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I saw that CoComment.com was going down - it's a comment tracking service. They explain why on their blog.

The system would then store it as "entities" - linked data about people, places, things, organizations, and events, according to a report summarizing a 2004 DHS conference in Alexandria, Va.

Google, Yahoo, and MSN APIs are free but they do the searching for you and they have caps. Since you are paying Alexa, you can use it as much as you can pay. And, this new service does not offer search on it on its own. The Alexa Search Platform gives you only archive access - you have to do indexing and search on your own.

They have "gadgets" and they're holding a development competition. I think getting more developers is part of their "live" web strategy.

If they want to push their licenses without questions on the code pedigree, maybe they should open up a project from scratch so it's "Shared Source" from the beginning. No question who wrote the code or which company they licensed/bought/stole it from.

This is probably why it's the Visual Studio 2005 starter kits that's being offered - basically demo code that can just as easily be written by a Microsoft MVP not employed by them.

It looks like Cisco branded products are moving up the application layer to enterprise products. Perhaps plain IP is now a commodity - they have retained the Linksys brand and not folded the products into "Cisco."

The PCs mentioned in the article could be clients for their application oriented networking and message queueing architecture and product line.

IBM offers support for Geronimo. That's competition on the services front. They are even hosting a contest on Sourceforge.

IBM bought Gluecode Software and adopted its flagship product, the Apache Geronimo J2EE application server. Gluecode's founder went on to found Simula Labs with portfolio of 2 companies at the moment. One of them is sponsoring the ActiveMQ messaging server, a sister project of Geronimo.

There was talk about having a PayPal Philippines, but it turns out to be just an offshore call/BPO center.

A couple of months ago I spent a good ammount of time tuning MySQL/InnoDB for a JBoss/J2EE app. It wasn't fun but I couldn't port the data to PostgreSQL.

I got a Toshiba laptop hard drive replaced. The replacement I got came from a Sun blade server - OEMd to Toshiba. I'm sure blade chassis could make good use of denser 1.8" and 2.5" drives.

Now they're going up the network stack with high-value applications such as Message Queueing. These use Intel CPUs on a a router blade.

Now if you run your own Squid, but are limited to ssh, you can still make Subversion work.

Glassfish uses Derby, which was open sourced by IBM from the Cloudscape embedded database.

The Mainframe's impact on Java is in the Java Message Service. JMS evolved from commercial MQ products that talk to the mainframe, but is now message queueing readibly accessible as open source.

They are probably thinking about extra revenues from applications. Application servers for SIP and Asterisk bring more value there.

The monopoly telco in the Philippines, PLDT, has invested in the top MMOG operator, Level Up Games. They operate the local Ragnarok franchise.

Or for a complete business VoIP solution, you can use Mobicents, which implements the JAIN SLEE (Java API for Integrated/Intelligent Networks, Service Logic Execution Environment). It has a Resource Adapter for Asterisk, so it can manage the protocol layer.

Sun's Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) has been opened up as Project Glassfish under the CDDL. It even uses a database engine originally owned by IBM.

Sun's Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) has been opened up as Project Glassfish under the CDDL. It even uses a database engine originally owned by IBM.

I bought the Acer Travelmate 2312WLCi with the "Linux option" and the local distributor loaded Red Hat 9. I replaced that with Centos 4.

It's supported by the Unichrome sourceforge project.

Some motherboard chipsets are better-supported than the others. I have a motherboard based on the VIA PM800 chipset, but at the time I tried, I couldn't get it to work with the driver since PM800 support was experimental. While the VESA driver works, I had to install a cheap AGP card since I needed gamma correction to compensate for my (cheap) overbright LCD panel.

I just checked again and someone got the PM800 working. I'll try that when I reinstall my box (soon).

It's supported by the Unichrome sourceforge project.

Some motherboard chipsets are better-supported than the others. I have a motherboard based on the VIA PM800 chipset, but at the time I tried, I couldn't get it to work with the driver since PM800 support was experimental. While the VESA driver works, I had to install a cheap AGP card since I needed gamma correction to compensate for my (cheap) overbright LCD panel.

I just checked again and someone got the PM800 working. I'll try that when I reinstall my box (soon).

No one has mentioned Peltier cooling yet? It looks like that works on the same principles.

For the rest of us with hot CPUs or want silence... there's the Thermalright SI-97 for Socket A (AMD) boards, and Thermalright XP-90 for sockets 478/775 (Intel) and 754/939 (AMD).

I've been working on a such a "rich" app using the Javascript DOM on the front to call SOAP and XML services on the back. I wrote about my experiences.

The article is just a simple summary... check out Silent PC Review for really in-depth coverage.

Some hardware review sites are dedicated to cooling equipment. One of them is Pimp My Rig.

Personally, I replaced my Intel stock fan with the Thermalright XP-90 + Panaflo 92mm L1A.

More people are looking through cashing in on their blogs, like through Adsense, and other schemes like BlogKits BlogMatch which show that AdSense doesn't work for blogs. Then we have the commercially sponsored blogs from companies like Gawker Media - such as Lifehacker for Sony.

Here's some analysis on commercial blogging. (Yes, it's from a blog!)

I wrote about my JBossMQ experience here. The persistence layer needs work on the admin's part.

Google Ads as Micropayments. My reactions here and here.

Google Ads as Micropayments. My reactions here and here.