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Spotback is now in public beta
14 April 07 10:10 AM | urig | with no comments

Spotback which advertises itself as the "rate everything!" platform for the web 2.0 is finally out of private beta and available to the public. Spotback provides widgets that blog writers can embed in their blogs. The widgets enable readers to both rate blog posts and see which blogs posts have received the highest ratings from others. Spotback users are also provided with a personalized recommendation service that takes their past ratings into consideration - a bit like outbrain.com . I haven't...

תגים:tools, blogs, social software, outbrain

When did Open Source Software become so friendly?
14 December 06 04:18 PM | urig | with no comments

I've just finished installing MediaWiki 1.8.2 (the same wiki engine that powers Wikipedia ) on my machine at work. MediaWiki requires three things to be present on the machine prior to installing: A web server, A database server and the PHP engine. In my case that meant that I had to install Apache Http Server 2.2.3 , MySQL 5.0.27 Community Server and PHP 5.2.0 - all from scratch. The point of this post is that I was surprised at how easy it was to obtain and install these 4 (counting MediaWiki)...

תגים:usability, development, social software, cool, open source

LineRider – When wasting time on the web becomes art
23 November 06 04:51 PM | urig | with no comments

If you think you don't have a life – working hard hours on code, spending your free time on open source projects – you need to take a look at the LineRider phenomena and rethink that. LineRider (beta!) is flash game, or to follow its inventor more accurately, a flash toy where you draw the two dimensional course for a cute bobsledder. Complete with an amusing implementation gravity and inertia it's a fun way to waste a few minutes online. Unless, of course, you're insane. You're welcome to go to...

תגים:art, fun, social software, cool