Trust Metrics

Knowledge Management January 31st, 2003

Mike Sugarbaker: “It’s very simple: there are some friends you’d trust with your seat at Starbucks, but far fewer you’d trust with your car keys, and even fewer with, say, your sister in a tube top.”

Google Intelligence Gathering .Net Application

Search January 30th, 2003

Juice is an alternate browser with built-in support for Google’s search API. With Juice, you don’t just search for information, you gather information.” (via ScriptingNews)

Looks interesitng. Although, I have similary functionality right within this Blog by integrating the Google API with post meta data

business begin to cash in on weblogs

Blogs January 30th, 2003

From The Guardian: “The idea is that blogs can help a business present information and develop new ideas. They can bring out and spread the expertise within a company. ”

“using weblogs … to promote company ideas and show off their knowledge.”

My wife’s new blog

Blogs January 30th, 2003

So cool! My wife [Catbird.org] has ported her blog over to B2. She’s such a hot geek :-)

Open Source Blog and CMS Portal

Open Source January 29th, 2003

OS-CMS is an informative portal that lists and briefly summarizes many of the Open Source CMS and Blog tools available. However, what makes this portal special is that they also provide demos of each.

AT&T Wireless turns to Wi-Fi

WiFi January 28th, 2003

Have WiFi, will travel … AT&T Wireless “… announces a pact with a Wi-Fi network provider to give its subscribers wireless access at more than 485 venues around the country.” (via CNET)

automatically generate a list of …

Knowledge Management January 28th, 2003

dive into mark: “Why can’t I just click an “auto-content” button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, “neighboring” sites, sites discussing the hot topics of the day, and mainstream articles reporting on a small hard-coded list of additional topics?”

Seem like it would be easy enough to create a service like this given the Blogish services available today.

Spam Filtering with gzip

Open Source January 27th, 2003

From Kuro5hin: “While many people see gzip as a compression tool, it also makes a credible spam filter. Here’s how.”

Web Services: Script globally, publish locally

Web Services January 26th, 2003

Jon Udell: “A picture can be worth a thousand words. But a URL can be worth half a dozen pictures. When application behavior is expressed [as a web service], you empower your community of users to share it directly. And Google, which can zero in on URLs and URL fragments in Web pages posted by those users, becomes your tireless and efficient helpdesk assistant.”

Kubrick 2001: the space odyssey explained

General January 24th, 2003

Ok, everyone is linking to this site, but the flash series that explains Kubrik’s 2001 space odyssey is awesome!