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ifttt / About ifttt
This looks like a really neat service. I wonder what their business model is.
automation  internet  tools  twitter  web 
september 2011 by mcroydon
Extended Disarming - Television Tropes & Idioms
I absolutely love these kinds of scenes and that there's a page on the internet detailing them.
movie  film  culture  internet  gun  weapon 
august 2011 by mcroydon
The Technium: When Hard Books Disappear
"A prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, forever. It still amazes me that after 20 years the only publicly available back up of the internet is the privately funded Internet Archive. The only broad archive of television and radio broadcasts is the same organization. They are now backing up the backups of books. Someday we'l realize the precocious wisdom of it all and Brewster Kahle will be seen as a hero."
archive  books  internet 
june 2011 by mcroydon
Is it Friday Friday Friday?
I <3 AppEngine for quick little hacks that I don't want to host.
friday  fridayfridayfriday  music  meme  internet  appengine  google 
march 2011 by mcroydon
chartbeat / FrontPage
"chartbeat is a real-time analytics service, which provides an interface for viewing what users on your site are doing right now, as well as providing historical context."
analytics  api  development  integration  internet  javascript  stats  statistics  service  programming  semantic  live  json  tracking  web  chartbeat 
september 2010 by mcroydon
Retro Thing: 1964 Modem Reaches Out And Touches The Internet
I totally want to do this with my 1200 bps Packard Bell external...
history  internet  phone  cool  retro  museum  modem  command-line 
february 2010 by mcroydon
Pollution in 1/8 | RIPE Labs
An interesting look at some potential affects of bringing previously unallocated IP ranges online.
internet  network  sysadmin 
february 2010 by mcroydon
Journal of Eivind Uggedal: NoSQL East 2009 - Summary of Day 1
Some interesting bits and more of the same but I really like the dark-launch approach that Scribe allows.
data  database  toread  blog  scalability  internet  distributed  article  hadoop  scaling  db  cloud  couchdb  conference  papers  keyvalue  nosql  links  cassandra  2009  mongodb  dynomite  riak 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Traffic Server is finally here | Ogre.com
Yahoo! open sourced tech originally acquired from Inktomi. It's a caching proxy with some pretty advanced features.
web  software  opensource  server  scalability  internet  performance  sysadmin  todo  http  apache  cache  yahoo  nginx  proxy  trafficserver  squid 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
Big data is big and almost always requires a completely different mindset than the one that is taught in computer science programs.
data  database  processing  google  news  toread  ibm  energy  datasets  mining  search  research  science  internet  algorithms  storage  scaling  education  hadoop  analysis  computer-science  datacuration 
october 2009 by mcroydon
tr.im your URLs
"There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it -- and we just can't justify further development since Twitter has all but annointed bit.ly the market winner."
web  tools  internet  statistics  webdesign  tech  web2.0  online  tool  twitter  tracking  utility  blogging  webapp  service  analytics  services  links  url  urls  url-shortening  tinyurl  shorten  trim  short  shortener  shorturl 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Lessons Learned: The Steve Jobs method
Figuring out what your users actually want and getting it right more often than not is one way to make something amazing.
design  development  apple  business  toread  management  internet  startup  marketing  innovation  entrepreneurship  startups  strategy  entrepreneur  pixar  product  life  lean  success  stevejobs  ping.fm 
august 2009 by mcroydon
NASA NEBULA - Cloud Computing
It looks like they've selected some good tech including Eucalyptus, Solr, and Varnish.
research  opensource  internet  distributed  computing  cloud  space  virtualization  nasa  computerscience  cloudcomputing  enterprise  platform  computer_science  capacity  nebula 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Delay-tolerant networking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Delay-tolerant networking (DTN) is an approach to computer network architecture that seeks to address the technical issues in heterogeneous networks that may lack continuous network connectivity."
reference  toread  wikipedia  research  wiki  network  internet  space  compsci  communication  mathematics  latency  dtn  networking 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Guardian launches Open Platform service to make online content available free
Interesting take on API monetization: "The Guardian is positioning its Open Platform as a commercial venture, requiring partners to carry its advertising as part of its terms and conditions..."
maps  journalism  data  media  news  geolocation  business  api  technology  internet  web2.0  online  newspaper  social  future  collaboration  newspapers  article  open  innovation  content  webservices  distribution  platform  sharing  opendata  guardian  newmedia  opencontent  openplatform 
march 2009 by mcroydon
The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of: The Story of Erwise and Four Finns Who Showed the Way to the Web Browser | Xconomy
I'm such a dork: I'm reading this and thinking how awesome it would be to have some alternate history scifi based on this.
web  software  history  internet  cool  browser  vc  culture  finland  read  browsers 
march 2009 by mcroydon
Ned Batchelder: They want Sandy
The dangers of relying on the free cloud. I'm guessing that more free services are going to go the way of Sandy as the economy worsens.
internet  web2.0  twitter  free  no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch 
november 2008 by mcroydon
RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
"Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout."
web  internet  fun  http  protocol  humor  coffee  rfc  htcpcp  tea 
august 2008 by mcroydon
NBC Olympics On The Go -- powered by TVTonic
This looks like a potentially compelling way to watch the olympics.. on a Vista PC. I may install this if it's that good.
video  internet  tv  streaming  online  sports  stream  2008  portable  download  sport  live  vista  hd  nbd  olympics  hdtv  mediacenter  nbc 
august 2008 by mcroydon
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