contemporary artifacts

Category: technology

  • Red Hat ships open source MySpace++ clone

    Red Hat is looking at Social Networking as desktop environment level software, which is interesting. I’m not that excited about that part, though. This also involves a Java/Hibernate/JBoss Open Source social networking server, which is meant to be extesnible and horizontally scalable and/or clusterable. This could be an interesting platform for neat little bits of…

  • time-based taglines

    This Yahoo Research project is the sort of tool they use to teach time travelers and aliens like Mike Myers and Mila Jovovich about history. This begs the question: if Yahoo Research is working on products for time travelers and aliens, is that getting too far out ahead of the market? a time-based data visualization…

  • Reblog 2.0 Beta 1 released

    It took a little bit of poking around in the forum archives, and finally setting REBLOG_REFEED_ROOT_PATH in my config.xml, but my refeed install now seems to be working. A fresh update to Reblog 2.0 has been released. Be first on your block to install it from http://reblog.org/#download.This release includes a raft of enhancements, including better…