McWar and McPeace no more (1)
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No country with a McDonald's outlet, the theory contends, has ever gone to war with another. The Russia-Georgia conflict has finally blown this theory out of the water. From the Guardian.
The default template when creating a new website with eWrite (1)
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When we meet new customers for the first time they often have existing websites that they would like to improve upon. In this case, we can import their existing website pages into a database and install eWrite behind their existing website where they can log in and edit their pages when ever they like. However, up til now, for new customers with no existing websites we have had no default website structure to provide a ...
Building Your Own Widget Library with YUI » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (2)
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The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) has an ample assortment of components. Nevertheless, there will be always some functionality you want that a library like YUI hasn’t anticipated or hasn’t built yet. Sometimes you just want a subset of the many options a component might provide; in other cases, you may have a default configuration that you’d like to bake into a component to facilitate consistent use across your site. The flexibility built into YUI ...
Old Facebook Will be Gone Next Week; Better App Access Coming (6)
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It appears the long transition process from the “old” to the “new,” redesigned Facebook will be completed next week. Facebook’s Josh Elman said today that Facebook will “actively migrate all our users to the new profile” over the next week, at which point the old profile will be a thing of the past. In addition, Elman hinted at a new feature that Facebook will be releasing to help make applications easier to find in the ...
AIR, Java, and Robots (1)
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Jordan Snyder turned more than a few heads at 360Flex when she demoed a lego Mindstorm robot controlled through an AIR interface. Adam Flater took some videos of the 'bot (since named "Nathan") cruising around the eBay campus. Cool stuff, to say the least. The AIR application connects to a Java backend that controls the robot through Mindstorm's public Java api, and Java and AIR are then glued together through an open source technology called ...
More Alcohol Advertisers Invade Facebook Platform (23)
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Alcoholic beverage brands spend $2 billion on advertising every year in the US alone. Multinational Monitor says that alcohol companies “aired more than 2 million television ads and published more than 20,000 magazine advertisements” from 2001 to 2007. It’s no surprise then that, only weeks after Facebook changed its policies regarding alcohol promotion on the Facebook Platform and enabled to Demographic Restriction functionality, alcohol companies are invading the Facebook Platform. Just yesterday, we covered new ...
Getting Rid Of Config Files with Fluent NHibernate (1)
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When I first looked at NHibernate, the biggest issue I had with it was the configuration files - they looked long, confusing and error-prone. Well, as evidenced by a previous post, I got over that, and did it anyway. But just because I figured it out doesn't mean I was happy with it, or that it's still not error prone. Luckily, there's a solution: Fluent NHibernate. I'm not sure why it's called that, other than ...
Import Toddle newsletters into eWrite Messenger (1)
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A few weeks ago, a web service called Toddle was the focus of a Tuesday Push. This gave me the opportunity to sign up to Toddle and see what it could do. In a nutshell, Toddle allows you to create great looking email newsletters very quickly. I saw that Toddle newsletters could be imported into Campaign Monitor and I wondered if eWrite Messenger could do the same. With Toddles permission we have created an import ...
So what’s up with 0.3.5 (1)
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Hello. HELLO! Anybody here? We finaly figured the blog password out, so we can procede with posting… Ehm, ok, I know, not a good joke at all… But now seriously. After a very long time (oh my, is it a year already?) our blog is back online. So what’s new with Intype? The long awaiting release of Intype 0.3.5 (codename Newcastle) is still cooking, and it will take some more time for Martin and Juraj ...
Pixelmator 1.2.3 and Tempo Beta (2)
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Here is some good news for all Pixelmator users: version 1.2.3 is out and features a bunch of bug fixes, minor improvements, and new keyboard shortcuts. Not a lot of changes, but still a must-have release since the app is getting better and better with every update. In addition, we have created a Pixelmator Keyboard Shortcuts document. Many of you have been asking for a list of Pixelmator keyboard shortcuts, and here it is! We ...
WHR-HP-G54 and SD card mod (1)
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I just got a Buffalo wireless router WHR-HP-G54 a few days ago. It’s small, covers a good range (has a built-in internal amplifier), has decent memory 4MB ROM/16MB RAM and it can be modded to have an sd/mmc card for storage. First thing was to load tomato (I got tired of dd-wrt’s QoS and wanted something different). Soon later I found out what this baby really wants is openwrt. So I gave her the WhiteRussian ...
Dynamic Futures (2)
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Looks like all of the interesting development work is going on in the dynamic world. David Griswold posted this on the Strongtalk mailing list a few minutes ago: The V8 development team has multiple members of the original Animorphic team; it is headed by Lars Bak, who was the technical lead for both Strongtalk and the HotSpot Java VM (as well as a huge contributor to the original Self VM). I think that you will ...
Another YUI-based Game from Kris Cieslak: Pacman (1)
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Kris Cieslak is back, after a long break, with a new YUI-based game: Pacman. We last heard from Kris about 18 months ago, when he was showing off Yetris, Puzzle and Solitaire. Now Kris returns with another classic game built entirely in JavaScript, bolstered by YUI 2.5.2’s core (Yahoo, Dom and Event). Check it out and give Kris feedback on his blog.
Google Chrome is complementary to Firefox (1)
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The media is going to be all over the Google Chrome story today, painting it as a threat to or rejection of Firefox. It’s not. While it’s true Google pulled its developers off Firefox in 2006, the resulting code is open source. Google felt it had to go to a clean sheet of paper in order to deal with key problems and take advantage of its own infrastructure in development. As the now famous comic ...
Some Further Reading on OSS Usability (1)
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Matthew Paul Thomas has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay on the state of usability in Free and Open Source Software. In "Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it" (via Gruber), he gives a concise and well-presented overview over the issues that often plague software projects maintained by volunteers and also lists some suggestions on how to tackle these very problems. If that topic resonates with you, here's a trio of ...
Facebook Selling Virtual Gifts at $30-40 Million/Year Rate (7)
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Facebook has been pushing its virtual gifts prominently on the home page over the last year. Why? Because it’s becoming a nice secondary revenue stream for the company, doing somewhere around $3 million/month in sales these days. That’s the conclusion Jeremiy Liew over at Lightspeed VP came to after logging inventory levels in Facebook’s virtual goods store in recent months. Compared to the $15 million/year run rate he estimated earlier this year, Facebook’s digital goods ...
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Beglen said:
I cannot believe this many people spend real money on this. Am I so far behind the times?
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Nicolas Roberge said:
They are selling wind! Wow.
Back to work / Blogworld (2)
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Hi everyone! Hope you all had a nice summer vacation in some nice place (even if it was just a virtual place ) I personally went through a lot of crazy adventures, not the least of them being moving from France to California... then meeting a lot of people around here! (photos in no particular order) Also... since living in California is actually quite expensive, I figured it would help to take on some extra ...
Chrome, Cuil and Icann muddy your online marketing (1)
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Several non-related posts today got me thinking about the seemingly endless challenges that we as online marketers struggle with to keep both our own and client’s websites highly visible. Obviously we’re in this space for a reason. For me, after years on the traditional printing side of newspapers I fell in love with the speed of delivery of online and the allure of not being tied to a legacy system. But there are days where ...
Time and Space Compression through Ubiquity (1)
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To a user, every click is a time-value liability. Every tab is a waste of time and space. The key is to reduce the amount of clicks needed . Mozilla’s Ubiquity is concerned with reducing the time and space it takes to transfer user relevant information. Do I trust that Mozilla will reduce the time-value liability incurred by the many modern managers of heavy data flows? Maybe. The project is headed by Aza Raszin, Head ...
