Cibéria

Reference: Scalability of Syndication Feeds

2004-07-21T10:21:00.000+01:00

Feed Analysis: Recap & Posting Index

The Syndication Sky is Falling!
I do mean to pick on the general notion that the Web can’t scale enough for syndication’s purposes; the Web provably does scale, and like gangbusters.

Discussion on the Atom-syntax ML: Vogels, Nottingham

RSS Traffic Burdens Publisher's Servers [technorati]
"Our hourly RSS surge has all the characteristics of a distributed DoS attack [...]"

RSS = DoS?
Is anybody working on a solution?

RSS Scaling Issues
Because Bloglines has a vested interest in increasing RSS (in the generic sense) adoption, we're looking at ways we can help. We are working on a couple of projects right now, and we're of course open to suggestions.

RSS Scaling Problems: How Can We Help?
Jeremy Zawodny: "Thoughts and ideas out there?"

HTTP Delta
Something that came up as a partial solution at one of the blogger meetups was the HTTP delta proposal.

NNTP syndication test
one of the proposed solutions is to build on top of a protocol that fits the syndication model better than HTTP. one called NNTP already exists and is in widespread use as the foundation for network newsgroups

When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS
We've seen similiar problems over the years. RSS (or as it should be called, "Speedfeed") is such a useful thing, it's unfortunate that it's ultimately just very stupid.

Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?
"Once all the covered wagons show up and an RSS reader is folded into Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Outlook, we're doomed," Murphy said.

The RSS Traffic and DDoS Meme

Getting the Word Out
The functionality is clearly there in HTTP. The word is clearly not getting out to everywhere it should be.

More on RSS bandwidth consumption

"RSS Growing Pains"

RSS growing pains

IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale
For any technology, the statement “X doesn’t scale” is a myth.

[2004-09-09] Full text RSS on MSDN gets turned off
RSS is broken, is what happened. It's not scalable when 10s of thousands of people start subscribing to thousands of separate RSS feeds and start pulling down those feeds every few minutes

[2004-09-13] Once More: Polling does not Scale, by Werner Vogels.
Whatever duct tape you put on this problem (e.g. make the subscribers poll less frequently) will get ripped off again when the growth to the next order of magnitude will happen. And if atom/rss is indeed such a great thing, this growth is indeed something that will happen.

[2004-09-28] New Bloglines Web Services Selected by FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and Blogbot to Eliminate RSS Bandwidth Bottleneck.
Now, instead of thousands of individual desktop PCs independently scanning news sources, blogs and web sites for updated feeds, Bloglines will make low-bandwidth requests to each site on behalf of the universe of subscribers and cache any updates to its master web database. Bloglines will then redistribute the latest content to all the individuals subscribed to those feeds via the linked desktop applications.

Daily Links

2004-07-21T09:52:00.000+01:00

The Next Great Web Application
What I imagine is a rich client type of application that is a combination of Web browser + RSS/Atom Aggregator + Content Management + Conversation Management (email/IM/weblog/wiki) + Social management (friend-of-a-friend list) + Entertainment Management (play lists) + Information management.
Where is the download?

developerWorks : Blogs, including Grady Booch and Mark Pilgrim.

PubSub REST API service

Daily Links

2004-07-20T19:36:00.000+01:00

HowStuffisMade - "HowStuffisMade is an encyclopedia of and manufacturing processes and labor conditions involved in the production of contemporary products. This information is often hard to obtain and little of this material exists on the web. The encyclopedia is an an independent academic webbased Twiki publication that uses primarily visual documentation.". More information on the project's page.

Daily Links

2004-07-19T23:08:00.000+01:00

Tasks Pro, a powerful web-based task manager. Also check Tasks2.0 and Tasks (a free personal edition).

The Social Computing Research Lab List, a list of research labs on social computing.

pagerankstatus, a mozilla plug-in.

Publications, installations, presentations & workshop papers, Danah Boyd papers on social networks.

The Future of Information Management, via Tom Wilson.

RSS Traffic Burdens Publisher's Servers, architectural problems starting to appear. Related research: Feed Analysis: Recap & Posting Index.

Has MasterCard gone on a phishing trip, leaving the back door wide open?, cross site scripting and script injection.

Two usability studies: The Effects of Contrast and Density on Visual Web Search and Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts, from a psychology department.

