June 29, 2007

Pine Mountain Lake

http://www.pinemountainlake.com/ "We are a unique private community close to Yosemite National Park, nestled into the natural landscape of the pines, oaks and mountains of Tuolumne County."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Is Facebook really “the new AOL”?

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/12585 "But what happens if there’s a fight between a platform and the Internet?" Good question. It almost answers itself when you ask it that way...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Facebook, AOL, and crumbling walled gardens

http://www.wordyard.com/2007/06/29/facebook-aol/ "eventually, the service that gets in the way least wins the most users, and those users are able to conduct their activities on the open Net"
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Fobes on Bad SEO

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/28/negative-search-google-tech-ebiz-cx_ag_0628seo_print.html forbes looks at SEO and people trying to game the system
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

HTML Purifier - Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way!

http://htmlpurifier.org/ probably worth looking at for any serious user-facing PHP stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

This sounds familiar…

http://www.elatable.com/blog/?p=95 it sure does...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

June 28, 2007

Fuel truck meets glider

http://www.recordcourier.com/article/20070622/News/106220044/0/FRONTPAGE it looks like 4G got hit too
Posted by jzawodn at 04:02 PM

When hacks attack

http://www.bobbiejohnson.org/?p=1008 a nice write-up on the London Open Hack Day event
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

How to pick an accountant for your online business

http://fortuito.us/2007/06/how_to_pick_an_accountant_for more good advice from Matt
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

HTML Purifier

http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/jun/html-purifier Chris writes about HTML Purifier, which is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. Sounds like it'll be terribly useful
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Branding matters -- even when searching

http://live.psu.edu/story/24878 I hope nobody is actually surprised by this...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Google Gadget Ventures

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/06/google-gadget-ventures.html now that's interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

EmacsW32

http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html "EmacsW32 Utilities (often called just EmacsW32) has the goal to make it easier for an MS Windows user to get used to Emacs:"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Google Desktop For Linux

http://desktop.google.com/linux/ hey, that's handy...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Some lingering iPhone questions I haven’t heard answered anywhere...

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2007/06/17/some-lingering-iphone-questions-i-havent-heard-answered-anywhere/ Matt asks some good questions, as you'd expect...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

No iPhones for corporate accounts?!

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/27/no-iphones-for-corporate-accounts/ something tells me that Apple/ATT will get around to fixing this before too long
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I

http://james.hotornot.com/2007/06/reinventing-hotornot-part-i.html James lays out the rationale behind some of the changes at HOTorNOT
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

June 27, 2007

Topix Cracks the Top 20 & Gets a New Suit

http://blog.topix.com/archives/000158.html "Rich is stepping up to manage from the board, and I'm stepping in as CEO of Topix." Wow.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Just Say “No” To Google

http://no2google.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/life-at-google-the-microsoftie-perspective/ there's not a lot new here, but it's pulled together in a single place
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

mod_atom

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/06/25/mod_atom hey, look what Tim made!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

June 26, 2007

Facebook, the new channel model for consumer software-as-a-service

http://getluky.net/2007/06/22/facebook-the-new-channel-model-for-consumer-software-as-a-service/ yup... some smart thinking in here.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

I Had an Idea for a T-Shirt

http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/06/i-had-an-idea-for-a-t-shirt.html heh... I suspect there's a market for these
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Testing Out the iPhone

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118289311361649057.html interesting to see what was left out and what was included... also, good battery life
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Desktop Tower Defense Played 15 Million Times

http://www.discoverion.com/archive/venture-DesktopTowerDefensePlayed15MillionTimes1182321327.shtml "whatever you create next, I hope I never hear about it." me too!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:02 PM

James Hong: Yahoo for Yahoo!

http://james.hotornot.com/2007/06/yahoo-for-yahoo.html "The biggest companies of the future connect users, they don't speak directly to them."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:02 PM

The magic of Hack Day

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/06/26/182/the-magic-of-hack-day/ "Even after seeing Hack Day work internally a bunch of times and now twice in the open format with external developers I’m still amazed every time. There’s something magical about the event."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:02 PM

Yahoo Could Build A Facebook for The Rest of Us

http://gotads.blogspot.com/2007/06/yahoo-could-build-facebook-for-rest-of.html "Yahoo has all the pieces to build a next-gen homepage portal, and they should copy most of Facebook."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

My top 5 wishes for MySQL

http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/06/20/my-top-5-wishes-for-mysql/ some good ideas in here, as you'd expect
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Server-Grade SSDs for Write Ahead and Binary Logs

http://feedblog.org/2007/06/25/server-grade-ssds-for-write-ahead-and-binary-logs/ "Nice to see innovation but I REALLY want to see more SSDs in the server space." You and lots of other people, Kevin...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:07 PM

