links for 2005-12-22

  • Google Modules
    still, no killer app there, but here are some of the first modules for Google Homepage API.
    (tags: google api)

Yahoo! WordPress hosting

According to this, Yahoo! Small Business, Yahoo! now offers WP hosting. Their prices look nice.

I was just wondering, could someone who is already using the service tell me how much freedom you get? I mean, can I add my plugins, what version of PHP they are using, etc.

Please, if you have more info, leave a comment!

links for 2005-12-21

del.icio.us is down…

del.icio.us is down for some hours (or maybe more?) now. It is so annoying when you have become to depend on a service and it is down… I will pospone today’s browing until del.icio.us is up again.

My OS X favorites

Here are my favorite Open Source apps for OS X, the ones I would install imediately after a fresh OS X installation:

- iTerm terminal emulator.
- Chicken of the VNC, VNC client
- Seashore, GIMP-based OS X app for image manipulation.
- D-Subtitler (extract subtitles from DVD), D-Vision (GUI for mencoder/mplayer) and D-Volution (encode .mov and .dv files in Divx/Xvid or h264) from ObjectifMac
- NeoOffice, a port of OpenOffice.org to the OS X
- Firefox
- Fire an IM client supporting ICQ, MSN, Y!IM, etc..
- MPlayer OS X
- BitTorrent
- Cyberduck a nice ftp/sftp client.

Of course, if you are into UNIX/Linux you will feel much more at home by installing Darwin Ports…

links for 2005-12-17

Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

Richard MacManus sums it up: Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005. I just have the feeling that 2005 is not over for Web 2.0. So many exciting things happening at such a fast pace!

links for 2005-12-16

Structured Blogging

Here is a nice idea: Structured Blogging. It looks like microformats or something, but with a couple of plugins already available for Typead and WordPress.

Paul Kedrosky says that Structured Blogging Will Flop, the reason is simple, people are too lazy to put this (little) extra effort needed to produce “structured blogging” content if they have nothing to gain.

is not going to work in the real world of lazy users who see little in it for them

But… wait! Actually, users may have something to make out of it. Niall Kennedy’s article, Paying bloggers for generating useful content, may just be the answer:

As more and more companies create business models around “consumer generated media” individual publishers are beginning to wonder when they might see a slice of the revenue. I believe there are opportunities for bloggers to be paid for their content without compromising editorial integrity and also rewarding the tool builders.

Google Homepage API

Google released their Google Homepage API. At first I just bookmarked it -one more cute feature.

Then I realized what a groundbraking idea this is. What Google is actually saying is: Use our engine, build your app and we will host it. They call these small applications “modules”, and that’s exactly what they are: application modules written in javascript that can take advantage of Google’s underlying engine. The API provides personalization and an abstraction layer for asynchronous HTTP requests. You may host your code at your server or in Google Base (the new “storage area”?)

It is not something groundbraking from a technological perspective. But, given Google’s reach I expect to see interesting applications written fro this “platform”. Applications that may turn user’s browsers more than ever into “virtual desktops”.