Three web-based calendar systems in PHP: PHP iCalendar (nice looking but only a viewer of iCal files), Kronolith Calendar Application (from horde) and WebCalendar.

IAMCR 2004 Papers, online from July 25th.

Daily Links

2004-07-18T23:27:00.000+01:00

Language Tempest At Orkut, Brazilians dominate social networks.

Shortstats, a simple and condensed web stats viewer. Demo here.

Daily Links

2004-07-17T12:43:00.000+01:00

The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art

Daily Links

2004-07-16T11:19:00.000+01:00

PunBB About, " In short, PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU Public License. Its primary goal is to be a faster, smaller and less graphic alternative to otherwise excellent discussion boards such as phpBB, Invision Power Board and vBulletin.".

Making TeX Work, online book.

Daily Links

2004-07-15T12:30:00.000+01:00

Free or Fee in Spain, Revisited, an article about Spain's major newspapers online strategies. "Is fatter paid revenue from a narrower audience better than thinner ad revenue from a broader free audience? That's the competition between these two newspaper sites.".

Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5, just a few Backward Incompatible Changes. Nice.

The Information Architecture of Email - "I am an information architect, after all. Setting up folders is, according to my job description, my area of expertise. Actually, I suck at setting up folders for email.". Mostly about GMail.

The Search Systems Free Public Records Directory, for reference.

Daily Links

2004-07-14T17:08:00.000+01:00

Optical Illusions - latest works.

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine, search torrents.

An no-nonsense guide to Semantic Web specs for XML people (Part I), by Stefano Mazzocchi.

Daily Links

2004-07-13T14:01:00.000+01:00

A Conversation with Brewster Kahle, a must read.

Automate backups on Linux - "No excuses: do-it-yourself, secure, distributed network backups made easy".

Q&A: Performance + Art from Microsoft, Philippe Starck designed a mouse for Microsoft.

Interesting optical illusion, it is a still image.

Instant Syndication

2004-07-10T00:00:00.000+01:00

The Easiest Way to Publish del.icio.us Links on Your Site

Feedsplitter, "An RSS to HTML to Javascript newsreader, so you can easily include newsfeeds on your webpages using <script> tags. It's written in PHP.".

Simple Tools, Loosely Joined

Republishing links in MT

Critiques for Multimedia News

2004-07-09T23:19:00.000+01:00

Critiques for Multimedia News, "The idea is to publicly examine and critique multimedia editorial projects to demonstrate how a news or feature story can be told in a way that takes advantage of the capabilities of the web." Interesting.

Reference: Royalty Free Photos

2004-07-09T10:44:00.000+01:00

stock.xchng - the leading FREE stock photo site

OpenPhoto.Net

PD Photo - Free Public Domain Photo Database

Image * After

Daily Links

2004-07-08T17:00:00.000+01:00

MP3 Blogs and wget, how Jeffrey Veen finds new music. Ingenious.

Daily Links

2004-07-07T18:22:00.000+01:00

Designing a CSS based template - part I, nice Photoshop tips.

Spotlight-like live search added, using JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest to implement server requests.

PyNSource, "A reverse engineering tool for Python source code". Check those UML Text diagrams.

The Online Books Page, "Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web".

Torrents.

Reference: CSS Filters

2004-07-07T10:03:00.000+01:00

IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter - target IE5 on Mac.

IE5.0/Windows Band Pass Filter - target IE5 on Windows.

IE5.5/Windows Band Pass Filter - target IE5.5 on Windows.

Mid Pass Filter - target IE5.x on Windows.

Reference: Streaming Video

2004-07-06T15:35:00.000+01:00

Streaming Media and Understanding Streaming Media, from The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Introduction - Creating Streaming Video

Delivering live streaming media, from Apple.

Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux, from Linux Journal.

Daily Links

2004-07-06T11:42:00.000+01:00

prefuse: an interactive visualization toolkit - "prefuse is a user interface toolkit for building highly interactive visualizations of structured and unstructured data [...] written in the Java programming language using the Java2D graphics library"

Executive Dashboards - "[...] in the 1980s was referred to as the Executive Information System (EIS). These systems, and their web-based progeny, all have the same goal: bringing critical information to decision makers and improve the performance of their business."

Daily Links

2004-07-05T14:16:00.000+01:00

PHP5: Coming Soon to a Webserver Near You, an extense article covering the major features introduced: new object model, embedded database (SQLite), exception handling and XML engine.

