Monthly Archives: May 2006

AJAX Should NOT Replace Navigation 0

Doing so breaks an inherent functionality responsible for the success of the web: Universal Resource Locators. Unless we reinvent the wheel and restore this functionality ourselves (hidden iframes and fragment identifiers anyone?), it is impossible to link directly to content included with XHR.Both HiDefDVD.com and Microsoft’s recently launched Windows Live Shopping make this laughable mistake.

Categories: ajax,web2.0

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May 29, 2006 – 5:43 am
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Social Protocols Yield Crowdsourcing 2

iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange used by a group of graphic designers, had undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent…. There are now about 22,000 contributors to the site, which charges between $1 and $5 per basic image.This has been simmering for a while and should start to boil over the next couple of years (hint: RIAA – be very afraid!).

Categories: internet

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May 26, 2006 – 2:02 am
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Viral Adsense Clickage 0

Good thing I use my powers for good instead of evil.PandaLabs has detected a network of computers infected with the bot Clickbot.A, which is being used to defraud ‘pay per click’ systems, registering clicks automatically and providing lucrative returns for the creators. According to the data collected so far, the scam is exploiting a global network comprising more than 34,000 zombie computers (those infected by the bot).

Categories: adsense,google,yahoo

Published:
May 21, 2006 – 2:23 pm
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Treo 700p Disappoints 2

I just reviewed the 700p features now that Palm has released announcement.

Categories: wireless

Published:
May 18, 2006 – 5:50 am
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Technorati is Useless For Me. 2

This isn’t necessarily Technorati’s fault but I’d like to see them fix it.

Categories: tailrank,technorati

Published:
May 18, 2006 – 12:54 am
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SUN to Open Source Java? About Damn Time! 4

Looks like SUN Microsystems might finally come around and see the light with regard to Open Source java.This is a very important decision for the company and one I’ve been expecting for a long time…. For every SUN engineer and executive who has argued with me that proprietary Java was a good thing – told ya so!Open Source software in the server world is critical.

Categories: java

Published:
May 16, 2006 – 11:52 pm
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Screw You China Airlines 10

The bad news is that they lied to me about having power.I called their customer support directly and was assured that I wouldn’t need any special power adapters. I also asked the woman booking my tickets and she also assured me I would be just fine.Upon taking my seat I quickly found out there was no power to be found anywhere on board the aircraft.

Categories: Uncategorized

Published:
May 8, 2006 – 4:47 pm
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Kicked in the Face on MUNI 2

I’m riding the MUNI last night and this kid decided he was going to tag his name on the side of the buss window. Not thinking (had my iPod headphones on) I gave him the evil eye.Five minutes later the kid gets off the buss and on his way out decided he would kick me in the face and rSteve got punched in the face last year.The driver has a button MUNI The MUNI emergency line goes right to an answering machine.

Categories: san francisco

Published:
May 5, 2006 – 3:33 pm
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Interview with MPlayer Developers 0

It also supports transcoding, streaming, and other advanced features that the above players don’t implement or charge money for in a PRO version.Me: How was MPlayer born?… The project was started in 2000.Diego: It was the lack of a good multimedia player for Linux, Arpi found the players at the time to be buggy, feature-lacking, or all of the above.Oded: I’m a general developer.

Categories: apple,linux

Published:
May 3, 2006 – 1:51 pm
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