Thursday, December 28, 2006

 

Great Web 2.0 Tools List

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Monday, December 25, 2006

 

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Saturday, December 23, 2006

 

Germany Pulls Away From Quaero Search-Engine Project

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2287489,00.html

Internet users will continue googling as usual
Internet users will continue googling as usual

Germany has taken a new tack in its plans to develop an Internet search engine with France. Instead, it will pursue a national project aimed at tackling US dominance in the information sector.

Less than a year after French President Jacques Chirac hailed Quaero as Europe's answer to the challenge posed by "American giants Google and Yahoo," the ambitious project seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Germany will now work on its own search engine program named Theseus after a legendary Greek hero who found his way out of the labyrinth of the monster Minotaur.

"We will still see cooperation, but in another form, such as work groups," Hendrik Luchtmeier, a spokesman for Germany's economics ministry, told IDG news service. "The consortium between the German and French governments is over."


Division of labor

It'll all fit together somehow, experts sayIt'll all fit together somehow, experts say

But Hendrik Speck, a professor of digital media at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, described the move as a division of labor.

"France is concentrating more on developing a search engine while the German project promotes innovative core technologies," he said.

Luchtmeier declined to comment on the reasons why Germany had decided to drop the joint venture, according to IDG. But he said that unlike Quaero, Theseus would not actually work on developing a search engine and instead back companies and organizations that conduct research in areas including search-technology research and advanced communication networks.

Luchtmeier did not say how much money Germany will set aside for the project, but the government announced Monday that it will set aside 1.2 billion euros ($1.57 billion).


Catching up

Right now, Google rules the search-engine worldRight now, Google rules the search-engine world

While the German effort might still pale in comparison to the huge research funds available at Google, experts said that it was important to take a first step.

"It doesn't take a lot of money to set up a know-how infrastructure that's missing in Germany," said Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, the head of the search-engine research lab at the University of Hanover.

He agreed with Speck that the two separate projects were still viable and could even produce better results than a joint venture. Sander-Beuermann also added that disagreements between companies involved in the Franco-German cooperation might have played a role in the split.

"It could be that the partners were fighting and decided that it's better if each side does their own thing," he said. "It might have been similar to the situation at (European plane maker) Airbus."

The important thing, Sander-Beuermann added, is that Europe gets going in developing search-engine technology.

"It's not too late to catch up," he said. "But it will be soon, if nothing changes."

Mathis Winkler


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Sunday, December 17, 2006

 

The Great Flickr Tools Collection

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection/

March 29th, 2005

[This post is constantly updated. Last Update - 30/10/2006]
is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization , making image management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more! Flickr claims to be the best online image management and photo sharing application.

If your are a Flickr newbie, read the Basic uidelines for Tagging and How to get the most out of Flickr , Tips for Flickr Beginners and the Official FAQ. You can also combine Picassa and Gmail to upload photos to Flickr, turn your blog into a moblog and listen to the Flickr Song.

You can upload your photos (like jpeg, jpg, gif, png etc.) on Flickr easily via the web or use uploading tools for Mac and Windows to make it easy to upload a batch of hi res photos all at once. You can send your photos into Flickr with a special upload by email address. When you upload photos by email, use the subject line to give your photo a title, and the body of the email to give it a description. If you use a recent Nokia mobile phone, you can post your photos to Flickr via Lifeblog after getting your password. Adding a photo to a group pool allows any group member to view your photo, and add notes, tags and comments, regardless of its current privacy settings.

You can now choose to license the photos you upload to Flickr under a Creative Commons license. In a tie up with Feedburner, Splicing gives people the ability to offer a single RSS feed which contains a chronologically ordered arrangement of their photostream from Flickr and the feed from their existing blog.

Developers interested in adding to this toolset might want to visit the FlickrIdeas forum or investigate the public Flickr API. The Flickr API is now available for non-commercial use by outside developers. Flickr forums are available to every Flickr member as a place to ask questions, suggest features or report a bug.

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If you really get hooked onto Flickr - Upgade to a Pro Account and get more monthly upload limit, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited photosets with permanent archiving of high resolution original images. So have you Flickr-ed today!

Add Your Flickr Tool - Contact me to get your flickr tool posted here. I would expect a link back to this post.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

 

How Software Companies Die

By Orson Scott Card

The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and judging from the number of pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring already. But you don't care, because your program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. You won. You're aware that some people think you're a nerd. So what? They're not players. They've never jousted with Windows or gone hand to hand with DOS. To them C++ is a decent grade, almost a B - not a language. They barely exist. Like soldiers or artists, you don't care about the opinions of civilians. You're building something intricate and fine. They'll never understand it.

BEEKEEPING

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. You keep these bees from stinging by paying them money. More money than they know what to do with. But that's less than you might think. You see, all these programmers keep hearing their parents' voices in their heads saying "When are you going to join the real world?" All you have to pay them is enough money that they can answer (also in their heads) "Geez, Dad, I'm making more than you." On average, this is cheap. And you get them to stay in the hive by giving them other coders to swarm with. The only person whose praise matters is another programmer. Less-talented programmers will idolize them; evenly matched ones will challenge and goad one another; and if you want to get a good swarm, you make sure that you have at least one certified genius coder that they can all look up to, even if he glances at other people's code only long enough to sneer at it. He's a Player, thinks the junior programmer. He looked at my code. That is enough. If a software company provides such a hive, the coders will give up sleep, love, health, and clean laundry, while the company keeps the bulk of the money.

OUT OF CONTROL

Here's the problem that ends up killing company after company. All successful software companies had, as their dominant personality, a leader who nurtured programmers. But no company can keep such a leader forever. Either he cashes out, or he brings in management types who end up driving him out, or he changes and becomes a management type himself. One way or another, marketers get control. But...control of what? Instead of finding assembly lines of productive workers, they quickly discover that their product is produced by utterly unpredictable, uncooperative, disobedient, and worst of all, unattractive people who resist all attempts at management. Put them on a time clock, dress them in suits, and they become sullen and start sabotaging the product. Worst of all, you can sense that they are making fun of you with every word they say.

SMOKED OUT

The shock is greater for the coder, though. He suddenly finds that alien creatures control his life. Meetings, Schedules, Reports. And now someone demands that he PLAN all his programming and then stick to the plan, never improving, never tweaking, and never, never touching some other team's code. The lousy young programmer who once worshiped him is now his tyrannical boss, a position he got because he played golf with some sphincter in a suit. The hive has been ruined. The best coders leave. And the marketers, comfortable now because they're surrounded by power neckties and they have things under control, are baffled that each new iteration of their software loses market share as the code bloats and the bugs proliferate. Got to get some better packaging. Yeah, that's it.

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