• Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers
  Overall, I think Thrift wins on features and Protocol Buffers win on
  documentation. Implementation-wise, they’re quite similar.
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• The Bit.ly Interview: “No Comment” on Twitter URL Switch and Yes, They Have a Business Plan | CenterNetworks
  There have been 40,000 bit.ly URLs created so far with 5,000 added everyday.
  (tags: tinyurl twitter)
• New York Times, LinkedIn Enter Content Partnership
  LinkedIn users are now being shown personalized news targeting their industry verticals on the Business and Technology sections of NYTimes.com and will then be prompted to share those stories will professional associates.
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• Hand Picked iPhone Application Development Resources
  how can we get started? Where can we get all the best iPhone Application development resources? Please have a look at the list of hand pciked iPhone resources below
  (tags: iphone development)
• 1 Billion Page Per Month Facebook RoR App | High Scalability
  LinkedIn’s Bumper Sticker app: one billion page per month Facebook Ruby on Rails application.
  (tags: rubyonrails scalability facebook linkedin)
• iPhone 3G Gift Cards
  Apple had stacks of “iPhone 3G Gift Cards” for customers who wanted to give the gift of iPhone 3G to a friend
  (tags: iphone apple)
• The 2008 Rich Web Experience
  RWE will focus on: web standards, Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, design, security, and web framework selection. Doug Crockford and Molly Holzschlag speaking
  (tags: ria conference)
• WhereTheEL - RealTime Twitter Subway Tracking
  How it works: Notify us when a train passes: Send a text to Twitter (40404) in the following format: @WhereTheEL [Train Color] [Station] [Direction] Example: @WhereTheEL brown addison S
  (tags: twitter maps tweet presence)
• Lifehacker: The Portable Office: Work Anywhere
  I’ve worked side-by-side with my three coeditors at Lifehacker.com remotely for 3 years.
  The key to our placeless office: Web applications that let us all the other things that regular teams do from our home offices, hotel rooms, and Internet cafes.
  (tags: collaboration lifehacker web2.0)

• Threadless for Greeting Cards = Minted.com
  We currently carry 18 of the very best stationery brands, and we are always seeking inspired design. We hold design challenges, Winning designs are sold on Minted, The best designers are commissioned to create further work
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• Squidoo : Just the FAQ
  A lens is one person’s view on a topic. It’s a web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, Amazon books, and much more. That way, when someone is looking for information, fast, your lens gets him started.
  (tags: crowdmind collaboration web2.0)

• Konsulted
  Konsulted is all about exploring reviews, images and videos about any electronic item
  and most importantly, asking your questions to people who own them.
  (tags: crowdmind web2.0)
• SaaS Rails Kit: Billing Code “To Go” For Your Rails App: $249
  all the billing and subscription code already written for your application, complete with testing, payment gateway interaction, and all the bugs ironed out. a solid “dummy” Rails app with all the subscription and billing functionality you need
  (tags: rubyonrails saas)
• Getting to really know GWT, Part 1: JSNI
  # Why does GWT center on the Java language and tools?
  # Isn’t GWT heavyweight and limiting compared to handwritten JavaScript?
  (tags: gwt web2.0 ajax)
• Facebook Top Application Valuations | Adonomics
  Adonomics™ Facebook Analytics and Developer Services
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking advertising)
• Jowba Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relauches As Startuply
  The site is a good hiring tool for startups, and having lots of startups centralize hiring activities in one place is a good way to drive traffic to all company listings.
  (tags: jobs startups web2.0)
• CitrusByte Automate Your Rails Deployment
  But the real gem is using Phusion Passenger with Ruby Enterprise Edition, which is a rewrite of the Ruby MRI with optimization for mod_rails in mind.
  (tags: mod_rails rubyonrails rubyee)
• crafterm’s sprinkle at master — GitHub
  Sprinkle is a software provisioning tool you can use to build remote servers with. eg. to install a Rails or Merb stack on a brand new slice directly after its been created
  (tags: deployment rubyonrails)
• The official JBoss Cache blog: MVCC has landed
  This is an alpha and doesn’t nearly have all of what the GA release will have, but it does have two very significant features which I would like to share with the world. One is MVCC, and the other is a new configuration file format
  (tags: jboss cache jee)
• Serious YouTube test of copyright law
  Lenz’s lawyers, from the EFF, say her video, with fuzzy camerawork and unclear sound, was such an obvious noncommercial fair use that Universal should have to reimburse her for the costs of taking it out of circulation for more than a month last year.
  (tags: youtube copyright law)
• Finally: decent documentation for Rails developers
  This is what Rails has needed for a long time. The great news is that thanks to the hard work of the guys at Nodeta it has finally arrived: behold Rails-doc! The site reached version 2.0 last week and now it has pretty much everything you could ask for:
  (tags: rubyonrails)
• The Rails Documentation App - Rails-doc.org
  Rails-doc is the Rails Documentation App (the first one that wasn’t developed by one guy in his underpants).
  (tags: rubyonrails documentation api reference)
• Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund
  13. Online learning. US schools are often bad. A lot of parents realize it, and would be interested in ways for their kids to learn more. Till recently, schools, like newspapers, had geographical monopolies. But the web changes that.
  (tags: e-learning startup)
• Octopart - Electronic Parts, Electronic Components, Datasheets
  Octopart is a search engine for electronic parts.
  (tags: searchengine)
• How-To: Auto Deploy A Web Application In Tomcat using Maven Cargo
  In the previous section we copied the WAR file manually under TOMCAT_HOME/webapps folder. Here we will automate the deployment using cargo plugin.
  (tags: maven cargo ci)
• Monitor110: A Startup Post Mortem
  Monitor100 the thesis: more and better information that can be valuable to Institutional investors who are constantly looking for an edge is coming out daily. Monitor110 would use technology to help them get that edge.
  (tags: startup failure vc)
• Logical File System
  What is LFS ? It’s the filesystem you always wanted. It’s a Semantic_File_System.
  (tags: filesystem semantic)
• Lesson Writer Helps Teachers Quickly Conquer a Menial Task
  If you stumble across a website whose content you’d like to include in an agenda for a future day you can select any interesting text and paste it into a draft page for a new lesson.
  (tags: e-learing web2.0)
• Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web
  emantic technology has great promise to improve search, and it offers to provide gainful employment to scores of linguists who have been toiling unappreciated in the world’s universities.
  (tags: google hakia semantic crowdmind)
• GE’s Enterprise Cloud Backbone
  GE has their own internal cloud, with hosting costs lower than Amazon’s S3. Available for all users, including those with no IT background, a mature and sophisticated mashup system to develop simple to complex business applications.
  (tags: collaboration cloudcomputing enterprise gesupportcentral)
• GE’s CEO controls information worth billions
  Most CIOs complain about their budgets’ getting squeezed, but Reiner’s is growing and, at $4 billion, is almost the size of a Fortune 500 company.
  (tags: gesupportcentral)
• Amazon AWS s3 ec2 / Google App Engine / Media Temple / Mosso CloudFS Comparison - Rob Gonda’s Blog
  grid comparison
  (tags: aws s3 ec2 appengine)
• Gumbo - Flex SDK - Confluence
  The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes: * Design in Mind * Developer Productivity * Framework Evolution
  (tags: flex)
• Enterprise Portals Are Popping (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  343-page report on intranet portal usability (3rd edition), with 210 color screenshots and 117 best practices, is available for download.
  (tags: usability nielsen)
• iPhone style icon psd kit
  psd templte for iPhone app icons
  (tags: iphone icons tutorial)
• Building Your First jQuery Plugin
  The first step is to extend the actual jQuery object with the function that we wish to add. In our case, we wish to add “truncation” functionality. So here’s where to start: create a jquery.truncate.js file and save it
  (tags: jquery plugin)
• Organize a class-action lawsuit against Godaddy for .me failures
  The purpose of this article is to gain velocity in a class-action lawsuit; to do something about Godaddy’s faulty and unfair business practices.
  (tags: godaddy domains)
• Capistrano - Deploying Your Rails Application on HostingRails.com
  Forums for discussing all things Ruby on Rails and more…
  (tags: capistrano rubyonrails svn)
• Heroku Gem: Project Info
  This library wraps the Heroku REST API for managing and deploying Rails apps to Heroku. It can be called as a Ruby library, or invoked from the command line.
  (tags: heroku rubyonrails rest)
• DNSBL_Check Anti Spam Rails Plugin
  This plugin installs a filter that is run before every incoming request for the controller. The filter analyzes the ip address your visitor is using. When this address is listed on a DNSBL, your visitor is shown an ‘Access denied’ message.
  (tags: plugin rubyonrails spam)
• 11 of the Highest User Ranked Free Fonts | CreatingDrew
  (tags: fonts free)
• fumpr - World’s Fastest Photo Storage
  image hosting
  (tags: images hosting)
• Twitter took off from simple to ‘tweet’ success - USATODAY.com
  Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many people now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.
  (tags: twitter)
• M.D. Trades Medicine Career for Apple Rumors Blog - NYTimes.com
  macrumors.com now attracts more than 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month
  (tags: apple blogs)
• NBCi will launch Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Late Night’ on the Web - NYTimes.com
  Lorne Michaels has decided to try to get a jump on things by starting NBC’s next edition of “Late Night,” with its new host Jimmy Fallon, as a nightly entry on the Internet.
  (tags: web2.0 iptv)
• Google Transit Feeds and Mass Transit Mashups
  Google’s Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) holds some promise for agencies seeking to integrate their data with Google’s Transit Planner as well as the public and would-be transit mashup developers.
  (tags: google api transit)
• PureMVC Tutorial - Flex, PureMVC, Jabber and XIFF 3: Introduction | Dave Keen
  I like Actionscript 3, I like Flex, I like Flash and I especially like PureMVC. In fact, I like them so much that its about time I wrote a fully fledged tutorial to help the rest of you like them as much as I do.
  (tags: puremvc flex tutorial as3 actionscript flash)
• Go Big Always - The 5 Futures of Attention
  The most basic application of this new API would be that I could see my history with context. I could get a sense of the trends of my consumption.
  (tags: lifetivo web3.0)
• Dudes Love Hulu
  Last week we pointed out that Hulu users were younger (32) and more male (two-thirds) than we’d previously thought.
  (tags: ads hulu iptv)
• Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
  The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email.
  (tags: blog web2.0)
• iPhone 3g: Data only for $20/mth
  At just $20 a month, you get unlimited data and if you need to chat, just add some dollars to your account.
  (tags: iphone)

• Facebook Releases iPhone App v1.1, Makes 1.0 Seem Quaint
  The best way to describe the 1.1 update is that it is pretty much everything what Facebook amounts to without third-party applications.
  (tags: facebook appstore iphone)
• iPhone-App Development for Web Hackers
  Assuming you have downloaded the iPhone SDK. Mac programming is mostly done using an IDE called ‘XCode’. It can be found in the /Developer directory of your Mac.
  (tags: iphone development xcode)
• Do you own a .ME?
  .ME too has its share of premium domain names like Drive.ME, Fly.ME, Book.ME or contact.ME — most of the verb oriented domains though may be held back for auction as permium domains.
  (tags: domains .me)
• DropCard :: Learn about Drop
  2. Skip “@gmail.com”
  This is our favorite feature - just ask people for their gmail addresses!
  long way: drop johndoe@gmail.com
  easy way: drop johndoe
  (tags: contacts web2.0)
• Namecheap.com - Cheap domain name registration, renewal and transfers - Free SSL Certificates - Web Hosting - Free URL Forwarding, e-mail forwarding and DNS services are included with our cheap domain names registration service
  Cheap Domain Registration with FREE E-mail, URL Forwarding
  (tags: domains)
• Domain Name Registration - Bulk Discount Domain Names & Domain Name Registration Services
  You just won’t beat our domain name registration prices.
  (tags: domains)

