sooner than expected, Linden Labs yesterday announced integration of voice-messaging into Second Life for Q2/2007, with a beta-run starting as early as next week. while residents have been using Skype and other popular teamspeak-applications since ages, the native SL-feature will go further by offering 3D-enabled, spatial audio. if done properly, this will increase the [...]
as reported by Robert Scoble & 3pointD, a new Second Life-competitor is currently being developed in Australia: like SL, Outback Online is based primarily on user-generated content, but promises better scalability by use of P2P-technologies, better 3D-graphics and the ability to host much larger user-audiences than SL. however, this is private beta, no screenshots whatsoever, [...]
seems like fowa got me hooked on tech-conferences – so why not go to amsterdam on june 1st? The Next Web features Marc Canter, Jason Calacanis and Felix Petersen (founder & CEO of plazes.com).
back from London and the first thing I notice is Techmeme overly cluttered with news about Google, which finally did what so many have expected and demanded in the past: launched feb 21st, Google Apps Premier is a subscription-based, corporate version of the application package launched in late summer 2006, including the already well-known Gmail, [...]
RSS-publisher FeedBurner published an extensive report on RSS-readership and -usage, the latter meaning detailed stats on the number of indiviual item-clicks & -renderings (coined “audience engagement”). no big surprise – as mentioned before, Google Reader has taken the market of online feed-readers by storm…
Tariq Krim from Netvibes just announced the release of an open source javascript runtime (Universal Widget API, UWA) including the Netvibes UI-library. no details on their blog yet, but this should kick off an avalanche of additional Netvibes-module, further strengthening Netvibes’ lead in the market (click for an Alexa traffic-comparison of Netvibes, Pageflakes etc.). [...]
fowa2007, day #2 – wifi is still sluggish & expensive.
nothing too breathtaking from Microsoft (Chris Wilson) and Adobe (Mark Anders), though the Flex-demo was kinda intriguing – flash is finally making sense for developers. the CEO (?) of Scrybe gave a short performance-comparison of actionscript 2 vs. 3, which also seemed kinda impressing. He [...]
fowa2007 – day #1
11.40 – Simon Wardley on commoditizing of IT: “there’s no sense whatsoever in setting up your own IT-infrastructure. maintaining your own web- or database-servers is what we call yak-shaving“. Zimki offers “pre-shaved yaks”, meaning a fully hosted, server-side javascript environment for rapid application development (not to forget Amazon S3 & EC2, which [...]
Arne Brachhold as a nice round-up on tuning your (self-hosted) WordPress-blog, mainly by tweaking caching on mysql-, php- & application-levels. nothing ground-breaking, but a good check-list for sure. since Arne isn’t too specific about mysql-tuning, I’ld like to recommend (for dedicated servers with lots of memory, >256mb) setting higher values for mysql-parameters query_cache_size, table_cache & [...]
as of yesterday, Google finally reports back RSS subscription-numbers to content-publishers, which basically means that feed-statistics like FeedBurner can now include the number of readers subscribed to a feed through Google Reader or the personalized Google homepage (this wasn’t possible before, meaning that probably thousands of readers wouldn’t show up in your feed-stats). [...]
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