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OpenShift is Open Source | OpenShift by Red Hat
OpenShift  is Red Hat's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. OpenShift Origin is a collection of open source components that are used in the OpenShift Platform as a Service.
openshift  opensource  source  code  programming  cloud  technology  redhat  linux  internet 
19 hours ago by avinash
Udacity - Free Classes. Awesome Instructors. Inspiring Community.
Welcome to Udacity! We currently offer the following courses, with many more to come. All our courses are free, and you are welcome to sign up at any time.
course  education  learning  programming  online  free  internet  teaching 
6 days ago by avinash
The Anfield Wrap // Footie // Fashion // Music // Culture
TheAnfieldWrap is an independently owned UK company. We are Liverpool supporters and have some of the most influential personalities from the media world to contribute to TheAnfieldWrap for your enjoyment.
TheAnfieldWrap concept is simple, we aim to give you the best independent views and information from the world of media available in one place.
football  forum  podcast  internet  news  online  liverpool  opinion  people  soccer 
6 days ago by avinash
Three Reasons Why Every Smart Startup Is A Digital Media Company - Forbes
In traditional media models, content producers typically give people something they want in the form of entertainment or information. Then they sell access to those people to advertisers — who want to sell something to those people.

Smart online entrepreneurs understand that they play both roles with content marketing. They provide people something they want to consume and share (content) and sell something … but in this case, what they sell is something extremely relevant to the content, and therefore, to the audience.
business  online  strategy  marketing  sales  internet  website 
21 days ago by avinash
Should You Move Your Small Business to the Cloud? | PCWorld Business Center
cloud computing has its shortcomings (more on that later); but small businesses looking to cut computing costs and improve efficiency during this long recession are finding the many benefits of Internet-based software and services increasingly attractive. In fact, companies with 100 or fewer employees are expected to spend $2.4 billion on cloud computing services in 2010, up from $1.7 billion in 2009, according to Ray Boggs, vice president of SMB research for IDC.

Here’s what you need to know about cloud computing: what it is, pros and cons, suggested services, and tips for applying it to your business.
cloud  business  money  finance  flexibility  technology  internet  security 
21 days ago by avinash
63% of B2B Companies Don't Generate Leads From Social Media [New Data]
Follow the 10-4-1 Rule. According to the B2B Social Media Book by Kipp Bodnar and Jeffrey L. Cohen, the 10-4-1 Rule is a ratio that serves as a guideline for the right balance of content to publish in social media. For every 15 of your social media updates, 10 should be pieces of other people's content, 4 should be your own blog articles, and 1 should be a landing page. Make that a rule, follow that ratio no matter how much you post, and it will help you grow your reach (by promoting other people's content), send traffic to your website, and generate leads! If you're a HubSpot customer, it's now really easy to share other peoples' content with the new social bookmarklet. While you browse the web, you can select content you like to be published to your various social networks.
socialmedia  internet  business  marketing  tips 
21 days ago by avinash
How to Build Links Fast: 101 Tips & Strategies
71 Good Ways to Build Links

