- How to do data portability (Scripting News)
Quote: "The best way to achieve data portability is to just do it." Couldn’t agree more.
(categories: data database open dataportability davewiner )
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Links: 5-25-2008
- NewsGator Delivers Recommended RSS Articles via Collaborative Filtering
Newsgator outsources collaborative filtering to to SenseArray.
(categories: collaborative_filtering collectiveintelligence newgator rss attentionstream sensearray ) - Slidecasting 101
How to synchronize an MP3 with a slideshare presentation. Woul love to see more presentations done this way.
(categories: slideshare presentations mp3 slidecast ) - random($foo): Rearchitecting Twitter: Brought to You By the 17th Letter of the Alphabet
Fun to think about.
(categories: twitter scaling scalability dfs distributed messaging )
Links: 5-23-2008
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale | High Scalability
A list of some of the seemingly crazy things you have to do if you’re going to use BigTable.
(categories: architecture cluster database data sharding scaling performance bigtable scalability ) - Coding Horror: OpenID: Does The World Really Need Yet Another Username and Password?
Great discussion on OpenID including a fair assessment of some of the shortcomings.
(categories: openid usability ui security authentication privacy )
Links: 5-16-2008
- Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!) – O’Reilly Radar
The "… the ability to consistently create and deploy reliable software to an unreliable platform that scales horizontally" is a competitive advantage.
(categories: architecture automation development infrastructure management monitoring scalability )
Links: 5-9-2008
- Ma.tt » Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage
WordPress founder on performance: "Google Gears is going to change the web as we know it today – LocalServer will obsolete CDNs as we know them."
(categories: scaling wordpress mattmullenweg infrastructure performance akamai cdn ) - 5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train – Warpspire
Quote from the comments: "When I read about OpenID I think it was a great idea until I began to use it." I totally agree.
(categories: openid usability experience ux ui security ) - JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) at noumena
JS based charting including treemaps, hyperbolic trees and space trees.
(categories: ajax charting cool data visualization javascript ) - Node Garden | Gallery of Computation
I like that: "node garden". Cool pictures.
(categories: art processing computing )
Links: 5-6-2008
- Email Dashboard: Three next steps for email
Quote: Email has become and will remain the central hub of activity around which the majority of business activities take place. But email as a platform will lose much of its allure if that data can’t be seamlessly accessed and shared with applications.
(categories: email integration collaboration ) - Diamond Notes » Scaling MySQL – – Up or Out? Panel @ UC
Wow. Facebook = 1,800 MySQL servers, 10,000 http servers, 800 memcached servers.
(categories: facebook scaling memcached mysql performance architecture )
Links: 5-2-2008
Links: 4-29-2008
- The Noisy Channel: The Efficiency of Social Tagging
Quote: "… the efficiency of tagging on del.icio.us has been decreasing over time… and conclude by suggesting that current tagging interfaces may be at fault, through a positive feedback process of encouraging popular tags."
(categories: delicious tags tagging social socialtagging ) - findability.org: Faceted Search: An Interview with Tito Sierra
Really nice looking search results page, we need to get something like this into 2.2.
(categories: clearspace search facetedsearch facets ) - Amazon Web Services Blog: May We Help You?
You can now buy support for Amazon web services tech support (based on Jive Forums). Also: Phone support is handled using Amazon’s proven Click-to-Call technology — click a button and they call back!
(categories: amazon ec2 aws s3 support customerservice ) - Top Gun 2007 / DSC_3760.jpg
Geez I wish I was 11 again. That’s an *RC* plane. Come on.
(categories: rc aviation planes kids photos )
Links: 4-25-2008
- JSSh – a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla
Remotely control Firefox. What a great prank this would make.
(categories: ajax automation browser debugging firefox extension shell mozilla javascript ) - 10 Things I Want From Enterprise RSS » SlideShare
The ten things: social, smart, mobile, up to date, suggestive, mashable, feedburner-like, pipes-capable, single sign-on-able and supported.
(categories: yahoopipes feedburner enterprise rss feeds syndication atom collaborative_filtering collectiveintelligence ) - scottberkun.com » Report from Web 2.0 expo
Question: "Does your Web 2.0 and social media software make the process of collaboration and developing relationships more fun, efficient, powerful and meaningful?"
(categories: clearspace collaboration value roi ) - A Journey In Social Media: Taking The Next Big Step
Quote: "… I want to expose existing content to be part of the discussion in our social environment, and, second – I want selected wikis, conversations, blog posts, etc. to be ‘captured’ as enterprise content for feeding into other … processes.
(categories: chuckhollis clearspace distributed discussions aggregation feeds )
Links: 4-21-2008
- Slides from Spinn3r Architecture Talk at 2008 MySQL Users Conference « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog
Scaling MySQL / Java with an emphasis on writes.
(categories: java jdbc mysql performance presentations kevinburton ) - IdeaFactory : Weblog : Google Docs and JRoller
Google Docs has the ability to publish documents via the Metaweblog API.
(categories: blogging metaweblogapi app publishing ) - The Green Issue – Climate Change – Environment – Energy Efficiency – Consumption – New York Times
On the seeming insignificance of light bulbs.
(categories: food environment energy ) - ZombieURL – Waxy.org
Quote: "For the last few weeks, I’ve been spending every Friday with a small group of brilliant geeks … for a weekly one-day hackathon." We get an hour on Wednesdays at Jive. It’s our 2% time.
(categories: innovation ) - Unit Structures: Productive Unit Structures: Introducing Freedom
Quote: "Freedom is a Mac application that disables your computer’s networking capabilities for a selected time interval." I’ve found the 1.5 hours I spend on the bus everyday to be the most productive time of my day.
(categories: productivity apple mac osx software networking time )