links for 2008-06-02

twitter for education.

Kirix™ Strata™ is a “data browser” — a fusion of a web browser and a built-in relational database. Strata brings the sensibilities and simplicity of a web browser to the world of tabular data, making it easy to access, view and use data from an

event also lined up 10 startup demos so that they could show off some interesting technology.

this article takes you through the steps needed to create a WSDL 2.0 description for a REST Web service using the following simple example scenario.

page contains links to various mysql tools we found helpful to use in practice.

We’ve decided to let folks edit Mahalo pages (see image on right).

Amazon, as a Web-scale application, had to build cloud computing services anyway to allow course grained communication between app developers and network administrators.

Acrobat users can convert MOV and WMV files to Flash content that can be embedded within PDFs alongside audio content and even 3D models. The free Acrobat Reader 9 will play the movies, eliminating the need to open other media players.

Bezos goes on to note that Amazon’s retailing operation is “a low gross margin business” compared to software and technology businesses, which “tend to have very high margins.”

It’s worth noting that that’s 6000 writes per second, sustained, and that this application peaks at about 3x that. By comparison, Twitter was once reported as having 600 requests/s (read and write).

The idea of linking ads with search results was first developed not by Google but by Overture Services who was bought in 2003 by Yahoo.

Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode

This works on the assumption the person has no previous knowledge about SCM

Sun merged Java Studio Creator and Sun Java Studio Enterprise tools into the free NetBeans. The reason: Sun saw the tools market no longer made sense as a business if the goal was to make money from selling software licenses to developers.

When MagLev is widely available, it basically means that there will be a truly enterprise-class option for writing trading systems, logistics and other large persistent object-heavy systems in Ruby.

Microsoft plans to demonstrate integration Friday between its new Silveright browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and the Ruby on Rails Web framework.

MetaSploit has a strange name, but MetaSploit is a very cool development platform that assists information security professionals in creating tools and exploits

1. The fundamentals never go out of style.

The Bluegrass project is investigating the use of 3D virtual worlds to support distributed work.