- BigBlueBall – Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo
- Gizmo ? IM with GoogleTalk
- SoloSub: one click feed subscription
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
Long Tail, short body, long snout?
O'Reilly's Long Snout concept is very interesting.
It's long been easy to snipe at O'Reilly as a vanity publisher for techies, but the economics of book publishing have changed to make tiny production runs or even print on demand realistic propositions. In this situation O'Reilly's shotgun approach makes a lot of sense.
Thousands of titles means they cover all bases, and being first to market in these days of Web 2.0 hypery and the ephemeral nature of many technical subjects makes a rapid publication cycle essential.
- Fake European propaganda movie hits Austria and Bologna
- Russell Beattie Notebook – Legos Rock
- Tags kids mycomments toys
- Russell Beattie Notebook – So… Who do I have to fuck for Bloglines to update my feed?
- Tags blogging mycomments rss
- Link Feed: January 22, 2006 – Honda Advert
- United We Stand – Europe has a mission
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- NRC – Mobile Web Server
- TPN Rock: The Long Tail Works, If You?ll Let It
- Tags cluetrain music mycomments podcast
- The All New Ewan’s Musings – Life on Mars is here – Good Kids!
- Tags music mycomments rock tv
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
The very first item in Mark Pilgrim's rules for aggregators is simple enough and deals with HTTP response handling:
301 Permanent redirect: MUST follow, SHOULD check new location thereafter. Check Location header on reply for new address.
Does Bloglines deal nicely with this? No, it doesn't even follow the redirect in many cases, for example Russ's old feed does a permanent redirection to a new url. I (and 3093 other subscribers) to the old feed haven't seen any new items from this feed on Bloglines for weeks.
If you want to see how well Bloglines is working, point it at this series of tests.
- amillionlittlepieces: If you know a criminal, are you therefore a criminal?
- Tags freespeech politics
- philwilson.org: Why MS Messenger sucks at work
- gapingvoid: top ten reasons why nobody reads your blog
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- del.icio.us/JimH
- Tags delicious
- Efficient Editing With vim – Jonathan McPherson
- Coming to a Pocket Near You; Advertising to Mobiles Threatens to Annoy Billions
- The Tao of Mac – TeleMarketing
- C4 pushes broadband documentary channel with Bluetooth poster campaign
- Len Holgate – Purecall
- post Prandial: Leaving messages
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
One of the lesser things that cropped up at Monday's London MoMo meeting was Christian Lindholm's off-hand "oh, you can now have dots in Yahoo id's, for those of you late to the party". As someone lumbered with a slightly crap Yahoo id I've grasped the nettle and I'm now also "Jim.Hughes" on Yahoo. It's a shame there's no obvious transition path from one id to another, so I've gotta re-enter all/most of my Yahoo IM contacts and unsubscribe/subscribe from various Yahoo groups.
Actually I'm already wondering if the transition is worth the hassle, vanity id's, do they really make any sense? It's not like I use Yahoo for anything but Yahoo groups and occasional IM via a Jabber gateway (to about 4 people). The simplest route is to just use the new id for IM.
- The Podcast Network :: The Late-Night Blues and Jazz Hangout #005
- Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
- Polar Heart Rate Monitors: Gimme my data! by Jeffrey Veen
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
- Bounty County – Coding bounties for free and open source software projects.
- HOWTO: Be more productive
- Blended Technologies – Projects
- Tags free opensource python tools web
- Jabber.NU!
- oreilly.com – Online Catalog: The Art of Project Management, First Edition
- oreilly.com – Online Catalog: Time Management for System Administrators, First Edition
- Tom Hume: Lovely Widgets
- Tags mobile mycomments osx travel
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
WikiNodes, tying it all together
I came across the WikiNode concept for the first time today on the Open Guide to London. A WikiNode is a wiki page that briefly tells you what a wiki is about, and how it relates with its neighbours. Given that this concept seems pretty useful, I’ve added a WikiNode on my wiki which also ties it in with a few related useful wikis.
The WikiNode FAQ covers WikiNodes in some detail. For me the best and simplest part being: “WikiNode pages are intended to be walkable. That is, it should be easy to hop from WikiNode to WikiNode. Thus, pages should be brief, and WikiNodes should link to WikiNodes. We want to make it easy to explore the space.”
The devil is in the detail, and by making the whole system so elegantly simple they’ve kept evil out of this design.
- The Tao of Mac – blog/2005–12-20
- Tags mycomments sync
- Will’s blog : PyBlosxom 1.3 RC1 released!
- Now IMP Server
- OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service
Taken from Jim’s del.icio.us links
