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View Article  WebJay

Blogs + playlists = collaborative listening. Something wonderful died with Napster: the collaborative discovery and sharing of a wide ...   more »

View Article  CardFile.org

The concept behind CardFile is not new. Put all of your information in, get an RSS Feed, supply that feed ...   more »

View Article  Russell Beattie reviews Diego Doval's...
Russell Beattie reviews Diego Doval's Clever Cactus P2P app. [Scripting News]   more »
View Article  Note to self: Check rzip
Thanks to Jeremy for pointing this out -- I need to check out rzip for potentially improved compression on the ...   more »
View Article  Web Noir revisited

The main problem with search engines isn't with the engines themselves, or with any of their methodologies. It's with the ...   more »

View Article  Mapping Algorithms to Architectures
What you need to know about the hardware before you start coding [ACM Queue]   more »
View Article  Adding Google search to your Blogware weblog

Pat writes "Just an FYI, I built a Google Search component for Blogware. You can see/use it on ...   more »

View Article  MusicBrainz rdf schema
MusicBrainz RDF Schema.

This has already circulated to a few folk, but I thought I'd share it with a ...   more »

View Article  Sarah has an answer for Dan - as well
why is XML good for GUI?.

why is XML good for GUI?

Dan Shafer asks a very good question ...   more »

View Article  Research vs Products
Breakfast with Lili and Sean in MS Research.

I'm sitting here with Sean Kelly and Lily Cheng, in Microsoft ...   more »

View Article  Lessons from the 60s

Philip Greenspun cites the software engineering classic The Mythical Man Month today in a response to a question about open ...   more »

View Article  How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces

The gang over at Streamline have blogged a great primer describing how blogs work. Excellent stuff.

How Blogs Work in ...   more »

View Article  Scott Johnson : "We've just added support...

Scott Johnson: "We've just added support for RSS enclosures to Feedster search feeds". Awesome, Scott! Thanks for bringing us ...   more »

View Article  Congrats to Zack Rosen and Drupal
DeanSpace Developer to Launch New Venture
posted by Dan Gillmor 05:58 AM

Zack Rosen worked on the Howard Dean ...   more »

View Article  FOAF developers can't develop ontologies?

Since I'll be hanging with both Clay and danah next week at a hoidy toidy social software scene (with Linda ...   more »

View Article  Seb groks the ASN
Interview with Ken Jordan (Seb Paquet). Many-to-Many: A Group Blog on Social Software

March 24, 2004

Interview with Ken Jordan

On the ...   more »

View Article  Adding Blogrolling.com blogrolls to your weblog

Blogrolling.com is a service that provides easy-to-manage list of
links for use in any web page or weblog. It makes ...   more »

View Article  MT To Reinvent Drupal Authentication
Well, not quite, or rather, Ben and Mena have plans for comment authentication options of which TypeKey mimicks the Drupal-network ...   more »
View Article  Surveylab's $8,500 Pocket PC
So $8,500 sounds like a ridiculous amount to spend on a Pocket PC, especially one that's really just a modified ...   more »
View Article  the future of metafilter?
the future of metafilter? [MetaFilter]   more »
View Article  The hilarious tragedy of the commons
Thought-provoking thesis and counter-argument on the amazing ThoughtStorms Wiki, on how the expanding information commons may make some of us ...   more »
View Article  Let your customers sell your software


Paul Everitt's Zope Dispatches blog today features a narrated screen video that demonstrates oXygen, Paul's weapon of choice for ...   more »

View Article  How to forge an S/MIME signature


The other day I received an email message from jon_udell@infoworld.com, accompanied by a valid S/MIME digital signature. But the message ...   more »

View Article  In December Scott Raymond wrote a lucid...