Love for Lists

1. Build a "101 list". These get Dugg all the time, and often become "authority documents". People can't resist linking to these (hint, hint).
2. Create 10 easy tips to help you [insert topic here] articles. Again, these are exceptionally easy to link to.
3. Create extensive resource lists for a specific topic (see Mr Ploppy for inspiration).
4. Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category.
5. Create a list of gurus/experts. If you impress the people listed well enough, or find a way to make your project look somewhat official, the gurus may end up linking to your site or saying thanks. (Sometimes flattery is the easiest way to strike up a good relationship with an "authority".)
linkbuilding  marketing  seo  internet  google  search 
21 days ago by avinash
Why Most Social Media Departments Fail » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg
You could be the biggest and most well-paid social media consultant out there, but if you don’t know what the specific goals are for the client project, you should never sign an agreement with the prospective company.
goal  strategy  business  socialnetworking  socialmedia  online  internet 
21 days ago by avinash
How the Explosion in Online Education can Revolutionize Your Business | Copyblogger
Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley are doing it.
Companies, both big and small, are doing it.
Solopreneurs are doing it.
And bloggers have been doing it … they just haven’t been making any money at it.
It’s a trend that Copyblogger saw coming … in fact, Brian built a course to teach it way back in 2007. (And he built a number of successful businesses on the same principles before that.)
“It” is online education — and it’s gone from being an interesting sideline to a major social and economic trend.
education  online  economics  ecommerce  learning  teaching  internet  web  web2.0  socialnetworking  social  from twitter_favs
24 days ago by avinash
Premise Review 2.0 – An in depth review of the landing page plugin Premise
One of the key features to any online business is a landing page that converts. Even if your traffic is low a high converting landing page can give you the possible income to outsource, expand and make your presence online known. I thin this is so important that I purchased Premise – the ultimate plugin for easy landings pages and what follows is a Premise review so that you can have a better understanding of this plugin and what it can do for you. Lets get started.
premise  wordpress  seo  plugin  landingpage  sales  marketing  product  internet  web  commercial 
4 weeks ago by avinash
Exclusive: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Swarm China for Network Gear | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook buy more networking hardware than practically anyone else on earth. After all, these are the giants of the internet. But at the same time, they’re buying less and less gear from Cisco, HP, Juniper, and the rest of the world’s largest networking vendors. It’s an irony that could lead to a major shift in the worldwide hardware market.
network  technology  internet  hardware  asia 
5 weeks ago by avinash
Tracking the KPIs of Social Media | SEOmoz
Social media receives a massive amount of attention on the web and attracts a great deal of interest from marketers, too. The primary complaint of those who invest seems to be consistent: it's hard to measure the impact to the bottom line. On this point, I must concede - while social's an exciting new area for online marketers, its value isn't always commensurate with the effort required and even when it is, it's tough to prove that point to clients or executives asking for justification.

This post is here to help. In it, I'll try to take a brief look at the topics surrounding this problem and offer some solutions, tools and methodologies to make things easier.
analytics  social  media  online  internet  people  behaviour  conversion  marketing  kpi 
february 2012 by avinash
Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over - Business Insider
Microsoft is toast because we're moving to a post-PC era;
HTML5, the new web standard that allows to make interactive web pages, is going to revolutionize the media and advertising industries;
Social is "done", it's now a feature, don't go do a social startup.
html5  technology  web  prediction  history  microsoft  apple  google  internet  strategy 
february 2012 by avinash
Cutting the Cord on Cable - WSJ.com
Dear Cable:

Before I say anything else: It's not you. It's me.

I've changed over the years. I'm hardly at home. And when I am, it's not live television I'm watching. It's stuff that's been queued up on my DVR for weeks. But mostly, when I'm on my couch with a remote in my hand, I've been…streaming. I know how wrong that must sound. But everyone's getting their shows and movies through the Internet these days. I'm sorry. It's just the reality of things.

I'm quitting you, cable.
homecinema  tv  lcd  technology  internet  multimedia  online  entertainment  service  audio  video  device 
january 2012 by avinash
The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems
geek  operating  system  restart  boot  process  computer  technology  web  online  internet 
january 2012 by avinash
Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011 - Leah Culver's Blog
cloud  productivity  service  internet  web  online  people  behaviour 
january 2012 by avinash
How to export history? - Google Chrome Help
For the Mac using sqlite3:

Cut and paste  this into a Terminal Window (you can modify it as you like, here I'm exporting only Wikipedia browsing history)

/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History > history.log <<EOF
select visit_count, url from urls where url like 'http://en.wikipedia.org%' order by visit_count;
EOF
google  chrome  browser  web  internet  export  history  url  sql  sqlite  database 
december 2011 by avinash
livin' the dream · A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.

I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
dns  domain  transfer  law  legal  restriction  technical  internet  sopa 
december 2011 by avinash
Freakonomics » Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions
Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru Bruce Schneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing mandatory reading for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” to see his sober assessment of why it’s better to earn a living as a security expert than as a computer criminal.
internet  security  interview  expert  experience  opinion  people  psychology  behaviour  technology  networking 
december 2011 by avinash
Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Congress is debating dangerous legislation that would give the Department of Justice unprecedented power to “blacklist” websites without a trial and give Hollywood copyright holders a new way to shut down a website’s financial services for alleged copyright infringement. It’s nothing short of a bill to create a U.S. censorship regime, and it’s moving fast.

We need your help to stop this legislation before it can undermine Internet security and censor the web.  Ready to join EFF, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, CDT, the Participatory Politics Foundation, and Public Knowledge in the fight? Here are 12 things you can do right now to help us stop the blacklist bills.
sopa  law  copyright  legal  usa  censorship  media  multimedia  web  internet  web2.0  people 
december 2011 by avinash
MacinCloud - Rent a Mac in the Cloud! - Mac in Cloud
MacinCloud is a Mac rental service that provides PC, older Mac and Mobile users access to Mac servers through the Internet. That means now you can virtually own a Mac in the Cloud!
apple  mac  osx  cloud  service  remote  desktop  online  internet 
november 2011 by avinash
Chrome Experiments - Home
We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Together, they can do some beautiful, magical, crazy things. And that’s why we created this website.

Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.
browser  chrome  google  javascript  visualization  3d  webgl  demo  graphics  performance  programming  software  web  internet  technology 
november 2011 by avinash
SQL-Ledger ERP
SQL-Ledger® ERP is a double entry accounting/ERP system. Accounting data is stored in a SQL database server, for the display any text or GUI browser can be used. The entire system is linked through a chart of accounts. Each item in inventory is linked to income, expense, inventory and tax accounts. When items are sold and purchased the accounts are automatically updated.
accounting  business  opensource  software  web  internet  free 
november 2011 by avinash
What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar
The future belongs to the companies who figure out how to collect and use data successfully. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn have all tapped into their datastreams and made that the core of their success. They were the vanguard, but newer companies like bit.ly are following their path. Whether it's mining your personal biology, building maps from the shared experience of millions of travellers, or studying the URLs that people pass to others, the next generation of successful businesses will be built around data. The part of Hal Varian's quote that nobody remembers says it all:

The ability to take data -- to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it -- that's going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.

Data is indeed the new Intel Inside.
business  article  internet  blog  research  data  processing  statistics  analysis  analytics  web  online 
september 2011 by avinash
Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com
I'm privileged to work with some of the best of the new breed of software companies, and I can tell you they're really good at what they do. If they perform to my and others' expectations, they are going to be highly valuable cornerstone companies in the global economy, eating markets far larger than the technology industry has historically been able to pursue.

Instead of constantly questioning their valuations, let's seek to understand how the new generation of technology companies are doing what they do, what the broader consequences are for businesses and the economy and what we can collectively do to expand the number of innovative new software companies created in the U.S. and around the world.

That's the big opportunity. I know where I'm putting my money.
technology  software  web  business  internet  revolution  evolution  entrepreneurship  startup  opinion 
september 2011 by avinash
Top 8 JavaScript Projects You May Not Know - Developer.com
Last year's article 10 Experimental PHP Projects Pushing the Envelope and its followup 9 More Experimental PHP Projects You Should Check Out struck such a chord with developers that I thought it would be fun to continue the theme, this time applying the idea to the JavaScript programming language.

Perhaps more than any other programming language in history, JavaScript is experiencing a major renaissance thanks to its unique ability to serve as the glue between the client- and server-sides of a web application, a trait which is quickly becoming indispensable as developers seek to create highly responsive features which closely mimic their desktop-bound brethren. Given so much attention, we're seeing incredible innovation in the JavaScript space, and with it a fair amount of experimentation. In this article I'll highlight ten crazy JavaScript experiments, some of which are already changing the language in profound ways.
javascript  project  programming  web  internet  list  innovation  server  client 
september 2011 by avinash
The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
The HTML5 test score is an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. Even though the specification isn't finalized yet, all major browser manufacturers are making sure their browser is ready for the future. Find out which parts of HTML5 are already supported by your browser today and compare the results with other browsers.
web  development  reference  html  html5  test  compliance  audio  video  geolocation  markup  programming  language  internet 
august 2011 by avinash
Google’s Six-Front War
While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+, it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with Facebook, it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most valuable pieces of real estate in technology. Whether it’s social, mobile, browsing, local, enterprise, or even search, Google is being attacked from all angles. And make no mistake about it, they are fighting back and fighting back, hard.
technology  web  business  internet  google  strategy  product  apple  microsoft  search  advertising  browser  opinion  economy 
july 2011 by avinash
Larry Sanger Blog » Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?
Is there a new anti-intellectualism? I mean one that is advocated by Internet geeks and some of the digerati. I think so: more and more mavens of the Internet are coming out firmly against academic knowledge in all its forms. This might sound outrageous to say, but it is sadly true.
technology  education  internet  article  blog  geek  opinion  negative 
june 2011 by avinash
Knight Mozilla News Technology Partnership
Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (MoJo)
Web developers and designers around the world collaborating to invent the future of news.
technology  education  news  design  internet  collaboration  ideas  people 
june 2011 by avinash
Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology | Reuters
Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly -- in lack of sleep.

