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Lately, I have seen more and more twitter users protecting their tweets so that only approved followers can read them. This morning I came across a tweet that I wanted to respond to via my RSS feed and when I went to twitter.com it said that the person had protected their tweets. But how so if I saw it in my feed.
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1. Move to lower-cost online/SaaS versions of enterprise applications.
2. Use Enterprise 2.0 to capture the knowledge and know-how of employees.
3. Strategically move IT infrastructure to the cloud.
4. Embrace new low-cost models for production such as crowdsourcing.
5. Lower customer service costs by pro-active use of online customer communities.
6. Reduce application development and integration time/expenditures with new platforms and techniques.
7. Open your supply chain to partners on the Web.
8. Overhauling and reinventing paper and digital workflow. -
Memcached Tech Talk with Mark Zuckerberg
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This is one of our projects to improve Information ExperienceTM in business. Here are some more.
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Is it Great Depression bad? That’s a qualitative question I can’t answer. But what the data, the hard facts, mean for you – if you run a consumer business – is that your customers are spending $400 less each month than they were a year ago, have burned through half of their savings, and on average have taken on an additional $5k in debt.
Archive | January, 2009
links for 2009-01-31
January 31, 2009
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links for 2009-01-30
January 30, 2009
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For a few thousand dollars huge stress tests can be acheived in as little as one hour. A major media site recently used SOASTA CloudTest and Amazon EC2 to test their music download site by simulating over 500,000 concurrent virtual users downloading songs.
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Practice your startup pitch in front of an honest audience of fellow entrepreneurs. Hone the pitch until it works. Get the feedback that you need. Watch other pitches and see how yours stacks up.
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Adobe has announced that they’ve recorded 100 million successful installations of Adobe AIR, the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, at the same time boasting that the newest version of Adobe Flash Player (10) was installed on over half of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release.
The Washington Post nearly Angel funded Facebook!
January 29, 2009
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According to ‘Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0′ Don Graham had a handshake deal with Mark Zuckerberg to Angel fund facebook really early but Accel came in with much better terms and Graham didn’t want to get into a bidding war.
Don Graham joined the facebook board late last year…. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Facebook-Welcomes-Donald-E-Graham/story.aspx?guid=%7B5DB75801-56D4-4C2B-AAE4-75F002500EEF%7D
links for 2009-01-29
January 29, 2009
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Akoha is the world’s first social reality game where you can earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends. Missions might include giving someone your favorite book, inviting a friend for drinks, or buying a friend some chocolate.
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All the sites listed in this showcase have one thing in common: they use the great javascript library jQuery in some way. Feel free to get inspired if you Use jQuery too!
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The success of Kiva Systems could help teams of autonomous robots gain ground outside the computer science lab.
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There were a number of advantages of using jQuery over Flash for the project:
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Social Media on a Shoestring: How Sharpie engages and Grows Community in a Tight Economy
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Amazon WS Tools allows IT administrations and developers to configure Amazon Cloud services through an easy to use GUI. Plugged directly into Eclipse or Aptana, developers can access the "Amazon WebService Perspective"
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Available as an on demand service in the cloud or as a hardware appliance, SOASTA CloudTest’s seamless integration of test design, monitoring, and reporting offers everything you need to test and deliver high quality Web applications and services at an affordable price.
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Errorlytics is an easy to use service that centralizes reporting and handling of 404 "Page Not Found" errors for your websites. Errorlytics gives you the tools to transparently fix the problems quickly and easily so they never happen again. No more regex writing, no more messing with your .htaccess file for search engine friendly redirects. Errorlytics handles it all, effortlessly. The end results are better user experiences and higher search engine rankings for your websites.
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Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating an editing launchd configuration files for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5. You can use launchd on a Mac to launch scripts and applications whenever something special happens or at a specific time or periodically. You get all launchd configuration files in a list to the left so you can easily see all and choose which one to edit.
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In December, it was announced that Merb would be merging into Rails 3.0, putting an end to the rivalry between the two communities. As David Heinemeier Hansson put it on the Ruby on Rails blog, "We all realized that working together for a common good would be much more productive than duplicating things on each side of the fence. Merb and Rails already share so much in terms of design and sensibility that joining forces seemed like the obvious way to go."
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So within a few hours these 4 Big Twitter users promoted Twitterkeys to their combined 95,075 followers. The result? About 15,000 unique visitors to the original blog post within 24 hours, 60+ diggs, lots and lots of TwitterKeys on Twitter, reviews on 150+ blogs and a nice spike in RSS Feed subscribers…
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Don't want to use your browser to use Filttr? No problem! We've made a totally awesome desktop application for you to keep track of your tweets. It's really simple and easy to use, and doesn't throw a lot of bloat your way — just the features that you really need.
links for 2009-01-28
January 28, 2009
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looks like this update kills your ability to use the emoji icons through buying the frostyplace app and going through your keyboard options, that was .99 well spent, hopefully they'll come up with another work around
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What follows is a compilation of tips and hacks from mailing lists and different places on the internet that should help you get your Rails app deployed with Capistrano 2.1 in no time.
links for 2009-01-27
January 27, 2009
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Capistrano was originally written to ease the pain of deploying Rails applications. Although it can be (and is) used for a lot more than that now, Rails application deployment is still the primary way that most people use Capistrano, at least initially.
