filed under: Trends
Tags: tnocool obsolete technology,
The other day my daughter wanted to play with the marble on my desk. The marble was actually a mouse ball. So when she dropped the 'marble' on the walk home it chipped. As she never saw a marble chip so easily she asked why it happened. I tried to explain what a mouse ball was. That didn't go so well cause none of the mice we have at home have them.
Is a balled mouse the new rotary phone?
That being said I thought I would share this goolgle search for obsolete technology.
I particularly like the wired article's section on telegraph. STOP
filed under: Gadgets
Tags: ebooks, gadgets,
filed under: Software
Tags: firefox, leopard, mac,
Firefox 3 is being released later today. This Webmonkey article urges us all to download it immediately. The article lists a number of new features that sound pretty good - including the ability to click on a mailto link and have it open Gmail (or whatever) instead of a desktop mail client. And the ability to work offline with online apps, syncing up when you next go online. All pretty cool if you're making a move towards online apps.
But what scares me is that I downloaded Firefox 3 beta for the mac a couple of weeks ago and did not have a good experience - the mac didn't seem to like it at all, with kernel panics, freezes, shutdown woes and cpu running at 50% with no apps open. I ended up doing a restore with Time Machine (which works great, by the way, and only took an hour to restore a 60 GB system; the downside to doing too many of these is that the next TimeMachine backup after a restore takes a while because it backs up everything again, taking up another 60 GB of my backup drive).
So someone with a Mac running Leopard - test Firefox 3 for me and let me know if it's safe to go in the water again.
filed under: Web 2.0
Tags: facebook, google, Open Source, tnocool,
Even though listservs are so 1990 they still provide good information. Thanks to NITLE's IT listserv I found this Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform.
Does this move by Facebook position it to be the next Google where everything and everyone develops applications and services that allow upstarts and fringe services to piggyback on the success of the giant?
filed under: Web 2.0
Tags: Jott, Netvibes, RTM, Twitter,
One of the characteristics of web2.0 applications is having open API's that one can use to mash up applications to produce new ways of using or displaying the data of the original services. For example one can configure your flickr account to post to your blog or you can see the latests tweets on a map of the globe at twittervision.com/. As of late, it seems that the most used services have such integrations available to those off us without the hacking ability or the time to do it by answering a few questions of a wizard.
For example I used Remember the Milk for a while as a todo list but discontinued use because it was one more place to log into and manage. Recently, I came back to "rtm" and realized that it added a ton of features that lets me use the services through other technologies, which make "rtm" more useful than a paper and pencil todo list.
Of the various options for integration here are a few that I am looking at -
I am going to give "rtm" another go based on this new knowledge and let you know how it works.