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Recent Shows (Kyle & Bocko: the podcast)

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:12:39 -0700

Welcome to the Evanston Public Library

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:53:28 -0700

JSON

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:54:28 -0700

Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:52:48 -0700

How to Podcast

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:16:43 -0700

Jason Shellen Returns With Plinky

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:05:21 -0700

On Friday I caught up with Jason Shellen, one of the members of the original Blogger team. Following Google’s February 2003 acquisition of PyraLabs, the company behind Blogger, Shellen joined the search engine giant, working first on Blogger and later on other projects, including Google Reader.

In July 2007, he became a member of the ex-Googler club, joining Six Apart spinoff LiveJournal for a brief stint as VP of product development. He has since left that gig and is now focused on a new startup, Plinky, which doesn’t have a web site just yet. (Now there’s a Web 2.0 name if there ever was one!)

Shellen has co-founded Plinky with CTO Simeon Simeonov, formerly chief architect of both Macromedia and Allaire, but now a partner with Polaris Ventures in Boston. Polaris has invested $1.5 million in the company; a handful of angel investors are looking to join this investment round as well, Shellen said. The company currently has four employees, though it plans to hire a whole slew of engineers as soon as it finds permanent digs in Berkeley.

“I think a lot of attention is being paid to the aggregation and new kinds of social media tools but not enough attention (has been paid) to creation (of the social media),” he said. “When blogging was getting going, there were lot of interesting ideas, and now the technology has progressed enough that we can try out those ideas.” So what’s the plan? Shellen wouldn’t offer any details other than to say that he’s working on “content encouragement.” In other words, they’re building something aimed at getting people who aren’t bloggers or content creators to participate and create.

How? I don’t really know, and he wouldn’t say. One thing I do know: Shellen is a smart guy and having known him for a long time, I trust that he has something interesting up his sleeve. I guess we’ll have to wait and find out when the company launches its first offering this fall.

Internet Archive and just my timing " Rube Goldberg machines for libraries

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:22:12 -0700

"The thing that really got me was that I couldn't reliably search by ISBNs. Their advanced search had an "isbn" field, but I couldn't find an ISBN that could be found that way."

Microsoft Predicted to Back Away from Vista

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:25:06 -0700

When it comes to technology debacles, every major company has a few (remember the Newton?), but right now one of the top spots has to go to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s clunky operating system that has IT shops and consumers desperately clutching at XP for as long as they can.

Jason Hiner over at Tech Republic thinks there may be a light at the end of the Vista tunnel; he predicts IT shops and consumers will have a chance within the next year to upgrade to a cleaner, more modular version of Windows Vista under the Windows 7 moniker. It won’t be a completely new OS but rather a more streamlined version of Vista. He also suggests the pricing for consumers will be lower in an effort to win back those who are turning to Macs.

This could be another step by Microsoft toward shedding cumbersome release cycles and creating software that can be updated every year or so via a subscription model. Hiner lays out a nice case, and as a consumer who once was stuck with a laptop running Windows ME, I have to hope that before the third strike (Vista being the second), Microsoft can score a hit.

FreedomSpeaks So Politicians Listen

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:51:26 -0700

Plenty of people get politically active during election years, but the issues don’t go away once the hanging chads have been punched and the Diebold source code is no longer being hacked. Aside from voting (or donating thousands to a campaign) the most powerful way to make your voice heard is to write your Congressman. We all know this, but a new site called FreedomSpeaks makes it easy (and digital).

You can sign on to existing letters, write your own and store them, and have enlightened political discussion with fellow site members. The site needs to add local government representative information and could probably integrate well with an organization like Project Vote Smart, but founder Jason Kiesel has his heart in the right place. He’s a freelance coder who put the site together in his spare timing hoping to create a social network for politically minded people. I’ll forgive him for the social network jargon and hope that anyone and everyone might join. After all, it is your country.

Of interest: Sun, MySQL, and the US government

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:14:26 -0800

Jason Hull of OpenSource Connections, a company in my town, posted an article on what Sun's acquisition of MySQL means for the US government. I thought Planet MySQL readers might appreciate a different angle on the issue than many of the Planet MySQL posts, which are often focused on business or community more than government. (I'm just passing the link along, not agreeing or disagreeing).

XML and JSON for Ajax

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:06:58 -0800

Jason Plugin for Eclipse: Bem-vindo ao projeto Jason Plugin for Eclipse

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:46:54 -0800

The B-List: I can't believe it's not XML!

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:37:25 -0800

JSON Serialization Usage

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:10:28 -0700

FoldSpy | Home | Find the fold, increase ad revenue, find real browser sizes, dimensions

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:55:41 -0700

verve8media ActionScript " Blog Archive " JSON to Flash: An eBay case study.

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:53:45 -0700

JSON

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:49:30 -0700

JSON

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:54:44 -0700

[jason] json.simple 라이브러리를 이용한 java에서 json 포맷 문자열 파일

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:25:29 -0700

[jason] json.simple 라이브러리를 이용한 java에서 json 포맷 문자열 파일

Cobra vs Mongoose

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:28:51 -0700

tells how to read xml. also jason data

JSON Example

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:48:25 -0700

examples of jason code and its equivalent xml

The Jason Calacanis Weblog

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:39:07 -0700

Convert XML to JSON in PHP

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:50:32 -0700

Ingy 2.ö: YAML and JSON

Thu, 17 May 2007 01:02:50 -0700

Ingy was one of the person behind YAML. Here he explains the differences and similarities between YAML and JSON.

Learn How to Podcast and Use Social Media to Engage Your Target Market

Sun, 06 May 2007 22:33:18 -0700

Learn how to podcast and blog to to establish thought leadership, extend your brand and engage your target market from podcasting consultant and author, Jason Van Orden

JSON Inspector

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:48:19 -0700

TechCrunch20 Now Live

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0700

While the startup-sphere was all knee-deep in DEMO coverage last January, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington and Sequoia Capital EIA and Weblogs Inc cofounder Jason Calacanis talked up their plans to launch their conference TechCrunch20. Their idea is to bring together 20 new startups, which are chosen on merit alone, and don’t pay to present — “taking the payola out of DEMO-ing,” as Calacanis put it then.

Arrington tells us today that the site just went live, with more details about the event and the process. They are looking to talk to any startup that will be ready to launch or publicly demo by September 17, when the conference will start in San Francisco. The companies will be chosen by a panel of 20 experts, including GigaNet’s biased favorite Om. Arrington says the conference will charge for attendance and for sponsors, but that sponsors are not eligible to present a new startup.

Does the world need another American Idol-style pitch conference for startups? No, but the Valley does need a conference where the presenting companies don’t have to cross a huge financial hurdle to participate, but do have to cross a threshold of quality. Anyone who’s been to any of these launch conferences knows how unproductive they can be — hopefully TechCrunch20’s new model will be a better one. Good luck.

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