January 25, 2007

The quicksand of Web 2.0

Christian Decker wrote this in the late evening:
Andy Piper has a really interesting post on his Blog about how fast you can get into Web 2.0, and be stuck:
It’s amazing how quickly this stuff we label “Web 2.0″- social networking, social bookmarking, social music, social computing, photography sites, blogs, feeds, etc. - can suck you in. Wait! I’m not saying that this is bad. I’m just making an observation.
And the list of Sites he’s using is impressive at first, … but then I started listing up my own sites, profiles and other stuff that can be considered Web 2.0:

And some more that can be seen at ClaimID. And right now I have to say “Oh my god, I’m a Web 2.0 Junkie…

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January 18, 2007

Flash 9 for Linux

Christian Decker wrote this mid-afternoon:

Adobe has just released Flash 9 for Linux.

Adobe has made available Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends performance and features to the broadest set of developers and users to date. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy Rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the free Adobe Flex 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express, as per a statement issued by the company.

According to Adobe, the release is officially tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 update 8, RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS) and Novell SUSE 9.x or 10.1. It should work with Firefox 1.5.0.7 and higher; Mozilla 1.7.x and higher; SeaMonkey 1.0.5 and higher, but with the right packages and some tinkering, you can get it to run on any 32 bit Linux platform.

Finally we can start wasting our time with those stupid Videos and Games on Linux too :D

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January 12, 2007

Fastest “post to del.icio.us” ever!

Christian Decker wrote this in the early afternoon:

Lifehacker struck again: Adam Pash has written a nice little way to post pages to del.icio.us without ever having to click any bookmark, button, or whatever you are currently using. Just type in tag followed by the tags you’d like into the address bar and press enter.

By taking advantage of Firefox’s %s operator, which is used primarily for keyword searches, and adding a keyword to the bookmarklet, I set up it up to grab any text you type after the keyword shortcut (which I called “tag” - you can set it to whatever you want in the bookmark properties) and use it as a tag. So if I wanted to tag Lifehacker in Del.icio.us, I could type something like tag tech productivity todo in the address bar and hit Enter. A small pop-up will then confirm that the page was successfully tagged and bookmarked.

To set it up yourself, drag and drop the following link to your bookmarks toolbar: Quick Tag. For more on taking advantage of Firefox’s keyword bookmarking feature (including use of %s, check out Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking. Got a faster method for posting to Del.icio.us? Let’s hear it in the comments. — Adam Pash

It’s as fast as it can get, and I finally can stop fishing for my mouse everytime I want to tag something :D

[Via Lifehacker]

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January 5, 2007

FeedBurner does site statistics too

Christian Decker wrote this at around evening time:

FeedBurner has just added a new Feature to their services: Site Statistics. Until now I’ve been using Google Analytics and it worked fine for me so far, but it is a bit of an overkill. I just want to give a quick glance at the stats and boost my ego with it (most bloggers do :D). That is exactly what FeedBurner Site Stats does.

As promised, site statistics are now live. Our architecture conversion work after the BlogBeat acquisition is complete, and our free StandardStats service now enables any of our publishers to track both feed and site audience, all from the comfort of your FeedBurner account. There is a lot to discuss, so this post will cover how to get started, what you get when you activate site statistics, what’s coming next, and our vision for how the pieces all fit together.

Give it atry ^^

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