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Black Friday Notebook Deals 2009
by danijelzi
(via)
Retailers and computer makers in the U.S. have announced their 2009 Black Friday laptop deals, offering great savings on notebooks and netbooks.
Here is a list of the most attractive deals (coupons, instant savings, mail-in rebates) we have found online. Most of the offerings are available before and after Black Friday, November 27 2009.
Google Webmaster Central
by ycc2106
Welcome to your one-stop shop for webmaster resources that will help you with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
InfoQ: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
by karlcow
& 1 other
What happens when one clicks on "Proceed to Checkout" on a website after browsing through their offerings? This is an analysis of the first milliseconds when an HTTPS connection with Amazon is established. A new page is loaded when proceeding to checkout:
Free Music Archive
by garret
& 1 other
Not to be confused with the Live Music Archive (see the MP3 Hub section, above), the Free Music Archive is a new (in 2009) resource of free and legal MP3s that was launched by the venerable NYC-area public radio station, WFMU (which is, you should know, the longest-running free-form radio station in the US). The Free Music Archive describes itself as "a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio." Featuring downloadable songs placed online by WFMU, KEXP, and a handful of other interesting musical organizations, the Free Music Archive can be browsed by curator or genre, but you have to thumb through a lot--there are no easy indexes to get a broad look at the offerings. And while the site claims to have more than 5,000 MP3s available, what's here is decidedly idiosyncratic. Still, as a large repository of free and legal MP3s, it's worth a visit every now and then. [review from www.fingertipsmusic.com]
MacHeist » Welcome
by ycc2106
& 2 others
The MacHeist bundle was introduced in December 2006 to huge success within the Macintosh community. The software bundle offered 10 of the Mac indie development community's best offerings, and was available at the end of the MacHeist promotion for one week.
GoodRelations: An ontology for linking product descriptions and business entities on the Web
by karlcow
GoodRelations is a lightweight ontology for annotating offerings on the Web. It is to our knowledge the first non-toy vocabulary for describing the types of goods and terms and conditions of items and services offered on the Web. The GoodRelations ontology complements products and services ontologies, like eClassOWL, by providing the vocabulary for expressing things like
that a particular Web site describes an offer to sell cellphones of a certain make and model at a certain price,
that a pianohouse offers maintenance for pianos that weigh less than 150 kg,
or that a car rental company leases out cars of a certain make and model from a particular set of branches across the country.
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2008
15 Useful Project Management Tools | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
by Spone
There is a huge variety of project management applications out there. Most are general purpose apps, not aimed at any one industry. But there are a growing number of project management apps aimed specifically at one industry or another. Applications geared toward creative types are becoming more readily available, and some of the offerings are really quite good.
Screenshot Tour: US - Picasa 3 Beta's New Features
by decembre
Windows/Linux: Picasa, Google's photo management tool, has quietly announced a new beta that adds basic movie editing, fuller syncing to Web Albums, and many other features and changes. Actually, the biggest change in the new Picasa isn't in the software itself—it's a new "quick view" utility, which replaces the basic double-click viewing tool in Windows with a Picasa-friendly, drop-cloth-style window. Five new collage styles have also been added to the offerings, and Picasa's new "Movie Maker" tool lets you create slideshow-style clips out of stills or trim and paste video clips together. Check out Picasa's help section for more details on what's new and what's changed, or read on for a peek at some screenshots from the new release.
iPhone the most popular ebook reader - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
by karlcow
2 comments
downloads of Stanza [App Store link], an ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod touch (395,000 and counting), versus the number of projected US Kindle sales (380,000). For those unfamiliar with Stanza, it's a free application that lets users download books over the air, as does the Kindle. All of Stanza's offerings are free works in the public domain, and flipping pages is a breeze with the touch screen.
IBM SOA Sandbox for Process
by BlueVoodoo
Enhance your understanding of IBM's Business Process Management (BPM) offerings with an in-depth exploration of two business scenarios: Account verification and financial underwriting.
erlaws - Google Code
by jpcaruana
(via)
Erlaws is a collection of client implementations of Amazon's WebServices offerings. Currently there are clients for S3, SQS and SDB.
bibliotheque OPAC.02 : Une experience pour avoir Google comme moteur de recherche dans l'opac (Get Tooled Up : 'Looking for a Google Box?')
by decembre
There are, perhaps, four directions we can take:
1. Evaluate the complete range of closed and open source offerings, pick the best, and be prepared to pay a yearly licence fee of an unknown amount
2. Develop our own private search engine, possibly based on ht://Dig [3] or egothor [4] code
3. Make use of the free Google index of our pages
4. License Google technology to do local indexing
Each route has its attractions, but the latter two are particularly attractive because of the high degree of trust in, and familiarity with, Google. But the public search has problems:
* Google cannot see inside our protected sites
* Every search transaction has to leave our site, is dependent on international networks, and uses up bandwidth
* The depth and frequency of search is not guaranteed
* Google may withdraw the service at any time
Amiga History Guide
by e_D_D_y
Welcome to the Amiga History Guide - the largest Amiga history site in the world! This site examines a kaleidoscope of topics, ranging from Amiga Inc's early foray into joysticks, to the latest offerings in cross-platform Amiga solutions.
