Opera 7.50: News aggregation done right

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News Aggregation Library for Java

News Aggregation Library for Java 06/29/2004 05:28 PM
Freshly released: Informa 0.5.5

News biggies buy into aggregation site

News biggies buy into aggregation site 03/23/2005 12:38 AM
Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Tribune Company acquire controlling interest in the news aggregation site Topix.net.

Watchster debuts; new news aggregation
site

Watchster debuts; new news aggregation
site 10/29/2003 10:20 AM
Watchster made its official debut this week "after months of testing and refinement," according to the site's creator, John Brochu. It's a headline news aggregation site with a twist: It features customization capabilities to let users select what they want to view.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams. 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Scarborough, ME -- January 12, 2004 Turing Opera Workshop releases the first teaser trailer for their production of Richard deCostas 3d sci-fi opera, K'ai, Death of Dreams. The trailer, available on the production website, http://www.RicharddeCosta.com/KaiOpera, is a preview of the opera scheduled for release in February. The opera is being produced entirely in 3d computer graphics. [PRWEB Jan 13, 2004]

News: Opera 8 released for Mac

News: Opera 8 released for Mac 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Opera Software on Thursday released Opera 8, a new version of the company’s Web browser for the Macintosh. The browser has improved its support for Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and added Full Keyboard Access functionality, according to Opera. The browser includes a also includes a new security field that indicates the level of security and the certificate-owner of a secure site, as well as support for Native Scalable Vector Graphic support (SVG 1.1 Tiny). Other features offered in Opera 8 include a “delete private data” option, a “trash can” that saves closed pages and blocked pop-ups during a session, and Opera's Extensible Rendering Architecture (ERA) which automatically re-adjusts page content to fit the window width.

Other News: Secret Opera-Microsoft Deal

Other News: Secret Opera-Microsoft Deal 05/24/2004 10:52 AM
Microsoft reportedly paid off Opera, at $12.75 million, after making its browser look bad on MSN.

PDA News - Verizon Bluetooth update,
Mobile Opera, New Pocket PC Phone

PDA News - Verizon Bluetooth update,
Mobile Opera, New Pocket PC Phone 09/03/2004 04:23 AM
bargainPDA.com Sep 3 2004 7:43AM GMT

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit)

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit) 11/12/2003 01:14 PM
S G Masood (Nov 12 2003)

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile 08/31/2004 08:29 PM
Opera announces intention to produce a version ofr Microsoft Windows Mobile Software.

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal 12/23/2003 02:09 PM
A few days ago, Opera released an early Christmas Present for the avid group of people following the opera.beta newsgroup,...

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x 03/20/2003 08:31 AM

RAD Intros 3G Aggregation

RAD Intros 3G Aggregation 01/19/2004 09:32 AM
Unstrung.com Jan 19 2004 1:19PM GMT

Syndication and Aggregation

Syndication and Aggregation 06/24/2004 08:10 AM

Five years ago today, Dave Winer wrote about syndication and aggregation. Dave, thanks for all you efforts to promote weblogs and syndication - you've helped open a lot of possibilities for a lot of people.

Bayesian Aggregation, Part II

Bayesian Aggregation, Part II 02/23/2003 05:22 PM
iFile finally classified something as belonging on my weblog, but I have no idea why... Justin Rudd's Busy weekend complicated...

Applying Bayes to Aggregation

Applying Bayes to Aggregation 02/09/2003 07:55 PM
Last night I went ahead with the rss2email switch, splitting my subscriptions across several instances as a work-around for the...

Link aggregation solution comes to the
Mac

Link aggregation solution comes to the
Mac 04/19/2004 12:21 PM
Small Tree Communications has released IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation networking software for the Apple Xserve and Power Mac computers...

New: IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation

New: IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation 04/19/2004 08:14 AM
Small Tree Communications's IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation software enables bonding or trunking multiple Ethernet ports on a single computer into one virtual interface.

Information aggregation (InfoWorld)

Information aggregation (InfoWorld) 09/03/2002 11:37 AM

Bayesian Aggregation, Part I

Bayesian Aggregation, Part I 02/14/2003 03:23 PM
On Monday I configured Scenario 3 of my Bayesian Aggregation experiment, building a "good" corpus of my weblog entries and...

Massive Data Aggregation with Perl

Massive Data Aggregation with Perl 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
What do you do if you have a huge array of disparate data sources from which to collect and present data in multiple formats? First, reach for Perl. Then...good question. Fred Moyer explains how his team designed and built a system to aggregate and present huge amounts of data with Perl.

