Interesting use of tags on del.icio.us:
You can also use tags to describe metadata about the bookmark. For example, you can use asterisks to rate bookmarks. So a tag of * might mean an OK link, *** is pretty good, and a bookmark tagged ***** is awesome
Only problem is, doesn’t seem to be used much.
Microsoft published the List of Current Hotfixes included in Vista SP1. My favorite:
“Error message when you try to install Windows Vista on a computer that uses more than 3 GB of RAM: “STOP 0×0000000A” – MS TechNet
Here is your shiny new software, make sure you buy extra ram … (but please keep it under 3 GB) : )
Couldn’t agree more.
Amit Agarwal highlights 10 features in FeedDemon that set it apart from the competition. Thanks, Amit! PS: I know my blog has been quiet for a while – it’s because there’s a new version of FeedDemon coming this week
Why FeedDemon is Better
Nick Bradbury
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:49:59 GMT
Update: FeedDemon is now completely free — I’ve been a paying customer of NewsGator / Nick Bradbury for years and can say they were well worth the price paid. If you’re not yet using a desktop rss reader, try it out. Nick Bradbury has more info in this blog post.
I will be in San Francisco in two weeks (April 10 – 13) at The Gilbane Conference San Francisco and will be speaking on a panel “Web 2.0 Technologies.” My presentation “Watching the Web Take Shape” focuses on emerging trends in structured content delivery in the browser. How does this relate to Web 2.0? Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a number of interesting trends that point to a web that incorporates structure in the browser a more significant way than we’ve seen before. Although its not at the forefront of the Web 2.0 discussion, in many ways it provides the underpinnings for things like mashups and social networks.
Saturday, November 18 saw the first Barcamp Manchester and it was a great success. About 75 people showed out of the 100 signed up on the wiki. I gave a presentation on microformats and semi-structured documents (giving props to Jon Udell who has been talking about these concept while and to the microformats group for gathering momentum). Sudha Jamthe’s presentation on building the business side of the web was excellent. For pics, see Dave Seah’s flickr pool tagged barcampmanchester.
WikiCalc is the latest spreadsheet software from Dan Bricklin, the creator of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. WikiCalc, no suprise given its name, is a social spreadsheet application (wiki meet spreadsheet). I saw him give his WikiCalc demo last night in Boston during the Web 2.0 Technologies session he and I presented at Gilbane. From a feature perspective, what impressed me most was its ability to link cells to live services (such as stock prices), but its most distinguishing feature when comparing it to Google Spreadsheet and Zoho is that it isn’t a hosted service, so you own your data.
Related links:
Over at ektron, we worked with SitePoint on a survey of 5,000 web developers titled The State of the Web Development 2006/2007 (25-page free preview). The goal was to conduct the most comprehensive study to date of the web developer community. The results are available and show not only the state of the industry, but also some interesting trends. A number of bloggers are already commenting and extrapolating.
Other noteworthy posts:
Note: the full report with detailed analysis is available through SitePoint.
As of 11:43 PM last night, the structured blogging mailing list is back on line. This came via email from Phillip Pearson:
—–Original Message—–
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:43 PM
To: sb-discuss@structuredblogging.org
Subject: [structuredblogging-discuss] This is a test – SB mailing list isalive again!As you’ve probably noticed, the structuredblogging-discuss mailing list has been in limbo since PubSub went under. We’ve finally found a new home for the list, on a server at Broadband Mechanics. Everything should continue to operate as usual – here is a quick test message to make sure it’s all set up right!
Given PubSub’s role with the launch of structuredblogging.org, questions regarding its future were raised when PubSub went down. I had the pleasure to get to know PubSub co-founder Salim Ismail last week and chatted with him about the state of PubSub and the future of structured blogging. Personally, I have no doubt there is a future for structured blogging, but it certainly seems unclear it’ll continue in its current form. It’ll be interesting to watch how structuredblogging.org fits into the picture considering the size of the development communities behind blogging tools like WordPress and the momentum and popularity of Microformats.
Advice for keyboard power-users: Many have learned the hard way what Outlook does when you accidentally hit [ctrl] + [enter]. Hint: I can tell you first hand it is a nightmarish feature referred to as “Flash Publish.†If you’re carefully crafting email, fill in the TO and CC last, or otherwise, hack the registry.
Last night I was at the 2006 New Hampshire High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year of the Awards Banquet. Bill Rogers (my boss) was one of five finalists for the award. The highlight of the evening was a presentation given by Helen Greiner, the co-founder of iRobot (of Roomba fame). She stressed something I agree with, the importance for technology companies to facilitate open developer ecosystems around products. She pointed to a number of interesting things coming from their Roomba API, like Roomba Cockfights, Frogger, and pointed to work by NASA JPL. She also played a hilarious Saturday Night Live clip I hadn’t seen before, featuring a product called the Woomba (a little robot that cleans your lady parts).
One of her robots navigated the room autonomously, managing to climb stairs and steering clear of people. It handed a bag containing the award to New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, who seemed amused and a little unsure of it as he took the award before announcing the winners.