The national penchant for watching television every evening before going to sleep, playing video games late into the night or checking emails and text messages before turning off the lights could be interfering with the nation's sleep habits.

"Unfortunately, cell phones and computers, which make our lives more productive and enjoyable, may be abused to the point that they contribute to getting less sleep at night leaving millions of Americans functioning poorly the next day,"
technology  internet  research  science  electronic  television  sleep  people  productivity  problem 
june 2011 by avinash
Angry Bird’s “overnight success” only took 8 years. | The Startup Foundry
There is no denying that Angry Birds is a culture phenomenon, but one thing it’s not is an “overnight success”.

Did you know that the guys at Rovio spent 8 YEARS working on other games before they finally caught a huge break? That takes dedication. For almost a decade they didn’t have any big wins. Sure they had some small to moderate success early on, but nothing massive.
news  internet  startup  inspiration  games  angrybirds  history 
june 2011 by avinash
The Truth Is, Nobody Cares About Your Blog... | Social Media Today
…well, that’s what you’d believe if you listened to the traditional marketers, online sceptics, and old-school business brains.

But – actually – there is a grain of truth in the shocking statement. Nobody cares about your blog.

Unless you give them one, two, or all of the following things
reference  internet  blog  opinion  people  value  behaviour 
june 2011 by avinash
Sankoré
SANKORÉ, c'est une suite logicielle Open Source et gratuite pour créer des ressources comprenant : un pilote de Tableau Numérique Interactif universel, un concepteur et un éditeur
opensource  education  internet  blog  mauritius  government  project  whiteboard  electronic  interactive  software  OSS2011 
june 2011 by avinash
Flickr: Help: Guest Pass
You can share public photos in your photostream by copying the URL in your browser's address bar and pasting it an email. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they're a Flickr member or not.

But! If you want to share private photos with people, use a Guest Pass. You can grant anyone access to the entire contents of one of your sets, including any private photos it contains. A Guest Pass is actually just that URL. This means that whoever sees that URL can access the set and all the photos inside it.
flickr  guest  security  privacy  photo  photography  sharing  public  private  internet 
june 2011 by avinash
Sorting Through Apple's Many Announcements - NYTimes.com
What’s even wilder is that Apple is moving away from the concept of the computer as the hub of your digital life, which it once promoted. For the first time, you don’t need iTunes to activate and use an iPhone or iPad. You can now activate it and get software updates, wirelessly, directly to the phone or tablet. For many people, an iPad will suffice as the one home computer.
apple  summary  technology  features  cloud  computer  service  online  internet  music  mobile  mac  macosx 
june 2011 by avinash
The ‘Panda’ That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google’s Top Search Engineers | Epicenter | Wired.com
Google announced a new update last week to its search engine that addressed the growing complaint that low-quality content sites (derisively referred to as content farms) were ranked higher than higher-quality sites that seemed to be more important to users. This major change affects almost 12 percent of all search results, and the web is still buzzing about its implications...
google  search  engine  strategy  algorithm  mathematics  web  web2.0  internet 
march 2011 by avinash
The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names
Domain names are the real estate of the Internet. Just as a good location is vital for a bricks and mortar business, a good domain name will be the corner stone of your website’s success. But how to identify them? Below you will find the 7 characteristics of good domain names.
domain  internet  tips  name  value  choice 
march 2011 by avinash
SPDY, a faster alternative to HTTP by Google
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocolsto help reducethelatency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a specification of theprotocol,we have developed a SPDY-enabled Google Chrome browser and open-source web server. In lab tests, we have comparedtheperformanceof these applications over HTTP and SPDY, and have observed up to 64% reductions in page load times in SPDY. We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code, and test results, to make SPDY the next-generation application protocol for a faster web.
google  http  protocol  performance  web  networking  internet  programming  optimization  chrome  speed  development  spdy 
march 2011 by avinash
The Book on Social Media Marketing - By Ryan Quintal and Brian Donnelly
We Wrote The Book on
Social Media Marketing
By: Ryan Quintal & Brian Donnelly
Download the Free Book Now
book  socialnetworking  humour  internet  strategy  web  web2.0  people 
february 2011 by avinash
The Standard for Online and Internet Influence | Klout
Klout is the standard for influence

It all started in late 2007 while Joe Fernandez was recovering from jaw surgery. Mouth wired shut, he relied on social media to keep his friends and family up-to-date on his recovery. There was something amazing to him about being able to instantly share his thoughts and opinions with the people who trusted him the most. More importantly, since this was happening on the social web it was scalable and measurable.

