Most companies keep resources associated with on-going but as-yet-unreleased projects hidden from public view. Working at a big company has made me realize that many tools for organizing various bits of data, that I took almost for granted as a grad student, are not available inside the firewall. Here are just a few:
delicious, for [...]
Twitter provides RSS/Atom feeds of your posts; with these feeds, your posts can be easily tracked in news readers like Google Reader, monitored in aggregators like FriendFeed or SocialThing!, and cross-posted into other blog services such as Tumblr. This idea works fine, except for the fact that Twitter has been co-opted to be not only an ambient intimacy [...]
Twitter is the hot messaging platform of choice for many discerning technologists and early adopters. (If you don’t know what Twitter is, check out the CommonCraft intro video for a quick overview.) In short, Twitter provides laconic insight into what people are doing, with a diversity of client interfaces to satisfy (almost) every need. While Twitter is nominally for providing [...]
FriendFeed, which launched today, starts with a simple premise: it aggregates content you produce from various popular sites. On top of that, it allows you, your friends, and possibly strangers, to comment on your content. As a further social aspect, it provides some basic discovery/social-networking services. This is all viewable via a (currently) basic web interface or RSS. Given the [...]
Today, Robert O’Callahan stopped by MIT as part of his US Tour. He works for Novell is one of the “super reviewers” at the Mozilla Foundation. If you use FireFox (like 63% of my visitors this week), you probably run code he’s touched. He also wrote TTSSH, an SSH client that I linked to from my homepage for [...]
Decline in storage costs, Web 2.0, and other trends have led to a profusion of online services clamoring to host your data. At this point, even if you are the most conservative user and a stalwart late adopter of online services, you have likely heard about a wide range of online services: storing and sharing calendars, lists, photos, bookmarks, [...]
