http://jtoee.com Putting the >O< in technology Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:31:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's long been my theory that social media are a great fun tool, can even be used for marketing and promotion, but it still hasn't figured out how to reliably make money. Actually, only eCommerce and porn are the two reliable moneymakers on the web ;-) That inspite of the ... http://jtoee.com/2008/08/making-money-social-media/ This is a very interesting article about why the video traffic from the Olympics didn't "melt" the internet. LimeLight (unlike Akamai) actually runs their own backbone which keeps a lot of traffic off the internet: Read more at zdnet. http://jtoee.com/2008/08/why-the-olympics-didn%e2%80%99t-%e2%80%98melt%e2%80%99-the-internet/ According to the Media Bistro: Avenue A|Razorfish could be up for sale by Microsoft, a spy tells us, possibly to WPP. From the beginning of the relationship, AA|RF has been an odd fit for Microsoft, and based on a few strong indicators, we surmise a sell off before too long. When you're ... http://jtoee.com/2008/08/crap-my-company-might-be-for-up-grabs/ We've had a multi-touch Surface device at work for a while now and built a few neat prototypes with it. But this multi-touch emm multi-grab hologram looks way cooler. The demonstration shows a man interacting with holographic images projected before him, moving them around and resizing them. It's only sort ... http://jtoee.com/2008/08/interacting-with-holograms/ You might have read about Cuil, the supposed Google killer which indexes three times as much content as Google does. Too bad it never surfaces anything relevant for me. And have you noticed that the "Search 121,617,892,992 web pages" hasn't changed in days? Ok, you might guess, they're not really ... http://jtoee.com/2008/07/sex-drugs-and-strawberries-and-a-new-bubble/ About half a year ago I bought an Alix 2C3 embedded system board. It's got a 500 MHz Geode CPU, 256 MB of RAM, a mini-PCI slot (for a wireless card), 3 network interfaces, and a compact flash slot (CF-card as hard drive). It's running m0n0wall, a free FreeBSD-based firewall ... http://jtoee.com/2008/07/ode-to-m0n0wall/ The upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 wasn't quite as seamless as it should have been but everything seems to work fine now. I further decided to go for a new - clean and simple - theme which is now optimized for 1024x768 - more content! Learn more about all the new ... http://jtoee.com/2008/07/site-update/ My former colleagues at CoreMedia decided to release their Javascript cross-compiler, Jangaroo, as open source. The tool takes Javascript 2 / ActionScript 3 and translates it into browser-compatible JavaScript 1.x, allowing the developer to write the scripts in a much nicer -- and more object-oriented language. Here's a sample JavaScript ... http://jtoee.com/2008/07/jangaroo/ The original demo from '92. So if anyone ever tells me Hibernate is such a new technology... whack ;-) http://jtoee.com/2008/06/nextstep-timewrap/ This is totally awesome, the (unofficial) Google shell -- a command-line friendly way to search Google in your browser. I'm all over it. guest@goosh.org:/web> help help command aliases parameters function web (search,s,w) [keywords] google web search lucky (l) [keywords] go directly to first result images (image,i) [keywords] google image search wiki (wikipedia) [keywords] wikipedia search clear (c) clear the screen help (man,h,?) [command] displays help text news (n) [keywords] google news search blogs (blog,b) [keywords] google blog search feeds (feed,f) [keywords] google feed search open (o) <url> open url in new window go (g) <url> open url more (m) get more results in (site) <url> <keywords> search ... http://jtoee.com/2008/06/goosh/