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In an eerie way, Chris Rock innovates like Amazon does. Amazon led by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has continuously used experiments to identify unique growth opportunities beyond the company's core book business – such as the Kindle, Amazon stores, and elastic cloud computing.
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FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
The extension's core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.
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Harper Reed … saw every bus, everywhere, forevermore. And he wanted that data. “The power is not the mashup. It’s the data. The data is the answer,” says Harper. So he set out to separate the data from the mashup. He used Firebug, the nifty Firefox add-on, to monitor that network traffic (the communication that goes between the browser window and the server) that was driving the data to the page. This way, he found the URLs of the “endpoints” … that control the entire Bus Tracker system.
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With iplotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.
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sudo find / -name my-large.cnf -print
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WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content.
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Using jQuery to parse XML is vaguely reminiscent of LINQ in the recent .NET frameworks. That's a good thing, since LINQ made parsing XML in .NET vastly easier than previous techniques. With jQuery, when you receive XML from a callback, you're not actually getting raw text, you're actually getting a DOM (document object model) that jQuery can traverse very quickly and efficiently to give you the data you need.
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The microprinter is an experiment in physical activity streams and notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web. I use it for things like reminders, notifications, and my day at-a-glance, but anything that can be injected from the web and suits text only, short format messaging, will work.
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There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. Here are 10 of the most useful ways to start turning your site readers (or your client's customer base) into Twitter followers, and vice versa.
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Rhodes – developed by Rhomobile – is an intriguing framework of Ruby interpreters that can be used to develop native applications for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM (Blackberry) and Symbian smartphone platforms (with Android support to come). Last month, Werner Schuster (of InfoQ) wrote a basic roundup of how Rhodes works.
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# cghttpd is a minimal Web server best understood as an experiment in use of asynchronous facilities available in the 2.6 series of Linux kernels.
# darkhttpd is a fast, single-threaded HTTP/1.1 server.
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Hit the letter z, or click the word zoom to enable or disable zooming. Hold down shift while typing a number to replace the previous number (U.S. keyboards only).
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twitter super bowl mashup
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It's a GreaseMonkey script, written by 'Shaun Friedle', that automatically solves captchas provided by the site Megaupload.
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Having an effective call to action is an essential part of any website. A call to action is not just limited to ecommerce sites. Every website should have an objective it wants users to complete whether it is filling in a contact form, signup for a newsletter or volunteering their time.
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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. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out – it's free!
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In the past, developers would have to turn away from promotions to management (and sometimes raises) so they could remain in development. These days, they find other companies to work for that will pay them more and allow them to continue to develop (but that’s a story for another day). The problem exacerbates itself. The more developers steer clear of management positions, the unhappier software development teams will be with the candidates that become their managers.
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The SDK is just a waste of space on your hard drive unless you know the programming language associated with the iPhone. To program on the iPhone, you will need some Cocoa (Objective-C) knowledge. There are a ton of resources available online and in book form — I'll cover these and more in the next post in the series. If you already know a programming language like C/C++/Java, then you should just need a refresher course on the classes, methods, and basic expressions.
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# Firemath is free software published under GPL v3.
# Supports most MathML 2 presentation markup elements.
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FireMath, an addon for Firefox, provides a WYSIWYG MathML editor.
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There are many things to look for in a content management system but here are a few of the more important ones:
1. Quick and easy installation
2. Simple administration interface
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Jim Balsillie, calls the post-launch scramble part of the "new reality" of making complex cellphones in large volumes.
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The Socialtext collaboration platform allows organizations of all sizes to collaborate faster, decide faster and change faster. The more aware your people are of what colleagues are doing, the broader your people’s participation in conversations, and the more easily new insights spread across your organization, the faster your business can respond to changing customer expectations and business conditions.
links for 2009-01-26
January 26, 2009
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Bank of America’s Twitter stream is maintained by David Knapp, a representative in Phoenix. The stream is similar to a help line, but with queries and replies made in public and scrunched to 140 characters or less.
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A lot of forms can be boring and plain, don’t let yours blend in. This tutorial will show you how to spice them up with CSS classes and default values that change according to which form item is selected. All with just a splash of jQuery.
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Of course, as Dion points out this debate doesn’t take into account a number of other great frameworks, libraries and toolkits like Dojo, YUI, GWT, MooTools, Ext JS, SproutCore and more.