Gigablast

2004-07-02T15:29:00.000+01:00

Gigablast, new search engine on the block.

Daily Links

2004-07-02T11:00:00.000+01:00

Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 1), from WaSP.

GMail Loader - "I have collected links to many applications that make GMail easier to use."

JavaScript: DHTML API, Drag & Drop for Images and Layers, JavaScript magic.

Into the Blogosphere - "This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others."

Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research - "In this document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing."

Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom

Daily Links

2004-06-29T16:35:00.000+01:00

Architecture Digest vs. This Old House, "A drop-down menu tells me there were too many decision makers, none of whom understood that the user’s needs were more important than their ego-driven desire to win front-page placement for their little piece of the content puzzle.", Jeffrey Zeldman on drop-down menus.

Daily Links

2004-06-28T16:13:00.000+01:00

XML for Grownups, by Robert Rossney.

The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

WWW2004 Proceedings

2004-06-25T11:59:00.000+01:00

WWW2004 Proceedings

Reference: Form styling with CSS

2004-06-23T17:42:00.000+01:00

Stylish, accessible forms, from Malrkey.

Daily Links

2004-06-23T17:30:00.000+01:00

The coolest DHTML calendar widget - "This is the most popular DHTML Calendar. It can work as a popup calendar or a flat calendar (flat means it's always displayed in page). It works with Mozilla, Netscape >= 6.0, all other Gecko-based browsers, Internet Explorer >= 5.0 for Windows, Opera 7, Safari and Konqueror." (demo).

OSCOM Kupu - "Kupu is a 'document-centric' open source client-side editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer." (screenshots).

Google's Gag Order - "As I learned this week, however, Google may be playing a darker, more sinister role in American society: corporate censor.".

Reference: News Visualization

2004-06-23T10:24:00.000+01:00

newsmap - "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator."

google news - " This data visualization experiment is intended to give a high-level view of who's making news at the moment, and who made the news at specified times in the past."

Yahoo! Tracker - "This graph from programmer Peter Bradshaw shows the most popular photos from AP, Reuters and AFP as tracked by Yahoo News." [via]

Reference: Photo Gallery Management Systems

2004-06-21T21:55:00.000+01:00

PhotoStack, demo.

PhotoDir, demo.

QDig, demo.

Daily Links

2004-06-18T18:49:00.000+01:00

How Microsoft Lost the API War - "The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing".

GuruNet - "integrated references answers instead of just search engine links".

Reference: Internet

2004-06-18T18:46:00.000+01:00

ISOC A Brief History of the Internet.

IETF The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force.

FCC The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected.

ISOC All About The Internet.

Robert Zakon Hobbes' Internet Timeline.

Internet: "The Big Picture" - a diagram.

Internet Mapping Project.

The Network Book

FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet

2004-06-17T23:27:00.000+01:00

FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet, IE 5+, Mozilla and Netscape compatible.

This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer. As it is Open Source, you are allowed to use it for free wherever you want.

The History of Programming Languages

2004-06-17T21:49:00.000+01:00

Via Slashdot , "a poster called History of Programming Languages [PDF], which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline".

Photoshop tips

2004-06-17T16:00:00.000+01:00

The Greg Gorman Color to B&W Conversion Technique - scroll down.

Advanced Color Correction with Levels - amazing results.

Dynamic Text Replacement

2004-06-15T16:56:00.000+01:00

Dynamic Text Replacement

No more <img> or <span> tags, no more id attributes or wasted time in Photoshop, and no more messy CSS hacks. Using JavaScript and PHP, we can generate accessible image-headings using any font we like. And we dont have to change the structure of our HTML or CSS at all.

I've got to try this, definitely.

Daily Links

2004-06-15T16:50:00.000+01:00

Banners Promoting Standards-based Products / Services - a few good ones.

Pioneer Who Kept the Web Free Honored With a Technology Prize - TBL is "recognized, with the award of the world's largest technology prize, the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation".

AIGA - Symbol signs, "The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.".

:hover emulation for IE5+, hacking with JavaScript.

Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Bloggers - ouch.

Technical Illustration How-To

2004-06-14T14:17:00.000+01:00

An amazing cruise ship illustration with a description of the process. 720 hours of work in Illustrator and Photoshop. Don't forget the check the online portfolio.

