Posts Tagged ‘technology’
A VC’s View of Web 2.0
June 11th, 2006
So I’ve been pretty busy lately, and have fallen behind on my blog entries. Some of the things I will be blogging on I have collected over the past few weeks so if it seems like old new to you, it might just be that, but I figured I still wanted to mention the subjects in my blog because it?s worth reading. The article on BusinessWeek Online describes Ray Lane of Oracle?s take on Web 2.0. He used to work for Oracle and now he is moving in the startup direction for those that don’t know.
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Google: No Web Browser Plans
June 5th, 2006
I’ve read quite a few articles around the web about rumors that Google will release its own web browser. CNET News.com has an article downplaying the idea. Google says they will only release a web browser if they felt there was real benefit in doing so.
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Six Apart Launches Vox Preview
June 4th, 2006
Six Apart, the creator of the popular blog software applications TypePad, MovableType, and Live Journal, has released a public preview of a new software package called Vox. Vox is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) blogging application with Web 2.0 style. It makes it quite easy for users to have customized blogs. The concept behind it is to allow those who aren’t necessarily technically savvy to be able to blog like those who are.
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Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote
June 1st, 2006
Firefox 2.0 will receive anti-phish help from Google. Google Safe Browsing will be incorporated into the next version of Firefox, which is releasing its third alpha version. This Safe Browsing technology created by Google can be found in the Google Toolbar, which is available for both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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Microsoft Shows Off JPEG Rival
May 31st, 2006
CNET News.com posted an article last week about Microsoft’s attempt to replace the JPEG image format with its own Windows Media Photo. Microsoft says that the format will be supported in Windows Vista as well as Windows XP.
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Websites as Graphs
May 29th, 2006
I don’t know important this site will be for many of you, but Aharef has a Java Applet creating a graph of a site and it seems pretty cool to me. It uses the elements within a given webpage and creates a tree based on those elements. What’s pretty cool is the hierarchy of the site is described through the nodes of the tree and the colored nodes representing different elements.
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The Perfect Setup – SuSE 10.1
May 26th, 2006
While my Linux platform of choice is still Ubuntu, there is a pretty good tutorial on Howto Forge on setting up services for an ISP such as web server, mail server, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, Quotas, and Firewall. The author of the article chooses SuSE Linux for his installation, but this tutorial with a little bit of modification could be used on any flavor of Linux. If you are looking to use SuSE this may be a good tutorial for you to use to setup your machine.
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sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
May 25th, 2006
So what is sIFR? Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is a Flash based module for presenting fonts the way the author intended. Not only that, sIFR allows the developer to use any font they desire. This solves the limitations of XHTML/CSS in that the developer is not limited to the fonts found on the users system. On top of that, there is no guarantee the fonts will looks the same across platforms or browsers.
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Rafe Needleman’s Alpha Blog From CNET.com
May 18th, 2006
I’ve been recently reading Rafe Needleman’s blog entries posted on CNET.com. Technology is an interesting subject for me. He blogs about content that I usually blog about. Needleman pulls a lot of content from Emily Chang’s eHub site, which has become a comprehensive directory of Web 2.0 based sites.
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TRG Proclaims Lexus LS460 Most Technie Car
May 18th, 2006
The new Lexus LS460 is said to have more technology features than any other North American vehicle for sale. According to the article on Digital Trends, other top rank brands include BMW, Mercedes, Cadillac, and Acura. So what’s considered technologically advanced? The 2007 LS460 will have a 30GB hard drive for music and navigation, three cameras, touch-screen, Bluetooth, live traffic reports, and a 19-speaker audio system.
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About Me
Brandon Quintana has been actively involved in web development for the past 12 years. Proficient web programming languages include XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
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