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BadDog

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:52:11 GMT

clipped by: olivier

Clip Source: www.dailymotion.com

[Video]

Tags: humour, video

Opening the source at Big in Japan

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:20:36 GMT

clipped by: olivier

Clip Source: www.biggu.com

November 14, 2006

Opening the source at Big in Japan!

The Big in Japan team is growing and our mission is becoming clear. This morning while I was driving to work I was considering how much time we should invest in the free feed tools we built over the past year including FeedVault, PodServe, FrankenFeed, elfURL, InstantFeed, QwikPing and SocialMail. They need a lot of work to be relevant, but we are super busy working with our paying social media clients. Do we have the time to support a suite of tools that were very hot a year ago, but cooling off by the day?

We learned quite a bit about development, rss, social media, web 2.0 and ruby on rails while developing them. We learned even more about how hard it is to keep web services relevant. We are still using custom versions (i.e. mash-ups) of the tools to support our own clients.

So here is our proposal (instead of selling them on ebay). We will open up the source code for each tool (with the exception of PodServe for now) using the GPL just as we did for SimpleTicket. What do we ask in return? That anyone using the tools (i.e. building something from our initial work) contribute that work back into the SVN for that tool (FYI - the license requires it). If you don’t want to, or can’t contribute your modifcations back just let us know and we will sell you a modified license. The name Big in Japan is the property of our company as are the trade names associated with each tool. Oh, and we will keep them running as hosted services as well (don’t email us ~ your data is safe).
Check back soon for links to the SVN for each tool. Hope you enjoy taking a look at the code…

Alexander Muse | 9:07 am | Tags: Social Media , biggu | Bookmark on del.icio.us | Digg It

Tags: opensource, web2.0, ruby

Hidden labels in Gmail

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:57:38 GMT

clipped by: olivier
clipper's remarks: How to optimize search in gmail with a few hidden labels

Clip Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com

Hidden Labels in Gmail

If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails. To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and chats.

If you want to search your chats, you just have to add label:chat to your query. If you want to search only your mail, exclude the chats by adding -label:chat.

Gmail has many other hidden labels that can make your life easier, so you don't have to use the advanced search:

* label:inbox - search only your Inbox. It's a good idea to keep your Inbox clean.

* label:star (label:starred) - search only your starred messages. You can use the star button like a bookmarking system. Star only important messages.

* label:draft (or label:drafts) - search only unfinished messages. Drafts could be used for storing notes or emails that must be sent later.

* label:sent (or label:sentmail, label:sent-mail, label:sent mail ) - search only sent mail. It may be useful to restrict your search only to messages you've sent, or only to messages you've received if you add a minus.

* label:all (or label:allmail, label:all-mail, label:all mail ) - search all your mail, including messages from Trash (label:trash) and Spam (label:spam).

* label:read and label:unread. Restrict your search only to read mail or unread mail. For example, to find all your sent messages that have unread replies, you can search for label:unread label:sent.

* label:voicemail (or label:voicemails ) - search only the voicemail received from a Google Talk user.

It's nice that you can combine all these labels with user-defined labels in a query. To show results that have both label A and label B, just search for label:A label:B. To show results that have one of the labels A and B or both, just search for label:A OR label:B.

Tags: google, gmail, tips

A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:24:13 GMT

clipped by: olivier
clipper's remarks: I know what you did last week

Clip Source: techfoolery.com

A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits

Posted on Monday, August 21st, 2006 at 20:42 by Ross

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Jeremiah Grossman came up with a really clever way of using Javascript to find what pages you've visited recently. It goes like this: when a link has been visited, you can use the :visited pseudo-class to style it. Using Javascript, you can walk through all of the links on your page and grab their styles; comparing a link's style to the style given to visited links in the CSS will tell you whether or not a site has been visited. Seems innocent enough, until you realize that this can be applied to a large list of links. A site will know whether or not have been to any of the sites on their list. Combine that with a little Ajax, a database and a cookie, and you can track where your return users have been over time.

This technique is worrying, but probably not the end of privacy as we know it. It can only be applied to a finite list of links, so it's not able to find out all of the sites you've been to. It's done using Javascript, so you can't hide the fact that you're using it; the code can be obfuscated, but eventually someone will figure out that Evil Corp. is tracking whether users have visited their competitors' sites first. And it can be prevented by emptying your cache or reseting your visited links. It will be interesting to see if any popular sites risk the bad publicity of actually using this.

Hats off to Jeremiah for coming up with this. Just goes to show what's possible with CSS and Javascript these days.

Update: Christian Heilmann got it to work with IE by using height and computedHeight instead of color.

