I've got wireless speakers at home, have had them for about a year, and I love them. Now I'm waiting for wireless electricity and I'll be set! I'm not joking. Batteries are ok, they last a few months, but they get weak with time, so you have to keep turning up the volume.
Comparing tagging to meta keywords is a bad one. Apples and oranges. Both are fruit, but should not be compared without more context. Doublin Core meta tags called for abuse, as they were created by the very author of a web page they described. As with blogs now, people go ego-crazy (or $-crazy) and will do almost anything to game the system and have a high placement on search engines like Technorati for blogs or Google for any other web page. Tagging is different.
Tags are created by _others_, and that is the key. Sure, the author will tag his/her own blog/page/link, but the masses will tag the ____ out of any link, and the "wisdom" will prevail. It's hard to fight a big crowd.
Those tired of hearing about and misspelling del.icio.us, look at Simpy, especially if you don't like being forced to expose _all_ your links or if you want to be able to save+tag with your fellow geeks.
I used to work with Ari at Blink. I also run Simpy. While all 3 services deal with links/bookmarks, they deal (or have dealt) with them differently. There was hardly any social aspect to Blink. Internet users of that day probably would not have gone for it. Delicious & Co. (re)created the notion of openness. Some call that "social", while I call that exhibitionist. I think Simpy strikes a good balance by not forcing you to share absolutely everything (got to keep that pr0n away from your mom and dad), by allowing different privacy options and better group tagging. Plus it gives away AdSense money.
Delicious is not the only game in town. Try Simpy, it just got a nice TechCrunch writeup. Has import, export, API, privacy, full-text search, you name it.
Yeah, delirious is not looking too good these days. A few people emailed me about importing their data into Simpy. Thoughts, anyone? While Simpy is not open-source, its dad is involved in several open-source projects, one of them being Lucene. Does that make Simpy more interesting? I don't know, your call.
Those interested in blog networks should check out: http://www.blognetworklist.com/ . There is a lot of interesting information about blog networks there (rankings, traffic, size, etc.)
What is amazing about Yahoo is the number of page views per visit. This is a really important metric for any business counting on advertizing revenues. The numbers are here (also a google.com comparison). Compare that to Google's numbers. Google's numbers are 2-3 times lower!
Hey, I like Simpy, too, and apparently a the Slashdot crowd suddenly loves it as well. For those new to Simpy - you can pull your del.icio.us bookmarks into Simpy through Simpy's third party support. And don't forget to tag your Mom 2.0.
1) Before resigning, no matter how professionally, ensure you have all your data with you. No, not their data, just yours, if you used their resources for your own stuff. Then, regardless of how they react, you will have nothing to worry about.
2) Choose your employer wisely. If you see any signs of them acting inhumane with other employees, leave, and do it as described under 1).
Bloggers are not necessarily the world's tech elite, but they are certainly the loudest, the most outspoken and, yes, most of them are the early adopters.
The same (early adopters bit in particular) can be said about social bookmarking users. For instance, less than 1/3 of all Simpy users use IE, and over 40% of them use Firefox. If we assume that early tech adopters are also Firefox and not IE users, then yes, bloggers and social bookmarker are early adopters. But does that make them the elite? Does Linus Torvalds have a blog? Not. Yet.
Just because MSFT has an army of programmers, it doesn't mean it has an easier time patching its old code. Larger groups of people (be they developers or military groups or a bunch of friends going out drinking) almost always require more grooming and maintenance. Look up "Dunbar Number" - here - I find it fascinating.
A smaller, and thus possibly more agile group of programmers may actually be able to patch more holes than a mammoth like MSFT. Size can be a disadvantage (don't quote me on this;)).
I think the big question is how to get to that nice FC5 from the existing FC3 or FC4. Is there a clean/supported/documented upgrade path? Just get the ISO, burn it, boot from it, and FCN+1 will be smart enough to do that _upgrade_?
Oracle has a good fuzzy text search engine? I'm not aware of it, but please point me to it. I typically use Lucene when I need to perform full-text and other IR-style searches on a data corpus.
I'd go a step further (higher). As more and more things are moving to the Web, and as web application are getting richer and richer, I'd guess that in the next 5 or so years the OS will become quite irrelevant to the end user, who will access a lot more "desktop" applications through a web interface.
You are assuming school and degrees are for show, for others. They are primarily for you. That is why, in the end, it is really more important that you got good education than that you went to a big name school.
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Not necessarily. I have mine set about 10 meters away from the transmitter, and they work fine. And they are RCA speakers!
I've got wireless speakers at home, have had them for about a year, and I love them. Now I'm waiting for wireless electricity and I'll be set! I'm not joking. Batteries are ok, they last a few months, but they get weak with time, so you have to keep turning up the volume.
Are they?
Or will developers have to write another version, just for IE7 users?
