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TripAdvisor Invests In Vacation-Home Review Site FlipKey

TripAdvisor is in an expansive mood. In July, it acquired two small startups, VirtualTourist (user-gen travel guides) and OneTime (booking price comparison). And today it announced a majority investment in FlipKey, a guest review site for vacation home rentals. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. FlipKey launched only last March. It covers 50,000 vacation rental properties in the U.S., which CEO TJ Mahoney says represents a $60 billion market. So it is a pretty big niche. FlipK

Aug. 20, 2008 09:04 AM

Leave Your Privacy At The U.S. Border

Border Agent S. Claus He’s making a list And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice [Uncle Sam] is coming to town He sees you when you are sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows if you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness sake! Citizens’ U.S. Border Crossings Tracked The federal government has been using its system of [...]

Aug. 20, 2008 09:00 AM

Summer 2008 road trip

Good morning everybody! This is Dave coming to you from Salt Lake City, UT. I'm on my Summer 2008 road trip. Started yesterday at 4AM, and got me into SLC at about 4PM. Stops include Laramie, WY; Boulder CO and on to Denver on Sunday for the Democratic National Convention. Then four days of watching, listening, talking, and thinking and then back on the road to do it all again! I tried to set up a LAN in my car, to no avail. There isn't much Sprint EVDO on the road between Reno and Salt Lake.

Aug. 20, 2008 06:02 AM

Flash Player 10 Security Changes

There are quite a few security changes in the upcoming Flash Player 10, some of which may require changes to content or policy files to ensure that content continues to work. Below are a couple of articles that discuss some of the security changes in Flash Player 10: Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 beta http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html Working with policy file changes in Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10 beta http://www.adob

Aug. 20, 2008 12:40 AM

CEP vs. BRE - A TIBCO TTL (Top Ten List)

My colleague, Paul, got lots of… let’s call it, “feedback” regarding his post on the impending demise of the standalone Business Rule Engine (BRE) Market. It seems there are lots of folks out there who feel quite passionate about the subject, so I thought I would continue, albeit from a different angle and relate it back to the CEP and BusinessEvents for comparison. So… taking my cue from David Letterman and with a tip o’ the hat to Paul, here are the: Top

Aug. 19, 2008 07:01 PM

Web Services Manifesto - RESTful Architecture and the Programmable Web

In this first post of many, I will be giving my personal opinion on the state of Web Services programming today. This post covers my thoughts on REST.

Aug. 19, 2008 08:31 AM

BlogWorld Expo Special Discount

If you're going to BlogWorld Expo, you can get an additional 20% off even the early-bird prices (they expire on August 22nd) by using this special code: "Alltopvip." This conference is in Las Vegas on September 19-21. Click here to register.

Aug. 19, 2008 02:30 AM

Worst. News analysis. Ever.

This could well be it. Of course, it may be fabricated, in which case, it’d be much less awfully funny, and funnily awful. [Tags: humor media ]

Aug. 18, 2008 06:55 PM

Flex Builder 3.01 and Flex SDK 3.1 released

With no fanfare, or even mention on adobe's website, Adobe has officially released Flex Builder 3.01 and the Flex SDK 3.1. Prior to the 3.01 release of flex builder, developers building AIR 1.1 applications had to go through a series of ext

Aug. 18, 2008 06:11 PM

Are Mashups the 'Agile' Part of Web 2.0?

I've been into computers since I was 4 years old. I went to an esteemed (so they tell me) computer science school, or at least that's what they tell me. I've worked for every kind of software shop: the Big 6 (now 4) consultancies, a couple of startups, and even 'the Big O' (yes, Oracle). So I thought I was familiar with most techniques, theories and approaches to software development. Well, it seems I missed one.About 8 weeks ago Deepak Alur, JackBe's ever-vigilant VP of Development, sent me

Aug. 18, 2008 10:49 AM

Will make three presentations in the next two days

Tomorrow, I'll be speaking in New York City at Enterprise Flex symposium. If you can't make it, on Wednesday, I'll be speaking in the evening at New Jersey Flex Users group (see http://www.njflex.com/ for details).Also, if you are a

Aug. 18, 2008 10:03 AM

FindBugs and PMD applied on J2EE 5

A list of project adaptations required to produce zero-errors reports with PMD and FindBugs while keeping the code fully compliant with J2EE 5.

