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James Hong: On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry
(tags: entrepenuer business)

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A new page layout library (inspired by YUI grids) [One day or the other I should try these]
(tags: javascript css layout design)

As a response to Dave Winer’s post on the subject, Marc Canter gives us a view or rather a description of a dream-coming-true of software that works connecting together the informations from your family and your network of friends, collegues and relatives aggregating your digital lifestyle into one place and in the end giving you [...]

The Web 2.0 is a gift for VCs (ad entreprenuers too)

Francesco Sullo has just published his aSSL library (that powers also the PassPack service): It’s a nifty javascript library that allows encrypted communication between a browser and a server without using https.
I don’t see if this is possible but I think it would be nice if it allowed encrypted communication between two browsers, with the [...]

A few days ago I discovered the query_analyzer plugin in a comment on the last article of The Rails Way series. It allows you to have the plans for the queries used in your application directly in the log file and this is invaluable when trying to to optimize the database for you shiny new [...]

Uhoh… This X-Series from 3 seems big news (if they’ll keep up with the romises):
Why should you pay per minute, per message, per click, per megabit? In the real world, you buy your PC, pay for broadband and that’s it. Our principle is simple – X-Series customers will only pay a flat access fee [...]

Pluck RSS reader is going to be discontinued and the commenters agree that it is a sign of the consumer feed readers becoming (or rather already being) commodities, with this space headed to be dominated by the big players.
It is sure that this market is crowded and it’s also clear that acquiring users has been [...]

I read today the humanized blog and I find it’s (very) true what Aza Raskin wrote in Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages: the best interace should aim to minimize the interruptions in what the user is doing.
When you are “in the zone”, especially when writing or designinig or programming, any interruption in your flow of [...]

RailsConf 2007 will be in Portland, Oregon on May 17-20, 2007 and the call for proposals has just opened (the deadline for submissions is November 27, 2006).
In the meantime the conference wiki is open for suggestions on what you’d like to see/hear. I have added two ideas to the wiki:

“flash” presentations: it would be really [...]

I always hoped that someone would put into the market a hosting solution that would have made possibile to sell dedicated web applications were the end user had its own application space with its own database: it seems that that day is coming closer, at least looking at the offering from Media Temple, Engine Yard [...]