Gadgetopia

Geeks Will Not Be Silenced: Breaking: Digg Riot in Full Effect Over Pulled HD-DVD Key Story: Digg had a bad night tonight. Or a good night, I guess, depending on how you look at it. The power of Web 2.0 is in full effect over at Digg, where users are ...

Flash Games: It's a Digg meta site. Digg.com has featured many of the most addictive flash games that are out there. After playing them once and then trying to find them again I decided it would be nice to have them all in one easy to find place. The "best" ...

Digg This: Soon, Not Just for Geeks Anymore: Digg is moving up and out of just the geek world. President Kevin Rose said that in the next month or so, the popular site -- where people vote on stories submitted by others, with the highest vote-getters moving to the top ...

Digg: This is the manifestation of a good idea: let the reading community determine what should and should not be read, and where it should go. (1) The user submits a story to the "hardware" category. (2) The story is then filed into the "dig" area of hardware. (3) Users ...

Valley Boys: Great article on the history of Digg.com. Another guy who started from nothing, and is now trying to fend of VC who are trying to force money down his throat. Soon, Rose was blabbing about his idea to his girlfriend, his buds, his bartenders. This would be bottom-up ...

dzone.com - fresh links for developers: I do not add RSS feeds easily to my aggregator. The last one I added was Solution Watch, several months ago. I added dzone again last week. This is like Digg, but just for developers. Now, I know, Digg-ish sites are a dime a ...

Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006: Of course, it will take a while, but Zawodny predicts that sites with more community will take over. Haven't we figured out that the crowd is generally smarter than any one individual in the crowd? Sites like Digg and Reddit understand that. ...

popurls.com: Although the last thing we need is another aggregator, we really do need to aggregate the aggregators. PopURLs puts everything from the big link sites on one page -- Digg, Reddit, Furl, etc. It's quite good.

Quick guide to new USATODAY.com features: USA Today has redesigned and is now allowing (1) comments on all news stories, and (2) a Digg-like "recommend" feature to all stories. I've talked before about USA Today's trend towards the blog (sometimes with entertaining results). Interesting to see them roll this out ...

slashdot protection: Neat little snippet of mod_rewrite code to prevent your site from being Slashdotted. Inbound requests from a dozen of so of the big link sites (Slashdot, Digg, etc.) will redirect to the copy of your site sitting out on Coral. The problem, of course, is that Coral runs ...

Here's one of the most interesting blog concepts I've seen in a while: This red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. [...] I'm ...

On PHP: Matt from WordPress fame gets all uppity on PHP5. Fast forward 3 more years and PHP 5 has been, from an adoption point of view, a complete flop. Most estimates place it in the single-digit percentages or at best the low teens, mostly gassed by marginal frameworks. Even ...

Consensus Web Filters: A great roundup of the crop of sites like Digg or del.icio.us or Reddit where people vote on links. There's a lot more than I knew of. This genre does not have an official name yet, but each of these sites supplies readers with pointers to news ...

In the comments on Deane's latest bit of Spolsky-worship, I had postulated that, given the idea that thick clients for the web can provide a better experience, and Firefox's increasing market share, 2006 could become the year of XUL. There was a great link posted on digg this morning that ...

Dapper: The Data Mapper: Dapper is pretty awesome. It's essentially a graphical screen-scraping tool. You can use Dapper to define common fields from any Web page, and Dapper will learn how to define those fields and help you extract the information from them. Then it will provide a URL to ...

NCAA criticized for ejecting reporter who blogged at game: Before you go and do something like this, you really have to ask yourself, Am I firing the first shot in a war I can t win? Media groups blasted the NCAA yesterday for ejecting a Courier-Journal reporter from the press box ...

BMW is working on solving the energy problems of this century by using the energy solutions of the century before last. Behold the turbosteamer: A large percentage of the energy released when petroleum is burned disappears out the exhaust system as heat. This has always been the case but the ...

Drew McClellan has put up a sort of advent calendar for web nerds, releasing 24 short web development articles this month, one per day, with an eye towards teaching you neat stuff that you may not already know. Each day from now until 24th December, we'll be publishing a new ...

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing: I saw this on X-Play years back, but Digg just reminded me of it. It s perhaps the worst video game ever created. The box of Big Rigs states that the player may race trucks across the country, with cops chasing [them]. GameSpot considered this ...

Uh, well, here we are, I guess. Five thousand posts. Huh. This has been my goal since that first post 1,291 days ago. I posted about The Gutenberg Project back then, back when the site was deanebarker.net. Since then, we've managed to post just under four items a day, every ...

PHP Sucks, But It Doesn t Matter: Jeff Atwood essentially closes the PHP sucks argument by agreeing with it, then explaining why it doesn t matter. The TIOBE community index I linked above? It s written in PHP. Wikipedia, which is likely to be on the first page of anything you search for ...

I'm going to kick off a new weekly series this week I'm calling "The Basics"; Here's the idea: Every time I need to write some JavaScript for feature X on a new site I'm building, I always just go back to the last site I remember writing feature X for, ...

Day One was busy The Next Content Wave: Hypersyndication We started off with a keynote talk from Dick Costolo, who is the guy who created and sold FeedBurner and now works for Google. He talked about how far syndication has come. If you went to CNN or Gannett even ...