It is time to change the company logo ;-)

The evolution of tech companies logos.

MySQL is Officially a Part of Sun

You all knew but for some reason (Working hard) I missed that MySQL is now a Part of Sun. Link

Are IP addresses Personal?

Because we are building a Browser Based Authentication (BBA) system I came across this interesting article by Google. User trust is the most important factor of the BBA. We already have, with some regrets, striped some great features from the system because it would endanger the users privacy. The BBA will not use IP addresses to identify people and will safeguard the users privacy. More about the BBA when the system is ready.

WW Telescope site is on-line

wwtelescopeToday just before the announcement the wwtelescope.com is on-line. I guessed right. See my previous post and today’s post by Robert Scoble on the topic.

Twitter Search Engine

TerraMindsIf you want to search Twitter post try this Search Engine. I wonder how far back it can search. When will Google integrate this?

TweetTrack Blacklisted by Spamfilters

TweetTrackAfter just 24 hours TweetTrack is Blacklisted by Spamfilters. See this comment by Shannon. I liked the service so I hope he will find a way to whitelist TweetTrack in the Spamfilters. The problem is that TweetTrack has an Opt-Out like model with no Out. Shannon perhaps you can track if the TweetTrack is accepted by the blogger and sent more TweetTracks based on this decision. I just invented an Opt-Accept ;-)

The Logo: Twitxr Imxge Wxll

Twitxr Imxge Wxll

For J. Shirley

sub str2str {
  my($str_in,$timezone,$dst) = @_;
  my @lt = localtime(time);
  $timezone = $dst if $lt[8];
  if ($timezone =~ /^([+-])(\d{2})(\d{2})$/){
    my $addval = $1″.$2*3600+$3*60;
    my $gmt = str2time($str_in);
    $gmt += $addval;
    my $str_out = time2str($gmt);
    $str_out =~ s/GMT$/$timezone/;
    return $str_out;
  } else {
    return undef;
  }
}

TweetTrack

TweetTrackShannon Whitley created a script that inverts the tiny URL’s used on twitter to the full links to this blog. See this TweetTrack response to this post. Interesting script because now I can see every time someone links to my Blog from Twitter. I hope it can block the spammers. I also hope it will not loop in some way, but perhaps that is impossible.

First Look at Silverlight 2

Link to ScottGu’s blog on the new Silverlight 2.