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Good content is hard to find. Leave the dirty work to LOUD3R. We scour thousands of sites, sift through the spam, the splogs, and all the other junk to find the best, most relevant content across the Web – the stuff you really care about.
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Beta of successful open source application platform is the first supported Java application server available on Amazon EC2, joins Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Huluhas the right to sell advertising in and around every single video on its site. It can package and sell any way that might make its customers happy. Youtube on the other hand, has that right for only the small percentage of the videos on its site.
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The additional $53 million is on top of $27 million raised over three previous rounds and brings LinkedIn’s total funding to $80 million. In contrast, Facebook has raised almost $500 million.
Archive | June, 2008
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June 18, 2008 
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links for 2008-06-17
June 17, 2008 0 Comments
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If we are given several options to choose from, it is only natural for us to compare. Everything is comparable, really, go ask your parents who is their favorite child, if they answer “oh it’s you pumpkin”
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feedly. A more social and magazine-like start page for firefox 3!
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SearchMonkey is the most well-defined entry into the outsourced crawler market. It comes from their recognition that it is too late to beat Google, so it could be dismissed as a sign of desperation. However I prefer to see it as a “Linus moment”.
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“What Rails plugins should we be using?” Ten plugins that we use regularly, and a brief reason why you might want to, too.
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Reuse. Most Rails applications are distributed across many machines, that embed an http server (mongrel, thin, ebb). We have our background processes and a way to communicate – http. Using mongrel also gets you a built-in request queue.
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OpenProj shares the industry’s most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and provides Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more.
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fubar is the first online bar and happy hour. Can you handle the fu?
links for 2008-06-16
June 16, 2008 0 Comments
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Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.
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Give in your credentials below and shared items from Google Reader will automatically be posted to your del.icio.us-account everyday. They will be tagged with “gr2dic”, so you can easily filter them.
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References-Blogs-Downloads-Books on Java and its related components in an organised and structured format. Each component is provided with both overview and detailed information to facilitate high level as well as indepth understanding.
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All the world’s credible news, in one place.
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The site separates its topics of study into Courses, each of which can have its own tests, lessons, and games attached to it. Many of these are free, but content creators can also choose to charge for a course.
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Our goal is to create a platform to allow live learning to take place over the Internet anytime from anywhere.
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This is a social learning network where people teach & learn online.
links for 2008-06-15
June 15, 2008 0 Comments
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I took Adsense off my affiliate pages, I pushed affiliates as much as possible but yet again Adsense continues to amaze me making up nearly 50% of the sites income, $30,334.66, thank you Google.
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Another engineer (who had no experience with Grails) and I built two initial prototypes: one based on AppFuse 2.0 M5 (Spring MVC/JSP + Hibernate), and one based on Grails. We found that Grails was a lot faster to work with, even in its immature state.
links for 2008-06-14
June 14, 2008 0 Comments
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The first script’s job is to check the browser type, os etc. The function navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase() checks whether it is opera, msie,mac,gecko,safari; sony/com2 etc. Script 2 calculates the round trip time for a 1 pixel image.
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Often in part due to favorable feedback from the service’s authors, the early adopter feels a sense of entitlement, that the product absolutely must be architected in the way they say so, even if that wouldn’t serve the larger installed base.
links for 2008-06-13
June 13, 2008 0 Comments
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Navizon: Peer-to-Peer Wireless Positioning “Software Only GPS”
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using Puppet to manage “many, many thousands” of Mac desktops used at Google by developers and others. He tells us how he got involved in using Puppet last year during WWDC last year and quickly applied its use to managing Google Mac desktops.
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TwitterCounter is a service for Bloggers, Social networkers and other well connected individuals to communicate and track the amount of followers they have on Twitter. Add the TwitterCounter to your blog or profile to attract more followers.
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Fire Eagle is a site that stores information about your location. With your permission, other services and devices can either update that information or access it
links for 2008-06-12
June 12, 2008 0 Comments
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Mailmanagr is built on top of the Basecamp API, and allows for posting of Messages, Milestones and Todos to your Basecamp account via. e-mail.
