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Internet People!
Internet People! is a good summary of all the internet memes over the last few years and it’s very amusing.
Technology
BuiltWith.com - Web Technology Profiler
BuiltWith.com – Web Technology Profiler allows you to find out what a site is built with. If you’re a technologist, it’s a very valuable tool.
Walk Score - How walkable is your house?
Walk Score – How walkable is your house? is a new tool showing how walkable your neighborhood is. Very useful little tool and another example of how activists are using online maps to make their point.
Second Life gets a direct competitor: Multiverse
Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse «
The brainchild of several ex-Netscape execs, the Mountain View start-up Multiverse, as the name suggests, isn’t a single online world, but a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with the company’s development tools, which are then run on its servers.
It will be interesting to [...]
Newser
Newser is another attempt at presenting news-related information.
Cleaning your PC
Scott Hanselmans Computer Zen – The Developers Quitting Your Job Technology Checklist:
However, I did have a personal laptop, and these things tend to get reused in my experience at companies. Heres the checklist I used to get ready to leave.All this assumes that youre turning in your hardware and your IT department either:
a. might [...]
The value of APIs
it matters a lot less to us that you use our web site than that you use our API
WeSabe Founder Marc Hedlund in “Making the web into a banking platform whether they like it or not“
I wonder how many Web 2.0 outfits understand the strength of that statement. The power of APIs may be where [...]
The Rise of the Social Operating System
In “The Rise of the Social Operating System“, Nova Spivak (with whom I co-founded Earthweb’s developer.com) talks about the requirements for a “social stack” integrated system. In a lot of way, what he describes here is what one could hope to be the next generation of collaboration platforms.
Another worthy read on the same subject: “Could [...]
SocialMedia
SocialMedia
Monetize your apps using the same tools and sales force that we use for ours:
You create the apps.
We provide scalable, redundant hosting if required.
We promote it throughout the SocialMedia network.
Earn via sponsorships, CPM ads, and currency-related advertising.
An interesting business model: they provide hosting ad ad sales, in exchange for 50 percent of your revenue. [...]
Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Teleconferencing Solutions, Presentation Software
Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Online Meetings, Web Collaboration Service, Teleconferencing Solutions, Presentation Software
* Instant real-time desktop sharing
* Virtual meetings and web conferencing
* Whiteboard, annotate and share files
* Windows, Mac and Linux
* Invite up to 10 people for free
* Free teleconferencing
* Embed Yugma in your website
* Easy, secure and reliable
* No Spyware, Adware or Malware
Another [...]