Daily Links

2004-06-11T10:17:00.000+01:00

New IE vulnerability - "allows hackers to gain control of a user's computer when they click on a hyperlink, even while using a fully-patched version of IE6".

Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone - "I know the following system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. This is what I do with clients to build a successful site and has worked every time."

Daily Links

2004-06-08T09:22:00.000+01:00

MT3 Default Styles.

MT3 Default Templates.

Key Values Plugin for MT - from Brad Choate.

101 ways to improve your news site.

Hjughhjhjjjk - breaking news from Público :)

Daily Links

2004-06-07T14:06:00.000+01:00

kryogenix.org - nice menu system.

WCAG and the Myth of Accessibility - Those web users with learning or perceptual disability are just as excluded as before.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - for reference.

Expandable Listmenu Script - Non obtrusive, minimal markup, degrades nicely, CSS based. 5 stars.

Using PhotoshopÂs Native Filters - a tutorial from Authentic Boredom.

EditThisPagePHP - looks good. Bookmark for testing.

Furl - Furl helps you save, share, and recall anything you find online.

Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República

2004-06-07T10:02:00.000+01:00

Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República. Unfortunately you have to use IE to search the site. A problem being solved, I hope..

Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test

2004-06-04T10:19:00.000+01:00

Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test. Summary: incorrect coding, IE only, no language identification and inaccessible to people with disabilities.

Designing The Band

2004-06-04T10:05:00.000+01:00

Designing The Band, a webdesign example project from D. Keith Robinson. Educational.

Javascript Color Picker

2004-06-02T16:50:00.000+01:00

Color select control. A very nice color picker in Javascript. Moz1.2+, IE6+ only.

Euro coins tend to fall down with heads up

2004-06-02T14:24:00.000+01:00

Heads, Belgium wins - and wins.

Mathematicians say the coins issued in the eurozone's administrative heartland are more likely to land heads up than down.

True Random Number Service

2004-06-02T14:22:00.000+01:00

Random.org - True Random Number Service. The numbers are generated with atmospheric noise and made available via HTTP and CORBA.

Blog Software Breakdown

2004-06-02T09:46:00.000+01:00

Blog Software Breakdown. A long list of blogging software. According to the author's blog:

The truth is that I knew what I was going to move to before I put the chart online. I was very sure that I was going to lay out the cash for Expression Engine. But after playing with all of the tools (even Expression Engine via their very generous givaway), WordPress won out.

CSS from the Ground Up

2004-06-02T09:40:00.000+01:00

CSS from the Ground Up. A nice tutorial from wpdfd.

CSS naming conventions table

2004-06-01T23:57:00.000+01:00

And all that Malarkey // Naming conventions table. An overview of the naming conventions used in various sites. Winning options: container; header; nav; menu; sidebar; content; footer. [via]

Using Mozilla DOM inspector to view CSS rules

2004-06-01T23:54:00.000+01:00

Mozilla DOM inspector | clagnut/blog. Nice. [via]

Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor

2004-05-31T18:50:00.000+01:00

Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor. For reference.

Mambo Open Source

2004-05-28T17:38:00.000+01:00

Mambo Open Source, another CMS to test. Really, really nice graphics. Promising..

XHTML Quicktime Object

2004-05-28T15:54:00.000+01:00

XHTML Quicktime Object, standards compliant method to add Quicktime movies to pages. [via]

Globulos

2004-05-28T15:49:00.000+01:00

Globulos, a flash based game. High addiction factor :). [via]

Bookmarks for standards testing

2004-05-27T16:29:00.000+01:00

Bookmarks for standards testing, by Joe Clark.

Over the course of a year-long project, and because Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group members never seem to actually surf the Web, I bookmarked sites that seemed to be examples of certain topics in standards-compliant Web development and accessibility.

Futebol Clube do Porto

2004-05-26T23:33:00.000+01:00

Porto perform to perfection. Beautiful!

Samorost Online Flash Game

2004-05-25T17:32:00.000+01:00

Samorost Online Flash Game: funny.

Todo

2004-05-24T19:33:00.000+01:00

Investigate this LaTeX package: Luximono.

Latex's Listings Package

2004-05-24T19:10:00.000+01:00

The Listings Package, for nice printing of source code in LaTeX.

To read

2004-05-23T18:14:00.000+01:00

http://typo3.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/18/blogging_future/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/18/blogging_future/page2.html

Interview with Jared Spool

2004-05-23T18:09:00.000+01:00

Jared Spool: The InfoDesign interview:

We discovered that there are basically 14 types of questions, no matter what the subject matter.

