Month: December 2005

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Yahoo! Adds del.icio.us to Its Portfolio

Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us, confirmed a posting on the New York-based start-up’s site that the company had been acquired by Yahoo. Financial terms were not disclosed, he said.The acquisition of Del.icio.us marks the second major acquisition by Yahoo of a leading “social networking” site, following the Sunnyvale, California-based company’s purchase of popular photo sharing site Flickr earlier this year.

Yahoo Acquires Shared Bookmark Site Del.icio.us

This is huge.  Yahoo now has some very significant social networking assets.  Let’s hope they put them to good use.

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links for 2005-12-07

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Why2.0?

BTW, don’t confuse When with Where 2.0, which was an O’Reilly conference in June in SF. Of course now we’re all waiting for What 2.0, and then we can roll around to the 3.0’s.

Scripting News: 12/6/2005

What we really need is Why2.0?, a non-conference that looks at just what the heck it is that we are doing anyway and makes us explain ourselves at the risk of losing funding.  Reminds me of a prof  my wife had years ago who was fond of saying ‘technology is the answer, what’s the question?’  So how about it? Why2.0? in Atlanta in the spring.  BTW, no google hits for why2.0 yet, so maybe I’m on to something:)

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Walmart Expands IT

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will add 250 new IT jobs during the next year, filling the majority of the positions with new college graduates rather than experienced IT veterans. The retail giant also plans to promote about 25% of the IT personnel already on board.

Wal-Mart to add 250 IT jobs, expand online presence – Computerworld

Of course you’ll need to relocte to Bentonville, Ark. since most of the jobs are at HQ and “salaries and housing costs are lower than in other parts of the country“.

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Wikipedia Struggles for Credibility

Following two fairly high profile incidents regarding the anonymous editing of articles on the popular open-source online reference tool Wikipedia, the site said that it would make changes to how it operates to prevent future problems.

BetaNews | Wikipedia Changes Editing Rules

Only registered users will be able to create articles, but anonymous users will still be able to edit.  I just don’t see why Wikipedia can’t get a basic registration for both creators and editors.  If you are going to say soemthing for the world to hear, at least stand up let us know who you are.

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links for 2005-12-05

  • Snakelets
    Snakelets is a very simple-to-use Python web application server. It provides a threaded web server (you don’t have to provide a web server such as Apache yourself), Ypages (Python HTML template language, similar to Java’s JSPs) and Snakelets: code-centric
    (tags: opensource python web webapp)
  • Password Generator
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  • SourceForge.net: McGeekCode
    McGeekCode is a light, fast, apache php mysql based CMS with RSS reader, gallery and gallery commenting, boards, content ownership, user management and a simple interface.
    (tags: mysql php CMS blog)