Monthly Archives: October 2007

Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Prism “Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.” (tags: Firefox framework platform Browser applications convergence desktop development extensions mozilla … Continue reading →

glTail.rb – realtime logfile visualization “View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way.” (tags: apache ruby visualization logs server tools opensource ssh Unix utilities)

Facebook Platform Cozies Up To Mobile Phones “more significant addition, is the opening of Facebook’s SMS platform, which will let applications and users interact with each other on Facebook over SMS. SMS integration is key as Facebook takes on international … Continue reading →

gardenfork.tv : cooking, gardening, and other stuff the always great Eric Rochow (tags: video podcast Food DIY blogs) With FriendCSV, Data Sneaks Out Facebook’s Back Door “FriendCSV can pull out a lot of information about your friends and store it … Continue reading →

Elsewhere I’m: Relationship Update Stream “The Relationship Update Stream is an endless feed of social relationship data, designed for web services to be able to send and receive information when changes to social relationships on their service occur.” (tags: Attention … Continue reading →

Facebook Plans: Portable Data, Ad Platform – Yahoo! News “Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network’s profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the … Continue reading →

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon EC2 Gets More Muscle ‘The Amazon EC2 team just added Large and Extra Large instance types to EC2. The former “one size fits all” instance type is now known as a Small instance.” (tags: Amazon … Continue reading →

Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC – Leading Citizen Journalism Site Snapped Up by MSM “Citizen Journalism space – Newsvine was acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum. Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson said that “Newsvine will continue operating … Continue reading →

http://www.brail.org/transit/nyc.html Google Maps NYC Subway Transit Map (point-to-point directions) (tags: Google googlemaps Visualization Hacks nyc subway transit map transportation reference Search mashups)

Oracle announces bid for BEA Systems – Oct. 12, 2007 “Oracle (Charts, Fortune 500) is offering $17 a share for BEA (Charts), a leading provider of application software for computer servers. That’s worth about $6.7 billion, based on BEA’s total … Continue reading →

mod_rewrite Tips and Tricks for Apache .htaccess Apache mod_rewrite examples and tips (tags: apache webdev SEO HOWTO) JOSSO 1.6 released: Java Open Single-Signon Meets Spring “JOSSO, or Java Open Single Sign-On, is an open source J2EE-based and Spring-compatible SSO infrastructure … Continue reading →

Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon S3 At Your Service “…we commit to 99.9% uptime, measured on a monthly basis. If an S3 call fails (by returning a ServiceUnavailable or InternalError result) this counts against the uptime.” (tags: Amazon s3 SaaS … Continue reading →

The Atari 2600: The Box That Launched A Million IT Careers – Hardware – IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness Nice article Kevin: “…the Atari 2600 opened many kids’ eyes to the capabilities of technology.” (tags: Retro Atari IT … Continue reading →

Active Directory Authentication Notes – Waikato Linux Users Group Integrating Windows Active Directory with Apache and Subversion. (tags: svn subversion authentication apache LDAP Windows ActiveDirectory) Microsofts Ballmer Does Not Grasp Facebook at FaceReviews.com : Facebook Application Reviews, Facebook Widgets, Facebook … Continue reading →