MetaFilter posts tagged with software and web

Google Asks: "What Would Email Look Like, If It Were Invented Today?"

zarq — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:45:13 -0800

Google began inviting volunteers to a public preview test of their new Wave web-based collaborative email and document communications platform yesterday, which enables users to "communicate and work together in real time." Initial reviews this past May seemed positive. (Previously) Features include real-time collaboration, (including concurrent editing and control of each "wave" thread,) natural language tools and a variety of APIs which users can use to embed content in other sites. Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 (80min video -- an abridged 10 minute version is here. Wave login page is here. Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open source project for developers. The WSJ reports that invites are now for sale on EBay. Something similar happened when Google launched GMail in 2004.

I Hardly Know Her - an "alternative way to view Flickr photostreams"

nthdegx — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:24:45 -0800

I Hardly Know Her - is an "alternative way to view Flickr photostreams. It is designed to facilitate high quality viewing with minimal distractions." By Justin Ouellette, creator of Muxtape.

Why yes, I do have a clue

Mitheral — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:28:10 -0800

EclipseCrossword is a powerful windows tool for automatically creating crossword puzzles. You can create multiple puzzles from the same word list; print the puzzles in assorted formats; or export interactive puzzles for web pages. Or you can create crossword puzzles online.

Internet Explorer 7 Released

armoured-ant — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:43:22 -0800

It is done. Windows Internet Explorer 7 has been released.

SwarmSketch

sjvilla79 — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:11:10 -0800

SwarmSketch - Collective sketching of the collective consciousness. Requires Flash. [MI]

Wikipedia and journalism (and ant farms, Bombay, etc.)

Tlogmer — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:53:26 -0800

The avatar versus the journalist. Ant farms, Bombay, the neolithic revolution, and Wikipedia.

Collaborative real-time music (internet jamming)

Tlogmer — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:36:51 -0800

Ninjam lets you play music (not MIDI) collaboratively with random people in real-time offset by one measure. Samples.

icathing — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:57:57 -0800

Clippings is the GPL-ed code behind IHT's news-clip feature, which has been discussed on MetaFilter before. This is very cool code and I think any site with many front page links could benefit from it. Serendipitously found at smokinggun, which is not the smoking gun.

tatochip — Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:42:52 -0800

Big Blue moves into the web services arena, claiming to be the first company to provide such services. Ever hear of .NET? Seems to me that they've been rolling a framework (that's got BETA development tools already) since last summer.

i think the most poignant point in this article isn't the fact that IBM's making false claims, but this quote by Peter O'Kelly:

``It's amazing that these guys are agreeing to work with the same standards. They've finally realized it's a disservice to customers when they try and compete on the basis of proprietary formats and protocols."

Now if the browser wars could end, we'd all be in better shape.

scottandrew — Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:36:03 -0800

The end of view source? New software on the horizon may allow you to control who saves, copies or prints your web content. Are the days of right-click piracy coming to a close? Will this add weight to the budding concept that people might actually pay for content they want? Should we care?

mathowie — Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:53:15 -0800

Hey Mac users, want to beat the rush and get IE 5.0 final early? Follow the link to Nick Finck's Digital Web magazine site for the download URL. From the looks of Microsoft's Mac site, it won't be out until tomorrow.