- Yahoo! Developer Network: Yahoo! Weather
Free weather data in RSS format for "… your own web site or client application" but then the fine print says only personal / non-commercial. Bollucks.
(categories: weather yahoo api feed feeds rss data ) - Flickr Code
Flickr was last deployed 2 hours ago, including 19 changes by 6 people.
(categories: development documentation flickr api code community communities )
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Links: 4-16-2008
- social Info Page
Mailing list on jabber.org, description: "the mashup of Web and Jabber! OpenID, OAuth, buddy lists beyond IM, XMPP pubsub instead of HTTP polling, etc."
(categories: jabber xmpp openid oauth socialnetworks blogging blogs ) - sioc-project.org | Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities
Description: SIOC provides a Semantic Web ontology for representing rich data from the Social Web in RDF.
(categories: communities community data semantic foaf ontology rdf sioc semanticweb ) - Comments on Life-altering experiences | Ask Metafilter
Man I’ve had it pretty easy compared to some (most?) people. Just imagine what this thread would look like if people that didn’t have internet access could post.
(categories: askmefi life childhood children experience ) - Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
Yahoo crawler now "… support(s) a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN. Yahoo! Search will work with the web community to evolve the vocabulary framework for embedding structured data."
(categories: semantic rdf searchengine semanticweb microformats yahoo search )
Links: 4-11-2008
- PottyMouth
Quote: "PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML." Python. Ported to Ruby as well.
(categories: markup python security content comments ) - Where to Find Open Data on the Web – ReadWriteWeb
Great list (and comments) of freely available data sources. When is someone going to make the weather forecaster datasource free so that I don’t have to pay accuweather or weather.com for forecasts / current weather?
(categories: data free database resources open )
Links: 4-10-2008
- findability.org: Brian Goodman: Interview
Quote: "… integrating social data (e.g., ratings, tag frequency) directly into the algorithms for enterprise search. A page that’s been bookmarked, for instance, receives a boost."
(categories: search enterprise socialnetworks social )
Links: 4-6-2008
- reddit.com: ask reddit: what other visualization tools do you know besides processing, graphviz and nodebox?
References to some other cool Java viz tools.
(categories: data graph nodebox opensource statistics visualization )
Links: 4-3-2008
- Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
Quote: "… adding more, independent data usually beats out designing ever-better algorithms to analyze an existing data set."
(categories: algorithms bigdata data database databases algorithm netflix datamining ) - Looks Good Works Well
Bill has been reviewing a number of UI anti-patterns on his blog recently, he’s covered some really good stuff.
(categories: ui interface javascript design usability ) - We’re Taking an Open Direction with Web Communities: Are You In? ~ Chris Pirillo
Quote: "I don’t want a social network, I want a socially *RELEVANT* network (both on-site and beyond). I don’t want a community platform, I want a participation platform where members are rewarded and ranked appropriately…"
(categories: communities community idea social socialnetworks chrispirillo ) - Jeff on Cloud Computing: The First Hadoop Summit
Cool review of stuff going on with the Hadoop project from the first annual Hadoop summit.
(categories: pig hbase mahout rapleaf nutch hadoop ) - Move Over Lotus Notes, SharePoint is Filling Yer Shoes
Quote: "… SharePoint is fast becoming the next IBM Lotus Notes — and not in a good way."
(categories: sharepoint notes collaboration ) - EditGrid Confluence Plugin – Online Spreadsheets – EditGrid
Cool confluence plugin that gives you and everyone else the ability to edit spreadsheets online simultaneously.
(categories: spreadsheet editgrid confluence ) - Parsing human-written date and time information « Jon Udell
Good stuff in the comments about parsing human generated (not computer generated) dates, need to check out Chronic.
(categories: dates datetime parsing antlr chronic sandy )
Links: 3-26-2008
- Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments
What a difference $5 makes.
(categories: community culture comments youtube metafilter ) - mail-trends – Google Code
Stoo-pid nice analzyer / visualizer for email (as extracted from an IMAP server). This is what Clearspace reporting needs to turn into.
(categories: google visualization email mail charts statistics chart analytics analysis )
Links: 3-22-2008
- Paul Kedrosky: Dave Eggers’ TED Talk
Cool TED presentation.
(categories: education kids ted video pirates ) - Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
Twenty new rules for performance.
(categories: performance yahoo optimization tips web ) - Taffy DB : Getting Started with your first bite of Taffy
A database with pseudo-SQL implemented in JavaScript.
(categories: javascript database sql query ) - Google Visualization API – Google Code
Quote: "… the Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations."
(categories: chart charting code api analysis visualization graph charts google )
Links: 3-13-2008
- The Tools Google Uses Internally
Cool stuff including the Google Ideas forum (rating ideas) and expert search.
(categories: google intranet collaboration tools productivity ) - scottberkun.com » Thoughts on Google’s 20% time
Quote: "Google’s culture has a resistance, or even distrust, of hierarchy – they often use voting, peer review, and debate to make decisions or decide which new projects and features to add… "
(categories: google innovation scottberkun management ) - Atlassian Developer Blog – Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment
So true: "… As a company grows, an engineer spends more time doing the software development – but paradoxically he spends less time building the things he personally wants in the product."
(categories: development atlassian google innovation management ) - Condor : High Throughput Computing
Quote: "Condor can be used to manage a cluster of dedicated compute nodes. In addition, unique mechanisms enable Condor to effectively harness wasted CPU power from otherwise idle desktop workstations."
(categories: condor distributed cluster computing grid clusters clustering ) - Hadoop On Demand
Directions on how to setup / configure Hadoop nodes on demand.
(categories: hadoop distributed mapreduce via:aws.typepad.com ) - Blogging Roller: HOWTO: Configure Roller to use Memcached
Rollers supports pluggable caching, somebody at Sun wrote a memcached impl.
(categories: for:pmatern caching roller memcached )
Links: 3-12-2008
- Screengrab! :: Firefox Add-ons
This is money. Mon-ey.
(categories: screenshot screengrab firefox addon browser )