Bloglines Takes Aggregation Beyond RSS,
Blogs

Bloglines Takes Aggregation Beyond RSS,
Blogs 03/30/2005 08:06 PM
The online service adds package tracking to its subscription options in the first part of its strategy to aggregate more than news feeds and become a 'universal inbox' for Web content.

A Business Model For WiFi Aggregation

A Business Model For WiFi Aggregation 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
Robert X. Cringely's latest column discusses his idea for a killer WiFi aggregator business model that makes some sense - but could be very difficult from some significant reasons. He correctly points out the problems with current WiFi aggregator business models: they have way too little coverage and way too many players have their hands in the pie. For each dollar spent at a hotspot, a portion needs to go to the hotspot owner, the owner of the network and the aggregator (and potentially others) - and there just isn't that much money being spent at hotspots in the first place. His solution is that we need more hotspots, and the way to get more hotspots is to give away the equipment free. Basically, have a company that will give you free WiFi equipment in exchange for adding your hotspot to their network and giving you free access to the entire network. This way, he believes, an aggregator would quickly get to one million hotspots and pretty much guarantee the necessary level of coverage. The money, then, would come from others who pay the subscription fee to get on the network - and since the coverage is so great, and the aggregator no longer needs to share that revenue with the hotspots, people will be willing to pay up. Maybe. I'm certainly a fan of leveraging "free" in a promotion to build a business model, but not when that "free" is very costly. In order to get this going, the company would need to give away those million access points (and, probably, handle tech support for them) before they start making money. While you can bet they'd get a volume discount (and APs are getting cheaper every day), it's still a pretty big capital chunk to eat. Then, there are two other big problems I see. First, which he brushes off, most internet providers say sharing your connection is a violation of terms of service. Sure, there's the Speakea sy exception, but it's still not too common, and I'm not so convinced (as Cringely is) that they'll just rollover when they find out what's happening. The second problem is much more fundamental. I now have two choices if I want to use this fairly vast network of access points: (1) pay a monthly fee or (2) offer to host my own hotspot - where I get free equipment and free service. Guess what I'm going to do? Is there any reason not to get their free equipment just to get free access everywhere else? Who are the suckers who are actually going to pay for this service instead of just signing up to be a provider?

Yahoo, NewsGator Extend RSS Aggregation

Yahoo, NewsGator Extend RSS Aggregation 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
Mega-portal Yahoo is getting closer to adding a Rich Site Summary (define) aggregator to its My Yahoo service, a move that could provide a major boost to the XML (define) format for content syndication....

Cost-Effective Cellular Aggregation for
3G Networks

Cost-Effective Cellular Aggregation for
3G Networks 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
3G Jan 21 2004 8:34AM GMT

Simplewire Provides SMS Aggregation for
Guinness Beer Promotion

Simplewire Provides SMS Aggregation for
Guinness Beer Promotion 09/01/2004 02:23 AM
Simplewire, a U.S.-based SMS aggregator, enables Guinness Beer to launch its first SMS cross-carrier short code advertising campaign. The campaign utilizes cross-media platforms including television, radio and print to drive additional user interaction from their mobile handset via SMS (Short Messaging Service). By responding from their handset, users may be entered to win free Guinness Beer or other prizes. [PRWEB Sep 1, 2004]

A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation
Services

A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation
Services 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services By Martha L. Brogan - Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/b rogan/
http://www.dig lib.org/pubs/brogan/brogan2003.pdf

This 100-page report, commissioned by the DLF, provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters, and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH). Each service is annotated with its organizational affiliation, subject coverage, function, audience, status, and size. Critical issues surrounding each of these elements are presented in order to provide the reader with an appreciation of the nuances inherent in seemingly straightforward factual information, such as "audience" or "size."

Free trial of IEEE 802.3ad Link
Aggregation available

Free trial of IEEE 802.3ad Link
Aggregation available 07/19/2004 04:33 AM
Small Tree Communications today announced the availability of a free 30-day trial version of its IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation product for Mac OS X, which was referenced by Apple during the Xserve Deployment session at WWDC last month...

Centered Communication: Webl0gs and
Aggregation in the Organization

Centered Communication: Webl0gs and
Aggregation in the Organization 04/06/2005 06:45 AM


Centered Communication: Weblogs and Aggregation in the Organization
http://incsub.org/blog/?p=336

James Farmer has posted a draft version as well as a summary of his Centered Communication: Weblogs and Aggregation in the Organization. A very interesting read and well worth a visit. Blogs are now being felt worldwide and business as well as the non for profit service sectors are beginning to feel the affects generated by this communication medium and what displacements will be happening as it takes off! This will be mentioned in my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation.