Now working at MyBlogLog

http://cavitate.net/flashpoint/2007/06/now_working_with_mybloglog.html Congrats, Ian...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:06 PM

Tim Bray on Jerry Yang

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/06/24/Jerry-Yang "I think a bet against Yahoo and Jerry might not be very smart right around now..."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:04 PM

SoarWest - Soaring Sites, Utah

http://www.soarwest.com/fssites.html list of some glider tow operations in Utah
Posted by jzawodn at 12:02 PM

Catch-22 with kernel upgrade and libc6 upgrade

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16155&sid=a976949d51d8d3d6da981781c2cf0453 ugh. I just ran into this. Pain in the ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Sex Toys and Actual Customer Letters

http://www.stockroom.com/general/letters/default.aspx heh.. these are great
Posted by jzawodn at 10:49 AM

Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/flickr-photos-integrated-into-yahoo-image-search/5182/ excellent... it's about time!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:48 AM

June 17, 2007

How do I know this person? Through the Web!

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/06/17/how-do-i-know-person-x-through-the-web/ "Through the Web" is a great answer...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

June 14, 2007

Structured Procrastination

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ it is no surprise that I see some of myself in this...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

eBay pulls U.S. ads from Google AdWords network

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070613:MTFH58422_2007-06-13_21-41-44_N13397796&type=comktNews&rpc=44 heh
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

A Friendly Reminder from your IT Department

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/73716994.html "will fuck that machine up so badly your high-school TI calculator will be a Beowulf Cluster compared to your new paperweight."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Reading blogs on a mac using Firefox

http://www.chapter31.com/2007/06/13/reading-blogs-on-a-mac-using-firefox/ "The Yahoo Developer Network has some amazing tools including fonts to provide consistent font sizing and line height and is well worth checking out."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Software Development Hypothesis

http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/2007/06/software_development_hypothesi_253.html I think I agree with Mark's theory too...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Safari: Apple's New Platform?

http://www.tnl.net/blog/2007/06/12/safari-apples-new-platform/ some interesting thoughts on Apple's Safari for Windows release
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

June 13, 2007

Mark Zuckerburg: You need a new PR rep

http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/2007/06/12/mark-zuckerburg-you-need-a-new-pr-rep/ "That’s your PR rep’s fault. They should have prepped you. When Good Morning America calls you next week, make sure they do."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

good speech by bill gates.

http://james.hotornot.com/2007/06/good-speech-by-bill-gates.html agreed
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

An OpenSolaris/Linux Mashup

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/one_plus_one_is_fifty I'm continually impressed with how Jonathon uses his blog...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

June 12, 2007

Floppy Disks Live On

http://www.cantoni.org/2007/06/04/floppy_disks_live_on "My kids now associate that little icon with saving, but have never needed to use an actual floppy disk. I wonder for how many years will still be using that icon?" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Lack of a *real* Web Operations Conference

http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/06/07/lack-of-a-real-web-operations-conference/ "I think that there are lots of sysadmins and ops people who would go to a conference solely about web operations." Indeed.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Casa Blanca's Cafe Incorporated, 1185 Lincoln Ave, San Jose, CA

http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=30657145 Good greek food near my house.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Yahoo shareholder meeting will be day of discontent

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5352 I'm curious to read the reports...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

omg.yahoo.com

http://omg.yahoo.com/ this is sorta scary....
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

June 11, 2007

Thread Herrings

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/06/07/Concurrency "These days, you’re way better scaling out not up. Shared memory? Hell, shared nothing if you can get away with it."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

I’ve Seen This Movie

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/06/10/So-Lame "Microsoft has tried to swim against the current of the Internet a few times before, and it’s basically never worked."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Hack Day - Yahoo, BBC, London, June

http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/hack-day-yahoo-bbc-london-june/#comment-59361 "Inspired by previous Yahoo! Hack Days, at IBM we’ve been running our own internal Hack Days..."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

June 05, 2007

How to fix building construction bureaucracy

http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/05/31/178/how-to-fix-building-construction-bureaucracy/ "...it seems to me that the building permit and inspection business is broken in exactly the places that the Internet is more than capable of fixing."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

Who is speaking at Hack Day?

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/05/who_is_speaking_at_ha/ one hell of a lineup
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

June 01, 2007

Yahoo! opens its doors for WhereCamp

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/05/31/yahoo-opens-its-doors-for-wherecamp/ come here and talk about where
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Ahead of the Bell: Yahoo Upgraded: Financial News

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070531/yahoo_ahead_of_the_bell.html?.v=1 "A JPMorgan analyst upgraded shares of Yahoo Inc. Thursday, a day after the search engine operator's chief technology officer resigned."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM