Weblog of Wednesday 13 August 2008

Al Kronos tweets a 1994 article explaining http and the internet:
http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

focusing in particular on REST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

Pavig tweets Chandler, calling it a Mitch Kapor project:
http://chandlerproject.org/

and Twingly, an RSS search engine:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twingly-search-and-awesome-screensaver/

and server-side 3D graphics rendering:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/otoy-developing-server-side-3d-rendering-technology/

more of the above, about something called LivePlace:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/

The latter said to be a fake:
http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2008/08/oh-look-vapourware/

OpenGL3 is disappointing:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259

Disqus 2 is out:
http://blog.disqus.net/2008/08/12/introducing-the-new-disqus/

Dusan announces SL UI winners (Rheta, Jacek and Roy Cassini, in that order):
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=803

The lab of ArminasX:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caso%20Milo/237/108/131

Linden Lab rejects Jacek's patch:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8056

Dandellion shares the ultimate plurk guide:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/social-media-communication-and-conversation-for-freelancers-and-web-workers/

Codie says this is the best plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/2bazu

Dandellion plurks a site to share links - and share the revenues that result:
http://vimu.com/

as explained here:
http://vimu.com/faq/#14

Vint blogs about SL instant messaging (SLim):
http://www.vintfalken.com/slim-a-second-life-light-instant-messaging/

Pavig cites Citrix Xenapp as a typical server-side application:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Presentation_Server

New Spore prototypes:
http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes