Gadgetopia

Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map: Google gets Measure Map and Jeff Veen from Adaptive Path in one fell swoop. Bringing Measure Map to Google is an exciting validation of the user experience work I've been doing with my partners at Adaptive Path for years. By opening up the ...

Space venture has West Texas county abuzz: Has Jeff Bezos jumped the shark? I never picked him for something like this, I guess. It even makes Branson look level-headed. Over the next 30 to 40 minutes, Simpson said Bezos told him the goal of his venture known as Blue ...

Here's something pretty funny. I was uninstalling some Web search spyware toolbar today. When you try to uninstall it, it pops up a little embedded Web page begging you not to kill it: "WAIT do you know all the great benefits we provide..." etc. I killed it anyway, and ...

Moving or migrating Windows Small Business Server (SBS) has got to be one of the more wretched tasks of a Windows system admin. Moving servers is never fun, but SBS is especially bad. You see, SBS is designed for up to 75 users on a single network and it's designed ...

Programmers Don t Read Books But You Should: Jeff Atwood criticizes the concept of reading a book on programming: If programmers don t learn from books today, how do they learn to program? They do it the old-fashioned way: by rolling up their sleeves and writing code while harnessing the ...

Bezos Expeditions invests in 37signals: This is nice to see. Today we have a very special announcement to make: Bezos Expeditions, a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, has made a minority private equity investment in 37signals.

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 ...

The GNOME Foundation is set to release version 2.8 of the GNOME Desktop today. The major change in this release is the inclusion of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), designed to make hardware 'just work'. So, if you plug in your jump drive, the drive icon magically shows up on ...

Microsoft to debut updated Office program in 2006: I haven't upgraded since Office 2000. Jeff Raikes, the senior vice president in charge of the Office division at Microsoft, said that the trial, or beta, version of Office 12 would be ready by the end of this year, followed by the ...

People love Josh Clark. He wrote the Big Medium CMS (AMS?), and we did an interview with him a while back. Read the comments on that post -- as I said, people love Josh Clark like Germans love David Hasslehoff. And here's a page that may demonstrate why: Is Big ...

BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis: Are video Web logs the next big thing? Vlogging lets us online go up against our true competitors -- not news organizations and reporters but commentators, especially on TV (on Sunday morning, on Fox, on 60 Minutes). Bloggers compete with columnists; vloggers compete with pundits. "Vlogs" ...

Why your cool church web site needs (the new) Google Analytics: Mean dean gives a good look and what s new with Google Analytics. I think this is the first big update since Google bought Urchin. Yesterday, at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen announced a ...

The Dude network monitor: Here's a handy replacement for Ipswitch's old Ping Pack Pro. It will ping the crap out of your subnet and tell you what responds. Handy for finding devices that may have DHCPed themselves into oblivion. [...] automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout ...

XFN - XHTML Friends Network: I'm working on a spider now to log all the Gadgetopia HREFs and finally find out what you all think of me. XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the ...

Amazon Plans Search Service To Drive Sales: Everybody is rushing to search these days. "Amazon.com Inc. has quietly established a beachhead in Silicon Valley to develop its own Web-search technology, a plan that could pit it more directly against Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in an emerging battle over who ...

Why I love working with family people: Jeff Mackey over at 37 Signals claims the 20-something with no life is a crutch for startups. If you need a bunch of them to survive, your idea sucks. That’s why I like working with the family man or woman. They come in ...

Thirty five years ago today, the first ever RFC was filed with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). RFC 1 describes software and protocols for transferring data on the planned ARPA Network. During the summer of 1968, representatives from the initial four sites met several times to discuss the HOST ...

(Note: Read the first comment to this entry. There s more to the story than what I wrote here.) Oh Yeah? Fork You!: Pidgin, the IM client, forked over get this a resizable text entry window. The developers, for whatever reason, dug in their heels on this one and ...

stackoverflow.com: With both Spolsky and Atwood involved, I suspect this will be huge. Jeff Atwood and I decided to do something about it. We re starting to build a programming Q&A site that s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain ...

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine.: This is an interesting article on Second Life, which I think is the next YouTube in terms of its effect on the Internet. Really, really big things are going to happen with this. By early January more than 3,000 ...

Jeff Maurone, an intern at Microsoft, shares his experience having dinner at Bill Gates' home. Further and further you descend, past what seems to be an annex library, as it was certainly not the primary librarian that houses the Leicester Codex (Bill's original DaVinci notebook, for which he paid approx ...

20 Year Archive on Google Groups: Here's an oldie but a goodie that I stumbled on again today. Google mined its Usenet archive for the first mention of various events and pop culture icons. For instance, the first mention of Michael Jordan was dated to February 1993 by some guy ...

Donating $5,000 to .NET Open Source: Last year, Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror promised to done some money from his advertising to open-source projects. He followed through on that today with a $5,000 check to the ScrewTurn Wiki project. This is like one of those giant promotional checks you see ...

NBC - Saturday Night Live - Special Treat in a Box: If you watch Saturday Night Live, you probably noticed that they finally matched Lazy Sunday this weekend with another Digital Short that -- I'm embarrassed to admit -- had me rolling on the floor laughing. The short had a ...

Geeky Microsoft wants a TV makeover: Apple has always been very strong with product placement, and now Microsoft wants the same thing. "Microsoft is promoting its Windows products on popular TV shows like Fox's '24' and HBO's 'The Wire,' airing this fall, as part of the software company's push to ...