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.
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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.
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 quite attached to our community of users. Although we are proud to have come this far with the product, our personal obligations do not allow us to continue developing Rallypoint toward our ultimate vision.
This was posted on Sept 13, 2006 at their site.
Read More at Rallypoint.
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 work on gotfoo.org from both work and home I did not want to use a local storage solution. I wanted to be able to access a backup from anywhere. This lead me to invsstigate Online File Strorage services in search of a free solution.
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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 had UTW there for to support the SEO Plugin which, by the way is also very handy. I think I did tryit out at one point but at the time the concept of tags and tagging was lost on me. But now that I have discovered a new addiction to tags the UTW is the perfect enabler.
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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. It’s just Ajax.
This is obvisouly an attempt to extort just a bit more money before this over-hyped technology implodes.
What a rip-off: $1,450.
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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 one hand I am appalled that Google would use a Microsoft Product but on the other hand what a thumb-to-the-nose at Microsoft.
“Hey Bill, Check us out. We can build (or buy) better stuff with .NET than you could ever dream of!”, shouts Google.
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 that’s what this new internet boom is looking like. You’ve got your A list of reddit,Technorati, FeedBurner, Flickr and del.ico.us to name a few and then you’ve got the B list with Blogmarks, Pixel Groovy, itsdEx and Pooln just to name a few more Web2.0-ers. I’m not saying that the B list is sub-par, it’s just that they seemed to come on the scene after the start and maybe just before the peak.
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