Articles posted in february 2010

jQuery users unite! Connect with other jQuery users and developers in your area through local jQuery meetups.

The popularity of the Web has changed the world of End User Programming. Our research systems can now be built in a web browser that people use in their daily life, semantic information is broadly available, and our users are more experienced and they share their work with others. After twenty-five years of trying to infer the user's intent, Allen will compare early and contemporary end user programming systems to see what progress we have made, and what opportunities we now have for widespread success.

Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products.

Google Tech Talk January 14, 2010

Much like Google, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt are search engines that aim to index information posted on the Internet and make it findable to their users.

At the box-office the major movie studios are raking in record profits, but their continuing refusal to widely adopt online business opportunities are hindering progress. According to the head of the Blockbuster video chain, the movie industry’s greed is to blame for holding back innovation.

Why would the Government do this? Because long-term, the consumption of digital services, that can accommodate millions in the way a physical location cannot, will result in cost savings through the reduction of said facilities and staff to run them.

Starting March 1, Microsoft will be forced, under the terms of a European Commission antitrust agreement, to present both existing and new Windows users with a browser ballot box […]

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.

Mission Statement: To promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

The X-Force report reveals three main threats that demonstrate how in 2009 attackers increasingly targeted people using the Internet for monetary gain or data theft. The appearance of new malicious Web links has skyrocketed globally in the past year.

Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.

Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected. That is the startling implication of discoveries made the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete. Stone tools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earliest known seafaring in the Mediterranean and cause for rethinking the maritime capabilities of prehuman cultures.

The researchers who found the tools (hand-axes, cleavers, and scrapers) estimate them to be at least 130,000 years old; if they're right, humans have been traveling long distances at sea (Crete is 200 miles from the northern African coastline) for at least several tens of thousands of years longer than earlier believed.

This leads to Wales' theories of failure: fail faster — if a project is doomed, shut it down quickly; don't tie your ego to any one project — if it stumbles, you'll be unable to move forward; real entrepreneurs fail; fail a lot but enjoy yourself along the way; if you handle these things well, 'you will succeed.'"

US copyright industries have declared war on Canada, and they want the US government's help in fighting the battles.

StatusNet has launched StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN), an enterprise support subscription programme for companies who want to run their own Twitter-style micro-blogging system using the open source StatusNet platform.

Radio-Canada a appris que l'UQAM a payé 5 millions de dollars pour l'installation d'un système informatique américain inadéquat, qu'elle doit maintenant remplacer. Coût du nouveau système : 9 millions de dollars.

Gruml allows you to view and manage your feed subscriptions of your Google Reader account on Mac OS X.

The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into Google to look into claims made by three European-based Internet companies. […] notably, one of them is owned by Microsoft. And another one is a member of a group that is partially funded by Microsoft.

What is DRM? Digital Restrictions Management. DefectiveByDesign.org is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market. DRM products have features built-in that restrict what jobs they can do. These products have been intentionally crippled from the users' perspective, and are therefore "defective by design".

The Public Domain Manifesto (http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/node/8) has its heart in the right place as it objects to some of the unjust extensions of copyright power, so I wish I could support it. However, it falls far short of what is needed.

A follow-up Retrevo Pulse study looking at consumer interest in buying the new Apple iPad indicates a failure to convince any new buyers to consider the iPad. Not only did Apple fail to convince new buyers, it may have lost many potential buyers who now say they don’t think they need an Apple tablet computer.

Burnyeat, Myles F. (2001).