A fellow co-worker (Dusty Segretto) just pointed something out to me that I thought was an intriguing idea. I've never seen this implemented and it definitely took me by surprise.
If you visit the NY Times website and click-thru to one of their articles, a "hidden" search is available for any term on that page. I refer to it as a hidden search because it isn't blatantly obvious that this functionality exists.
Adaptive Path has partnered with Mozilla Labs to release part 1 of their new Aurora Project. It defines their vision of what the future web may look like and how interactivity will be at the forefront of new technologies. It provides some very nice real world examples and how easily accessible information "should" be. According to the report, they hope to be releasing several more video segments over the next couple of weeks.
Well, well, well...it turns out that Steve Jobs and his preachings about Apple being "above" their competitors, really is true. With the latest MobileMe debacle, I mean release, Apple has failed to do much of anything about the issues they are having. So I guess Steve is right. He is so far above his competitors that he doesn't have to satisfy paying customers, even when the service isn't WORKING.
Earlier today, at OSCON, David Recordon announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation. In an effort not to make the same mistakes that were made with certain :cough:Microsoft:cough:Apple:cough: operation systems, the Open Web Foundation has been established to "create a home for community-driven specifications" in regards the web and the way we use it.
Well folks, I finally got in! Ping.fm put up some fight but in the end I am the victor. Their clever and charming beta codes just kept sneaking by me. That is, until about 5 minutes ago. I am now a Ping.fm member and get to test out the ping.fm Drupal module.
Ping.fm is a one stop shop to post to all of your social networking sites. From twitter, to facebook and myspace, it pretty much does it all. Let's just hope the ping.fm Drupal module doesn't fail me and I can not only manage my socnet's from ping.fm, but also corydorning.net!