• Tapulous - Social Apps for iPhone - Twinkle
  another twitter app for iPhone
  (tags: iphone twitter appstore)
• Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments :: Tech Video
  The presentation places emphasis on free and open source tools capable of being useful out of the box, without extensive configuration. Common problems are discussed, along with methods of rapid analysis and root cause determination.
  (tags: java scalability video)
• Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for Air
  Twitter ratcheted unauthenticated API calls down to the same 100 per hour per IP address, effectively crushing many external services that relied on Twitter for their data
  (tags: twitter api)
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library - Wikipedia
  The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and techniques for managing information technology (IT) infrastructure, development, and operations.
  (tags: itil management)
• Top 10 Companies Currently in the Cloud
  # The NY Times
  # Nasdaq
  # Major League Baseball
  # ESPN
  # Hasbro
  # British Telecom
  # Taylor Woodrow
  # CSS
  # Activision
  # Business Objects (A SAP Company)
  (tags: cloudcomputing ec2 aws)
• A virtualization hit for MLB Advanced Media
  Major League Baseball’s strategic use of virtualization technology enabled him nevertheless to forge ahead with implementing new products during the 2007 season, and promises to smooth a shift to a new data center in Chicago in time for the 2008 season.
  (tags: mlb cloudcomputing)
• JumpBox for Ruby on Rails Deployment
  The JumpBox for Ruby on Rails is a self-contained Ubuntu Linux environment that, upon startup, immediately hosts fully functioning Apache, Ruby, MySQL, and Ruby On Rails environments
  (tags: ec2 rubyonrails scalability aws)
• JBoss AMI - Apache, MySql, ModJK and SmartEC2 Deployment Tool
  This AMI is built on top of the Jboss AMI.
  Following softwares are available as part of this AMI.
  MySql 5, SmartEC2 Deployment Tool, s3cmd
  (tags: ec2 jboss ami aws mysql)
• Versionista.com: Track changes to any Web site
  Versionista monitors Web sites that you specify for edits. Our Web-based service records every change, clearly highlighting added or deleted words and sentences.
  (tags: monitoring diff)
• Thingfo: thingfo product home
  The Thingfo widget and API system enables successful websites to activate users, embed activity and community on their sites, and publish to the next generation of social networks. Build community.
  (tags: twitter community socialnetworking)
• Calling Web Services from the Shell
  wsclient –help provides a comprehensive list of options, when invoking Web services. These options could be categorized under http, SOAP, Addressing, MTOM, Rampart, SSL and as general options.
  (tags: webservices testing)
• jQuery Sparklines
  This jQuery plugin generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.
  (tags: jquery sparklines)
• Crowdstorm - Expert Product Reviews
  We help you find “what” to buy through aggregating expert reviews, user reviews, buyers’ guides, thoughts, videos and questions and answers from a crowd of trusted people and sites.
  (tags: crowdmind web2.0 collaboration)
• Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip
  With XMPP Twitter just sends out all of their data in a constant stream, whether you ask for it or not. The third party, in this case Gnip, takes the data and parses it for further use.
  (tags: xmpp twitter api)
• Google Docs Templates
  # All types
  # Documents
  # Spreadsheets
  # Presentations
  (tags: googledocs templates)
• libxml-ruby 0.8.0 Released: Ruby Gets Fast, Reliable XML Processing At Last
  libxml-ruby is known for its performance, the latest release doesn’t disappoint. For a range of simple tasks, libxml clocks in at ten times quicker than Hpricot like-for-like and between 30 and 60 times faster than REXML. Charles adds:
  (tags: ruby xml gems)
• Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook
  Blaine Cook, the controversial former chief architect at Twitter, is now a rails developer at Yahoo. A source at Yahoo confirms the hire and says he’s working on the Fire Eagle
  (tags: twitter rubyonrails fireeagle)
• Pandora Usage Stats Prove It’s iPhone’s Killer App
  Usage over the weekend hit an all-time high for the service, with 3.3 million tracks streamed to iPhone listeners alone.
  (tags: appstore iphone)

