My Favorite Firefox Extensions
Among the many reasons why Firefox is superior to Internet Explorer is its use of extensions, add-ins that give it all kinds of cool new features. There are a lot of them out there, but here are some of my favorites.
- Preston Gralla [12:59:41 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

NewNetNewsWire
A quick look at the new stuff from Ranchero.com
- Giles Turnbull [08:16:40 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Uh oh... I just fell for PostgreSQL. But I'm married to MySQL!
You know that head-spinning feeling where you've got a long-time steady partner/girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse, but then in one night, you meet someone new that turns your world upside-down? Last night I tried PostgreSQL.
- Derek Sivers [07:22:13 AM | Discuss (6) | Permalink]

Crap-free Real Player
The BBC's charter says they aren't allowed to shower their viewers with craptastic ads for random American companies (I'm paraphrasing), so to get Real as a BBC format, Real had to produce an ad-free player. Which you can download. Yay BBC! Now you can enjoy Indian dance music, bagpipes, or classic comedy without ads for Britney Spears merchandise, medication for anal leakage, or whatever else Real decides to shove your way. (via Neil Gaiman's blog)
- Nathan Torkington [08:37:35 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Where Are All The BlogWomen?
The O'Reilly world has many fine women authors. So why aren't they blogging like the rest of us fascinating O'Reilly authors?
- Carla Schroder [07:40:06 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Editing Tips
Found this good piece on editing today. It gives good advice on how to improve over first drafts. From experience I know that revising a lot of text makes you more conscious about what you're writing as you write it, which leads to tighter first drafts. And that's a good thing.
- Nathan Torkington [05:56:46 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Sketch-a-Move cars use touchscreens to plan driving paths
Louise Klinker and Anab Jain built some toy cars with touchscreens as the bodies. If you draw a squiggle or other shape on the touchscreen with an erasable pen, the car will move in a path that corresponds to the squiggle. Be sure to watch the quicktime movie.
- Mark Frauenfelder [02:43:20 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Ask Jeff Bezos, Adam Bosworth, John Doerr, Eddy Cue...
At the Web 2.0 Conference October 5-7 in San Francisco, I'm doing a one-on-one interview with Jeff Bezos, and panels with Adam Bosworth, Halsey Minor, Kevin Lynch, Justin Hanke and others. John Battelle is doing the same with folks like John Doerr, Mark Cuban, and Eddy Cue. I'd love your input into what we ought to be asking these guys.
- Tim O'Reilly [12:40:01 PM | Discuss (4) | Permalink]

Are Web Services receding?
A lot of postings I've seen in the last week follow nicely on a "Web Services War Stories" session I saw at Foo Camp, suggesting that Web Services, while still continuing, may have lost their general promise.
- Simon St. Laurent [12:08:38 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Fedora Core 3 Test 2 Screenshots
With the release of Fedora Core 3 Test 2 yesterday I thought some screenshots were in order.
- Steve Mallett [10:47:50 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Let's not Repeat Telecom 96
For years, observers of the American telecom system were yelling for true competition in local phone service. Ever since the AT&T; breakup in 1983, the local phone service industry was dominated by incumbent local exchange carriers—the companies that were the heirs of the AT&T; network.
- Ted Wallingford [08:03:25 AM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

RFID Implementation as Command Capitalism
A nice short article about the Wal-Mart RFID initiative as an example of command capitalism.
- John Adams [07:17:29 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Computers are dumb, evven when they are smart
I'm on the road, so my internet access is through the hotel wireless set-up. While I wasn't looking, every URL became the authorization page URL.
- brian d foy [07:00:54 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Forgive me while I jump to a quick conclusion
Is Apple's lo-fi "education" iMac a possible eMac replacement?
- Giles Turnbull [08:33:45 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Updating some updates
Just some little details.
- Giles Turnbull [08:30:02 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Patent Nonsense
Yet Another Weblog Entry Complaining About a Recently Granted Patent: Microsoft gets one for keyboard navigation of hypertext links.
- Bob DuCharme [08:20:13 AM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

