Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ Category

January 30th, 2007

phpYahoo Project Page Created

4 Comments, API, PHP, Web2.0, by jay.

I have started a Google Projects Page for my phpYahoo project as well as a new demo site.
I did some extensive work on the class recently by adding caching as well as expanding the search functions to allow searching by either a single string parameter or and array of parameters.
Links

Project Page
Documentation
Example Web Search

September 15th, 2006

Rallypoint Says Farewell

Comments Off, Web2.0, by jay.

Has anyone else seen this?
Another Web2.0 is closing it’s doors.
I am only pointing this out because I was about to write a review of Collaboration services.
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The Rallypoint team is sorry to say we will be shutting down within the next 15 days. This is a decision not easily made because we have grown [...]

September 8th, 2006

Online File Storage Reviews

Comments Off, Productivity, Web2.0, by jay.

I recenty decied that I wanted to upgrade my hosting package. The FAQ’s recommends that you back EVERYTHING up before applying for the upgrade and that’s when I realized that a) I did not have a good back-up sloution and b) I did not have a file storage solution for my back-ups.
Since I [...]

September 6th, 2006

Wordpress Plugins: Ultimate Tag Warrior

Comments Off, Plugins, Web2.0, by jay.

Tags Tags Tags. I love Tags and I love Tagging. So the Ultimate Tag Warrior is a perfect one-stop-shop for your tagging needs.
When I was writing my post, Wordpress Plugins: Technorati I noticed that I had the UTA plugins in my plugins directory but I wasn’t using the plugin. I [...]

For about 5 seconds I was excited about The Ajax Experience Conference, not because it’s about Ajax but because it’s in Boston, until I saw the price to attend.

$1,250 If you pre-register before Sept 26.
$1,450 After that.

$1,250!! $1,450!!
For a conference!?
It’s not like this is TechED or the Hooters Waitress convention. [...]

August 29th, 2006

Writely uses .NET?

Comments Off, Programming, Web2.0, by jay.

With in the first 5 minutes of using Writely I noticed the URL to a doc I was editing: http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=…. Do you see what I see? Writley is using the .aspx file extension which means it is built on ASP.NET, Microsofts’ pride and joy.
I don’t know how to react to this? On [...]

August 23rd, 2006

Web2.0 from a Developer/Blogger Perspective

Comments Off, General, Rants, Web2.0, by jay.

Like anything else once a good idea gets out into the public people will fall over themselves trying to mimic what’s already been done. Remember back in the 80’s when video shops were poping up on every street corner. And remember how the shelves were jammed with bad (cheesey) apocalypse movies. Well [...]