Jon Stahl’s Journal

Amazon SimpleDB interesting new database-in-the-cloud service from Amazon. (tags: amazon database webservices) Web 2.0 […]

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DeskLickr - Flickrize your Mac desktop! (tags: freeware fun)

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Open Yale Courses Yale University is using Plone to power their open courseware catalog (tags: plone-site)

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or, some thoughts on how Plone can make the first couple of steps less confusing. As Plone makes the transition to “more Pythonic,” more Zope 3-style techniques for installation, add-on product development and deployment, we are gaining tremendous power, flexibility and manageability. These are Good Things. But, this transition is creating some short-term confusion. We […]

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The New LinkedIn Platform Shows Facebook How It’s Done | Compiler from Wired.com (tags: opensocial social-networking) 2007: More Web Design Trends […]

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Managing for Breakthroughs in Productivity Scott Berkun thinks this short paper is fantastic. (tags: innovation research to:gideonr)

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flot - Google Code jquery graphing module. originally developed for django (tags: code jquery javascript charts graphics cool)

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Adopt the Sky - Sign the petition for cleaner air very creative, online petition as flash app (tags: activism environment flash webdesign)

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Call me crazy, but I just checked out Microsoft’s just-out-of-beta Windows Live Writer offline blogging client, and I gotta tellya, it’s pretty nice.  Score one for the kids in Redmond. It’s free and Windows-only (of course).  It offers an easy-to-configure, very polished UI for writing and editing blog posts. It handles cut-and-paste from the web and […]

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Those of you who missed our recent event “Online Social Networks: Can They Power Social Change” missed a good time and a packed house with a ton of energy and enthusiasm. Fortunately, we got a decent video of our eight 5-minute presentations, which you can watch online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3hlU97_wo Warning: the video’s just under an hour, so grab […]

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ies4osx run ie on os X (tags: internet-explorer mac webdesign)

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Michael Gilbert picks up on an important piece: How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic A couple of key ‘grafs: The network-centric approach had worked pretty much as advertised. Even the theory’s many critics admit net-centric combat helped make an already imposing American military even more effective […]

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