January 30, 2003

My wife’s new blog

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

January 29, 2003

Open Source Blog and CMS Portal

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.

January 28, 2003

AT&T Wireless turns to Wi-Fi

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)

January 28, 2003

automatically generate a list of ;

dive into mark: “Why canÂ’t I just click an Â“auto-contentÂ” button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, Â“neighboringÂ” 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.

January 27, 2003

Spam Filtering with gzip

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

January 26, 2003

Web Services: Script globally, publish locally

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.”

January 24, 2003

Kubrick 2001: the space odyssey explained

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

January 23, 2003

Balanced Scorecard

Interesting quote from DM Review Magazine: “The industrial age has been replaced by the knowledge age, with transformational effects on the economy and the workplace…”

January 23, 2003

Cheap Wifi Mesh ISP in a box

MeshBox “configures a group of wireless access points into a coherent “mesh” and connects them to any broadband Internet node available.”

January 22, 2003

Googlert

“Googlert is an experimental free service which keeps you updated on what the web is saying about you, your products or your interests. It does this by performing regular Google searches on your behalf and sending an email alert containing any new results that appear.”