Comparing tagging to meta keywords is a bad one. Apples and oranges. Both are fruit, but should not be compared without more context. Doublin Core meta tags called for abuse, as they were created by the very author of a web page they described. As with blogs now, people go ego-crazy (or $-crazy) and will do almost anything to game the system and have a high placement on search engines like Technorati for blogs or Google for any other web page.
Tagging is different.
Tags are created by _others_, and that is the key. Sure, the author will tag his/her own blog/page/link, but the masses will tag the ____ out of any link, and the "wisdom" will prevail. It's hard to fight a big crowd.
Those tired of hearing about and misspelling del.icio.us, look at Simpy, especially if you don't like being forced to expose _all_ your links or if you want to be able to save+tag with your fellow geeks.
I used to work with Ari at Blink. I also run Simpy. While all 3 services deal with links/bookmarks, they deal (or have dealt) with them differently. There was hardly any social aspect to Blink. Internet users of that day probably would not have gone for it. Delicious & Co. (re)created the notion of openness. Some call that "social", while I call that exhibitionist. I think Simpy strikes a good balance by not forcing you to share absolutely everything (got to keep that pr0n away from your mom and dad), by allowing different privacy options and better group tagging.
Plus it gives away AdSense money.
Delicious is not the only game in town. Try Simpy, it just got a nice TechCrunch writeup. Has import, export, API, privacy, full-text search, you name it.
Yeah, delirious is not looking too good these days. A few people emailed me about importing their data into Simpy. Thoughts, anyone?
While Simpy is not open-source, its dad is involved in several open-source projects, one of them being Lucene. Does that make Simpy more interesting? I don't know, your call.
Those interested in blog networks should check out: http://www.blognetworklist.com/ . There is a lot of interesting information about blog networks there (rankings, traffic, size, etc.)
What is amazing about Yahoo is the number of page views per visit. This is a really important metric for any business counting on advertizing revenues. The numbers are here (also a google.com comparison). Compare that to Google's numbers. Google's numbers are 2-3 times lower!
Did we really need a study to tell us that?
Yes, you can import your del.icio.us links and tags in real-time - here (need to login first, of course).
Hey, I like Simpy, too, and apparently a the Slashdot crowd suddenly loves it as well. For those new to Simpy - you can pull your del.icio.us bookmarks into Simpy through Simpy's third party support. And don't forget to tag your Mom 2.0.
Another reason why Web 2.0 matters socioeconomically: more people will have jobs!
1) Before resigning, no matter how professionally, ensure you have all your data with you. No, not their data, just yours, if you used their resources for your own stuff. Then, regardless of how they react, you will have nothing to worry about.
2) Choose your employer wisely. If you see any signs of them acting inhumane with other employees, leave, and do it as described under 1).
Bloggers are not necessarily the world's tech elite, but they are certainly the loudest, the most outspoken and, yes, most of them are the early adopters.
The same (early adopters bit in particular) can be said about social bookmarking users. For instance, less than 1/3 of all Simpy users use IE, and over 40% of them use Firefox. If we assume that early tech adopters are also Firefox and not IE users, then yes, bloggers and social bookmarker are early adopters. But does that make them the elite? Does Linus Torvalds have a blog? Not. Yet.
Talking about Google's rules are the "Don't be evil mantra", check out the Google & Kozoru story. Don't be evil, yeah right!
You know what they say - rules are to be broken.
Just because MSFT has an army of programmers, it doesn't mean it has an easier time patching its old code. Larger groups of people (be they developers or military groups or a bunch of friends going out drinking) almost always require more grooming and maintenance. Look up "Dunbar Number" - here - I find it fascinating.
;)).
A smaller, and thus possibly more agile group of programmers may actually be able to patch more holes than a mammoth like MSFT. Size can be a disadvantage (don't quote me on this
How about FC3 -> FC4|FC5?
Also known as ADDM - Attention Deficit Disored Mouse.
I think the big question is how to get to that nice FC5 from the existing FC3 or FC4. Is there a clean/supported/documented upgrade path? Just get the ISO, burn it, boot from it, and FCN+1 will be smart enough to do that _upgrade_?
Oracle has a good fuzzy text search engine? I'm not aware of it, but please point me to it.
I typically use Lucene when I need to perform full-text and other IR-style searches on a data corpus.
I'd go a step further (higher). As more and more things are moving to the Web, and as web application are getting richer and richer, I'd guess that in the next 5 or so years the OS will become quite irrelevant to the end user, who will access a lot more "desktop" applications through a web interface.
For those interested in visualizing this, here is how Slashdot and Digg compare, according to Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=6m&size=medium&y=r&url=slashdot.org#top
You are assuming school and degrees are for show, for others. They are primarily for you. That is why, in the end, it is really more important that you got good education than that you went to a big name school.