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Most Popular Lists
* Countries (12 favorites)
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* Designer's Most Used Fonts (5 favorites)
* Area Code|Country|State|City (4 favorites)
* Most Commonly Used Passwords (3 favorites)
* Unsolicited, Unnecessary, and Presumptuous Feature Ideas for Listable.org (3 favorites)
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WWW SQL Designer! This tool allows you to draw and create database schemas (E-R diagrams) directly in browser, without the need for any external programs (flash). You only need JavaScript enabled. The Designer works perfectly in Mozillas (Firefox, Seamonkey), Internet Explorers (6, 7, 8), Safari and Operas. Konqueror works, but the experience is limited.
links for 2009-01-25
January 25, 2009
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Got an amazing link today from Ashot about this application that will allow you to send Japanese emoji icons to anyone with an iPhone — without hacking it! You all know I won’t jailbreak my iPhone
links for 2009-01-24
January 24, 2009
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37) Followers are your audience, always remember that. Without them you are a rowboat without a paddle. Never lose sight of this. As I mentioned before, followers evolve into friends, be cognizant of that fact. Never take them for granted.
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# “XML is a giant step in no direction at all.” (Erik Naggum)
# XML purports to be a simple, vendor-neutral textual external representation for hierarchically-structured data* Reasonably accurate — except for the simplicity bit
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DeskAway gives you an accurate view of your project progress and eliminates common problems when working in teams: email spam, multiple file versions, lost files, task accountability issues, lack of clarity & work transparency.
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A community for leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds by letting you collaborate and expand your network, share projects, knowledge and feedback and learn from your peers and experts.
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Kickfire's solution is to use MySQL as the base, because this gives its customers the ability to easily migrate to Kickfire but replace MySQL's storage engine with their own column store engine. Under the covers, the column store structures data based on the columns in a table, rather than the traditional method based on rows in a table.
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Take a look at this list with ten WUI I suggest you to try in order to simplify your work and develope faster beautiful and usable user interfaces.
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Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.
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We use Dropbox at Twitter to share documents, and we make pretty extensive use of Google Apps. We use Trac for ticketing internally, but I keep API-related tickets public on Google Code. We do code reviews with Review Board and browse our Git repositories with cgit.
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There are as many uses for Yojimbo as there are users of it. It accepts almost anything — text, bookmarks, PDF files, web archives, serial numbers, passwords, or images — by dragging, copying, importing or even printing. You can get anything out of Yojimbo you put into it, too, in its original form. There’s no lock-in, export any time.
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Task management has never been this easy. Simplicity, however, is not achieved at the expense of powerful features. Download your trial today and start getting more things done with less effort.
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One day after the premiere of the most pirated TV show, media center and XBMC spin-off Boxee announces support for ABC.com streams, bringing Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and other shows to Macs.
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The Python cheat sheet is a one-page reference sheet for the Python programming language.
links for 2009-01-23
January 23, 2009
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Need online homework help or need to prepare for your tests? Get the answers you need at Studio4Learning.tv.
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Educational Collaborators is a national consulting organization comprised of many of the best practitioners in the field of education. Our collaborators are highly sought for their expertise and experience and lead some of the strongest technology programs in the country. Unlike most consultants who rarely see their ideas beyond the planning stages, our collaborators work in schools today and see their ideas through to their fullest extent. As a result, they see the unanticipated and have daily experience working through the associated challenges. They are uniquely qualified to collaborate with school leaders to help them develop plans & programs that prepare students for the 21st Century.
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Perf4J is a set of utilities for calculating and displaying perfomance statistics for Java code. For developers who are familiar with logging frameworks such as log4j or java.util.logging, an analogy helps to describe Perf4J:
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Hammurapi is a code quality governance platform to mitigate risks of outsourcing* of software development.
To put more formally, Hammurapi is a solution for holistic analysis of large software systems developed with extensive use of contractual workforce.
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Smart brands use Twitter in meaningful ways, and most of them use their brand name as a way to make sure customers can find and recognize them. This piece, and the knowledge I learned from the incessant hours invested, demonstrate why brands do belong on Twitter. No other medium gets you inside a business or brand quiet like Twitter.
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2. Underestimation of unfamiliar tasks. My estimates weren't too far off for a lot of the work that I'd done before. But some things, like mapping out the site for the footing holes, I assumed would be 15-30 minute task ended up taking several hours.
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Retiring Debt
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X# (pronounced X-sharp) is a domain specific language designed to quickly create Web applications and services. In X# everything is represented as a hierarchical structure or tree and instead of using functions to manipulate information or perform actions, all possible operations you can think of are done by adding, removing or changing nodes from this tree. Since there are no functions to learn and everything is done intuitively, even inexperienced developers can create complex Web applications and services in record time.
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Like every big company, we set up a "Performance Management" program. We thought that formal reviews would help us manage people and the business. They did. Sort of.
