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Archive for May, 2006

The Benefit of Monikers to End Users

I always thought COM (and CORBA) monikers had huge potential for end-users. I don’t believe modern middleware schemes have the equivelent of COM monikers.
Currently, if you would like to import some data from one program to another (i.e. your spreadsheet and some source of realtime information designed to expose data), it can be quite [...]

Geotagging in del.icio.us

Some folks are starting to Getoag in http://del.icio.us.
I imagine someone will soon write a GeoUrl / del.icio.us mashup, which will be interesting since both GeuUrl and del.icio.us were founded by Joshua Schachter.
Technorati Tags: GeoUrl, GeoTagging, del.icio.us, web2.0

SkypeOut Free In North America

SkypeOut is Free for North American calls until 2007.
Technorati Tags: VOIP, Skype

Abebooks Invests In LibraryThing

Abebooks.com invests in LibraryThing
Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, Abebooks, Librarything, Victoria[tags]
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PiXPO Financing - 6.5 Million!

Local tech firm PiXPO closes an impressive $6.5 million in financing.
Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, PiXPO, Victoria

Renaming your del.icio.us account

It is rather difficult to change your del.icio.us user id.
Here are some steps to propage your links from one del.icio.us account to another. Tag groups and your inbox will not propogate.

Download your links from the first account and save to a file called all.xml
Modify the Python script below to have your user name and [...]

First Few Weeks With Blackberry

I have been using a blackberry for a couple weeks now. It has been working ok (except as noted in the previous post), synchronizing my calendar from Lotus Notes, and emails from both notes and my personal email provider (gmail). Google Talk works fine on it as well. I have it set [...]

First Blackberry Glitch

Today I ran into a fairly serious glitch with my blackberry. I’d go to look at my message summary (an aggregate of SMS, corporate email, personal email, google talk, voice mail), and nothing was there. After spending some time convincing the support person at Rogers (who was pretty good actually) that I [...]