CSS, accessibility and Standards Links

2004-05-23T18:04:00.000+01:00

CSS, accessibility and Standards Links, "Links that will save you from an aneurysm".

Nice collection of links, thoughtfully categorized.

Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle

2004-05-20T12:27:00.000+01:00

Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle

"AST: 'What's the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution?'
KB: We do public policy work
AST: A think tank, like the Rand Corporation?
KB: Sort of
AST: What does it do?
KB: Issue reports and books
AST: Who funds it? KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is SCO one of them? Is this about the SCO lawsuit?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is Microsoft one of them?
KB: We have multiple funding sources"

Broken Windows

2004-05-18T22:59:00.000+01:00

Broken Windows, The Atlantic Monthly (1982):

The unchecked panhandler is, in effect, the first broken window. Muggers and robbers, whether opportunistic or professional, believe they reduce their chances of being caught or even identified if they operate on streets where potential victims are already intimidated by prevailing conditions. If the neighborhood cannot keep a bothersome panhandler from annoying passersby, the thief may reason, it is even less likely to call the police to identify a potential mugger or to interfere if the mugging actually takes place.

Spotting weblogging systems through design

2004-05-17T22:18:00.000+01:00

Spotting weblogging systems through design:

"Many people are anticipating a mass exodus from Movable Type. One way to gauge if there is indeed a mass migration afoot in the upcoming weeks/months is to see how much each system is influencing the look and feel of weblog sites."

Tables for layout

2004-05-17T22:06:00.000+01:00

An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design -> Gasp! Tables! -> Tables for layout? -> Tables My Ass -> Tables? Oh, the horror!.

Reference: Color Schemes & Palettes

2004-05-17T22:03:00.000+01:00

Strategies and tools for selecting color schemes.

mezzoblue § Colour Schemes

Boxes and Arrows - Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design

Color Wheel Pro: Color Theory Basics

Creating colour palettes, a tool using this technique - Color Palette Creator.

Web imitates art, using art to produce color palettes.

Color schemes - "This application generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion - using one of the authentic algorithms.".

Color Harmonies - "Create color harmonies, combinations and themes".

Unsafe Colormatch - "Web pages use RGB colors, but for a color wheel you need HSL colors. Unfortunately there's no standard definition for computing HSL from RGB and back again. Unsafe Colormatch uses an algoritm supplied by Microsoft."

ColorMatch Remix - "This colorpicker is based heavily upon the code from ColorMatch 5k. I've made it more compatible - it now works in Mozilla, and should also work in Opera, since I'm using a much better slider control."

Hypermedic Color Pages - Theory about color.

Infohound Color Schemer - "This color schemer is a simple tool to help you experiment with various color schemes for your next web or print project.".

Mena's Corner: It's About Time

2004-05-13T12:56:00.000+01:00

Mena's Corner: It's About Time: "Commitment to a Free Version, while getting our pricing right"

Google Groups

2004-05-13T12:39:00.000+01:00

Google Groups

Mailing list management from Google. User accounts at the *.google.com domain are getting pretty confusing.

Eris' Template Generator

2004-05-12T16:04:00.000+01:00

Eris' Template Generator

also available for MT.

ban comic sans :: Putting the Sans in Comic Sans

2004-05-12T15:59:00.000+01:00

ban comic sans :: Putting the Sans in Comic Sans

NYC 2004 WWW Conference - Workshops

2004-05-12T12:42:00.000+01:00

NYC 2004 WWW Conference - full texts available.

About Google Print (BETA)

2004-05-12T10:23:00.000+01:00

About Google Print (BETA)

It turns out that not all the world's information is already on the Internet, so Google has been experimenting with a number of publishers to test their content online.

Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República

2004-05-12T10:01:00.000+01:00

Sistema de blogs da Assembleia da República

Google Watcher [dive into mark]

2004-05-12T09:56:00.000+01:00

Google Watcher [dive into mark]

Google: An explanation of our search results

2004-05-12T09:54:00.000+01:00

Google: An explanation of our search results

BlogThis!

2004-05-10T22:08:00.000+01:00

Directamente do Firefox, com Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

Hmmm... gestão de bookmarks?

Olá mundo!

2004-05-10T21:52:00.000+01:00

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