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Online dating site SpeedDate has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. SpeedDate offers users a series of 3 minute mini-dates, during which they can converse through video, audio, and a chat box. If both partners decide they were a good match when prompted at the end of the date, they can continue communicating through the site until they make the jump to real life.
When we first wrote about SpeedDate, the site had a small userbase, which made it difficult to co Aug. 28, 2008 06:30 AM | Click image to see Cranky Geeks.
Today’s Guests:
Sebastian Rupley, Co-Crank, PCMagCast.com
John Markoff, Senior Writer, The New York Times
Gregg Zachary, Journalist, New York Times Columnist
The Topics:
Will News Robots Replace Journalists?
Do Newspapers Have a Future in the Digital Age?
Fake Olympics Broadcasts and Proper Journalism
Bloggers Have Major Influence on the Election
What is the Future of News? Aug. 28, 2008 12:05 AM | We’re live now, chatting away at irc://irc.freenode.net/#democonvo. (Dave Winer has had a chat going also, at #dnc08)
[Tags: politics dnc08 ] Aug. 27, 2008 07:07 PM | Just a quick update on the tostring.org site which hosts the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide and the Adobe AIR for Flex Developers Pocketguide. We have been receiving a lot of translation contributions from the community, and posting them on the site.
New language translations include:
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide
German
Swedish
Adobe AIR for Flex Developers Pocketguide
Spanish
Romanian
Brazilian Portuguese
If you are interesting in help out the community Aug. 27, 2008 05:50 PM | The Pope dons red Prada kicks, politicians break out red ties in election season and that darn Netflix package always seems to stand out in a crowd of manilla and ivory mail. Why red? Do humans have a penchant for the rainbow’s most fiery color?
This study released in 2005 discovered that red-clad athletes out-performed competitors donning blue uniforms and suggested that the win discrepancy occurred because of an innate association of red with dominance and assertiveness. New research goe Aug. 27, 2008 05:03 PM | A conversation with Mike Card.I have interviewed Mike Card on the latest development of the OMG working group which aims at defining a new standards for Object Database Systems.Mike works with Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) and is involved in object databases and their application to challenging problems, including pattern recognition. He chairs the ODBT group in OMG to advance object database standardization.R. Zicari: Mike, you recently chaired an OMG ODBTWG meeting, on June 24, 2008 Aug. 27, 2008 03:26 PM | The LA Times recently ran an article covering the slant that the iPhone SDK NDA is hampering development and stifling programmers. I was quoted in the article Aug. 27, 2008 10:51 AM | David Morrison, via email: "I've been reading your site for a few years now, and couldn't think of anyone else to ask this question to. Are there any feeds or releases of the Democratic Convention speeches in just audio format. I'm traveling out of country, can't sit and watch on a computer, and don't have the bandwith to download video. Been searching for a few days, and can't seem to find anything. Seems amazing that this 'high tech' campaign doesn't have this easily availible." Aug. 27, 2008 12:39 AM | OK, sorry to mix metaphors, but it is time to put this can of worms to bed (???). If you've been following this blog you couldn't help but notice the many posts on the apparent ESB vs. SOA controversy. All of this started with an innocent little interview John did for SearchSOA - where the topic of Intermediating multiple ESBs came up. This article created a tornado of posts from some heavy hitters on SOA topics over the last month.
Given all of that, we decided to have our own little webinar o Aug. 26, 2008 10:01 PM |
“Another programmer came to us. ‘I thought you should know that people are really unhappy,’ he said bluntly, ‘and it’s starting to make it so that people just complain all day, instead of doing their work, and that’s not good.’”
From my latest Inc. column: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers
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Aug. 26, 2008 06:45 PM |
As of this week you can download an early release draft document containing 11 design documents we've been working on for the past year or so as the result of the OSGi enterprise initiative.
