During Tough Times, The Echo Chamber Can Be Your Best Friend (37)
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We are witnessing either an epic financial meltdown or a long overdue resetting of existing business practices and the hollow markets they create. Or, perhaps we’re experiencing both of these phenomena. Either way, it has the nation gripped with fear, uncertainty, and an unsettling eruption of questionable advice confusing everyone, everywhere. While the floor is crumbling for many industries much in the same way it did for Silicon Valley during the dotbomb years, the sky ...
SEOmoz Crawls Web To Expand SEO Toolset (2)
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Statistiques Cabestan et Experian sur l'emailing - qui croire ? (1)
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Pignonsurmail - Toute l'actualité de l'emailing et du CRM Marketing vue par un professionnel (2)
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Deux études ont été récemment publiées et communiquées sur le salon E-Commerce 2008 et couvrent les performances du secteurs de l'emailing. J'ai passé quelques temps à les analyser et je m'interroge sur les différences entre les deux études sensées représenter les tendances d'un même marché sur mes mêmes mesures. Qui croire ? Tout d'abord Cabestan qui évolue dans ses baromètres avec une analyse des taux d'ouverture et de clic suivant les jours de la semaine. ...
FAN : Fully Automated Nagios (1)
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FAN, Fully Automated Nagios est une nouvelle distribution GNU/Linux dédiée à la supervision Nagios (c'est à dire la surveillance système et réseau). FAN est née du constat que pour disposer d'une solution de supervision Nagios complète, il fallait installer de nombreux outils annexes : Nagios et les greffons Nagios officiels Centreon : outil web de configuration Nagios traçant des graphiques de tendance et réalisant du reporting NagVis : outil de cartographie avancé NDOUtils : module ...
In Open Source Development, Does Money Change Everything? (1)
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FOSSBazaar recently highlighted Evangelia Berdou's doctoral thesis on the differences between the contributions of paid open source developers and volunteer contributors. Berdou examined parallels and disconnects between paid and volunteer contributors in the GNOME and KDE projects, using earlier incidents of such events (such as the Gstreamer/Fluendo SL summit). The hypotheses and analysis she presents are thought-provoking. Berdou interviewed a number of paid and volunteer developers working with the GNOME and KDE projects. Based on ...
Launching missiles and other unhappy accidents (2)
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Team work Only Iain really understood the application engine, a particularly subtle and complex part of our system. We depended on him alone for any modifications in this area. To reduce the risk, the project manager paired me with Iain to work on a new feature for the engine. After all, “What would happen if Iain fell under a bus?” Well, if something that terrible happened, I don’t suppose I’d have cared much about the ...
Incredible Machine wins an award! (1)
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A project one of our partners, Imagination, created for Maker Faire in May just won the National Multimedia Award in Austria under the “culture, entertainment, and games” category. This multiuser game puts the focus on Windows Mobile smartphones. Using them as interaction devices, visitors can search and collect pieces of a virtual "incredible machine". The user has to look for markers (2D barcodes) hidden throughout the fair venue. He/she then has to add the building ...
Blogs: Dans les entrailles du classement Wikio (2) (3)
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Bon, Professeur Aixtal, le pastis, les olives, c'est bien gentil tout ça, mais les lecteurs sont restés un peu sur leur faim à la lecture de notre premier entretien. Leurs commentaires montrent qu'ils aimeraient aller un peu plus dans les détails...Que voulez-vous, après le pastis il y a eu la partie de boules, et puis la sieste... Et de façon plus prosaïque, la clôture finale du classement français. Il y a déjà eu quelques "fuites", ...
UseMon Real-Time Agents Aid JVM Performance Tuning - a Tech Brief (3)
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UseMon is an open-source, real-time monitoring agent that plugs into the JVM and provides a view into your program's flow, including asynchronous execution, with very little overhead and it can be used in production deployments. Interview with its author.
HtmlUnit 2.3, a headless java browser, released (4)
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A new release of the pure java headless browser is available, which allows high-level manipulation of web pages, such as filling forms, clicking links, just typing getPage(url), find a hyperlink, click() and you have all the HTML, JavaScript, and AJAX are automatically processed. Also, GWT 1.5 is now supported.