TrackBack aggregation page for the MySQL
conference

TrackBack aggregation page for the MySQL
conference 04/21/2004 12:43 AM
it's great to see such an active discussion around my favorite database engine

Small Tree brings 802.3ad Link
Aggregation to the Mac

Small Tree brings 802.3ad Link
Aggregation to the Mac 04/16/2004 04:59 AM
Small Tree Communications today announced the release of its IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation networking software for the Apple Xserve and Power Mac computers...

Kottke explains Digital Lifestyle
Aggregation

Kottke explains Digital Lifestyle
Aggregation 08/11/2004 02:01 PM

Let me say this upfront. What Jason is spelling out has several problems - which he also perfectly elucidates.

What he doesn't say is "that for all this to happen" - you need a COORDINATING company to make sure it all works. That's obvious.

I'll put my own answers to Jason's issues - IN BOLD AND CAPS - but I think you'll all see that Jason PERFECTLY spells out a realistic DLA scenario - thats' totally open and doable - by year's end.

Here we go.

Here's Jason's post called "Some "Web as platform" noodling"

In the discussion of Flickr and Feedburner's spliced RSS/Atom files, Harold said:

I'm beginning to think that feeds (and content tagging) should be the starting point, not an offshoot. Until now, our tools have produced web pages then feeds. I'm thinking we need tools that create feeds and then let us combine them into web pages.

To put this another way, a distributed data storage system would take the place of a local storage system. And not just data storage, but data processing/filtering/formatting. Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account; your events calendar on Upcoming; use iCal to update your personal calendar (which is then stored on your .Mac account); use GMail for email; use TypeKey or Flickr's authentication system to handle identity; outsource your storage/backups to Google or Akamai; you let Feedburner "listen" for new content from all those sources, transform/aggregate/filter it all, and publish it to your Web space; and you manage all this on the Web at each individual Web site or with a Watson-ish desktop client.

Think of it like Unix...small pieces loosely joined. Each specific service handles what it's good at. Gmail for mail, iCal for calendars, TypePad for short bits of text, etc. Web client, desktop client, it doesn't much matter...whatever the user is most comfortable with. Then you just (just! ha!) pipe all these together however you want with services (or desktop apps) handling any filtering/processing that you need, and output it to the file/device/service of your choice. New services can be inserted into the process as they become available. You don't need to wait for Gmail to output RSS...just pipe your email to Feedburner and they'll hook you up.

There are, of course, plenty of hurdles to overcome:

- Currently a bit hard on wallet. When you're paying $5-20 per month for each one of these services (in addition to $50/mo for broadband and $45/mo for your cell phone), living the connected lifestyle is expensive. If a company like Google can offer bundles of these services, it might get cheaper.

WHY JUST GOOGLE? FIRST OF ALL - WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING WAS CALLED HAILSTORM - AND MICROSOFT MIGHT JUST GET TO IT - TOO - ONCE LONGHORN SHIPS AND WE DO ALL THEIR R&D FOR THEM.

SECOND OF ALL - I THINK BEFORE GOOGLE GETS THERE - MY COMPANY BROADBAND MECHANICS WILL - IN ADDITION TO OTHERS. YOU ALSO DIDN'T MENTION DRUPAL OR SOME SORT OF FRAMEWORK (MAYBE EVEN IBM'S NEW 'ECLIPSE' AS MIDDLEWARE) THAT PULLS ALL OF THIS TOGETHER AND PROVIDES COMMUNITY FEATURES.... COMMUNITY SITES ARE EXACTLY WHERE A BUNCH OF GEEKS - WORK TOGETHER - AND GET THIS ALL TO WORK - FOR PARTICULAR AFFINITY GROUPS, TARGETED VERTICALS AND LOCAL REGIONAL ACTIVISM.

- Data needs to be portable. If Flickr starts to suck, you should be able to easily move all of your photos to a better service.

DUDE - FLICKR AIN'T GONNA EVER SUCK. IT ROCKS.

- Redundancy and failing gracefully. What if Blogger is unavailable when I want to rebuild my Web site after my Flickr photostream has been updated (see my MTAmazon plug-in problem)? Does the rebuild just fail or is the data cached somewhere?

AMEN BROTHER - STABILITY IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN BY DEFAULT IT TAKES HARD WORK - WORK THAT SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR.

- You need to get everyone to agree on interop/formats/etc. Fortunately, it seems like companies are a lot more willing to do this than 4-5 years ago (Amazon, Google, Flickr, Upcoming, & TypePad all have APIs or allow data output via RSS/Atom).

NOW LET'S SEE? WHAT THE HELL   HAVE I BEEN   DOING  LA TELY?

- Security. Lots of passwords and personal information will have to be passed around for all this to work. How about some commitment from these companies to keep this data as secure as they can?

HAVE YOU HEARD OF SXIP - YET? THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE ARE COMING TOGETHER - RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES!