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JavaFX application Connected Life connects users to all of their social media across the Web and on a single page. Breaking free of the browser, Ramani dragged the app onto the desktop, where it ran as a persistent application and runs on a mobile phone.
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So far, Voices.com is reporting over 20,000 voice actors in its database, all of which are able to work. Some are even available to work within a matter of hours.
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WebLOAD is an open-source, professional grade stress/load testing suite for web applications. WebLOAD allows testers to perform scripts for load testing using JavaScript. It can gather live data for monitoring, recording, and analysis purposes.
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Thomas Erl’s recently published SOA principles
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The Surface also includes a program called Flirt, which lets customers sitting at any such table in the lounge see and chat with each other, take and e-mail pictures and even trade cell phone numbers.
links for 2008-06-11
June 11, 2008 0 Comments
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IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.
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Atlassian, makers of Confluence, an enterprise wiki creation tool, announced its integration with SharePoint through an embedding function that lets the Confluence wiki appear to be a part of the SharePoint site.
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Apple’s Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote, 1 Minute Version
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26 pages of my SEED 3 sketchnotes are now posted on Flickr, so please go check them out and leave comments if you like. I will replace this post with something of more substance in a day or two.
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REST API Sin #1: URIs Identify Methods Instead of Resources (The Original Sin)
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In meetings where everyone is checking e-mail, opportunities for collective creative energy and critical thinking are lost, argues Nathan Zeldes, a senior engineer at Intel
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The top 1% of applications accounted for two-thirds of all application activity in the nine months since Facebook introduced the platform,
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The Ruby on Rails framework has a powerful model subframework known as ActiveRecord.
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Watir is a testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It is a Ruby library that works with Internet Explorer on Windows.
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Below are the screenshots in their full embryonic glory – albeit with names, message bodies, and other sensitive information blurred out.
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Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 1: Serving content for iPhones
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YouSendIt Outlook plugin automatically reroutes large attachments through its so-called “FedEx for the internet” system.
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Glassdoor.com is a career and workplace community where anyone can find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs for specific employers
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Ruport offers a number of flexible methods for collecting data. This data will typically come from a relational database, but it can also come from other locations, such as a CSV file. It even knows how to work with ActiveRecord
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We provide standard data structures to allow you to easily compare data from any number of sources, including CSV files, ActiveRecord backed databases, and even raw SQL queries against legacy databases.
links for 2008-06-10
June 10, 2008 0 Comments
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If you’re eager to learn how to use all the new features in Rails 2.1, Carlos Brando just released a free book titled Ruby on Rails 2.1, What’s New?. This 120 page book covers everything you need to know about Rails 2.1 with many step by step examples
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TrackMyPeople allows you to easily track your time, as well as your employees time, from multiple locations. At the same time offering flexible management and reporting possibilities.
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A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a social system.
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I have created an excel sheet containing all these examples. Feel free to download the excel and be a conditional formatting rock star
links for 2008-06-09
June 9, 2008 0 Comments
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Well, when you take a photo, you can automatically send it to the clowd. Isn’t it called a “cloud”? I guess I was coining a new term, combining crowd and cloud into something new.
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Twitter is expecting approximately ten times their normal daily traffic during WWDC so they’ve made some plans to accommodate this dramatic surge.
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2nd rule: ABS – Always Be Solving (problems). It’s better to solve a problem 80% correct and revise the 20% than wait for a 100% plan.
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Freeware web browser IETester renders websites in IE 5.5, 6, 7, and even 8 beta 1 for testing purposes.
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The example in this article uses a Web Service that Amazon.com — a large seller of books, CDs, and other products — has created so that client applications can browse their product catalog and place orders.
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30+ Adobe AIR Apps
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Fuzed, the new Erlang web glue that runs Rails on the Erlang-based Yaws web server,
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This document is intended for decision makers roles such as CMO/VP/Director of Web and Marketing. This document catalogs the many tools and tactics available for corporate web strategy in 2008.