Schneier on Security: How to Clone and Modify E-Passports (7)
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The Hackers Choice has released a tool allowing people to clone and modify electronic passports. The problem is self-signed certificates. A CA is not a great solution: Using a Certification Authority (CA) could solve the attack but at the same time introduces a new set of attack vectors: The CA becomes a single point of failure. It becomes the juicy/high-value target for the attacker. Single point of failures are not good. Attractive targets are not ...
Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows (41)
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We're getting ready to enable the use of Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2 later this Fall. You will be able to use Amazon EC2 to host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance computing (HPC) clusters, media transcoders, SQL Server, and more. You can run Visual Studio (or another development environment) on your desktop and run the finished code in the Amazon cloud. The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available ...
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Du windows sur Amazon EC2 !
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SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! "The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available and will be able to use all existing EC2 features such as Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and the Elastic Block Store. You'll be able to call any of the other Amazon Web Services from your application. You will, for example, be able to use the Amazon Simple Queue Service to glue cross-platform applications together.Existing EC2 tools will be able to launch Windows-powered EC2 instances. Once launched, you can use the Windows Remote Desktop or the rdesktop tool to access your instances."
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This is great! I wonder what the pricing will be like...
The Wild World of VoIP (2)
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I have a confession to make. I’m Deaf. As in, American Sign Language is my native language along with English. I don’t hear very well either, though I fake it pretty well. I have also been working on Voice over IP security for a number of months. Yes, you may laugh now. A Deaf man working with VoIP. In the past, I was relatively disinterested in the whole idea, until I was tossed onto a ...
Rockbox 3.0 Released. Quietly. | OStatic (3)
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Three years after its last major release, Rockbox 3.0 is now available. This popular app is a great open source solution for replacing the firmwear on many types of portable media players including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and iPod. Rockbox's developers say that the most important changes to the software won't be particularly obvious to the average user. "The first players supported by Rockbox decoded MP3 files using a chip specifically for this purpose. This made ...
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) (2)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? — Everyone keeps talking about Smule's virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link). — I wasn't impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I'd call a saturated market.
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worldwide craving for LBS games and social networks ?
Why the iPhone is "unko" in Japan (1)
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iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone (6)
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The Japanese love their iPods, but give them an iPhone and they will most likely shun it. Why is it that a phone that has generated much hype and success worldwide has failed to capture the hearts of a country that loves its sleek gadgets? The iPhone is incapable of inputting and displaying emoji, which are little symbols and emoticons such as these: Emoji is a staple in Japanese messaging and the lack of it ...
The Y Combinator in Scala (1)
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A while ago I ran across an implementation of the Y combinator in Java. My first thought was, "Woah, this is cool!", followed immediately by "Woah, this is hideous!"Below is my port of that code to Scala. Hopefully it's just as cool, and just a little less hideous.trait BranchType[F, T] extends (BranchType[F, T] => (F => T))object B { def apply[F, T](c: BranchType[F, T] => (F => T)) = new BranchType[F, T] { def apply(b: ...
Skyfire mobile browser now open to everybody (4)
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After months of private beta, Skyfire, a free mobile browser lauded for offering support for Flash, AJAX, and other goodies generally reserved for PC browsers, has opened its doors to the public. Just in time for the resulting stampede of new users, they’ve also introduced a fresh release of the browser for Windows Mobile complete with a handful of new features. (Update: Though they’ve taken the beta public, Skyfire is still only for US residents ...
Four ways to optimize paginated displays (11)
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A paginated display is one of the top optimization scenarios we see in the real world. Search results pages, leaderboards, and most-popular lists are good examples. You know the design pattern: display 20 results in some most-relevant order. Show a "next" and "previous" link. And usually, show how many items are in the whole list and how many pages of results there are. Rendering such a display can consume more resources than the entire rest ...
Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox (Gregg Keizer/Computerworld) (2)
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox — Google browser's share slips, IE and Firefox reverse the erosion, Safari still immune — Computerworld) Chrome's share of the browser market is fading as users who abandoned Internet Explorer and Firefox start to return, an Internet measurement company said today.
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Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz announced they have been working for about a year on building out an index of the web, in order to be able to provide SEOs and SEMs with a toolset they have never had before. SEOmoz has crawled and built a 30 billion page index of the web. Rand explains this [...]Shared by Duncan (45) Nicolas Lehuen (20)Contribute comment