Obsessed with this idea of influence on the social web, Klout was born and an amazing team of scientists, engineers, thinkers and dreamers banded together to create a standard where one had never been before.
twitter  analytics  tools  statistics  influence  people  authoritativeness  topic  internet  socialnetworking 
february 2011 by avinash
What Facebook Can Give Back To The Web
So, in the spirit of One Web and Ambient Findability, I’m asking Facebook on behalf of all Web citizens to give us the benefits of being able to just look at things online without being tracked by you. Give us the option to treat Facebook like every other part of the Web, whenever we want, and I assure you it will benefit us all.

Give us an easy one-click way to truly and totally disconnect from Facebook Connect whenever we want. I’ll still spend just as much time on Facebook, I promise! But now I won’t have to see my friends’ faces every time I look up a restaurant review on Yelp, read the news on the New York Times, or wait for external modules to load on TechCrunch. It’s just an option, and an option confers value… I’m sure the vast majority of users love Facebook Connect and will continue to use it. But having the option to return the rest of One Web to its pre-Facebook status—useful but not fundamentally social—would be the best gift that Zuck could give back to the Web.
facebook  social  internet  web  reading  strategy  website  simplicity  anonymous 
february 2011 by avinash
Launching a New Website: 18 Steps to Successful Metrics & Marketing | SEOmoz
The process of launching a new website is, for many entrepreneurs, bloggers and business owners, an uncertain and scary prospect. This is often due to both unanswered questions and incomplete knowledge of which questions to ask. In this post, I'll give my best recommendations for launching a new site from a marketing and metrics setup perspective. This won't just help with SEO, but on traffic generation, accessibility, and your ability to measure and improve everything about your site.
seo  analytics  marketing  website  startup  launch  entrepreneurship  internet  strategy 
february 2011 by avinash
Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty?
"In the developed world, there is a tendency to see the Internet and other technologies as necessarily additive, inherent contributors of positive value," he writes. "But their beneficial contributions are contingent on an absorptive capacity among users that is often missing in the developing world." He explains this via the thesis that "technology - no matter how well designed - is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute."
technology  development  internet  mobile  poverty  people  society 
february 2011 by avinash
Le Web selon Google | Noulakaz
Depuis sa création par Sergey Brin et Larry Page le 4 septembre 1998, Google n’a cessé de grandir et représente maintenant plus de Rs 5000 milliards sur le marché boursier. Depuis ses débuts comme moteur de recherche uniquement, Google a su innover en proposant des services Web qui sont rapidement devenus indispensables pour beaucoup d’entre nous. Et, le plus souvent, gratuitement.
noulakaz  google  service  web  web2.0  webservice  product  company  business  maps  search  youtube  video  internet  social  socialnetworking  opinion  magazine 
january 2011 by avinash
node.js
Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently. Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep. If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation.

This is in contrast to today's more common concurrency model where OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking is relatively inefficient and very difficult to use.
javascript  server  development  programming  library  web  web2.0  webapp  webdev  internet  opensource  tool 
january 2011 by avinash
Brian R. Bondy - Stack Overflow twitter list
This list contains all user accounts from the the Stack Overflow site who have a twitter link in their profile, sorted by reputation.
twitter  stackoverflow  programming  programmer  geek  socialnetworking  internet  people  automatic 
january 2011 by avinash
Official Google Blog: Governments shouldn’t have a monopoly on Internet governance
The beauty of the Internet is that it’s not controlled by any one group. Its governance is bottoms-up—with academics, non-profits, companies and governments all working to improve this technological wonder of the modern world. This model has not only made the Internet very open—a testbed for innovation by anyone, anywhere—it's also prevented vested interests from taking control.

But last week the UN Committee on Science and Technology announced that only governments would be able to sit on a working group set up to examine improvements to the IGF—one of the Internet’s most important discussion forums. This move has been condemned
internet  governance  legal  google  public  private  opinion  control 
december 2010 by avinash
Yahoo! : Can you please open source Delicious?
Dear Yahoo:
Many of us have relied on Delicious for years and have thousands of bookmarks organized on it. Please consider opening Delicious up to the open source community to keep it going.
delicious  yahoo  opensource  news  business  community  strategy  internet 
december 2010 by avinash
Scripting News: How Twitter and del.icio.us are alike
Perhaps if we figure out how to decentralize del.icio.us, we'll be on the way to decentralizing Twitter? Maybe all del.icio.us needed was to become realtime, and it would have become Twitter? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

