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Here’s something I hadn’t seen before: I IM’d a friend of mine at a Big Company and the message got rejected because it included a URL. I have to suppose that it’s any URL that gets bounced, but who knows? So the workaround? I sent the text for a Google query that returns the same url. Further details: Discussing it with him, the logic seems to be that someone could send an employee a phishing link in an IM message.
I recently was on a trip with United Airlines. It’s a long story, but basically the short form is that the pilot didn’t show up, our flight was about 2 hours late, and I was going to miss the connection, also on United. A bunch of us were in the same boat (or plane) and so there was quite a buzz in ...
Read more →SnapLogic is an open source product (at least in it’s base edition) providing tools to construct pipelines that deliver and process and filter information through collections of interconnected REST services. As usual, they provide a free ‘community’ edition, and then variously priced developer and enterprise editions. Pricing wasn’t indicated but if you have this kind of need, SnapLogic looks like it’s worth a peek.
Seven Do’s And Three Don’ts For Creating New Web Products contains some excellent Do’s and Don’ts for someone (like me) thinking of starting a new business. Here is just one little ‘D...
Read more →Bill Ives of the Portals and KM Blog writes an interesting two-part article on the business impact of Web 2.0: > “Now with Web 2.0 the open architecture, the refinement of web services, and the ability to put together applications through mashups makes the basic devel...
Read more →I came across this very cool and simple set of criteria or rules to apply for funding from YCombinator. Not sure how well it works for them but they are quite reasonable. Here’s a sample: > “(4) Yes decisions will include the amount we’ll invest and the percent of the company we’d want for it. We usually invest $5000 + $5000n, where n is the number of participating founders (i.e. 2 founders get $15,000, 3 get $20,000), in return for between 1% and 10% of the company. The median is 6%.” Cool. Does it work?
Well it’s not really ‘coming’ – it was here all along, just dormant. Here’s the down-lo: > BarCamp Boston 3 May 17-18, 2008 http://barcampboston.org/ BarCamp is an unConference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. There is no registration fee, but you ...
Read more →You might have missed the announcement of Microsoft Mesh. Cycnical me: these grand strategies come and go. I believe this is the second or perhaps third major iteration of Microsoft’s strategy in this area, in each case without an actual scaling implementation of same.At any rate, if you are interes...
Read more →Check this post Twitter’s Lead Architect Leaves: It’s Not You, It’s Me from Mashable!: > "While I’ll give Cook the benefit of the doubt, I can’t think of a more pressure packed job than being re...
Read more →Check this post Grou.ps Launches Public Beta from ReadWriteWeb: > "There are a lot of ways to collaborate online – wikis, forums, social networks – but there are very few providers that package all the tools together that a group might need. Grou.ps, a social groupware provider, aims to address that problem by providing its users one single package of integrated tools."Looks like it’s worth a look…
A really interesting article for anyone interested in social networks and their role and impact in our society. > “… I want to take a moment to make a meta point here. I have been traipsing through the country talking to teens and I’ve been s...
Read more →Amazing idea from Scott Adams. Dilbert Mashups. Check this post What’s Your Best Dilbert Punch Line? from Mashable!: > “Dilbert has a huge following and I’m sure lots of people will have fun making their own punch lines for the popular comic, and there are even a few sharing options (embedding, email, social bookmarking, etc.) that will allow those Dilber writer-wannabes to share their humorous wit with friends across the web. One drawback, though, is the fact that you can only create a mashup for the current day’s comic strip.” Check it out!
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I just wrote a few brief tutorials that I thought might be of interest to you and, well, everyone. Please check them out – if you find them useful, please pass them on to your friends! - “What’s the difference between a blog and a web site?” – Th...
Read more →I am advising a client who is interested in reaching out to a huge existing community of folks who they, historically and today, can count as their natural constituency.The problem is, they don’t have their names or email addresses and want to connect to them, and them to each other. The question is...
Read more →From a few previous posts you know that I have a curiosity about congestion pricing as a [way to allay traffic jams](http://http//www.salas.com/2008/03/22/what-does-urban-congestion-have-to-do-with-mesh-networks...
Read more →People wonder about Wikipdia and what it’s good for. This is an example from a while back, of Wikipedia at it’s best. Lots of details, edited and co-edited by many people giving you a feeling that there’s less bias: Wikipedia on the Virgina Tech Tragedy
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Look closely at the dialog box on the right. It’s Mac OS X info sheet for an attached Windows computer. Now look even more closely at the simulated screen on the image of an ugly big CRT monitor. See the BSOD? Who said they don’t have a sense of humor?