Rob Galbraith DPI: A Roundup of the 2007 pictures of the year
by mozkart
It's that time of year when many news gathering sites are posting their versions of the year 2007 in pictures. It's no surprise that MSNBC, which always has a strong weekly offering, has a great 2007 Year in Pictures. Others include the International Herald Tribune which can be found here; AOL has two very strong offerings in a People's Choice gallery and an Editor's Choice gallery; Time has a fine gallery of the Year in Images; Reuters presents more than 100 of its best photos here; some of the best photos from the European Pressphoto Agency (epa) can be found in its Yearender 2007; Sports Illustrated has amassed 43 of its best photos; USA TODAY uses a drop-down menu for various categories in its 2007: The year in pictures; National Geographic has a five-photo gallery of its best wildlife photos; The New York Times highlights 2007: The Year in Pictures; The Washington Post's Best of Post 2007 features several favourite multimedia projects; the Los Angeles Times features Best of 2007: Photography; The San Francisco Chronicle has its own Year in Pictures which features 12 galleries of the best Day in Pictures from the SFGate site; appropriate to the season, Canada's National Post has two very interesting photo galleries on Faith and Mirth and Joy.
2007
Source Code Management with Rational ClearCase
by BlueVoodoo
Solutions including IBM Rational ClearQuest for System i and IBM Rational ClearCase for System i provide a strategic advantage over competitive offerings for managing software resources and application development processes. Find out the most useful Software Change Management (SCM) solutions for source code management.
SOA Reuse and Connectivity with IBM ESB
by BlueVoodoo
At this briefing IT managers and developers will get a technical, practical overview of SOA reuse & connectivity offerings, including the benefits and importance of an ESB in creating and maintaining a flexible IT infrastructure.
SOA reuse and connectivity
by BlueVoodoo
This briefing provides a technical, practical overview of SOA reuse & connectivity offerings, including the benefits and importance of an ESB in creating and maintaining a flexible IT infrastructure.
Tools and open standards through Open Source development
by BlueVoodoo
Compare Apache Derby and Geronimo open source solutions with the IBM open source based commercial offerings of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and IBM Cloudscape.
Fax Marketing: Small Business Marketing - BusinessTown
by pichicock
A fax machine offers you a fast and inexpensive way to alert potential customers to new or service product offerings or special promotions.
The Power of Software
by longhorn2000
"Customers, stakeholders, and other departments notice as agents provide faster and better answers, close cases, and convert problems to repeat business. All this comes from access to knowledge that always existed but couldn’t be retrieved, and the empowerment to forward newly processed data to other agents – as in cases moving from support to sales with satisfied customers interested in additional offerings. Software liberates or enslaves. We like the kind we create (the liberating kind)."
Social Platform
by cyberien
1 comment
Social Platform is a complete hosted offering for delivering branded, high-end social applications. This enterprise-grade, white label solution integrates with your existing online offerings and scales to meet your future directions and business goals.
Yahoo! Widgets - Blog
by nhoizey
& 3 others
The world of Widgets has changed a lot since Konfabulator came along back in 2003, when it was the only option of its kind for developers. Since then, similar offerings have emerged from several places, including Apple, and tomorrow, Microsoft as part of Vista. It has grown to such a point that Newsweek is proclaiming 2007 as the Year of the Widget.
mysiteprofile » mysiteprofile.com
by cyberien
MySiteProfile.com is a search engine friendly, online community and social network for bloggers, web designers, developers and various types of artists. It gives its members the opportunity to brand themselves through a personalized profile page in which they can promote their businesses or services, as well as their talents and interests, while gaining recognition amongst other like minds. Although MySiteProfile.com was intended to be used by web marketing professionals, we welcome all persons interested in the offerings of this site.
MySiteProfile allows members to actively participate in the networking and self- promotion process through various features.
1. Some of these features include:
2. Personal Profile Pages with member's descriptions, live links, logos or images, various design choices and a personalized messaging system
3. Galleries to upload web snapshots, photos, images, artwork, etc.
4. Biweekly Design Contests with unique categories
5. Blogs that are continuously updated on the community home page
6. Specific Groups that can be originally created or subscribed to
7. Community Forums for ongoing support, current announcements and postings
Upcoming Features:
1. Flash Animation section where members can submit flash movies
2. Video and Music Upload tool
3. Built in RSS Aggregator where members can sink their favorite feeds to their profile section
MySiteProfile.com Inspiration:
After numerous attempts of finding a free directory to promote my websites, I just kept coming up with spam in my email and no traffic results. Even with legitimate directories, there was no opportunity to visually present the site I was submitting, resulting in a needle in a haystack effect.
What makes MySiteProfile.com different than other online communities?
Unlike myspace, the community's focus is networking on a professional level while targeting web geeks (and I mean that with the utmost respect). Its features give its members the chance to support each other and give valuable feedback on things such as site design, SEO, and marketing techniques. I also notice that my pioneer members are enjoying the commonalities that they share while becoming friends in a niche web society.
2006
InfoQ: Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
by jprog
& 10 others
My most favourite knowledge center of agile development, i can agree with Floyd Marinescu's "unlaunch" of InfoQ.com (March 2006):
InfoQ.com - a new community that aims to be your source for keeping up with change and innovation in the enterprise software development community, specifically serving the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities
InfoQ is driven by an editorial team - as opposed to a computer - that eliminates quality issues created by syndication and non-technical journalism. InfoQ's content offerings also includes articles, case studies, streaming video interviews and conference presentations, and short books. Each of the five communities we serve has a dedicated editorial staff and calendar that publishes new content every week.
