Technology

Yahoo Tackles Semantic Web

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!TechCrunch released information today that Yahoo is about to join in the semantic web goodness game. I thought I would quickly write up something from a developers point of view what would come out the other end for users. […]

13Mar2008 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

OpenSocial will force Facebook to open up

After catching the MySpace/OpenSocial news my immediate question was how quickly is Facebook now going to open up? Do they have a choice? not a chance. The list as it stands - MySpace, Bebo, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle, already named as the anti-facebook coalition will mean that they have […]

1Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

Future of Feeds

One of the hardest parts of building fav.or.it has been compatibility issues with all the different feed formats. RSS in particular has been used and abused on a grand scale and it really opened my eyes when we started building our aggregator. We use Zend Framework so although we looked around at a lot of […]

15Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Scoble Search

Scoble wrote late last week that Mahlo, Techmeme and Facebook is going to kick googles butt which is funnily just what I was saying back in April when I wrote the Death of Google Search

Here are few quotes of what I wrote back then,
The increase in popularity of social sites has spread into the search […]

27Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

The Good and Bad of technical support

I recently had two very contrasting experiences with technical support from two very different companies.
RSYNC.NET

You have got to love those guys over at rsync.net & johncompanies. They recently sent me an email notifying me that they had added subversion support to their geo-redundant backup facilities. I wanted to see if I could get things up […]

1Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Virtual Appliance use within Development

Since I received my new server last week I have been implementing my strategy for the use of Virtual Appliances in my development setup. The basic plan is to not install anything directly on the server apart from VMware Server which will be running the virtual appliances.
So firstly what is a Virtual appliance? the […]

29May2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued
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