This is important because according to OSGi Alliance rules, only members are allowed access to working drafts of documents. This is the first time we've released any of these drafts publicly. As a board member and EEG co-chair, I'm very pleased to see this happen because (a) I often get asked about what's Aug. 26, 2008 06:20 PM | I'm very excited to announce that we've launched a new low-cost version of our award-winning XML Editor today: the XMLSpy Standard Edition is an entry-level XML Editor that packs some of the most frequently-used features of the higher-level editions into a product that is ideally suited for basic XML editing tasks, such as XML configuration file changes, twiddling with RSS feeds, viewing XML output from applications, writing small XSLT stylesheets, and for learning XML. XMLSpy Standard Edition Aug. 26, 2008 07:43 AM |
They were amazing at the Outside Lands Festival yesterday. Aug. 26, 2008 03:19 AM | I know I’m quite late to this, but I also know this show is remarkably obscure, and was released on DVD only towards the end of last year, I think. Slings and Arrows depicts the trials and tribulations of the New Burbage Theater company as it handles strange times on the stage. It’s definitely not an obvious ratings winner — it’s Canadian, erudite, and rewards a knowledge of The Bard that I’m sure I lack.
But it’s remarkably good television (and I have Tim Go Aug. 24, 2008 11:27 PM | 360Flex got a little brother now. It’s called 360|Flex Camp. The first camp will take place in a month in New Jersey. I knew this for a while but kept a secret - folks from New Jersey Flex Users Group had to take care of logistics of the Aug. 23, 2008 06:34 AM | The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) have announced that they now have an electronic version of the ISUG Technical Journal is now available online ... Aug. 20, 2008 01:12 PM | My colleague, Paul, got lots of… let’s call it, “feedback” regarding his post on the impending demise of the standalone Business Rule Engine (BRE) Market. It seems there are lots of folks out there who feel quite passionate about the subject, so I thought I would continue, albeit from a different angle and relate it back to the CEP and BusinessEvents for comparison.
So… taking my cue from David Letterman and with a tip o’ the hat to Paul, here are the:
Top Aug. 19, 2008 07:01 PM | With no fanfare, or even mention on adobe's website, Adobe has officially released Flex Builder 3.01 and the Flex SDK 3.1. Prior to the 3.01 release of flex builder, developers building AIR 1.1 applications had to go through a series of ext Aug. 18, 2008 06:11 PM | I've been into computers since I was 4 years old. I went to an esteemed (so they tell me) computer science school, or at least that's what they tell me. I've worked for every kind of software shop: the Big 6 (now 4) consultancies, a couple of startups, and even 'the Big O' (yes, Oracle). So I thought I was familiar with most techniques, theories and approaches to software development. Well, it seems I missed one.About 8 weeks ago Deepak Alur, JackBe's ever-vigilant VP of Development, sent me Aug. 18, 2008 10:49 AM | A list of project adaptations required to produce zero-errors
reports with PMD and FindBugs while keeping the code fully compliant
with J2EE 5. Aug. 17, 2008 02:40 PM |
Razor Profiler
(beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com.
What Is it?
Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler
can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally. Some Razor Profiler screen shots are shown below:
.imageLis Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM | Once again I thought this was one of the best TechWaves in years. Better than last years, which was good. Having my laptop crash on me when I’m scheduled to do four sessions wasn’t pleasant, and took the edge off of it for me. Otherwis Aug. 14, 2008 11:47 PM | I received an email in my Inbox today to say that Twitter had killed off inbound SMS updates to the UK.The whole raison d’etre for my subscribing to and using Twitter was to get real-time updates. If I have to login to a Twitter app then what’s the point ? It’s no better, and actually worse than reading RSS. The guys at Twitter twitter on about it being costly, yada yada yada. Well they knew this when they started the service. The challenge for their exec team was to Aug. 14, 2008 09:34 AM | Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry Men. Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM | Guys, Just a quick note to the presenters of the 160+ sessions at TechWave... Aug. 12, 2008 09:51 AM |
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