Lately, I have come accross many applications or ideas that combine geographic data with other information. People are talking about “geocasting” that is podcasts associated with geographical coordinates, geo-targeting in ads (this is old, I know) and now this: Mappr! Where It’s At.
Mappr! is an application that tries to associate images from Flickr! with places (using flickr! tags). Nice and cool idea!
Looks like today is a google-news-day… Here is the latest one: SiliconValley.com | 01/21/2005 | Get 1,800 marketing and sales people to keep a secret? No problem (according to this article, google is planning to implement a public API to AdWords)
Cool!
I never had to search for something longer than 10 words, but I guess that such upgrades are always welcome.. So, this is it, you can now google using up to 32 words per query.
From now on, g-metrics.com will be using rel=”nofollow” in the links returned by Google (Top 10 shown at the bottom of each report). The reason is avoiding cyclic reference to the results that Google returns anyway…
This is one of the most brilliant ideas I heard for some time:Marqui’s world: This e-Mail Is… [x] Bloggable
Nice and simple. Just add something like
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[x] blogable [ ] ask first []private
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to your signature and make it easy for others to know the “license” each of your emails is distributed under. Something like a Creative Commons License per e-mail!
I want a Thunderbird plugin with Creative Commons signatures automation!
Those of you who have been reading this blog are already familiar with what I’ve called “Content Enrichment” (if not read this).
I was reading
Reference Tracking and the Performance of Technorati, Feedster, and Bloglines (by Jeremy Zawodny) when I realized that most people think of these engines as an interesting source to gather stats.
However, there are (or should be) so many better ways to use them! We should be moving to what could be called ContentMix, that is techniques to automatically mix content from different sources and create something more interesting and valuable. Get the tags related to a posting URL from del.icio.us, look them up in google using Google Web APIs, and get the top results! Create dynamic site navigation using del.icio.us tags at your site! Look up each link in your site to Technorati and get extra “Releted Links”! Clean up a feed from common words and look up what’s left at Amazon…
I would like to see some more of this around!
I was wondering what is the best way to prepare an organization to accept Linux in its IT infrastracture. Then it struck me: instead (or at the same time) of evangelizing Linux and Open Source, one could just inject diversity.
How would you do that? It’s simple and honest: just choose the best of the kind for each job! Don’t lock yourself to a single vendor! By PCs, Macs, Unix workstations, Windows XP Servers, Solaris Servers, etc… Just pick the best operating system, platforma and application for each job.
Then wait. Wait for the time incompatibilities will show up. It will be an upgrade of a client or a server. It may be a new feature, or a new program. This is the time to explain that “if we want the best of each kind we have to use Open Standards” –open standards in data transfer, open standards in services, open standards in document formats. Hopefully, little by little the organization will start using and valuing Open Standards and the cost of vendor lock-in.
When this is done suggest Linux! It will fit in naturally. That’s the kind of environment where Linux is most valuable, and easy to operate.
Do you think this is a good idea?
The Mac mini is soooooo cool! Will it run Linux? I’ll buy one the soonest possible. The perfect server for home.
The Technorati Developer’s Contest is over and here are the winners! Nice ideas, check them out!