The latest Amazon S3 blackout made me think what could be done to try to solve this problem, when your application depends on S3 or any other cloud service.
Does this mean that you should all stop using cloud services and go back to your own data center? No way! There are better and more reasonable […]
Lifestreaming aggregators became popular as the number of different applications where you could participate — either by updating your status or by uploading something — increased. The aggregators are here to relieve you from the burden of going to multiple locations to find out what your friends or contacts are up to.
Services like plaxo, spokeo, […]
I’ve been thinking about developing a PHP Logger that will talk to your favorite ticketing system. The idea is to capture code and application generated errors and create tickets accordingly.
At a first glance, I could use the Reflection API to get meta-information about the code. Tickets could then be created and assigned to the appropriate […]
Are you tired of your feed reader? Do you wish you could find more interesting posts, or perhaps new blogs related to your current tastes and preferences?
Apparently Dave Winer feels the same way:
I want rating services to provide clues about what I should be subscribing to. I want them to find not what’s popular with […]
Do you know Netvibes? What about Eskobo, Pageflakes, Protopage, Schmedley and Webwag, to name just a few?
Netvibes calls itself the pioneer of the personalized startpage. Quoting their about page: “Netvibes pioneered the personalized startpage, an alternative to traditional Web portals“.
Well, dit it? Let’s travel back to 1999 when there was no such thing as AJAX […]
The guys at Brightkite came up with the idea of capturing user-generated content and associating it to a particular place where the user is located. Quoting their blog post:
Placestreaming, as in the stream of content originating from a specific place. We think this really captures what Brightkite is all about. We enable location based conversations. […]
The guys at backnetwork did a great job by providing a full social network for the London Hackday 2007 event. You are encouraged to participate by creating your own profile and linking to friends and acquaintances that you might have.
They also opened their application to outside users by providing a very simple API where you […]
How can the Web Browser stop being simply a layout renderer and start using data in an intelligent way? Alex Faaborg of Mozilla sheds some light on this subject:
Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked up […]
People all over are talking about the end of Web 2.0 in favor of a new, distributed network of information. Some people even suggested that we should start building a Web 3.0. What are the main characteristics of this new paradigm? Here’s a short list:
easier and cheaper, on a BusinessWeek article by Stephen Baker
giving meaning […]
An interesting breed of applications is showing up all around these days. Yes, I’m talking about web widgets. Usually these widgets provide an alternative interface for an existing website. Let’s see how this software category emerged.
Widgets exist for a long time now. I dare to say that they exist since the first windowed UI appeared. […]