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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.
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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 [...]
Operational Automation will Always Win Out in the End
EDS Next Big Thing Blog : Operational Automation will Always Win Out in the End (emphasis is mine): I was talking with Randy Mears about this and he agreed that automation eventually will win out in areas that can be effectively automated, but many times the initial attempts are done poorly or for the wrong [...]
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 [...]
2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues
2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues is a great chart to compare politician’s agenda in the 2008 presidential campaign for US president.
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 [...]