How to call web services with REST instead of SOAP
Most of the VB/VBA web service examples out there demonstrate SOAP interfaces, but it is often easier to call them through REST.
- Jeff Webb [07:41:29 AM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Jennifer Wood: Mac Craftsman
Great designers needs great tools. That's why Wood & Associates uses Macs.
- Alan Graham [07:25:11 PM | Discuss (5) | Permalink]

CSPAN, open source software, and transparency
CSPAN is anonymous access to the CVS repository of governance, and we need more of it. Brian Lamb (CSPAN founder) should be properly recognized as an open source pioneer.
- Tim O'Brien [11:48:41 PM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

OpenOffice.org and the Sun-Microsoft no-sue agreement
Ryan Singer counters speculation that Sun's recent no-sue agreement with Microsoft might have adverse effects on the continued development of OpenOffice.org.
- Jean Hollis Weber [08:17:42 PM | Discuss (0) | Permalink]

Computers. Huh. What are they good for?
Do we really need computers? Why bother?
- Carla Schroder [08:08:39 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Woe and redemption on the route to wireless
Turns out there's a simple, cheap USB solution for getting wireless. Let's just hope it works.
- Giles Turnbull [04:04:12 PM | Discuss (5) | Permalink]

The Future of the Semantic Web is Here Today and is Evenly Distributed
This is a follow up on my previous essay 'Applying Distributed XML to The Open Source Paradigm Shift'. In that essay I write that we must wrestle away the power of a few sites to own all our data by publishing our contributions to the web in distributed XML files like we do with RSS. In this essay I will argue that the tools to do this exist now, and that all factors point toward a future of owning and publishing all our contributions. The future of the Semantic Web is Here and is evenly distributed today. So, let's get started.
- Steve Mallett [11:07:14 AM | Discuss (4) | Permalink]

Open Source at Sun
I spent Tuesday afternoon at Sun with Mike Shaver of Mozilla, Brian Behlendorf of Collab.NET, James Duncan Davidson, and others. Sun had assembled several hundred engineers, managers, and even marketing people, interested in the open source process. I moderated three sessions, and in every session the same basic truths came out ...
- Nathan Torkington [10:28:50 AM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

Should Apple Acquire Skype?
Business Week sees a case for Apple to extend iChat into a peer-to-peer network similar to Skype. The columnist, Alex Salkever, calls this idea "MacPhone", and contends that Apple needs to jump on the VoIP telephony bandwagon. One way to do this would be to mirror Skype's P2P network. Alex has a cool idea, but the wrong endgame in mind.
- Ted Wallingford [09:42:18 AM | Discuss (3) | Permalink]

Gnome 2.8 Screenshots
Gnome 2.8 was released this week & Ubuntu Linux 4.1 was shipped with it so we've taken a number of screenshots for you to peruse through & decide if you want to upgrade though we all know you will.
- Steve Mallett [09:23:13 AM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

G$D/Groovy: Finding Help
Where to look for answers about all things Groovy.
- Marc Hedlund, Marc Hedlund [06:10:54 PM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]

Analyzing survey results using OpenOffice.org Calc
The author is forced to learn about advanced functions and formulas in spreadsheets when she volunteers to analyze the data from a survey. She thought it would be easy...
- Jean Hollis Weber [05:08:19 PM | Discuss (4) | Permalink]

Book proposal
PayPal Hacks co-author David Nielsen's book proposal was a first, at least in my book.
- Rael Dornfest [02:05:04 PM | Discuss (1) | Permalink]

RSS Explodes on the Mac
The developer of Acquisition brings us a fresh look at the news reader interface.
- Jason Deraleau [07:57:48 AM | Discuss (6) | Permalink]

DataLibre Update
Ok, yesterday was a bit of a rush of noise surrounding DataLibre so here's the update as of this morning:
- Steve Mallett [07:23:11 AM | Discuss (2) | Permalink]