- Tim O’Reilly makes very good observations on Google Social Graph API http://tinyurl.com/26r77q #
- Today’s the 5th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven: http://tinyurl.com/2u43kg #
- Google’s new Social Graph API http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ #
- TechCrunch on Goog Social Graph API http://tinyurl.com/2pwe5t #
- Maybe this should be the year I finally go to Yellowstone in winter? http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/01/29/yellowstone/ #
Google’s My Location service explained with a cute little cartoon:
Now you know how GOOG locates you on your iPhone or other mobile.
- reCAPTCHA now has a WordPress plugin http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/ #
- More about reCAPTCHA http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html #
- Neil Gafter’s blog post on "Is the Java language dying?" http://tinyurl.com/ysrg4n #
- China has 547 million mobile users who sent 592 billion text messages last year http://tinyurl.com/2xp897 #
- Facebook as app host via a new JavaScript library that allows Facebook apps to be displayed on any site http://tinyurl.com/ys8uvh #
Update: We’ve come a long way since 2004!
- Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShip2 (SS2) and White Knight Two (WK2) designs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7205445.stm #
Ouch, not how you want to launch your beta:
The Java.net Mobile & Embedded Community has organized a two day developer event starting tomorrow in Santa Clara, California.
The event will also be viewable online for free. See the event wiki (click here) for more information on viewing the event on Sun’s Ustream.TV page.
This looks to be a useful event with interesting sessions. Click here for the agenda or here to learn more about the planned speakers. As James Gosling notes:
The agenda is intensely technical. The conference is devoted solely to the technologies of mobile and embedded Java platforms and is targeted for application developers of intermediate and advanced skill levels, platform developers and technical personnel at tool vendors, OEM’s and carriers.
Definitely worth checking out either in person or online.
- Twittering comes of age for political reporting http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/technology/21link.html #
- First time I’ve read the term "Hardware as a Service"…HaaS, anyone? http://tinyurl.com/yul32q #
- DreamHost billing issues have been a headache; hopefully they really are resolved http://tinyurl.com/yo2zpd #
- Facebook taps users to translate site http://tinyurl.com/2x83t9 (tip o’ the hat to Michael @ TechCrunch) #
- My friend Jason Hunter‘s doing some very cool things at MarkLogic http://tinyurl.com/2ba2dd #
- Jonathan Schwartz‘s blog post on how the Sun-MySQL purchase came together http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/in_a_vortex #
- Dale Dougherty’s "The Rest of the Rest of Us" is a must-read http://tinyurl.com/2xglby #
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