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update: the power of great interfaces; 1.2 million+ photos tagged in 24 hours!

I made a simple widget that allows you to show the latest forum posts in widget enabled wordpress templates for our PussyCat Lounge blog. It might be useful to somebody else so download ahead if you use XD Forum:

xdforum.php.zip (version 1.0).

To use it follow the these steps:

1. Download and install the XD Forum plugin and follow the instructions to activate it
2. Make sure you have permalinks enabled and working for the forum
3. Download and unpack my widget
4. Activate the widget plugin if you haven’t already
5. Upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/widgets/ directory
6. Activate the widget in the Admin interface
7. Optional: Edit the title of the widget in your templates widget admin interface

Leopard Preview reportedly ships with Apache 2.0, Ruby on Rails and Subversion. It also adds support for script-to-framework programming, allowing Python and Ruby scripting to access Mac OS X specific programming interfaces.

More features of Apple’s Leopard leaked on Web

Erno heeft zonet mijn bijdrage aan zijn 1 question interview serie geplaatst. Fris idee, en de verzamelde serie is een leuk kijkje in de keuken denk ik.

Oops, we did it again.

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more here, here and here

I missed this news when it first came out but appearently a stunning 410-15 US congressmen voted for a law that demands from schools and universities that they block social networking sites. Social networking sites are defined as sites that, among other things, allow “communication among users”. Let that sink in for a minute.

Note the 410 clueless congressmen & women.

Ik had er volgens mij nog niet op deze plek naar verwezen dus bij deze nog maar eens; BlueAce heeft een interessant forum voor web 2.0 bouwers, denkers en ondernemers. Met op dit moment o.a. discussies over businees ideeen, microformats en vacatures voor RoR developers. Ik ben er zelf in ieder geval regelmatig te vinden.

BlueAce - Web 2.0 Forum

Yahoo! posted some examples of how businesses are using their S3 storage servers and i must say i’m very impressed at their little list. I was enthusiastic when they first opened the service to the public and even started work on a little wordpress storage plugin (which i never finished) but i didn’t know the service was already as widely used as it seems to be. It’s great to see a service that is equally useful for little web startups, allowing them to grow, and Microsoft at the same time. This also proves there is a real market for commercial API based services as long as they are affordable and can scale.

News today: Friendster gets a patent on social networks US gets more retarded. I guess a .eu domain will become a good investment as the US is becoming a harder market to target every day. Start working on your internationalization skills people, english won’t cut it anymore.

update: and of course let’s make sure europe does not get just as retarded. There are a lot of big companies successfully persuading politicians to introduce software patents to europe but that battle has not been won yet. As far as software goes patents only gain is short term and for huge companies.

update2: Zweden heeft ondertussen zijn eigen piraten partij welke ten strijde gaat voor het aanpassen van copyright en patent regels naar een vorm die innovatie vriendelijk wordt.