Tags: technology, javascript, hack

Using capistrano with PHP

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:26:19 GMT

clipped by: olivier
clipper's remarks: Nice trick to use capistrano (RoR deployment tool) with PHP

Clip Source: nubyonrails.com

Using Capistrano with Perl (or PHP) 4

Posted by topfunky on 03/09/2006

This page has been viewed 671 times since March 29, 2006

UPDATE: The cap command can be used instead of rake.

Theoretically, you can use the ~~Switchtower~~ Capistrano deployment system with Perl, PHP, or any other system. I haven’t seen a tutorial for doing it with non-Rails systems, so here is how I did it tonight:

Make the standard ‘public’, and ‘config’ folders that you are used to seeing in Rails.
Copy all your Perl or PHP files into ‘public’.
Copy this starter deploy.rb file to config/deploy.rb.
Make a restart task that does nothing (or restarts FCGI’s for the language in question).
Run cap setup
Copy any relevant upload folders to shared/system/...
Make an after_symlink task that symlinks from any relevant upload folders and makes Perl files executable:

desc 'Link to files'
task :after_symlink do
  run "chmod +x #{current_path}/public/*.pl" 
  run "ln -s #{shared_path}/file #{current_path}/public/file" 
end

Run cap deploy

I used this with a Perl-based system and it worked successfully! Yay! Capistrano + Ruby deployment for non-Rails languages!

Web 2.0: The First 25,000 Users Are Irrelevant

Mon, 29 May 2006 18:11:16 GMT

clipped by: olivier

Clip Source: www.feld.com

Web 2.0: The First 25,000 Users Are Irrelevant

For the past few months, whenever I talk to someone about a Web 2.0 application and hear that they already have “10,000 users”, I’ve been telling that them the first 25,000 users are irrelevant.

Josh Kopelman has a perfect post up today called 53,651. This is the number of RSS subscribers to Michael Arrington’s great TechCruch blog, and is exactly at the core of the “first 25,000 user” issue. Since there are 53,651 RSS subscribers of TechCrunch (at least as of 5/12/06) , if something gets reviewed there, it’s likely to get 5,000 to 10,000 users in the next 24 hours “just to try it out.” As so many traffic graphs of these “TechCrunched” products show, there is a huge spike in use for a day or two, and then it goes right back down to where things were before they were TechCrunched. For example:

Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs (and many VCs) confused one time “tryout users” with real sustainable users. As an analytics freak (I’ve invested in a number of web / Internet analytics related companies over the past 10 years, including NetGenesis, Service Metrics, and now FeedBurner), you only have to ask two more questions to know whether (a) the company really understands its traffic / user base and (b) whether they’ve got the “first 25,000 user problem.”

Thanks Josh for the outstanding post and putting the gap between the Web 2.0 geeks and Mainstreet USA front and center. Remember - the first 25,000 users are the same dudes (such as me) that play with everything. Oh – and yes – I’ve fallen victim to this also.

It’s time to go La Vache hunting.

Tags: startup, web2.0

Listen top pandora in Winamp

Sat, 13 May 2006 00:36:10 GMT

clipped by: olivier

Clip Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com

Listen To Pandora In Winamp

If you have the latest version of Winamp (namely, 5.21), you can add Pandora, a great online personalized radio, to Media Library.

Close Winamp, open

C:\Program Files\ Winamp\Plugins\ml \ml_online.ini (change the location if you've installed Winamp elsewhere).

Replace this line

ElementID7=-1

with

ElementID7=7000
ElementIcon7=11003
ElementSubbed7=1
ElementName7=Pandora
ElementURL7=http://www.pandora.com/?cmd=tunermini
ElementID8=-1

When you open Winamp again, go to Media Library/Online Services/Pandora. If you haven't got an account, you should make one. You can close Media Library and still listen to your radio.

You can find out more about Pandora from this FAQ.

Tags: music, pandora, winamp

Google Notebook from Google Labs

Thu, 11 May 2006 03:40:03 GMT

clipped by: olivier
clipper's remarks: Looks like Google is ready to enter the online note taking/clipping market

Clip Source: www.zorgloob.com

Google Notebook from Google Labs

Google Notebook is a simple way for users to save and organize their thoughts when conducting research online. This personal browser tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from the pages they're browsing, save them to an online "notebook" that is accessible from any computer, and share them with others.

Google Notebook is an interactive scratch pad for every website a user visits, offering a single online location to collect web findings without having to leave the browser window. For example, if a user were planning a vacation, she could clip the most relevant materials on the pages she visits and add personal notes to help organize all of her research.

Users can make their Google Notebook public and share the notes they've taken with others. As a result, the time and effort put into their research can be harnessed by the online community as a whole.

Google Notebook will be available next week from Google Labs at www.google.com/notebook.