BTW, I often have the same idea about Flickr. It's a gem, with a huge and influential user base, to this day. With a little love and care it might blossom into something really wonderful. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Yes, I believe in resurrection!
twitter  delicious  comparison  features  internet  web  web2.0  tool  data 
december 2010 by avinash
Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » Case study: Softrax – powering news for financial executives with RSS
There is so much information flying around in the world today that the role of information-curator, “cool hunter” or trusted collector is becoming an increasingly powerful one to play. Some of the top blogs on the web, multi-million dollar media companies now, are far more focused in vetting the best information from all around the internet than they are in doing their own original reporting.

Obviously original content creation is important – but the point is that if you can offer a timely collection of high quality resources in one place, you can play a leadership role in your industry. People will come back again and again to see what you have had the time (or the technology) to discover.
rss  howto  web2.0  news  information  syndication  pipes  filter  technology  leadership  internet 
december 2010 by avinash
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
I've used Delicious in many different ways. In addition to analyzing its patterns to discover early influencers, I've also used it for:

Blog discovery
To Power a Lightweight CMS
Key news threshold
Postrank input
etc.
yahoo  delicious  socialnetworking  tagging  bookmark  consolidation  service  blog  technology  internet  web 
december 2010 by avinash
Does Wikileaks Represent The End Of Internet History?
Wikileaks has shown the world that it’s entirely possible to hold governments accountable to their citizens. (A novel concept!) That numerous public servants have expressed outrage as a result of their actions being made available to the public they claim to represent perhaps speaks to their worth as public servants. The all-hands-on-deck reaction to the leaks can mean only one thing: they worked.

Which is to say that Wikileaks has worked.

And if Wikileaks is shut down—who honestly expects the Wikileaks organization to emerge from all of this completely unharmed?—then you can be certain that other organizations or entities will take its place. Maybe Wikileaks 2.0, or TwitterLeaks, or whatever form it takes, won’t have such a public face.
internet  history  wikileaks  politics  opinion  victory  war  fight  independent 
december 2010 by avinash
The infamous YouTube spinner
Yesterday, Mauritius Telecom announced that my Internet speed will be doubled from 512kbit/s to 1Mbit/s without an increase in subscription fee by tomorrow, 1 December 2010, exactly 20 months after another similar doubling in speed.

Naturally, I am happy. And getting 1Mbit/s is definitely going to be an important milestone for me and, I guess, a lot of Mauritian friends. We’ll leave the world of the kilobit to join the one of the megabit per second!

Or, will we?
noulakaz  weblog  blog  internet  network  performance  mauritius  speed  bandwidth  youtube 
december 2010 by avinash
Mario's Bike | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Mario's Bike

A deleted Cartier-Bresson picture. Could anyone believe that?
art  criticism  discussion  flickr  history  funny  humour  internet  philosophy  photo  photography 
november 2010 by avinash
The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet
Hi Irv, I don't know what you were thinking here dude! You got a pretty model (altho kind of old), but you have caught her with her eyes cloes in a not very good pose. Biggest problem is YOU NEED CROP to a vertical!!!!! Backdrop is too small and there is not enough of a sweep so you can see the crease. If you send me a file I can fix it in Photoshop and I can give you my suggested crop. If you don't care aboout your PROFESSIONALISM you are never going to get work as a pro believe me!!! Hope I am not being too harsh. Oh well best regards anyway, M.H.
art  article  blog  criticism  culture  design  fun  gallery  humor  inspiration  internet  online  photo  photography  satire  web  photographer 
november 2010 by avinash
Does The Future Of The Internet Have Room For Web Designers? - Smashing Magazine
As web designers and developers, what the future holds for the Internet is imperative for our livelihoods. If the Internet has radical changes in store for us, we need to understand how they might effect what we do to earn a living and what we’ll need to do to adapt and keep pace — if that’s even possible.
business  design  future  internet  trends  web  webdesign  webdev  opinion  mobile  android  iphone 
october 2010 by avinash
SEOmoz | Link Building 101 - The Almost Complete Link Guide
A lot has changed since I got into link building a few years ago - link exchange is dead, ad banners are no longer all about gaining referral traffic, and buying links is more dangerous than ever before. Because of the changes mentioned and a whole load of others the majority of link builders don’t like to give away their secrets to sourcing links, even though it’s all pretty much the same at most agencies.
seo  linkbuilding  sem  google  search  pagerank  internet  web  strategy  monetization 
september 2010 by avinash
10 Compelling Reasons to Use Zend Framework | Nettuts+
Whether you’re starting a new project or improving an existing one, in this article, I’ve provided ten reasons why you should use Zend Framework for your next project, and hopefully, it helps you in making an informed decision.
advice  article  development  framework  howto  zend  php  programming  comparison  internet  web  webdev 
september 2010 by avinash
What Happened to Yahoo
When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be.

