False Positives

I’m off for a week of skiing in Utah. Until then, take care of the net for me.

• Where and when to use Ajax in your applications - Get rid of the refresh; doesn’t need to be real-time;Small changes can be big;Big changes can bring big difficulties; Unleash information; Ajax can save/ruin your site; Finding an Ajax-powered balance.

- AJAX

• Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud - a) completely in-browser development b) will allow RoR developers to host and scale them using Amazon Web Services to provide automatic scaling of its hosted apps and plans, like a utility. Kewl

- Amazon cloud development rails Ruby ror

• Amazon Quietly Launches Product Ads; Secretly Wants to Become a Shopping Search Engine. - lets any Web merchant buy cost-per-click ads on Amazon linked to specific product searches.

- advertising Amazon ecommerce

• SHINTARO KAGO ON THE COVER OF VICE MAGAZINE - I hate it when my head does that.

- manga Asian art

• A Photo Editor - How to Manage People - Taking someone else’s idea and increasing the quality by 5% occurs at the price of a 50% decrease in their commitment to execution

- management

• Neatorama » The Evolution of Tech Companies Logos -

- Art business design geek graphics History Marketing fp

• Better Than Free - eight categories of scarce goods associated with digital goods, noting that each one is “better than free.” : Immediacy, Personalization, Interpretation, Authenticity, Accessibility, Embodiment, Patronage and Findability.

• Three Rules for Database Work - 1. Never use a shared database server for development work.; 2. Always Have a Single, Authoritative Source For Your Schema; 3. Always Version Your Database;

• Toronto’s Best Web and Tech Evangelists : and the Winner is David Crow & Toronto - a big thank you to David and all his Fellow nominees! David is the heart of DemoCamp - Toronto’s Best Unconference

- for:davidcrow demoCamp Toronto web

• Amazon Web Services: Bigger Than Amazon - ReadWriteWeb - bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.comâ��s global websites combined!!!

- Amazon cloud Enterprise2.0 web2.0 web Startup

• Yahoo Users, You’ve Got OpenID - As promised, Yahoo has launched its new OpenID provider service which means Yahoo’s 248 million users worldwide now have a way to login to any site that supports OpenID. Now with Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and more!

- yahoo development Security

• Plot Your Schedule on a Google Map - Blogger Tony Hirst mixed an RSS feed from Google Calendar with some KML generated using Yahoo Pipes as a middleman, to come up with today’s best mashup: your Google Calendar plotted on a map.

- mashups google gmap calendar fp

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