Posts for April 2006

Interesting new blog I'm reading...

I'm only two posts in, and I already know I like this: Web 2.5 : The Always-On-You Web. Good stuff.

April 30, 2006 permalink | Comments (0)

Another Google freebie...

Sheesh, when will they stop!? (I hope never!) Google SketchUp now has a free basic edition!

April 27, 2006 permalink | Comments (0)

Berkeley podcasts are GO!

This is so cool! UC-Berkeley has joined Stanford in the Apple iTunes U program, which makes lectures publicly available through the iTunes interface. And even better, they have standard RSS links available for even more lecture feeds than iTunes U has! As Jon Udell stated a few months back, any access is better than nothing, but the more easily available the content, the easier it is to fold into our new "remix" culture!

link from Jon Udell

April 26, 2006 permalink | Comments (0)

Forty-two...

I certainly knew this, but I didn't know Google did....

April 15, 2006 permalink | Comments (1)

C-Store: A column-oriented DBMS

Interesting: C-Store - C-Store is a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its design are: storage of data by column rather than by row, careful coding and packing of objects into storage including main memory during query processing, storing an overlapping collection of column-oriented projections, rather than the current fare of tables and indexes, a non-traditional implementation of transactions which includes high availability and snapshot isolation for read-only transactions, and the extensive use of bitmap indexes to complement B-tree structures. I'm hooked...I'll have to check this out!

link from bitworking

April 7, 2006 permalink | Comments (1)

Loving "Love Lewisham"

This is awesome -- Love Lewisham : It's as easy as 1-2-3!

Imagine the following scenario. As you are walking down your street, you notice some graffiti that you'd like removed. You have already registered and downloaded the free application to your mobile phone. So what can you do?

Take a picture of the offending graffiti, enter some details and send it to us. It's simple! We review all images sent to us a decide what to do. If you have asked us to keep you up to date by text messages we will send you messages to keep you informed of our progress (at no cost to yourself)
We will resolve the problem and take a picture of the clean wall after the graffitti has been removed.

SUPER clever! They also have a spot on the site to review existing (approved) pictures, and a place to upload them manually, in case you don't have a camphone, but you do have a digital camera of some sort. What a great way to get people involved, and get the data needed to handle the cleanup.

link from Jon Udell

April 3, 2006 permalink | Comments (0)

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