Japan?s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15 million members. The site ranks sixth on Alexa Japan and racks up over 14 billion page views monthly. Google Trends for Websites [...]

In my post “Cri me dramas shot in the city,& #8221; I mention my love for High and Low (my personal favorite Kurosawa flick.) Well, I just found out that on Tuesday Criterion releases a new 2-disc special edition of the film. Their prior DVD release was just the film, no frills. The new on e’s got all [...]

LYNWOOD, Ill. - Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public. Eugene Williams is the mayor of Lynwood. He says young men walk around town half- dressed, keeping [...]

Mygazines. com is an interestin g idea. Currently in beta, it's designed to let anyone upload any magazine or magazine article, and then share the content, using the familiar elements of content -based social networking sites (or, more accur ately, the social networking elements of content -based sites). The site u nfortunate ly has little inf ormation about ...

The new Op enBlueDrag on look'n' feel and logo has gone live. The website and blog have been updated, and the new admin console will also take its feel from this.Leave CommentRel ated Entri es:Getting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CF QUERYGoogl e's GWT continues to amaze and deligh tRailo joins the CFML open source rev olutionOpe n BlueDragon BOF @ Scotch ReviewOpen BlueDragon - Developing a tag with the Plugin APIOpen BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series - NitaiOpen BlueDragon - Official

"Like" Is a FriendFeed feature that Twitter should have. It's a misnomer, it's not about liking something. When you like something that means you recommend it. Everyone who follows you gets the recomm endation. How it would work in Twitter. 1. You're reading something I wrote in Twitter. 2. You say you "like" it -- which is like adding it to your Favorites (same UI). 3. It goes on your output stream. All the people who follow you see it too. People are doing this manually now -- "re tweeting" -- b

We've already got a great lineup of speakers for the Business of Software c onference: Seth Godin Eric Sink Steve Johnson Richard Stallman Paul Kenny Tom Jennings Dharmesh Shah Mike Milinkovic h Jessica Livingston Jason Fried and me! Neil Davidson was looking for a way to bring in a handful of extra inte resting speakers for very brief pres entations just to keep the conference more dynamic and hear from different corners of the world. I had recently read about Pecha Kucha. The speaker gets 6 minut

I recently upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 software, and then finally upgraded my desktop to Leopard after waiting for the &# 8220;best beta evar& #8221; to stabilize. I noticed shortly thereafter that iTunes no longer recognized my iPhone. After a software update, reboot, and moving the iPhone to a different USB port, I still co uldn’ ;t [...]

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmo nk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zeno ss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a p articularl y good episode because of the open source angles. He re’s [...]SHARE THIS.addEn try({ title: "Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management ", url: "h ttp://soci alizedsoft ware.com/2 008/07/17/ zenoss-ope nnms-and-c louds-on-t he-it-mana gement/" });

Read about it here and here. Congrats to the eBay team that worked on this.

I’m& #160;happy to spread the news – mbusa.com is live! It looks gorgeous, and I’m very proud to be a part of the team that was working on this project (Farata Systems was leading this project on the Flex s ide).  ; This is Flex 3

What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests p rioritized ? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applic ations, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser -based inn ovations? The future of Ajax runtime en vironments matters more than [...]

I like the New Yorker's Obama cover. I chuckled. I got the joke. I'm not angry, nor am I offended. It could have been drawn better. Maybe they were in a hurry.

The Intern ational Sybase User Group (ISUG) is excited to announce that their web site has been s ignificant ly updated! ...

To someone in my position, who follows both Microsoft (.NET) news and Apple (Cocoa) news, the comparing and contra sting between MobileMe and Live Mesh as developer platforms is inevita ble. Here's my first stab at a comparison

… was the title chosen by OMG for the CEP round table [*1] discussion at their Workshop on Distrib uted Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems this week. “CEP vs hype 221; has been somewhat an over-di scussed (but ultimately uninterest ing) topic on various blogs of late; the point here at OMGR 17;s workshop was to raise awareness [...]

Two of our recent blogs; The Misnomer of Best Pr actices an d The Dreyfus Model are tied together nicely in this episode of Enerjy.tv by way of a conversa tion I had with Dan North of T houghtwork s. Dan regularly speaks and  blogs abo ut these topics and gives his views on where so called Best Practices should be in an orga nization and how they are [...]

I'm totally stoked to say that my Dot Game has made it into the top 50 of all games on the store! Buy early, Buy often!

Copying a memory block from a "unsigne dlong" address into a Pow erBuilder managed object.

Ok, you haven't read new posts here for some time now. I've been pretty busy: an important deadline first and later five consecutiv e days of holidays (!) chasing the Rhône river from the glacier to the mouth - my first...

The Kaazing team recently got a Comet article published in the Jav aDeveloper 's Journal (JDJ June 2008), which gives an overview of the impact Com et-based solutions will have on your IT infrastruc ture. The article is now published online - Why the Web Dinosaurs Died. Enjoy! Cheers, Jonas

I know a good idea when I see one. Recently I was inspired by a blog post from esteemed Web 2.0 bi g-thinker Andrew McAfee. In ?Some Questions you Might Get Asked? he compiled a list of co mmonly-ask ed questions when discussing Enterprise 2.0.So I polled my executive team and a few of our partners. With a nod to Mr. McAfee, here's the most commonly asked questions JackBe encounters when we're discussing mashups with prosp ective mashup ado pters.In no particular order: 1. What are the most typic

Nokia have issued a new version of their Blackberry Killer app '  ;Mail for Exchange. What is Mail for Exchange.  It is the name of No kia's email client built on top of
60;Microso ft's ActiveSync technonolo gy. It provides push synch ronization of email and other data between Microsoft Exchange and Nokia devices. It also now supports MIcrosoft Exchange 2 007. 

Here is how to play this famous song by Glenn Miller: In the key of Bb, start with F6 by fretting F on the B string, 6th fret with your index finger. The pinky holds the bass note C on the low E string. Hold that chord for the duration of the bar (4/4). Now change to [...]

1.2.6 is now out and the events handling f unctionali ty is 103% faster: CSS Selectors are 13% faster .offset() is 21% faster The DImensions plugin is now part of the core toggle() can now accept more functions attr() has had an overhaul You can now unbind bound toggle() and one() functions .index() supports jQuery col lections jQuery.m akeArray can convert ANYTHING into an array beforeSend () can cancel AJAX calls You can now define your own animation speeds