Clearly, with buyouts and overvaluations now common place again in "the valley" we do have a bubble 2.0 going on. So my question is only: When will it burst?
An interesting article at the IHT entitled "Dot-com fever stirs sense of deja-vu" brought me to the postulation of this question.
It might of course be a good thing for us with our startup activities relating to the launch of transLucidonline. What a shame though that we already have actual paying customers. That might de-value us in the face of some VCs. :)
; when you read this article and remember the one titled "Connections line up at Telstra " from The Australian Financial Review (May 5th), featuring Sol Trujillo and his controversial investment at Telstra, especially the construction of a 3.4billion AUD optic fibre network, it looks like Australia is jumping ahead to fill-up its connectivity gap (if any).
Another one not to forget: SuprGlu! Taken from their website:
"Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites."
Allright, I am not using del.icio.us or flickr yet but I can well imagine that there will be a moment where this tool will be extremely useful.
I stumbled upon it over this guys site.
God, I really might start to use del.icio.us to keep track of my bookmarks. Ok, transLucid might be another good idea. Let's see which one I'll settle for.
Anyhow; thi s article at IBM gives - as far as I can tell - a nice introduction in how to build AJAX applications in Java. Looks like a good read for any Java developer wishing to get the hang of it.
We had a number of posts on the topic of the hottest topic alive in the circles of Internet geeks: AJAX.
There's a plethora of libraries and tools that have come into existence in the last couple of months, some of them looking very promising.
I thought that before the below bookmarks would take on dust in my browsers bookmark manager it'd be a good idea to post in on our blog. Hope you guys 'njoy them.
Support for ASP/ColdFusion/Io/Lua/Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby:
SAJAX
PHP class library:
XAJAX
Backbase , recommended for anyone who wants to use AJAX technology as a professional for his clients.
Links to other AJAX ressources:
AJAXMatters
WSJ.com - Google Plans Online-Payment Service
"Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may put it in competition with eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit, according to people familiar with the matter."
And there is already one hot market eager to take advantage of this future e-payment platform
How Paypal / e-bay is reacting to that early announcement?
"Officials of Google and PayPal declined to comment."
After I upgraded to the new version of Mac OS X, release Tiger, yesterday Spotlight was updating its index very often. It stayed unresponsive for long durations.
A gut feeling, that subconcious analyzer routine which I kept back from my PC-days, told me that it might be related to my use of File Vault which encrypts all files in your home folder. My theory was that it confused Spotlight that the files kept on changing or better said the way the files were encrypted. But I couldn't be sure as I wasn't aware of the inner workings of File Vault.
To make a long story short; I switched of File Vault, rebooted and voila! Spotlight is not indexing as often and the waits are non-existent.
Now how would I tell Apple about this bug? They should have really advertised a way to give feedback. If anyone knows how to, please do inform me because this must be happening to others.
If only Google would have a more intelligent way of indexing pages. I have always found their ranking algorithm flawed. Information that I might be looking for that might be "out there" might not be popular but very relevant to my search-quest nonetheless.
But anyways; with things the way they are, I will most probably never show up on a Google search result even with all the good keywords I have on my page and the fact that it would be highly relevant AND maybe crucial for some other Mac users to find this blog entry.
Stop ranting Bjoern, do it better. Allright, I'll shut up. Back into the real world. There's wonderful weather out there which is a not so common thing in Brussels, Belgium.
One more reason for me to get into the world of Java development. Easy access to AJAX code-snippets, check it out.
Yes, I bought it (--> the new version of Mac OS X, codenamed Tiger).
I couldn't help it. The marketing guys at Apple are simply way too good at what they are doing. My poor ibook might suffer incredibly. But I want to try out Spotlight myself.
Q: Do I think it's too expensive?
A: Will be able to tell once I installed it.
Q: When will it arrive at your door?
A: It's already there?
Q: When will you install it?
A: Like right now.
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