On Thursday, as the world was looking to the internet for information about Michael Jackson, the internet came to a crawl. The initial assumption was that news sites simply weren’t equipped to handle the spike in traffic that such an event would cause. Even Google News flagged the surge as an automated attack. According to [...]
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Michael Jackson, the Slowing of the Web, and iframe Widgets
Monday, June 29th, 2009Tags: iframe, iframe widget, michael jackson, performance, widget
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Ning’s Developer Platform
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Ning announced OpenSocial support in October 2008, and now Ning is formally opening up a developer platform. It’s in private beta and will launch in full later this month. OpenSocial is a framework pioneered by Google, primarily as a response to Facebook’s developer platform. Developers of applications can write their application once and be able [...]
Tags: ning, OpenSocial, platform
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Project Focus: MicroMentor, LinkedIn for the Little Guy
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Highlights:
Re-vamped interface
Intelligent Matching
Salesforce Force.com Integration
Dayspring recently launched a site for MicroMentor, an organization whose new website is addressing the recession head-on. A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report1 shows that microenterprises (that is businesses with fewer than 5 employees) account for [...]
Tags: micromentor, newsletter, project focus, salesforce.com, web application
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Comparison of Facebook, Ning and Elgg
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Many people call us and ask if we can build what comes down to a social networking website. Each caller has their own interest area or special twist, but the basic elements of a social site are always present.
Since there are many ways to approach this, a first step would be to understand some of [...]
Tags: elgg, facebook, ning
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Best of Open Source Software 8/2008
Friday, February 27th, 2009The article by InfoWorld identifies their picks for best of open source in a variety of categories. It was part of the case we made for choosing Liferay Portal as an intranet solution and could be interesting when making other base technology choices.
Different categories will likely be interesting to different people. I’ve pulled out all [...]
Tags: awards, bossies, open source, reference
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Add Community Features with Google and AJAX
Monday, August 25th, 2008So I’ve mentioned it before, but here is the Google application that might work for adding community feature to a static site.
Google Friend Connect
Look at the example sites.
Tags: friend connect, google
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Google Conf Day 2
Friday, May 30th, 2008Yesterday, there wasn’t one great presentation. The good stuff was more sprinkled through the so-so presentations.
My favorite quote from the day is “Everyone is talking about being viral. A virus is a disease. Do you want people to view your app as a disease?” I think a lot of people use the “viral” label and [...]
Tags: google, Google IO, gwt, JavaScript, OpenSocial, social
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GPL License Explanation for Non-Lawyers
Friday, March 28th, 2008We have been doing some more detailed looking into the licensing for Drupal. The problem is a complex one and the subject of quite a bit of speculation in the software world. It has yet to be definitively decided in the courts. Drupal is licensed under an open source license called the GNU Public License [...]
Tags: drupal, gpl, licensing
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