Essentially it’s a mobile Craigslist with notifications and location-based searches for classified listings. You can enter any neighborhood, do a quick search, and pick up a broken girls bicycle seat or a gently used full body cast for a few bucks
via The New Grabio Lets You Grab Classified Deals On The Go | TechCrunch.
There are a few similar services out there, most notably EggDrop and Zaarly, but Grabio uses a location aware API notifies you when you’re near deals.
The Nouveau driver has had a long and challenging journey to get where’s it at today where the developers are now comfortable with the Nouveau driver leaving the Linux kernel’s staging area and thus also fully committing to a stable ABI for their kernel driver (their DRM version is also now marked as v1.0). Nouveau began more than a half-decade ago; I first wrote about the project in 2006 and it wasn’t until 2007 that OpenGL began to sort of work on this free software driver that was started by Stephane Marchesin (he’s no longer directly involved with Nouveau as for a while now he’s been off working for Google on Chrome OS). Nouveau’s journey has been quite interesting and in the past six years has earned itself 450 news posts where I have written about this open-source NVIDIA driver and over 60 featured articles that have included benchmarks or more extensive information on this Linux driver.
via [Phoronix] Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Approaches Stable State.
Facebook Inc., which runs the world’s largest social networking website, won a court ruling on Friday rejecting a bid by advertisers to sue the company as a group for overcharging them.
via Facebook advertisers lose bid for class status – chicagotribune.com.
Worlds Inc. owns US patents numbers 8,082,501, 7,493,558, 7,945,856 and 7,181,690 titled “System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space” and has additional continuation claims in process before the U.S Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). These patents relate to computer architecture for three-dimensional graphical multi-user interactive virtual world systems. Such systems are utilized in Massive Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG).
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.[1] In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological improvements could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.[2]
Fault Tolerant Design, True Privacy and Efficient Versioning – SpiderOak.com.
Speaking simply in terms of technical proficiency, there exists a dramatic difference between SpiderOak and other back up systems – both online backup and offline solutions. Below we highlight these differences through a discussion of our philosophy and approach.
- True Privacy
- Fault Tolerant Design
- Storage Redundancy Savings
- Efficient Versioning
- Multi-Device – Real Time
- Instant Access from Anywhere
- Sharing… With Safety
- Cross Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux
- Reliability via Comprehensive Test Coverage
- Open Source?
- Encryption Specifications
- User Authentication Process
- Storage Infrastructure
Google then goes on to explain that “a given set of statements or instructions may be protected, but the protection does not extend to the method of operation or system — the programming language — by which they are understood by the computer.” Google is arguing that a computer language is “inherently a utilitarian, nonprotectable means by which computers operate” and merely provides the structure, selection and organization of the software.
via Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees | The Verge.
Turn your phone into a Walkie Talkie
Hmmmm. Again with the walkie talkies.
Voxer is a Walkie Talkie application for smartphones. Voxer lets you send instant audio, text and photo messages to your friends (one or more!). Messages stream live as you talk and your friends join you live or listen later.
Voxer is available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android devices.
Speaking of CSS, that’s where you want to do all your styling. It’s the preferred way to stylize things in both XHTML and the ePub standard. (There are a very few reader programs out there that won’t recognize CSS. Mot of them do by now though, and if you keep the HTML to the basics, the book will still be readable if the reader program doesn’t recognize CSS.
via .epub eBooks Tutorial – Part 1: Format Your Source Content.