Tags: clipping, notebook, web2.0, social bookmarking

This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:36:46 GMT

clipped by: olivier
clipper's remarks: 2 trucs pour réduire la tendance de firefox a dévorer la memoire vive

Clip Source: tech.cybernetnews.com

Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage. However, it does not seem to go back up to the insane amount that it was at before minimizing it. For example, Firefox was at 180MB of memory usage and then I minimized it and after a few seconds I maximized it. After maximizing it and continuing on my routine business it appeared to only have gone up to 60MB. This seems to be a good solution for me right now since I frequently maximize and minimize Firefox anyways.

Now I know many people will say that Firefox will take longer to maximize since it will be located on the hard drive, but I haven’t noticed ANY delays. It is able to redraw itself just as quickly as if it was located in the ram (in my experience). Okay, now here are the few simple steps:

Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
Now select True and then press Enter.
Restart Firefox.

See how quick and painless that was? At any rate you can always go back and delete the same setting that you just created if you start to experience any issues. I have also set the browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers value to 0 because that will prevent Firefox from caching pages for the back button. This is also supposed to free up some memory that gets stolen.

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Tags: firefox, tips

Parse Technorati-style Tags from HTML

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:18:03 GMT

clipped by: olivier
clipper's remarks: Permet de récuperer les tags "à la technorati" qui se trouvent dans du code HTML

Clip Source: www.bigbold.com

Parse Technorati-style Tags from HTML (See related posts)

An enhancement to the String class that parses out Technorati-style tags. Uses Typo's strip_html method to remove img tags and other markup.

class String
  # Strips any html markup from a string
  TYPO_TAG_KEY = TYPO_ATTRIBUTE_KEY = /[\w:_-]+/
  TYPO_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE = /(?:[A-Za-z0-9]+|(?:'[^']*?'|"[^"]*?"))/
  TYPO_ATTRIBUTE = /(?:#{TYPO_ATTRIBUTE_KEY}(?:\s*=\s*#{TYPO_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE})?)/
  TYPO_ATTRIBUTES = /(?:#{TYPO_ATTRIBUTE}(?:\s+#{TYPO_ATTRIBUTE})*)/
  TAG = %r{<[!/?\[]?(?:#{TYPO_TAG_KEY}|--)(?:\s+#{TYPO_ATTRIBUTES})?\s*(?:[!/?\]]+|--)?>}
  def strip_html
    self.gsub(TAG, '').gsub(/\s+/, ' ').strip
  end

  def tags
    scan(/<a\s+[^>]*\s*rel=\s*(.?)tag\1[^>]*>(.+?)<\/a>/i).
    map { |match| match.last.strip_html rescue nil }.
    compact.select { |s| !s.strip.empty? }
  end
end

# Example usage

s = %{<a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/tag/civil-war" rel="tag">civil war</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/civil+war" rel="tag"><img src="http://www.docstrangelove.com/wp-content/plugins/UltimateTagWarrior/technoratiicon.jpg" alt="Technorati tag page for civil war"/></a> <a href="http://www.docstrangelovecom/tag/iraq" rel="tag">iraq</a> <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/iraq" rel="tag"><img src="http://www.docstrangelove.com/wp-content/plugins/UltimateTagWarrior/technoratiicon.jpg" alt="Technorati tag page for iraq"/></a>}

s.tags
# => ["civil war", "iraq"]

Tags: rails, programming, tags, snippet

event:Selectors for Prototype

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:29:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Prototype integre maintenant un systeme similaire a celui de behaviour pour appliquer des scripts sur des elements CSS

Clip Source: ajaxian.com

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

event:Selectors for Prototype

According to this post on the mir.aculou.us website, Justin Palmer has released event:Selectors, a "method to cleanly use CSS pseudo selectors to assign DOM events to elements on the page."

The functionality, bearing resemblance to the behaviour.js library, hooks into all of the latest Prototype functionality and adds a few tricks of its own. They provide a code example of how this new functionality can be used:

var Rules = {
'#icons a:mouseover': function(element) {
var app = element.id;
new Effect.BlindDown(app + '-content',
{queue: 'end', duration: 0.2});
},

'#icons a:mouseout': function(element) {
var app = element.id;
new Effect.BlindUp(app + '-content',
{queue: 'end', duration: 0.2});
}
}

Posted by Chris Cornutt at 7:59 am

4.9 rating from 36 votes

Tags: ajax, javascript

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BadDog

Opening the source at Big in Japan

Opening the source at Big in Japan!

Hidden labels in Gmail

Hidden Labels in Gmail

A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits

A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits

Using capistrano with PHP

Using Capistrano with Perl (or PHP) 4

See also

Web 2.0: The First 25,000 Users Are Irrelevant

Web 2.0: The First 25,000 Users Are Irrelevant

Listen top pandora in Winamp

Listen To Pandora In Winamp

Google Notebook from Google Labs

This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

Parse Technorati-style Tags from HTML

Parse Technorati-style Tags from HTML (See related posts)

event:Selectors for Prototype

event:Selectors for Prototype