Guys make cart that go 3 times windspeed dead downwind using only wind – most people thought it was impossible! http://bit.ly/bRHuzf
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FatWire Australia seek Senior …
FatWire Australia seek Senior Consultants (perm). Join a tight innovative team in xciting space with leading software! Ping me.. #wcms #jobs
Google releases free and amazi…
Google releases free and amazing “page speed” performance filter to all Apache web servers – great tips too; http://nexle.dk/l/su2
First Human Liver Grown in Lab…
First Human Liver Grown in Lab http://t.co/x7SiKn7 …. wow!
Free Amazon EC2+goodness for a year!
Free Amazon EC2+goodness for a year! http://aws.amazon.com/free/ WOOOOT 😉 @amazon you #rock… now go build something everyone 😉
Stack Overflow launches chat..
Stack Overflow launches chat, very very cool when you think about it http://chat.stackoverflow.com/ #HackerNews
FoxSports launched on Fatwire!
RT @traread: Fatwire’s finally up and running on www.foxsports.com.au (@FOXSPORTSAus) looks great!
Ubuntu 10.10 just released…
Ubuntu 10.10 just released, focus on “cloud”, “app store” and netbooks, whats new http://nexle.dk/l/umy, release notes http://nexle.dk/l/j5j
Truly “Geeky” movie recommendations..
@cliffano agree WarGames (and sequel) is a geek must-see movie. Others are Antitrust, pirates of silicon valley, 13th floor, hackers 😉
Hunch – on the path to greatness (…I believe)
They will mint it (and prob. Get bought by a Google or Facebook); Hunch Exports Taste Graph Via API http://instapaper.com/zGobn791d
Intel to charge for “virtual” processor unlocking.
Makes perfect sense, win/win: Intel Selling Scratch-Off “Upgrade” Cards To Unlock Processor Power http://t.co/pvJWmq5 via @techcrunch
Best source code comments! (funny)
RT @boltofblue: “What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?” http://bit.ly/dtdcku. 🙂
Facebook Looks to Invest in Social Startups
Facebook Looks to Invest in Social Startups: http://mashable.com/2010/08/26/facebook-y-combinator/
Solaris OS not what it was.. A cool tech is slowly dying..
..I loved the Solaris OS. It was the first unix system i had a long time experience with and i loved its robustness and the fact that it would run smooth on old servers you could pick up for nothing on eBay. Since Oracle bought Sun it has been going downhill for Solaris; Earlier this year the OS became non-free and now OpenSolaris is getting the cold shoulder from Oracle as wewll – http://nexle.dk/l/qin – a little sad. Thanks @Oracle! 🙁
RIP Google Wave
RIP Google Wave – http://nexle.dk/l/e9z …. Come on @google!!, you should have kept pushing through with Wave – such a bold vision. Of course it was early days – maybe most people didn’t quite value or understand the potential yet?.. At least some(/all?) of it is open source but we needed a giant to push it through. Shame shame.
Kindle e-books now outselling hardcover books on Amazon!
Kindle books are now outselling hardcover books on Amazon… what does this mean?
FatWire Software main sponsor of TED in Spain!
So @FatWireSoftware is the main sponsor for TEDx in Madrid!, @TEDxSol – http://www.tedxsol.com .. gotta love the TED talks!
Can we reliably find state from IP Address in Australia?
Can we reliably find city or state location based on IP Address in Australia? Help us find out by taking a quick 30 second multiple choice test with 3 questions on http://nexle.dk/l/y82
Why did Google “accidentally” steal/sniff WiFi information?
Why did Google “accidentally” steal/sniff wifi information? My thought: to get their location API working! Wikipedia article on how the Geolocation API works in HTML5 http://nexle.dk/l/nhu .. its quite obvious isn’t it?
HTML5 (and the great demo on http://html5rocks.com) rocks!
http://html5rocks.com rocks! – view the HTM5 “interactive presentation” in a modern broser – wow technology! #html5
My favs in HTML5?….