Gadgetopia

Can anybody recommend a Web Site stress testing utility?: The answers to this question over at LinkedIn are a plethora of Web load-testing tools. A lot in here I ve never heard of.

waffle: under the iron: Anil Dash of Six Apart and LinkedIn has some comments over at Waffle about the future of The Semantic Web: "The most productive next steps are going to happen in a few phases, I suspect. The first will be new generations of blogging tools that natively ...

Way Too Good for Facebook or MySpace?: I knew it was going to come to this at some point social networking sites are getting more exclusive. This article profiles aSmallWorld which is the apparent king of the elite social networking sites. Membership in these networks, not unlike the exclusive ...

Pay To Play: Fair Price for Good Community: Josh Clark nails another good post today as he discusses a new communal bike rental program in Paris. For 29 euros a year, you can check out a bike for 30 minutes whenever you need one. He discusses why the city of ...

Measuring ‘Completeness’ to Encourage Action: David Gammel points out something I ve always thought was brilliant. This strikes me as a very subtle yet effective way to get your users to provide more information about themselves in their profile. Who doesn’t want to get to 100%? I spent a lot of ...

Friendster Quickly Gathering Foes: There is apparently trouble in the Friendster world. Though it remains at the top of the online social networking heap, there are increasing rumblings that some of Friendster's earliest core users are unhappy with it. And now that they've found alternatives to the service, many are ...

Google Tries Out Its Own Friendster-Style Service: The social networking space is getting awfully crowded, capped now by Google's entry. The launch of Orkut comes after Friendster's rejection late last year of Google's offer to buy the site that has become known as an online venue for hooking up friends ...

Social manners: Adam makes a good point about the social networking apps. I’ve been invited onto the friends lists on Orkut and LinkedIn by several people that I don’t really know...Part of me feels awkward when rejecting these invitations, but I think I should know you before I call you ...

geeXP: this may seem kind of silly, but there s probably some validity to it. geeXP is a new approach to managing your projects and tasks, in a fun way, that rewards you for making progress on your own projects. Think of it like a Massively Multiplayer Online RPG, where you ...

Should CEOs and CIOs consider the implications of off-shoring IT services on US society?: Fascinating question over at LinkedIn which boils down to, is offshoring ethical? Off-shoring of IT services is further eroding the United States of good paying middle-class jobs. CIOs are under pressure to meet yearly targets typically ...

Amazon Askville takes on Yahoo! Answers: first look: Amazon is heading into the Answers space with Askville. Google ended Google Answers last year. Yahoo Answers kind of sucks, for reasons I explained here. The only one I ve had a good experience with is LinkedIn Answers, a site on which Aaron ...

Current style in web design: Here's a good roundup of the current style of well-designed Web pages, and what makes them that way. For the last few years, I've seen a certain breed of page design that I loved but could never put my finger on why. This style actually ...

SearchMonkey - YDN: Yahoo is taking a big step with this. They re letting people write apps that other people choose to install that directly change how search results are formatted. The SearchMonkey developer tool enables you to create small, sharable applications that enhance search results. A SearchMonkey application pulls in ...

Zero to Beta in less than 100 days. What is this worth to you?: Here was an interesting question over at LinkedIn, and the interesting discussion that followed it. Okay all of you entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Here s the scenario .you have an idea for a new web-based product or service offering. ...

Cold Fusion: Enterprise ready?: We tend to dump on ColdFusion around here a bit, but I ve been interested in this discussion over at LinkedIn Answers. It started off with someone asking if ColdFusion was enterprise ready. I m surprised by some spirited and well-reasoned answers in ColdFusion s favor. CF has been ...

Shelfari is a social networking app built around books. You connect to other people based on the books you re both reading. It s been pretty cool until tonight. Here is my email to their Feedback address. I let you into my Gmail address book to find people I know that might also ...