Month: April 2002

Yahoo finance is a great webapp.  It gets more traffic than all the other financial sites combined (CBS marketwatch, CNBC, etc.).  It's so good (or at least it was), that most of the brokers on Wall Street use it instead of their internal systems.  However, it is (like most of Yahoo's services) so full of ads now it's… Continue reading unusable

Greg Smith has an excellent demo app that combines Filemaker Pro and Manila.  It also works with Radio on the desktop. >>>As we said, this is a Manila site but, importantly, its full 'database driven' functionality can be equally deployed within Radio Userland on your own desktop! All you need is the 'webservice macro' (a… Continue reading Greg Smith

Desktop webservices and composite applications.  One of the most exciting aspects of desktop webservices is that I can build pages on my desktop that automatically aggregate data from across the web and from webservice enabled corporate applications.  This is effectively a personal portal that could include search (Google) of the Web/LAN/desktop, financial info from a place… Continue reading Desktop webservices and composite applications.  One of the most exciting aspects of desktop webservices is that I can build pages on my desktop that automatically aggregate data from across the web and from webservice enabled corporate applications.  This is effectively a personal portal that could include search (Google) of the Web/LAN/desktop, financial info from a place like Yahoo finance, corporate sales data, corporate financial data, corporate inventory data, news (RSS),  and even data from peer web services (data entered or auto-aggregated by co-workers in a structured format — contact lists, bookmarks, calendar entries, spreadsheets, etc.).

Better yet, I have complete control over the presentation of that data.  With a little programming effort, I can incorporate business rules (with tools that can be automated for me) that do things for me based on that data.   I could also attach a post button to all the data I collect so its easy for me to share it with co-workers via my weblog.  It puts me in control. 

This is the ultimate composite application.  A borg that consumes all others.  I don't want to learn or interact with hundreds of different websites or application specific clients.  I want it all on my desktop, running in my browser, where I can modify, manipulate, and publish it. [John Robb's Radio Weblog

Catholic Church Feels a Sense of Urgency Over Scandal. American cardinals have been called as a group to Rome to confer on problems before, but never on such short notice, and never in such an atmosphere of emergency. [New York Times]

Creating a Credit Card Validation Class With PHP. WebmasterBase Apr 16 2002 7:17PM ET [Moreover – moreover…]

National Library Week 2002. Oh, in case anyone forgot, this is National Library Week…. [LibraryPlanet.com]

James interviews John Weir, site developer for the International Herald Tribune site. The International Herald Tribune debuted several months ago with a little fanfare in the web design community, though it is one of the most innovative approaches yet for a traditional newspaper's online presence. Combining DHTML and content management to in essence create a… Continue reading interviews John Weir

Security Cams Not OK in Canada?. A former Canadian Supreme Court judge says surveillance cameras violate the Canadian Charter of Rights. Charles Mandel reports from Kelowna, British Columbia. [Wired News]

Blogs and Business, a Smart Match A Good Read! [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] [via Adam Curry's Weblog]

Theodore Roosevelt. “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” [Adam Curry's Weblog]