Web2.0 on Diogo Gomes

New Blog Engine

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:05:04 +0000

Guess what, I wasn’t happy with “just” changing themes… and decided to switch theme again along side with a new blogging engine. Wordpress is great and all, but required me to keep constant attention (keeping up with security updates), and overall performance was lacking (even though I used the great Super Cache plugin).

Since moving to a low cost VPS provider (found them through lowendbox ) which is capped to 256MB, I’ve been struggling to keep my resource usage controlled. This has led me to survey alternative blog engines that are less resource savvy than Wordpress running on LAMP, one of such alternatives grab my attention.

New Theme

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:05:04 +0000

This blog is now more then 4 years old, and was in dear need of some shake ups…

It’s true that I don’t post here that often, with a new semester that started just last week, with a brand new class on Information Systems Infra-Structures that I’m now preparing, with new research projects just kicking in, and of-course with my ~20month year old daughter that requires full attention from everyone in the house, it’s been hard to publish new posts that have been lining in the pipeline.

Telecom API's

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:17:43 +0100

The Telecom Operators that relied in voice services are dead. And today’s operators fight for their own existence in a world dominated by the Web 2.0 where services can be created, combined in matter of day’s if not hours by limited resources teams. This new playground poses several challenges to telecom forums that have in the last years devised several API’s for enabling developers to plug in to their network. The following table has the particularity of synthesizing what’s going on.

Wishlist 2.0

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:19:17 +0000

We are getting near “the season” and therefore starting the never ending process of scouting for the right gift for each of your family members and friends. For kids it means writing a letter to santa, for grown ups it means setting up an online wishlist :) because you never know when someone has no idea what to offer you and browses through your website ( hint ).

I’ve used the Amazon wishlist for sometime now, but I mostly regret the fact that it is limited to Amazon products.

Pownce

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:17:01 +0100

Pownce is yet another Web2.0 website…

…but then if it was, why did it catch my interest ?

The desktop application enables to quickly share with friends (not the whole world!) notes, links, files and events.

“Why not use the email ?” True… but thats so 90’s :)

Map my name

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:21:10 +0100

The two students behind this project idea is to geomap every single user in the internet.

Although naif, the idea is nonetheless very good!

They make use of google maps (no trouble developing)
The idea is fun (best reason for any one to join)
It has web2.0 written all over (well not literally!)

Will they succeed ?

Only time will tell …

Mugshot

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:54:37 +0100

I’m hooked!

After saying to myself a thousand times that I wouldn’t joint yet another over hyped Web2.0 website, i joined yet another one…

My friend Rafael sent the link over (yes! he is the one to blaim!)

http://www.mugshot.org/

I found it interisting because it provides a lot of information without requiring any new input, it basically retrieves all information from sites such as flickr, last.fm and mashes them up.

Another interesting feature is the Firefox extension which enables me to share links with my friends without the omnipresent “email”.

Search Engines (like if…)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Forget about Google, Yahoo, Live.com…

Because Ms.Dewey is here! Staring actress Janina Gavankar Try searching “you are so hot”,“take off your clothes”,“illegal drugs”, “ho”, “nintendo”, “what are you reading?”, “ms. dewey”, “just tell me”, “fastest bittorrent client”, “blow me”, “george bush”, “world of warcraft”, “how to do the robot”, “web design”, “Battlefield 2”, “murder”(several times), “storm”, “Halo 2”, “Google”, “Jesus”, “arts”, “iPod”, “music download”, “eminem”(again several times), “so you think you can dance”, “yo mama”, “Ferrari”, “Horror movie”, “911”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Bruce Willis”, “Use gun” (several times), “twins”, “chris rock”, “ashton kutcher”, “If you get inside your computer you can do anything you want to me”, “terrorist”, “Britney Spears”, “MMORPG”, “Microsoft”, “Linux”