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06.18.08

Updated Secondbrain Browser Buttons for Firefox 3.0 News, development, technology | (0)
Some of you who are quick to download and try out the newest stuff on the web probably already downloaded the new Firefox 3.0 and noticed that our belowed browser bookmarks were incompatible. I got a few reports about this yesterday. But fortunately my client side developer, Jakub, was quick to react and spent today upgrading our browser buttons to work with Firefox 3.0 as well. You can download it from secondbrain.com by logging in and selecting Dashboard -> Install bookmarklet, or by following this direct download link. If some of you are still (!) on the good old FF2.0, you can of ...
11.01.06

The ALPHA Presentation development, start-up, technology | (0)
It's been a long time since I posted anything, but it is not because it has been quiet around here. I will try to do summarize the past two months in a few separate posts. The last post I did was on finishing the ALPHA for our September deadline. It was a hectic time, and we worked very hard. The goal was to present it to the management of Making Waves the next day (who provide the seed money for the Second Brain project). It didn't go exactly as planned: I was of course a little unprepared for the presentation since I ...
09.13.06

Combining AJAX, Flash and internetness design, development, technology | (1)
One of the first challenges we faced in Second Brain was how to build an application that have all the rich functionality that we needed, but still had the necessary opacity to support the ideal of internet as an open and connected architecture. We didn't want to compromise on functionality, we wanted to forget about the old page paradigm, and we wanted it to have the look and feel of a desktop application, while still taking advantage of the benefits of the internet platform. Quite a challenge for the architects. The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new face ...
08.28.06

Developing on the Web Platform development, strategy, technology | (0)
Alex Iskold at Read/Write Web has a review of companies that use web-services as part of their platform/backbone.They list six building blocks of the Web Computing Platform and give an extensive review of companies who offer the components to 3rd parties, like f.x. Amazon S3, and the customer fronting services that use them, like f.x. SmugMug - a photo sharing site. Using the web-platform is at the core of the Second Brain strategy. We are already using Amazon S3 for file-storage, and we are looking for other applications and services that we could integrate to expand our offering and functionality. What ...

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