What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company. They were already very visible when I got there in 1998. Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.
blog  business  entrepreneurship  google  yahoo  technology  programming  management  inspiration  history  media  software  search  startup  culture  internet  hacker 
august 2010 by avinash
Sagem F@st 3202 livebox notes - Helpful
The Sagem F@st 3202, also commonly Sagem Fast 3202, and more commonly known by its end users as the Wanadoo livebox, Orange livebox, and other such names. The white wedge-shaped thing.
livebox  networking  device  linux  internet  ethernet  configuration  dhcp  dhcpserver  hack  geek 
june 2010 by avinash
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability in your Web browser.
accessibility  content  design  internet  javascript  online  browser  productivity  readability  reading  text  tool  typography  usability  web  webdesign 
june 2010 by avinash
Welcome to your notable world | Evernote Corporation
free  freeware  gtd  internet  iphone  mac  mobile  online  organization  productivity  software  technology  tool  web  web2.0  bookmark  note  notetaking  android 
may 2010 by avinash
5 Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News
Few industries are experiencing greater upheaval at the hands of technological progress than the news media. New ideas are popping up every day, so we’ve collected five of the most interesting ones for your consideration.
article  blog  business  community  future  information  innovation  internet  media  online  newspaper  news  social  trends  web  web2.0  journalism 
may 2010 by avinash
The WebM Project : The WebM Project : Welcome to the WebM Project
The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.

The WebM launch is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty other publishers, software and hardware vendors.
browser  format  video  html5  internet  media  online  open  opensource  webdev  webdesign  codec 
may 2010 by avinash
Guardian Says It Needs to Become an Open Platform
While some newspapers like the Times of London and the New York Times have either implemented or are expected to launch paywalls for their content, The Guardian in Britain has taken the exact opposite approach: Not only does it give its content away for free to readers, but through its “open platform” and API, it allows developers and companies to take its content as well, and do whatever they want with it — including building it into commercial applications. Are the higher-ups at the paper crazy? Not according to Chris Thorpe, The Guardian’s “developer advocate” and a member of the team that built the open platform and helps companies integrate it into their apps and services.
api  business  ideas  media  guardian  newspaper  programming  internet  web  web2.0  mashup  technology 
may 2010 by avinash
ReclaimPrivacy.org | Facebook Privacy Scanner
This website provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. The source code and its development will always remain open and transparent.
application  browser  checker  community  facebook  internet  javascript  privacy  script  social  socialnetworking  security  web2.0 
may 2010 by avinash
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60.

However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user's personal information have become more and more permissive. They've also changed how your personal information is classified several times, sometimes in a manner that has been confusing for their users. This has largely been part of Facebook's effort to correlate, publish, and monetize their social graph: a massive database of entities and links that covers everything from where you live to the movies you like and the people you trust.
analytics  cloud  data  design  evolution  facebook  graphics  history  interactive  privacy  security  social  socialnetworking  internet  web2.0  infographics 
may 2010 by avinash
Why I Want My Daughter to be a Hacker « Off – My – Gourd
Let’s define what I mean by the term “hacker” first. There is so much FUD out there around this term. Large controlling institutions want you to fear hackers, want you to think the hacker mindset is dangerous. This could not be farther from the truth. Hackers are simply empowered individuals that want to figure things out for themselves. With hacker properly defined, let’s get to the meat, why I want my daughter to be a hacker
blog  opinion  hacker  linux  opensource  technology  independent  people  knowlegde  internet 
april 2010 by avinash
Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This document collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. It will be updated from time to time as additional cases come to light.
dmca  internet  wen  technology  censorship  law  problem  opensource  legal 
april 2010 by avinash
[2010 trends] This year heralds the ‘Planet of the Apps'
This year will see us become the ‘Planet of the Apps', with those addictive little downloads popping up on every screen - including your car dashboard, television and photo frames...
mobile  opinion  technology  web  convergence  media  internet  future  socialnetworking  people 
january 2010 by avinash
The War For the Web - O'Reilly Radar
It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we'll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we've enjoyed for the past two decades. But I'm betting that things are going to get ugly. We're heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it's more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform. Instead, we're facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amazon as the platform, where big companies slug it out until one is king of the hill.
And it's time for developers to take a stand. If you don't want a repeat of the PC era, place your bets now on open systems. Don't wait till it's too late.
internet  google  web  web2.0  future  trends  apple 
november 2009 by avinash
The death of the URL | FactoryCity
I don’t know about you, but a future without URLs and without the infinite organicity of the web frightens me. It’s not that I know what we’ll lose by removing this artifact of one of the most generative periods in history — and that’s exactly the point! The URL and the ability for anyone to mint a new one and then propagate it is what makes the web so resilient, so empowering, and so interesting! That I don’t need to ask anyone permission to create a new website or webpage is a kind of ideological freedom that few generations in history have known!
internet  url  web  design  future  technology  interface  opinion  browser 
november 2009 by avinash
High Scalability - High Scalability
WHY DOES THE HIGH SCALABILITY SITE EXIST?
To help you build successful scalable websites.

