Ask City, IAC's New Local Search Portal - O'Reilly Radar
IAC's Ask has launched a new local search portal, Ask City. It has several innovations packed into this release. Mapping Tools: The most striking to me is the toolbar beneath the map. The toolbar very simply and effectively lets you mark the map (with lines, polygons, text and a number of other standard drawing tools) and then "take a snapshot of current map". It also lets you browse previously sa
Zimbra Adds Offline Use of Their Productivity Apps - O'Reilly Radar
Zimbra announced at Web 2.0 yesterday that they were going to add an offline mode to their AJAX office suite. Any actions done offline will be stored in the local cache until you are back online. This will work for their email, calendaring, contacts, and documents offerings. You can learn more on their blog and on their product page. Web apps have longed needed the ability to sync offline. Product
State of the Computer Book Market, Q206, Part 2: Category Winners and Losers - O'Reilly Radar
Yesterday, I talked about the overall market trend in computer books versus last year. As always, though, the opportunities and interesting tidbits are in the category visualizations we do. Here's a treemap view of the quarter on quarter differences between Q2 of 2006 and the same period last year: As I've previously described in Book Sales as a Technology Trend Indicator, in a Treemap visualizati
Building Scalable Websites - O'Reilly Radar
Those of you who liked my Database War Stories series of posts are going to love Cal Henderson's new book, Building Scalable Web Sites. Cal is of course the lead web developer for Flickr, and the guy who put fear into the hearts of IT shops everywhere by his reported practice of putting builds of Flickr out to the net every half hour, demonstrating just how different web development can be from tr
O'Reilly Radar > Database War Stories #2: bloglines and memeorandum
In Monday's installment, Cory Ondrejka of Second Life said "flat files don't cut it", but Mark Fletcher of bloglines and Gabe Rivera of memeorandum.com apparently don't agree. Gabe wrote: "I didn't bother with databases because I didn't need the added complexity... I maintain the full text and metadata for thousands of articles and blog posts in core. Tech.memeorandum occupies about 600M of core.
O'Reilly Radar > Database War Stories #3: Flickr
Continuing my series of queries about how "Web 2.0" companies used databases, I asked Cal Henderson of Flickr to tell me "how the folksonomy model intersects with the traditional database. How do you manage a tag cloud?" He replied: "lots of the 'web 2.0' feature set doesn't fit well with traditional normalised db schema design. denormalization (or heavy caching) is the only way to generate a tag
Live Software - O'Reilly Radar
I'm at a Microsoft press event in San Francisco to introduce the concept of "Live Software." The big takeaway: Microsoft is fully engaged with thinking about what I've called "Web 2.0." They are focused on the internet as the platform, on software as a service, on creating rich experiences across multiple devices, on live update as a metaphor for both software and documents, on grassroots adoption
O'Reilly Radar > Why Microsoft can't best Google
James Governor wrote in email: "Don't know if you saw Phil Waineright on google vs MS. But he has done a neat job of boiling down some issues that talk quite well to web 1.0 to web 2.0 diffs. Neatest insight, imho: Microsoft's business model depends on everyone upgrading their computing environment every two to three years. Google's depends on everyone exploring what's new in their computing envir
Perl: Ain't Dead Yet - O'Reilly Radar
More in the is Perl still relevant? thread: Google Zeitgest for June (which next month should be archived here if I've guessed their URL scheme correctly) shows "perl programming" as a majorly gaining Google term. I'm pretty sure this isn't some kind of write-in campaign from disaffected CPAN contributors, but I have no idea what did cause it. Anyone care to guess? (Update: [Via])
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