Our standard April Fool party
Watch out for the lunacy tomorrow as April Fools is celebrated on blogs and other websites far and wide. I imagine it’s already started since it must be April 1 in New Zealand or Australia by now.
Here on Scripting News we celebrate something else… Our birthday! You see it was on [...]
Archive for March, 2008
31 Mar
Scripting News for 3/31/2008
30 Mar
Scripting News for 3/30/2008
Why would Google Web Services cost $0?
Google Web Services, or GWS, is the hypothetical competitor to Amazon Web Services that I wrote about yesterday.
The first question that comes up is how can they afford to give it away? That came up in yesterday’s comments and the answer is important enough to deserve its own blog [...]
29 Mar
Scripting News for 3/29/2008
Pigs
A little pig came up to me while I was waiting at a stop light in Walnut Creek.
He squealed “Pssst down here.” I looked down. The pig looked up at me and asked: “Can you keep a secret?”
I don’t know, I said. It depends.
“Oh hell,” said the pig. “I’ll tell you anyway.”
“You know [...]
28 Mar
Scripting News for 3/28/2008
Are you using Firefox 3?
If so, what do you think?
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
If not, will you? When?
26 Mar
Scripting News for 3/26/2008
Why can’t we all just get along?
It was a friendly meeting today, but not without the usual competitive spirit between the Mozilla camp and the Microsoft camp.
Mozilla engineering VP, Mike Schroepfer explained that Microsoft tends to implement technology already approved by the standards working groups, in a different way, and then says their implementation [...]
25 Mar
Scripting News for 3/25/2008
FriendFeed API announced
I’ve been talking with the folks at FriendFeed about APIs and such, and boy do they move fast. I got the first draft of the API spec on Friday, and today it’s out there.
http://code.google.com/p/friendfeed-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
Here’s the blog post announcing the API.
Glue for the OPML Editor will ship soon, delayed a bit by [...]
24 Mar
Scripting News for 3/24/2008
FriendFeed moves into TwitterSpace
We said a couple of weeks ago that FriendFeed is gaining a lot of traction. Since then we’ve started a background conversation and have been giving them a bit of friendly advice (heh, sorry). Today they added a feature that brings it closer to Twitter, and in some ways takes it to [...]
23 Mar
Scripting News for 3/23/2008
Sunday Gang #4 podcast
Today’s guest is Matt Stoller.
http://sundaygang.com/004.mp3
“I’m a DC-based political activist and consultant, and I blog at the new strategy site OpenLeft.com. I work on telecom politics, progressive movement building, Democratic primary challengers, and analyzing internet-enabled coalition politics. I’m the President of Blogpac, a political action committee that funds progressive blogs and [...]
22 Mar
Scripting News for 3/22/2008
What if I lived in Germany
Michael Markman sent a pointer to another Wright sermon video, which I watched. The one that ends with God Damn America.
I was born here, I love this country, it gave sanctuary to my parents and grandparents. I am a product of Jewish Europe, transplanted in, welcomed by, the United [...]
21 Mar
Scripting News for 3/21/2008
Give Rev Wright a chance to convince you
Melroy Hodge, from Queens, NY, a contact on Twitter, sent a pointer to a YouTube video of a longer excerpt of Jeremiah Wright’s post-911 sermon, one of the speeches that soundbites were shown repeatedly on cable news this week. I guess it’s not surprising that the cable news [...]