This site tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your website with confidence.
performance  web  server  development  internet  architecture  programming  blog  optimization  scalability 
october 2009 by avinash
Ross Barkman's GPRS/UMTS Info Page
Information on GPRS networks
The information on this page has been supplied mainly by users of my Apple GPRS/UMTS scripts, though one or two network providers have supplied data (officially or through an employee). It may be subject to change; if you find any inaccuracies, or know of any other network details, please let me know through the form at the end of the page.
internet  mobile  bluetooth  gprs  modem  gsm  mac  phone  reference  osx 
october 2009 by avinash
PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0 [PHP & MySQL Tutorials]
PHP uses an event-based API to process XML. In such models, the XML document is read in from beginning to end, setting off an event whenever a start tag, end tag, or block of character data is encountered. Each of these events causes a function of the programmer's choice to be called. Thus, reading an XML document with an event-based API like that of PHP is simply a matter of writing the functions to react appropriately to the events that occur as PHP moves through the document.
php  xml  parser  rss  feed  website  web  internet  programming  software  development 
october 2009 by avinash
VPS Virtual Private Server Cloud | UK / USA
VPS Cloud Hosting - Next Generation Web Hosting

Build, test and deploy your website on our VPS.NET cloud in minutes and access limitless resources with instant scalability.
Need more resources? No problem! Unlike a dedicated server there are no commitments or lock-ins and with daily billing you'll only pay for what you use.
cloud  development  server  hosting  web  webhosting  virtual  vps  virtualization  internet  network 
october 2009 by avinash
Comparison of Major VPS Providers | Docs | XenScale
I have compiled a comparison of the base packages of 4 major VPS providers.

I have based this comparison on the smallest, most affordable plan at each provider that will get you started and will handle anything you might have been doing at a shared host. As you will see, the smallest plan at Amazon is actually quite large and not very cost effective for a small site.

Linode is the cost leader at any price level with rock bottom prices on bandwidth. The difference really adds up for some of our bigger sites. One of our sites gets about 8TB of traffic a month on Linode costing about $800 in hosting charges, the same site on Slicehost would cost over $2400! Amazon EC2 starts at a high cost, but bandwidth costs would eventually undercut Slicehost and Rackspace.

The bottom line: All four providers offer a rock solid foundation to host any website or application. Linode offers the best price per dollar, but Rackspace Cloud offers the lowest initial cost (with higher bandwidth charges).
linode  cloud  ec2  slicehost  rackspace  server  hosting  comparison  vps  amazon  virtualization  web  performance  price  internet  network 
october 2009 by avinash
Monopoly goes global with giant online game using Google Maps | Mail Online
Google is to team up with one of the world’s biggest board game manufacturers to create an online version of Monopoly.

The search engine has called on Hasbro to produce the game, which will use Google Maps as a board so players can choose from millions of streets around the world to buy.

The online version will be the same as the traditional board game but players will be able to build football stadiums and skyscrapers as well as the usual houses and hotels.
google  game  monopoly  digital  online  social  maps  api  technology  web  web2.0  internet 
september 2009 by avinash
Ohloh, the open source network
“I think of Ohloh as a social network for Open Source developers and users and I am grateful to the people behind it for providing this service.”
development  socialnetworking  programming  community  web2.0  web  software  social  opensource  oss  internet  online 
september 2009 by avinash
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