Aug. 17, 2008 02:40 PM

Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool

Razor Profiler (beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com. What Is it? Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally. Some Razor Profiler screen shots are shown below: .imageLis

Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM

Bruce’s Loo

Yesterday was the final day of UX Week 2008, and our final speaker was Bruce Sterling. Though I’d heard of Bruce during the rise of cyberpunk, I was never all that aware of him until I attended South by Southwest Interactive in 1999. He was a legendary presence at the event, both providing the final thoughts to the attendees, and hosting a rocking party at his house. I had the fortune of Bruce speaking at another event of mine, IDEA 2006, where he did a remarkable job of summarizing the pr

Aug. 16, 2008 06:19 PM

ICOODB 2009, July 1-3, 2009, ETH Zurich

The second International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB) will take place at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), on July 1-3, 2009.The ICOODB 2009 Conference Chair is Moira C. Norrie.I`d also like to inform you that a Steering Committee for the future series of ICOODB conferences has been created.The Steering Commitee is composed of:Mike Card, Mike Card, Syracuse Research Rick Cattell, consultant, William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, Stefan Edlich, FH BerlinMoira C. Norrie, ETH ZurichJam

Aug. 16, 2008 06:12 AM

TechWave Conclusions

Once again I thought this was one of the best TechWaves in years. Better than last years, which was good. Having my laptop crash on me when I’m scheduled to do four sessions wasn’t pleasant, and took the edge off of it for me. Otherwis

Aug. 14, 2008 11:47 PM

Twitter kills inbound SMS to UK.....

I received an email in my Inbox today to say that Twitter had killed off inbound SMS updates to the UK.The whole raison d’etre for my subscribing to and using Twitter was to get real-time updates. If I have to login to a Twitter app then what’s the point ? It’s no better, and actually worse than reading RSS. The guys at Twitter twitter on about it being costly, yada yada yada. Well they knew this when they started the service. The challenge for their exec team was to

Aug. 14, 2008 09:34 AM

More on Cloud Computing from Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe recently provide a comprehensive overview of the status of cloud computing for the enterprise in his post, Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam. It is a good article for spinning your knowledge up on what this trend means today. He starts with the comment, ???The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their eventual transformation and dow

Aug. 14, 2008 12:02 AM

Harmony

Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry Men.

Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM

Nature rules over robotics: Aibo toy-bone repurposed by puppy

Today our puppy discovered the pink toy-bone that originally came with the third generation of the Sony Aibo robotic dog: Sadly, the Aibo was canceled by Soiny in March 2006, but Fenway, our puppy, took possession and repurposed the pink Aibo toy-bone as a new chew-toy. It should be noted that the pink bone didn't last long. It's been proved once again: nature rules over robotics...

Aug. 12, 2008 05:27 PM

160+ TechWave Thank you's

Guys, Just a quick note to the presenters of the 160+ sessions at TechWave...

Aug. 12, 2008 09:51 AM

Brainstorming, italian style

While I should be officially on vacation since ten days, some job troubles have pursued me for a few days. Nevertheless, working in an enjoyable environment definitely boosts your productivity. In these days I'm pushing hard on fixing bugs and...

Aug. 12, 2008 07:23 AM

PB.Net Award

The VisualStudio Magazine recently held a reader's choice award for over 400 products and services - with PowerBuilder coming on strong ...

Aug. 10, 2008 04:59 PM

From deep within the bowels of SUN

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room. We've forgotton what SUN actually do. Maybe they have too.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Google Web Toolkit Applications (Book Review)Google's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen So

Aug. 7, 2008 07:50 AM

Nailguns and my 9-year old

My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.

Aug. 6, 2008 10:26 AM

Web Spiders' Blog

Web Spiders - establishing its leadership in Web Content Management

Gartner, the world’s leading analyst firm, has just published its “MarketScope for Web Content Management” report, one of the most influential analyst reports on the Web Content Management market. Out of 17 CMS software providers evaluated, G

Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 07:13 AM

Web Spiders - establishing its leadership in Web Content Management

Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 07:13 AM

Web Spiders named Rackspace “Partner of the Month”

Europe’s fastest growing and one of the most successful hosting companies, Rackspace, has named Web Spiders as its “Partner of the Month” for June. Web Spiders is honoured to receive this recognition from one of the leaders in the indust

Posted: Jun. 7, 2008 03:37 AM

Web Spiders named Rackspace “Partner of the Month”

Posted: Jun. 7, 2008 03:37 AM

Web Spiders at Interop Las Vegas 2008

Web Spiders’ Sr. Account Director Stephen Harris at Interop Las Vegas, the leading business technology event, explaining the strengths of Web Spiders as a specialist RIA company. Check out the video:

Posted: May. 7, 2008 05:11 AM

Web Spiders rocks UK’s largest Internet Business show!

Internet World is UK’s largest digital business show, and the 17th Internet World event in London, held this time from 29th April to 1st May, was yet again a showstopper. This event features industry leaders like BBC Worldwide and Google amongs

Posted: May. 2, 2008 03:34 AM

Web Spiders rocks UK’s largest Internet Business show!

Posted: May. 2, 2008 03:34 AM

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 - Adobe Flex technology explained

Stephen Harris from Web Spiders explains “No Refresh Technology” and its benefits:

Posted: Apr. 25, 2008 04:57 AM