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Investing and the Social Networking Life Cycle

By Kurt Cagle
July 18, 2008
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Social Networks have been around since the inception of bulleting board systems in the mid 1980s, and each one of them seems, for a time at least, to be the radical new paradigm that establishes how people will interact with one another over the web. Certainly, this seems to be the case to those investors (whether individual or corporate) who pay surprisingly stiff premiums in order to be a part of the next big wave, yet in truth social networking sites have a surprisingly consistent "life-cycle" that seems to play out regardless of the "angle" that the sites have.

Is Sun Setting?

By Kurt Cagle
July 14, 2008
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The global slowdown is beginning to take its toll on more exposed hardware and consulting companies. On Friday, July 10, Sun began sending out pink slips to more than 1000 employees, primarily in the marketing and sales areas as part...

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Interview: Google Open Sources Protocol Buffers

By Kurt Cagle
July 18, 2008
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Data messaging formats represent the life-blood of any distributed application. The ability to pass information back and forth between disparate systems becomes crucial for any organization, but for companies such as Google, the challenge of setting up communications between the thousands of different servers that host the various Google services forced the need for a specialized format that met their needs in particular.<

XRX: Performing Updates

By Jeni Tennison
July 18, 2008
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This is part 3 of a series in which I’m trying to implement a RESTful social bookmarking web service using the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture. I’ve covered setting up queries in eXist and using Orbeon to expose those queries with nice URLs in the previous parts. This time I’m going to look at how to handle PUT and POST to make a read/write web service.

Investing and the Social Networking Life Cycle

By Kurt Cagle
July 18, 2008
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Social Networks have been around since the inception of bulleting board systems in the mid 1980s, and each one of them seems, for a time at least, to be the radical new paradigm that establishes how people will interact with one another over the web. Certainly, this seems to be the case to those investors (whether individual or corporate) who pay surprisingly stiff premiums in order to be a part of the next big wave, yet in truth social networking sites have a surprisingly consistent "life-cycle" that seems to play out regardless of the "angle" that the sites have.

What are they so scared of? (Updated)

By Rick Jelliffe
July 17, 2008
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Why are these people so scared of openness? This may seem a strange and provocative thing to say. Surely ODF is the open technology and OOXML is the proprietary technology? Surely we know this because "ISO" is the organization which is just the puppet of MicroSoft while OASIS is a bastion of community openness!

So Long Simon Delivers

By Chris Josephes
July 16, 2008
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Simon Delivers, the first online grocery store in Minnesota, is shutting down.

The Behavior Gap: Three Persistent Problems for Internet Technologies

By Andy Oram
July 16, 2008
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Behind the competing technologies for Internet application development--which impinge directly on the plans of Internet providers and dot-com businesses--lie some basic problems with Internet standards and protocols. Each technical problem is also a metaphor for difficulties in the way people interact, both online and off-line: we don't know how to handle many-to-many connections, we don't know what will happen next in time, and it's hard to split tasks between systems.

Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets

By Laura Adair
July 16, 2008
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Website Optimization — Is your site easy to find, simple to navigate, and enticing enough to convert prospects into buyers? Website Optimization shows you how. It reveals a comprehensive set of techniques to improve your site's performance by boosting search engine visibility for more traffic, increasing conversion rates to maximize leads and profits, revving up site speed to retain users, and measuring your site's effectiveness (before and after these changes) with best-practice metrics and tools. Learn more.

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Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!

By chromatic
July 15, 2008
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DNS is the fundamental human-friendly abstraction of the Internet. It maps names such as oreilly.com to addresses computers can understand. Yet there are flaws in the protocol, which mean that malicious users can redirect your request for oreilly.com for their own nefarious purposes. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered this danger and convinced the major DNS providers to work around the flaw. Here's how you can protect yourself and your information.

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July 15, 2008
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This year at OSCON, we're celebrating two anniversaries: 10 years of OSCON and 30 years of O'Reilly. Stop by the O'Reilly booth (#313 in the Expo Hall) to join the festivities -- and take a shot at winning some...

The Emerging Carbon (Computing) Age

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July 14, 2008
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In the early 1970s, the integrated circuit came of age, marking the ascention of what could best be described as the silicon era. Silicon, the most common material in the Earth's crust, proved to be remarkably useful for its ability...

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