Book Launch: Make Cool PHp Applications
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If you have a knack for programming and want to learn how to develop some cool web based applications using the latest technologies like PhP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax, this is just what the doctor ordered. Apress has just released a highly rated and recommended book aptly titled - Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP.
The book has been written by Quentin Zervaas. There is not much information available about the author but the book’s web page has the following to say about the author’s work,
Wordpress Under Repeated DOS Attacks
Wordpress.com saw DOS attacks beginning Saturday, and the attacks were continuing till yesterday as some of the users still could not log on to their site.
Matt Mullenweg, the brains behind Wordpress and its spokesman, also confirmed these attacks. There were spikes of about 6 GB of incoming traffic rendering the blogs inaccessible by some users for almost up to 15 minutes.
Future Of Web Apps Party In Miami
Carsonified is throwing a bash in Miami between the coming 28th Feb and 1rst March for those interest in Web Apps. (Its actually a seminar titled Future of Web Apps). Expect workshops, conferences, and of course the beach party with beer and volleyball on the beach.
The best is that some of the most notable names of the webdom have been lined up to speak at the venue. Kevin Rose from Digg, Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch, Matt Wullenweg from Wordpress, Carl Henderson of Flickr, Blaine Cook of Twitter and many more.
For more details check out their website which has been designed by Elliot Jay Stocks.
Sabeer ‘Hotmail’ Bhatia Dials In With SabseBolo
(Pic - The man himself)
Sabeer Bhatia has been trying hard to beat his one trick pony reputation. After trying his luck with Arzoo and Live Documents, the man who sold Hotmail to Microsoft has now launched an online tool for facilitating teleconferencing at no extra cost to the user.
Looking at the website, one thing that struck me as odd was the image used on the home page.
Minions Get Ready To Battle Google’s Orkut
A new social networking site - Bigadda (www.bigadda.com) - has been getting rave reviews in the Indian media. Claims like 15 members signing up every minute to the site hoping to attract 10 million users by 2010 are doing the round.
Intrigued, I decided to check it out and see for myself what the buzz what all about. So here goes.
The Google Saga
- A DT Story
In the mid or late 1980s, one of the American newsweeklies ran a cover story on the Internet. I was then living in Vienna and recall picking up a copy of the magazine from a newsstand that sold English-language periodicals and journals. I read the story more than once but could not quite understand it. It sounded more science fiction than science. How could what it described be possible, I kept wondering, which only brings home the fact, and one that we overlook, as to how new a phenomenon the Internet is. Today, we treat computers and what they do as if they had always been there.
A Strong Dose Of Web 2.0 Criticism
A heavy duty criticism presented by a writer in Business Week recently.
Over to Gene Marks.
I’ve used a lot of things that don’t work as advertised. Maybe it’s me or maybe it’s bad luck. Or maybe it’s just bad stuff.
I’ve never had any success with vitamins; I still get sick just as often. Teeth-whitening products have failed me. So has the Atkins diet. Rogaine shampoo? I just grew a little peach fuzz. Using my frequent-flier miles has always been a huge frustration, except for that one time I flew to Fargo, N.D., on a Saturday night in February. Baked potato chips? They taste like wood.
FORBES Announces Its Web Celeb List
Forbes has came out with a list of 25 folks who made it big in the online world.
There were some whose blogs I hit up almost daily and some which although quite popular as per Technocrati - Doshdosh, Problogger, Johnchow - but were missing from the list. Apparently have not yet won approval from the critics.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook was the youngest to be profiled at 23.
The Web Celeb 25
1. Perez Hilton