TurboDbAdmin is a single-page AJAX solution for exploring and editing databases from a browser. Edit data just like you would in a desktop application, without submit buttons or page refreshes.
Plog Is Now Lifetype
pLog, which provides the blogging power for Classcaster, has changed its name to LifeType.
LifeType Development Journal
The formerly known as pLog project has decided to get a facelift including a new name, new image and new logo. This facelift is related to the project’s cooperation with Amazon, current owners of the “plog” trademark in the United States. On behalf of the project, we would like to thank Amazon for their collaboration and help. Other companies would have chosen to sue but instead Amazon decided to cooperate and had a lot of patience with us.
BBC Works on Annotatable Audio
This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team – for this project consisting of myself, Tristan Ferne, Chris Bowley, Helen Crowe, Paul Clifford and Bronwyn Van Der Merwe. Although the project is a BBC project, all the speculation and theorising around the edges is my own and does not necessarily represent the opinion of my department or the BBC in general.
Splice All Those Feeds Together
KickRSS takes multiple RSS or ATOM feeds, combines them, and displays them as a single RSS feed or a webpage at an easy-to-remember URL.
License Free Fonts
Vitaly Friedman is collecting license-free fonts. That’s right, free as in beer; you’re able to use these for commercial work, and unlike most free font collections, there are some in here you may actually want to use. Consider plugging a few of these into your new, free copy of Font Explorer.
libmrss – RSS Library
ibmRSS is a C library for parsing, writing, and creating RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, but not RDF Site Summary) files or streams.
OPML Validator Released (Beta)
Because it’s a beta, you shouldn’t depend on its results.
Oracle to Release FreeDb
Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases.The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce the beta release of Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), which will be generally available by the end of the year. It is targeted at students, small organizations and software vendors that could embed the Oracle database with an application.
Facebook: A Social Network Success
On the reason why the first generation of social networks failed (as compared to MySpace and Facebook), he thinks that they have not focused on providing a set of utilities to their audience, they were merely about creating connections.
Software Only: The Facebook unplugged at Stanford ETL
This is a great article on the folks behind Facebook and how it is put together. The above quote makes me wonder: how can CALI create a social network among law students, among law faculty, amng law librarians? What utilites can we provide that would ignite a community and a social network?
Creating VMs With VMware Player
Last week the free VMware player was released. It lets you run virtual machines, but not create them. [Faileas] contributed today’s how-to for creating your own virtual machines.
How-to: VMware player modification – hack a day – www.hackaday.com _
This looks good. I’m sure VMware will shut it down though, so get it now.