In December Scott Raymond wrote a lucid and important description of the synergies between BitTorrent and RSS:
View Article  Microcontent Management with Syncato - XML.com

In the past few years there's been a surge in popularity for what
has become known as blogging. The weblog ...   more »
View Article  Scott Mathews does it again

The logic of IP. It has taken me way too long to catch up on this point, but I've ...   more »

View Article  MP3 Server
Andromeda is the simple and smart MP3 server for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It's great as a personal ...   more »
View Article  About The Laszlo SoundBlox
About The Laszlo SoundBlox

SoundBlox is an MP3 audio playing Internet application that can be embedded into a personal blog ...   more »
View Article  About The Laszlo PhotoBlox
About The Laszlo PhotoBlox

PhotoBlox is an image viewing Internet application that can be embedded into a personal blog template ...   more »
View Article  Things I learned about LiveJournal today

Knowing that Lj supported FOAF has drawn me back to the account Brad Fitzpatrick gave me - all those many ...   more »

View Article  103 words why Open Source will rise

Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words [Slashdot]

  1. "The Internet is powered by open source."...   more »
View Article  LiveJournal and FOAF

Chris Schmidt is the guy at LiveJournal who is responsible for getting FOAF support into Lj. Here's his description of ...   more »

View Article  U.S. hits 45% broadband penetration

This just in from Andy King.....

marc,

hi, just published this. i predict we'll break 50% by june.

US Broadband ...   more »

View Article  XML Syndication Forums

Pick Our Brains on XML Syndication gives you the opportunity to dig into the brains of Howell Developments through their ...   more »

View Article  Making email identity work



I've watched with bemusement as Bill Gates has been making the rounds lately -- the World Economic Forum, the RSA ...   more »
View Article  LOAF: Social email filtering (Clay Shirky)
From Joshua Schachter, inventor of memepool, Geo URL, and del.icio.us (w00t) and Maciej Ceglowski of Idle Words and the Web ...   more »
View Article  Update regarding updates...

I haven't been blogging as much as I would like lately because that pesky day job keeps getting in the ...   more »

View Article  Blogware Signup Scripts
One of the guys here whipped up a couple of example signup scripts for
interested resellers to have a look ...   more »
View Article  TahitiPetey
TahitiPetey, YASNS....

Social Networking is ‘hotting up’ as a concept in the travel industry. Here is the new TahitiPetey ...   more »

View Article  Laszlo Inspector
Laszlo inspector.

Laszlo inspector

For the Laszlo developers amongst my readers...

I wrote a little interactive debugging tool that ...   more »

View Article  Standards versus conventions


Alf Eaton looked inside a Magnatune MP3 file to see what metadata is really contained there, and concluded that the ...   more »

View Article  Laszlo inspector
For the Laszlo developers amongst my readers... I wrote a little interactive debugging tool that I have found very useful ...   more »
View Article  Length attribute for BitTorrent enclosures

I had a couple of email exchanges today with folks that were setting up BitTorrent enclosure feeds. The question of ...   more »

View Article  Smack and Petri-Net

Smack is an easy to use Java
API for XMPP (as in Jabber). If you haven't heard of it, check ...   more »

View Article  The 1060 REST microkernel and XML app server


1060 NetKernel
Suhail Ahmed alerted me, via email, to a really interesting project called NetKernel, from 1060 Research. ...   more »

View Article  Analysis of RSS+Time as a playlist format

Lucas Gonze writes, “What’s good and bad about the RSS+SMIL playlist format I made up? What’s bad is boringly obvious ...   more »

View Article  Diego Doval on mapping social relationships (Clay Shirky)
Interesting trio of posts by Diego Doval on alternate methods of mapping social relationships in social networking services:This point of ...   more »
View Article  Wired : "Speed meets feed in Download...
"According to Grumet, an RSS feed of one's favorite bands, actors, shows, games or other "big media objects" could be ...   more »
View Article  JDO: A persistent topic
For JDO, the Time Is Now. "Without a dominant proprietary solution and with EJB in disarray, the software industry ...   more »
View Article  Googling Up Passwords
Let's introduce another tool into your toolbox: the ability to look only on pages that use a certain word or ...   more »
View Article  Rackshare Launches Blogpolling.com

Rackshare has gone and made it easy to add a Poll to your Blogware powered weblog - or any blog ...   more »

View Article  AOP: Dynaop Project home
dynaop, a proxy-based Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) framework, enhances Object-Oriented (OO) design in the following areas: code reuse decomposition dependency reduction ...   more »
View Article  Information axioms
A fascinating set... I especially like the Kevin Kelly quotes in Axiom 10.
This working document distills Information axioms...   more »
View Article  Attitude Adjustment

Martin Fowler's Bliki has a nice page on Software Development Attitude, in which he distinguished between Enabling and Directing. ...   more »

View Article  Also sounds awefully close to a player folio! :)
Following my referers this morning led me to David Tosh's newly created blog. He is currently undertaking a PhD ...   more »
View Article  Peaks and valleys in group cohesion
Ross points to Christopher Allen's very interesting piece on the relationship between group scale and cohesiveness or satisfaction.
His ...   more »
View Article  Pro Sports Stats Provider
This is a biz model we could apply to amateur talent.

