the Gestapo sixty-five years ago last week.
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5/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the social logic of Ivy League admissions
plasticbag : Malcolm Gladwell on selection policies for Harvard (much more interesting than it sounds, and weirdly much less judgmental than it could have been) - "If Harvard had too many Asians, it wouldn’t be Harvard, just as Harvard wouldn’t be Harvard with too many Jews or pansies or parlor pinks or shy types or short people with big ears."
jkottke : Harvard's admissions process - Malcolm Gladwell's description of how Harvard decides on who to admit strikes me as similar to how many companies in the tech/web industry hire employees. "Subjectivity in the admissions process is not just an occasion for discrimination; it is also, in b
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5/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : CoolMon Windows machine monitor
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5/10/2005 @ 05:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : the weirdest PalmOS programs
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5/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
Douglas Bowman : Mutilating Meyer vs The Butcher - Cameron Adams' hilarious boxing match animated with JavaScript. Hit any key to throw a punch. I don't think Cam knew I was in the audience for his presentation until later that day.
Eric Meyer : Eric 'Mutilating' Meyer VS. Doug 'The Butcher' Bowman - Notice who's talkin' trash, and who's bringin' the pain? Make sure to deliver five hits for even more fun.
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5/10/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
ricmac : John Battelle - I Want Media - "I think we've seen the passing of print as the medium of news delivery."
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5/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
joshua : 'Folksonomy' Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and 'For Sale' - New York Times - del.icio.us in new york times
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5/10/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : O'Reilly Radar > HBO Attacking BitTorrent - I've spotted this too. I download a lot of TV, but Safe Peer only goes bezerk stopping nastiness when I'm downloading "Curb Your Enthusiasm", another HBO show #
Andy Baio : HBO poisoning BitTorrent downloads with bad seeds - their time would be better spent working on a distribution model instead of fighting it [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : HBO is poisoning BitTorrent
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5/10/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
deusx : ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_011005_1 - "Update: I am now seeding the Bittorrent from my laptop and blogging about it while sitting on the toilet. How Web 2.0!"
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deusx : dermal.mov (video/quicktime Object) - ""
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5/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : UFO landing strip gets mayor's support - UFO landing strip gets mayor's support: heh
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5/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : data: URI image encoder - data: URI image encoder: This form will allow you to generate a valid data: URI from a file on your computer or from a web site.
factoryjoe : data: URI image encoder - This form will allow you to generate a valid data: URI from a file on your computer or from a web site. I created it primarily to aid in the creation of Greasmonkey scripts which insert small graphics into web pages. It will also create
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5/10/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Salon redesigning? - Is a Salon.com redesign in the cards this week?
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5/10/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
deusx : THE DAYS OF CATHCART ZEN - The Many Wives Of Cathcart Zen - "Standish raised his hoe. "Get away from my fucking roses," he hissed. "
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5/10/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Charles Miller : The Box-Office Slump is a Myth - Screenwriter John August examines the numbers, and discovers that this year's supposed box-office slump is a convenient illusion.
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5/10/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
jimray : One More Thing - Apple's holding a special event next week - dual core G5's? Updated iPods for Christmas? Video iPods? The living room device I've lusted after for so long?
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5/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jimray : NewsGator acquires NetNewsWire (and Brent Simmons) - "Will I be able to use NetNewsWire in one place, FeedDemon in another, NewsGator Outlook edition in another — and still be able to use NewsGator Online when I’m at my mom’s house? Yes!" Cool.
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5/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Mark Pilgrim's vision of an Atom Store - "I'm writing Greasemonkey scripts to parse all the known microformats. ... It's coming. Within weeks, not years. All the data is out there; people are publishing this stuff anyway." #
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5/10/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
ricmac : The Unofficial Web Applications List
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5/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
plasticbag : The new Guinness advert "Evolve" is pretty bloody awesome - although this tiny tiny version doesn't really do it justice - You know what I don't understand - people pay a fortune to put the ads on TV, but normally they don't make it possible for people to find them, watch them and link to them online. Seems like it would be an easy win...
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5/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
jkottke : Kdunk on blanket - This is one of my favorite photos on the internet ever.
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