This, then, is the promise of Web services. Nothing new, but it's nice to see things continue to head in this direction.

RIGHT ON TO JASON FOR WRITING THIS. MAJOR BOOKMARK TIME! I LOVE IT WHEN SMART PEOPLE DO THE WORK FOR ME.

Related reading:
- GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org)
- Inventing the Future (Tim O'Reilly)
- T he Web as a Platform (John Battelle)
- Deepleap was an early attempt at some of this stuff (Lane Becker)

[Kottke.org]

mARC'S FINAL THANK YOU TO jASON.....

I love the way you put it and visionize DLAs. Now we just gotta do a version of that for huamns - and for mom's - who need to find playmates and baby sitters for the kids.

Oh yah - you didn't mention OpenListings - an economic engine for the blogosphere.

:-)

Small Tree makes Link Aggregation trial
available

Small Tree makes Link Aggregation trial
available 07/20/2004 11:08 AM
Small Tree Communications released a free 30-day trial of its Link Aggregation software on Monday. Link Aggregation uses a process called trunking to combine multiple Ethernet ports into one virtual port that balances bandwidth utilization and automatically switches the data stream to a working port in the event one of them fails. The software runs on a G4 or G5 Mac running Mac OS X v10.2.7 or higher and equipped with at least two Ethernet ports and an IEEE 802.3ad compatible Ethernet switch. Pricing for the full version of Link Aggregation is US$299 for two ports and one group, $499 for four ports and two groups and $699 for unlimited ports and groups. Bundles with one of Small Tree's multi-port Gigabit Ethernet cards are also available.

802.3ad link aggregation tool improves
stability, speed

802.3ad link aggregation tool improves
stability, speed 06/22/2004 10:32 AM
Small Tree Communications has released version 1.4 of its IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation networking software for Mac OS X. Designed to work with Xserves and Power Mac systems in high-performance network environments, the software follows the IEEE 802.3ad standard for aggregation of several Ethernet network interfaces into one "virtual" interface by bonding or trunking them together. The new release features enhanced stability by resolving a wide range of end case configuration and launch conditions, and improved performance for a wider range of network switches by performing better load balancing of the network. Compatible with Power Mac G4 and G5 systems running Mac OS X v10.2.7 or later, the price of the software ranges from US$299 to $699 depending on the number of ports and groups supported.

A Survey of Digital Aggregation
Services. Martha Brogan

A Survey of Digital Aggregation
Services. Martha Brogan 01/17/2004 11:09 PM
A Survey of Digital Library AggregationServices

diglib.org/pubs/brogan
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Thousands of clueless web surfers + a
good aggregation engine

Thousands of clueless web surfers + a
good aggregation engine 12/19/2004 03:36 PM
Yoz has a brilliant brilliant brilliant idea. Or, to put it another way... Tired: Third-world data-processing sweatshops Wired: Thousands of clueless web surfers + a good aggregation engine I, too, kiss the mighty Yoz brain....

Small Tree offers Ethernet link
aggregation for OS X

Small Tree offers Ethernet link
aggregation for OS X 04/19/2004 11:06 AM
Having a fast-as-blazes Power Mac or Xserve operating as your file server is one part of the equation, but what happens when your server's network interface is a performance bottleneck? Adding a multiport card is a solution, and to help make that as simple as possible for applications and other computers to work with, Small Tree Communications has released its IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation networking software. Small Tree's software bonds or trunks multiple Ethernet ports into a single "virtual" interface.

RAD Introduces Cost-Effective Cellular
Aggregation Solutions for 3G Networks

RAD Introduces Cost-Effective Cellular
Aggregation Solutions for 3G Networks 01/19/2004 03:07 PM
ECTA Portal Jan 19 2004 6:37PM GMT

Net-O2 Technologies releases industry’s
first Link Aggregation (LACP) Test Suite

Net-O2 Technologies releases industry’s
first Link Aggregation (LACP) Test Suite 07/21/2004 02:51 AM
Net-O2 Technologies, one of the leading providers of Protocol Conformance Test solutions announces immediate availability of Net-O2 ATTEST™ LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) test suite. ATTEST LACP’s comprehensive test coverage enables network equipment manufacturers verify conformance to the IEEE 802.3-2002–Clause 43 specifications. [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

Tekrati Offers High Tech Industry
Analyst Aggregation Site

Tekrati Offers High Tech Industry
Analyst Aggregation Site 06/17/2004 06:40 AM
That's aggregation, not aggravation. What do you think this is, 1999 or something? Anyway, Tekrati is now offering the Industry Analyst Report, which contains news and reports from over 325...
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Opera 7.50: News aggregation done right