STATS INCORPORATED - Sports Statistics, Fantasy Sports, Sports Publishing...   more »
View Article  M-Systems offers 90GB flash storage in 2.5" casing
M-Systems' Fast Flash Disk (FFD) 2.5" Ultra ATA Flash Disk is a state-of-the-art solid-state disk, based on NAND flash technology, ...   more »
View Article  Who Ya Gonna Call?
What happened was, I saw this this cool article in A List Apart about how you can do drop-shadows on ...   more »
View Article  Publishing 2.0

Chad Dickerson at Infoworld says



Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld's Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded ...   more »

View Article  Imagine a facewall like this...
Imagine a facewall like this as active wallpaper on your PC desktop. Each picturre would contain one click contact info ...   more »
View Article  Fonts used in Disney parks
This is a wonderful list of faces employed in incidental typography in the Disney parks, including links to freeware versions ...   more »
View Article  Who are you, that is the question.

This could be tremendously interesting: ShareID and Zopto. ShareID is a single sign-on and authentication system built around FOAF ...   more »

View Article  Lurker
Lurker:

"Email is an ever increasing stream of information. Most people do not have time to read all the ...   more »

View Article  Reputation and Trust Network
trust and reputation in social networks.
Trust is a way for social beings to cope with the uncertainty they ...   more »
View Article  Context driven adaptive interfaces

Was struck by two recent interface changes, one on Orkut and one on Friendster, both ...   more »

View Article  Orkut starts to get granular

Eric raps it out succinctly (thank god I don't have to go and do all the screen dumps!) I spent ...   more »

View Article  Passion of the iPod


iGod: an iPod ad parody that speaks to the Mel Gibson Vanity Project zeitgeist.

Link

(Thanks, bturner!)

...   more »
View Article  More than just a pretty interface - Dot.life - where technology meets life, every Monday
If you thought you liked the iPod because of its looks, think again. It could, according to one academic, be ...   more »
View Article  Case Study: Using a Weblog to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google
This is a case study documenting best practices in using a weblog to achieve #1 rankings in Google. Below you ...   more »
View Article  Virtual Lightbox

Local blogger Matthew Kirschenbaum has announced the release of Virtual Lightbox 2.0. It's a free and open-source application that:...   more »

View Article  Kinzan's cool Model View Controller demo now online

Remember the Kinzan demo I told you about a month or so back? The one where Garland Wong, the CTO ...   more »

View Article  Verb-centric UIs (Simpleton)
Reading about Maurizio Colucci's segusaLand brought back vivid memories from late 1999 of my prototyping work on a verb-centric desktop ...   more »
View Article  Pluck
RSS Reader -...   more »
View Article  Make

Being part of Generation X is a condition of being caught between booming generations. But lately it feels like being ...   more »

View Article  Social Currency: Content as a Medium for Interaction - January 2001
"When my father was growing up, bubblegum companies competed by offering free trading cards inside their packages. Little pieces cardboard ...   more »
View Article  Bringing the Dark side of syndication to Light

According to Phil Rignalda:

... we need to not lose sight of the fact that reading in an aggregator ...   more »
View Article  BitTorrent + RSS, step 1

I'm just chuckling to myself. Last night I was telling Dave Winer about how we could bootstrap BitTorrent downloads into ...   more »

View Article  Plog Plog Plog

Silly picture of Social NetworkOver a year ago, I wrote about using FOAF to identify blog commenters, so you could do nifty things with ...   more »

View Article  The Semi-synchronous Groupware Problem

One of the reasons why I got this job at MIT was because I was familiar with distributed workgroups. The ...   more »

View Article  What Is Subversion?
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS ...   more »
View Article  Weblog Design Inspiration
This is a collection of outstanding blog designs, thoughts on what makes a good blog design, and will also be ...   more »
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