Wildcard Machine Tag URLs (5)
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Photo by cackhanded If you’re not already familiar with machine tags the easiest way to think of them is being like a plain old tag but with a special syntax that allows users to define additional structured data about that tag. In turn the magic space hamsters that run the site have been trained to recognize, index and allow for searches across multiple facets of a given machine tag. Machine tags have three parts : ...
Yourteledoctor Blog » Blog Archive » Looking for a Rails Shop to Build an Alpha Version (1)
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Hum, that could be a great topic for my next barcamp presentation : “getting technology done, how to estimate, manage and ship!”…
Accessibility (9)
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Ballou Pont Party Originally uploaded by fredwilson. I got my start in the venture business with a summer job in 1986. Back then the way you got in to see a VC was you sent (via mail) a business plan. It was read (often by me) and if it met with approval, you got invited in to pitch. There were ways to bypass that process. If you knew someone who knew a partner at the ...
Abstractioneer: Comment spam is evolving (1)
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See Assaf's analysis. Is it totally automated? Or generated by humans? (And does it matter in choosing defensive strategies?) Text with the only suspicious item being a link to a suspicious site is more difficult to deal with -- the referent may be fine when you check it, but change to an SEO spam site two days later, for example. And just checking web sites is expensive too.
Visible Government - What We're About (1)
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VisibleGovernment.ca is dedicated to promoting the creation of online tools for government transparency in Canada.
Montréal passe au rythme du web 2.0 (4)
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Du bouche-à-oreille virtuelPraized offre aux internautes la possibilité de recommander, ou non, un commerce situé n'importe où en Amérique du Nord. Grâce à une entente avec le Groupe Pages Jaunes et un homologue américain, Praized possède une base de données regroupant 17 millions de commerces, estime son PDG, Harry Wakefield. «On essaie de reproduire un esprit de village, où tout le monde se connaît, et où tout le monde connaît les qualités et les défauts ...
Yourteledoctor Blog » Blog Archive » Looking for a Rails Shop to Build an Alpha Version (1)
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Here’s my advice : a good plan makes a good path towards a good product. The key combo at Praized for that is a Product Manager (Seb) with a clear vision of the product and the market and someone with lots of experience on making a project happen (me). Then the “construction” can be accomplished either completely in house or partially outsourced, but if your product is your company I would strongly advise against going ...
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afroginthevalley said:
My advice on building a technology product for a startup.
[Talk-ca] [montreal] Montreal Mapping Weekend (1)
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It has been a year I wanted to participate in a mapping weekend inMontreal, and I have now decided to organize one. I would like to knowwho's interested, and what you think of September 20-21. I would like to start announcing the event end of next week, two monthsbefore the event. That should give plenty of time to reach the communityat large. If you have any idea where to post this, please let me know.
Roadsworth’s downtown street stencils (2)
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Spacing Montreal (9)
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Who doesn’t remember Roadsworth, the artist whose quirky street-and-sidewalk stencils vaulted him into street art stardom in 2004 after he ran into trouble with the law? Since then, Peter Gibson—the artist’s real name—has made a living working in a perfectly legal capacity with City Hall and various other public organizations. Last spring, the Commission scolaire de Montréal commissioned him to redesign a concrete schoolyard at Bernard and St. Urbain; in the fall, the Ville-Marie borough ...
Copyright and Net Neutrality (1)
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Russel on the Digital Copyright blog has an interesting post linking copyright law and net neutrality. I’ve never seen that angle, I’ll have to think about it some more but it starts with: ISPs are fucking with our internets and causing the net neutrality talk. And since according to some ISPs need to be held accountable for what goes through their service. Then it could be said that; if you (internet provider) are doing trafic ...
Are Your "Invite A Friend" Emails Ending Up In The Junk Folder? (11)
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I suspect that the answer is yes and you are not alone. More and more social services that encourage their users to invite friends via email are facing email deliverability problems. It's one thing when I send an email to my friends from my personal mailbox, but it's quite another when I do it via a new and relatively unknown social networking service. Spam filters were built to filter out that kind of thing and ...
Please Upgrade To WordPress 2.6 (2)
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WordPress 2.6 was released today and features lots of great new features (see following video). Unlike WordPress 2.0.x (2.0.11 currently) but like the 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.x branches, the 2.5.x branch is now unsupported and will not be updated with new security patches. You should not put off updating. There is nothing to be scared of and it is unlikely any of your plugins or your theme will break. So do yourself a favor and ...
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stephdau said:
listen to viper, he knows best.
Nicole Martel : l'Association québécoise des technologies, un changement de nom, la poursuite d'une mission (1)
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Le vendredi 4 juillet, le Réseau inter logiQ devenait l'Association québécoise des technologies. Ce changement de vocable, décidé à pareille date en 2007, vise à mieux représenter le membership de l'association qui a beaucoup évolué depuis que le Centre de promotion du logiciel québécois est devenu le Réseau inter logiQ en février 2002 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Nicole Martel, présidente directrice générale de l'association, précise pour Le Lien MULTIMÉDIA que la mission de l'AQT demeure la même.
iPhone: The New Personal Computer (101)
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When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer. Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhone becomes the new personal computer. The desktop from now on will be for professional and business work. Laptops aren't going away, but will get increasingly less personal use. The reason is that iPhone with its application platform is a ...
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Craig said:
One of my primary drivers for getting an iPhone was that I wouldn't need to get a laptop to have access to email and such when I'm in Brisbane on weekends. It's shaping up to do so much more...
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Nate said:
A good article from RWW.
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Ed Dale said:
I.TOLD.YOU.SO
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Gordo said:
ReadWriteWeb on the iPhone being the "New Personal Computer."
An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates (1)
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Such an action would be the first time that regulators have slapped an Internet provider for violating F.C.C. open-access rules. Those rules are designed to prevent providers from favoring some services over others — for example, by accelerating the transfer of video from their own movie service or slowing down transfers from competitors.—An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
Protocol buffers: the early reviews are in - Mark Pilgrim (43)
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Google (my current employer) has finally open sourced protocol buffers, the data interchange format we use for internal server-to-server communication. The blogosphere’s response? “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” Aaaaanyway… Protocol buffers are “just” cross-platform data structures. All you have to write is the schema (a .proto file), then generate bindings in C++, Java, or Python. (Or Haskell. Or Perl.) The .proto file is just a schema; it doesn’t contain any data except ...
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Eater said:
Indeed: 'Besides being blindingly fast, protocol buffers have lots of neat features. A zero-size PB returns default values. You can nest PBs inside each other. And most importantly, PBs are both backward and forward compatible, which means you can upgrade servers gradually and they can still talk to each other in the interim. (When you have as many machines as Google has, it’s always the interim somewhere.)'.
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past said:
Nice summary of the reactions to protocol buffers by Mark Pilgrim.
Laconica : Version 0 API (4)
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This is the Version 0 "API" for Identi.ca (and Laconi.ca). We're working on a "real" API, but for now this is the way to read and write to Identi.ca programmatically.
