Web apps
Sig.ma or Semantic Information Mashup
I’ve discovered today an interesting site. It’s called sig.ma and it is a data aggregator for the semantic web. It seems that it has been launched recently (22 july 2009). What does it do ? It aggregates structured data from the web for the users keyword. For example if you enter Europe in the search [...]
WordPress upgrade under 3 minutes without leaving admin interface
I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 (Chet Baker). I think i never experienced such a smooth upgrade to a new version of a web application. When i logged in to the admin interface of my WordPress it just warned me that there is a new version and i should upgrade. Ok i clicked the warning [...]
Joost dumps standalone player
Joost decided to dump the standalone player and to offer videos only in browsers on the web interface (something like youtube). Here is the email i received today: At this point, we have decided to discontinue our original Joost software application. As of Friday, Dec. 19th, you will no longer be able to watch videos [...]
Running on WordPress 2.7
Following the release of WordPress 2.7 i upgraded quickly to this version. The famous quick install only took 3 minutes and i encountered no problems. After this i tought that i try the new live update functions of the application. So i installed a plugin for sharing posts with others without leaving the WordPress [...]
Deezer aka how to listen music online for free
Often while i’m working i listen to music, especially rock but i listen everything except opera. My work computer has some music files on it but not many so i listen radios from time to time but i am not a big radio fan. In fact i want to listen what i like and not [...]
3 books for building revolutionary web applications
So i read again. That is not news. But i wanted to share with you what i read lately. Below you can find 3 very good books that can help you if you want to build scalable and revolutionary web applications. Maybe you know some of them, maybe not, but here they are anyway: Building [...]
PHP support may be on the way in Google App Engine
Rumor has it that Google is adding support for a new runtime language for Google App Engine. If you take a closer look at their roadmap you can see that for sure another runtime language will be added. But which one will be ? Java or PHP ? According to some reports, Google said that [...]
Google gives too much importance to blogs
Lately Google gives too much importance to blogs, blog posts. Its Universal Search Engine ranks few minutes ago written posts higher then well estabilished pages with relevant information to the subject that i was searching. OK, it may be interesting to see everybody’s rants about anything, but when i search for the address of a [...]
Online storage? What’s that?
Waiting for the GDrive from Google i decided to test some of the online storage providers that already exist. So i searched on Google for “online storage” and choosed 3 of the first 10 results. The 3 selected ones were XDrive, Mediamax and Humyo and i started to sign up for them to see what [...]
Desktop email apps: To be or not to be
In these times more and more desktop applications are migrating to the web, more and more time is spent in the browser instead of standalone desktop applications. People read their email online through various web based e-mail solutions that deliver the same performance as a desktop email client. Some of them offer the possibility to [...]
