Notes from Sven Latham
"the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i’m proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs." – Jim Winstead, today (http://trainedmonkey.com/entry/2251)
Veeeeerrryyy interesting. The Yahoo! favicon and copyright is already up there 🙂
http://www.mick.tilbury.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm?dhss.htm
" In accordance with your instructions I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope."
" I am pleased to inform you that my husband who was reported missing, is dead."
" The toilet is blocked and we can’t bath the children until it is cleared."
Extracts from actual letters (written in good faith) to the UK Social Security.
 http://www.dynamite.co.uk/local/
Google Maps with data showing travel news, speed cameras, local photos, local website, and potentially much more.
This kind of demonstration is a real eye-opener – both in terms of how dynamic HTML & datasets can make truly excellent applications and how otherwise unassociated data sources can be pulled together gracefully into a common interface. My head is already buzzing with new ideas after seeing this…
" Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound."
Runs from within Java, so the results are quite portable. Some of the exhibition material for this neat little language is amazing.
Thanks Dave M
Almost feels as if you need to do the work for them, but in reality Google’s new Sitemaps XML system gives the webmaster more control over how often and where Google’s bots will go. (via Dave Winer)
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=71140
Microsoft’s answer to Google Maps due this summer. I’m downloading the 127Mb video right now, and hoping it’ll be decent enough quality to get a good feel for what’s to come. Since a good deal of interest in Google Maps seems to have been through its hackability (although I don’t imagine they planned that), I hope that/wonder whether Microsoft will include some kind of API for custom datasets. If so, look forward to an enslaught of third party overlays and datasets.
http://secunia.com/advisories/15292/
If you’re a Firefox user it’s well worth reading this link and taking the appropriate action – Secunia think it’s rather serious.
http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/04/tags-database-schemas.html
Possible database schemas for del.icio.us – won’t go into it too much but I use the "Toxy" solution for the keywords in Blogwise and it works rather well.
 http://www.blogwise.com/index2
The Last updated list should do two things:
1/ Change the ‘Last updated’ time in real time. If the time since a blog was updated switches from 1 minute ago to 2 minutes ago (for example), then the page should update in real time to reflect this. Blogs less than a minute ago should say ‘Just now’
2/ Any new blogs that are updated should appear at the top of the page, with older updated slowly moving downwards then eventually disappearing. Bear in mind this will only work when the update system is, which at the moment can be a bit flaky
I need to know as much info as possible about which browsers this works on so:
– Can you tell me which of these (both, either, neither) happens for you.
– Which browser you’re using
– Whether you like it or notÂ
Originally posted on the reviewers’ forums but posted here too for blog readers’ feedback 🙂
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4472521.stm
"A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces."