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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 [...]

This morning i read a skeptical article from Oliver Starr at MobileCrunch about the “River of News” approach for reading news on mobiles.
I have a couple of problems with the points he is making. Disclaimer: i have been developing a river style aggregator since last june and I have used it during the summer while [...]

It seems that the River of News model for aggregators is getting new attention. Humanized Reader got great reviews from Steve Rubel and 37signals and they deserve all of it: their solution is particularly well designed (even if i feel it being too much blog like…) and the dynamic scroll is awesome.
This renforces my own [...]

Today, talking about issues on a project I’m going to work on, I remembered of a paper I read last year by Nova Spivack: A Physics of Ideas. It makes a parallel between the physical space and the information space.
The center of it was the idea tha we could measure the relevance [...]

Lex I: Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare. — in other words, a user at rest would rather stay at rest than do extra work.
This is from one of the most hilarious pieces about the IT world I’ve read, [...]

So, maybe I’m just the last to say this, but I feel that GPack feels like the wrong solution for a real issue.
A week ago i did have to reinstall my notebook and going through a page long list of software which i was using to download and reinstall it was a tedious task (and [...]

Paolo Vademarin shares his whishes for an ideal RSS reader and i agree with most of his points.
While i’ve been a blogs reader from a few years now, I should say that I’ve never been able to use an aggregator for much time, I always felt that the mail-like interface many are offering [...]

A post over my OPML blog: Just a few toughts from reading Dave Winer’s essay.

RSS widest use so far has been to deliver news to the readers, but the format (specially RSS 2.0 with its simple namespace extension) is enough flexible to allow a far wider range of applications. It’s easy to see uses anytime or anywhere there is a flow of information that is produced and is to [...]

I just found that in Ruby on Rails there is a “./script/console” script which lets you access all the application from a consol prompt, in this way you can manipulate all of your objects and do all sort of things and i find it really useful specially when you need to debug some nasty [...]