Clever Andy just went live after an aggressive marketing campaign that had a lot of people curious.
The basic premise behind the service is simple and has been accomplished in the past. Designers usually present more than one concept to a client and when the client makes their final decision, the left over designs don’t have [...]
This is a great opportunity for Powerset - they’ve yet to go public with their entire product (they currently only allow searches of Wikipedia content) and Microsoft is sure to benefit, but are they going about this the right way? Adding Powerset to Live Search is a waste of the technology!
Being the lucky recipient of numerous deployments, more so than most others in my career field, I have answered my fair share of “What’s it like over there?” questions. You always start off with, “Not to bad, but…” and then run down the gamut of stuff you don’t like.
As a freelancer, primarily involved in web development, I spend a lot of time online. Not only that, but I am constantly on the lookout for tools and services that will make my life easier. Currently, I manage my entire freelance career with a mixture of online services.
Everyone has those little time-wasters. Those tasks you do, websites you visit, or addiction that could be better spent actually doing something productive. As I refreshed the CodeIgniter Forums for the third time this hour I got to thinking about what my time-wasters are.
The license I have selected, and which you can assume all of my project are unless otherwise stated, is a personally modified version of the GNU-LGPL. I’ve updated the Flashdata Notification library’s project page to reflect this as well.
Twitter has always been a very unstable application, with period of downtime more often than not, even when they were a young a growing startup. Now that Twitter has reached a critical mass of users they seem to only be able to maintain their uptime by disabling half of the application. I’ve thought of a way Twitter can solve all of their scaling issues, as well as put a chunk of that $15 million in funding to good use.
Every so often I feel the need to clean out my feed reader. Usually, I notice that one feed in particular hasn’t updated in a long time and delete it. The tragedy continues until I am confident I have narrowed my list down to just the blogs that update regularly and that I am interested in.
I’ve owned MOGBase.com since the beginning of this year and I have yet to do anything very productive with it. So, I’m looking for ideas on where to take this domain; if you submit an idea that I like and I press forward with - you’ll get 50% ad rotation.
Twitter can hardly manage to stay up for 24 hours at a time and people like Mike Arrington and Allen Stern feel as if it’s the loss of a public utility each time this happens. I can’t say I feel the same at all - I don’t notice when Twitter goes down.
