Since Mac OS X v10.2’s release, Apple has promoted a zero-configuration networking technology it calls Rendezvous. Now Apple is further promoting the standard more with the release of Rendezvous technology for Java clients, POSIX platforms including Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD, and a “technology preview” for Windows. Developers for those platforms interested in finding out more [...]

I hate it when two friends get involved in lawsuits.
So Affinity Engines - has sued Google (about Orkut.)
I am personally involved with both these companies - so I will refrain from direct comment except - “I hate fucking lawyers who make a living from suing people.”
Now that’s not to say that AE doesn’t have the [...]

Howard Rheingold on CivicSpace….
I was thrilled to meet a young man by the name of Zack Rosen at SXSW this year, and more thrilled when he told me that his reading of Smart Mobs was a key inspiration behind his effort to create the infrastructure for Deanspace. He’s been working on a toolkit for community [...]

We’re trading a house in Amsterdam with our house for three weeks in the late summer - so it was great to see this post from Peter Merholz.
You’ll be getting plenty of Amsterdam hints and tips from me soon enough. So to start it all off, here’s Peter’s full post….
And hi to Peter Mitchell [...]

I believe I have finally seen the light as to how the Internet Topic Exchange (ITE) could be made simpler to use and more viral at once,
taking one cue from my colleague Stephen’s recent ridiculously easy shibboleth strategy for putting together conference aggregators and another from Joshua Shachter’s now-defunct reversible.org.

Right now submitting a post to [...]

For some reason Spanish-speaking bloggers are among those who show the most interest in the Internet Topic Exchange. They use it for instance to help build a directory of spanish blogs, and for metablogging. Now Peruvian blogger Juan Arrelano seems to have caught the bug and has started a translation & discussion of ridiculously easy [...]

Jason Kotke writes….
Interesting note on Dave Hyatt’s site about Dashboard and the version of Safari that will ship with Tiger (Hyatt is the lead developer on Safari): [The Dashboard widgets] are Web pages, plain and simple (with extra features thrown in for added measure). Apple’s own web site says “build your own widgets using the [...]

Jon udell (in his typical fashion) tells it like it is - vis a vis -the usage of special EFX in graphics and visualization in general. I just wish Jon talked more about how Laszlo is defining this new category - not (we like to copy, steal and slime people) Macromedia.
Also - you’ll never [...]

Great article in the Beeb News about a research project which is actually reaping great benefits.
For years - I believe one of the things holding up video conferencing was that the viewer sees the other person either looking up or to the see - there’s no eye contact, as the camera on the others side [...]

Congrats to Joyce and the front-end team Friendster for pulling off the JSP to PHP migration. Having the front end less tightly coupled with everything else ought to make life a lot easier for some folks there. Now, any bets as to when the “beta” label will come off their logo?…
[Jeremy Zawodny]
Indeed.