Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Cyber-riot: The day after

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

The madness over at digg has died down and the users have triumphed. Yesterday, the site was taken over by folks upset at digg's attempt to remove stories that violated a C&D order. It was the goal of this C&D to stop the spread of a particular key that can ...

Desktop Web Applications: or How Adobe is Going to Kill the Traditional Desktop App

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

There has been quite a bit of buzz lately about Adobe Apollo. It's a framework that allows you to, using Adobe dev tools, create Web-based applications that can also be run in an offline mode on your desktop. How does this work? The key is in the ability to sync ...

Finally! digg releases their API

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Today, digg announced the release of their new REST-based API. It looks pretty full-featured, though I haven't gotten much of a chance to play around with it yet. They have already provided Flash and PEAR toolkits for the API and are accepting submissions from users for additional language toolkits. Let's ...

Self-marketing

Friday, March 16th, 2007

I've finally worked up the motivation to start building my online portfolio, located at http://mattmayers.com/. I've already added a couple of my finished projects on there and I hope to add more very soon. I am really ready to get myself out there as a serious Rails freelancer and work ...

Halo Wars

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

A Halo RTS? No shit. Now I completely understand why MS wanted so badly to shut down the Halogen project. If you haven't heard of Halogen, it was an RTS based on the Halo universe that was being developed independantly by a group of Halo fans. Was being developed, of course, ...