Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs. Garry Marchioni and Ben Brunk have been working on GUIs for visualizing nodes and relations in web sites – what they call a Relation Browser. They've published a paper on their work about the quest for a General Relation Browser that provides a picture of IA tools of the… Continue reading Relation Browsers: a GUI for IAs

Connections to Broadband Increase 50%. The number of American households that connect to the Internet via high-speed, or broadband, connections grew by 50 percent in the last year. By Susan Stellin. [New York Times: Technology]

BBC on Disney's Celebration town. Very good BBC Radio documentary on Celebration, the New Urbanist town that Disney built adjascent to Walt Disney World. How would the world look if it were run by the Disney corporation? In the alligator-infested swamps of Florida is a town built and founded by Disney. Celebration was founded in… Continue reading BBC on Disney's Celebration town

As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation. A high place in Google's search rankings can have considerable value for commercial sites and a lot of clout in the marketplace of ideas. By Geoffrey Nunberg. [New York Times: Technology]

Welcome to the mini-bubble. I don't have extensive evidence for this claim, but it sure feels like we're in a mini-bubble. (I'd call it a recovery, but I'm not sure it is one.) At least here, in Silicon Valley, it sure seems like things are starting to turn around–in some industries. There are several tech… Continue reading Welcome to the mini-bubble

Slashdot | Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon. BrianH writes “Looks like a close cousin of everybody's favorite self-destructing video format is making a comeback. Four years after Circuit City and its Hollywood backers pulled the plug on the self-expiring DVD concept, FlexPlay Technologies has introduced the EZ-D…a 48-hour self-expiring DVD disk. The difference? This time around… Continue reading Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon

Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny Claims MySQL 4.X Rocks. Yahoo! Inc.'s MySQL expert Jeremy Zawodny applauds MySQL Version 4.X in a March 10 entry on his personal weblog called “MySQL Full-Text Search Rocks My World.” In it, Jeremy describes how the full-text search feature in MySQL 4.0.10 came to his rescue and made his life “way easier.”… Continue reading Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny Claims MySQL 4.X Rocks

Blue World ships FileMakerPro to MySQL Kit. Blue World Communications, Inc. – pioneers of the Web Data Engine™ – today shipped the FMP2MySQL Kit. The free kit includes tools and tutorials for converting FileMaker Pro solutions to MySQL. The kit is designed to make it extremely easy for novice users to migrate Web-bound FileMaker Pro… Continue reading Blue World ships FileMakerPro to MySQL Kit

Notes and Tips: DiskWarrior Boots Mac OS X. DiskWarrior, an essential data-recovery utility, is shipping in a new version that can boot Mac OS X from CD, according to a reader. [MacInTouch]

Paper Prototyping.  I've basically given up on software prototypes. If the prototype can do everything the product can do, it might as well be the product, and if it can't, it's not much use. Luckily, there's a much better idea: paper prototypes, which neatly solve this problem and the iceberg problem in one fell swoop.… Continue reading Paper Prototyping