• GoDaddy Offers .Me Domain Names. It’s a Big .Fail So Far.
  9 people are claiming to have receipts for the domain name aweso.me.
  (tags: domains)
• most of the .ME’s were registered within the first few minutes
  GoDaddy confirmed with me that most of the .ME’s were registered within the first few minutes, hence the massive FAIL later on
  (tags: domains)
• .me Auctions names that were already sold
  Now I see domains we “bought” on the auction list at https://auctions.domain.me/. Here is the suspicious part. When I enter a domain I did buy successfully I see Whois data. But when you enter domains from the auction list there is no Whois data.
  (tags: domains)
• How GoDaddy stole a domain from .me « Brent Sordyl’s Blog
  If GoDaddy is diligently deciding which honest customer should get txt.me amongst many orders, then why is it up for auction?
  (tags: domains)
• DropCard Aims To Make Business Cards Obsolete
  You send a new contact’s email address via SMS to DropCard. DropCard then immediately sends the person your contact information including social network profiles, name, email, etc
  (tags: socialnetworking)

Minutes after the .me land rush started I purchased 8 domains from godaddy.com, you can see my receipt for txt.me here:

GoDaddy Receipt for txt.me

The txt.me domain did not show up in my godaddy account nor does it have a WHOIS entry. From GoDaddy’s support email it would seem that due to being unprepared they are sorting out my order against other orders for the same domain:

GoDaddy Support email for txt.me

If GoDaddy is diligently deciding which honest customer should get txt.me amongst many orders, then why is it up for auction at https://auctions.domain.me/default.aspx :

GoDaddy Auctioning my domain

The GoDaddy rep could not explain why someone would be so SMART as to register txt.me immediately when .me’s went on sale and SMART enough to somehow get Montenegro to sell his domain but DUMB enough to auction it on a site that no one could join for bidding.

The GoDaddy rep also could not explain while txt.me doesn’t have a WHOIS record yet but a domain which I bought hours later does.

• Sinatra | ruby microframework
  Sinatra is the easiest way to a Fast, RESTful, web-application in Ruby with few dependencies, setup, and LOC.
  (tags: ruby)
• Byline - iPhone Google Reader on the go.
  iPhone App that caches google reader locally
  (tags: iphone googlereader appstore)
• Compile Software from Source Code
  If you find yourself having to (or wanting to) compile a piece of software, the process is fairly simple. Every piece of software is different, but here is a summary of the most common scenario. First, you’ll need a command line and a compiler.
  (tags: howto compile programming)
• User experience trading cards
  User experience trading cards
  (tags: ux design webdesign)
• Ologeez! - share research
  Ologeez! is about providing academic researchers and professionals with the tools needed to connect, share and learn about their fields.
  (tags: crowdmind collaboration)
• Jigsaw - Business Directory of Business Contacts
  A points-based system where members earn points for the contributions to the online business directory databases that they make. Then use those points to acquire data that they need, such as company information and more than 9 million business contacts
  (tags: socialnetworking)
• The 37signals Manifesto (our original site from 1999)
  The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999-2001. It’s a collection of 37 nuggets of online philosophy and design wisdom. It’s a great introduction to the 37signals’ school of thought and a fun, quick read to boot.
  (tags: 37signals)
• Google Buckets
  1.Bucket your search results
  2. see how other have bucketed results
  3. See comments other have associated with buckets
  (tags: google crowdmind)
• IM+ for Skype, iPhone/iPod Touch version
  Want to access IM+ for Skype on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Get it out of your pocket and enter s4iphone.com in the browser. Enjoy free Skype chats and cost-effective calling at SkypeOut rates!
  (tags: iphone skype appstore)

• Twitter Search
  Twitter has acquired Summize!
  (tags: twitter search)
• Moodle Open Source E-Learning Heads for the Cloud
  Infinity Learning Solutions has announced a cloud computing solution for Moodle leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
  (tags: e-learning aws ec2)

• Identifont Matches Fonts with Step-by-Step Analysis
  Free font-matching service Identifont is a good bookmark for anyone who works in words, design, or just has to occasionally match up hard-to-pin-down fonts.
  (tags: font)
• iPhone Applications RSS
  Unofficial RSS feed of newly-added App Store applications from Waxy.org Links
  (tags: iphone apps)
• DataCase - iPhone File Server and Viewer
  DataCase keeps your files close by turning your iPhone or iPod Touch into a hand held wireless drive.
  (tags: iphone app)