The B-List: django-registration update

Seeded on Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:23 AM EDT (b-list.org)

James Bennett just released version 0.3 of his registration application for Django. This app integrates a registration form for account-creation as well as account-verification via e-mail.

technology, django, django-registration

Gametrailers.com - Fatal Inertia , Review

Seeded on Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:03 AM EDT (GameTrailers.com - Video Previews)

Gametrailers reviews the latest futuristic racer out there ... Well, and it ends up as you'd have expected after all those previews.

entertainment, xbox360, fatal-inertia, gamevine

Amazon.com acquires dpreview.com

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2007 10:48 AM EDT (EW.com)

Leading online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it has acquired www.dpreview.com, the web's most comprehensive site for digital camera information and reviews.

technology, digital, amazon, photography, dpreview

Last.fm Launches Video Recommendations

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2007 8:22 AM EDT (PRWeb)

Last.fm will soon be able to offer its users personalised channels from the largest legal catalogue of music videos on the web.

technology, music, video, last-fm

Sun Microsystems Announces OpenID Program

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 4:56 PM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)

"We're excited about finding ways to augment the use of OpenID with technologies that fill out the rest of the identity picture -- meeting web users' needs for autonomy and convenience while making it easy for web businesses and communities to meet stringent security and privacy …

technology, sun, openid

WipEout Pulse interview with Clark Davies

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 8:43 AM EDT (eurogamer.net)

In an interview with Eurogamer Clark Davies describes some on the new features of the upcoming WipEout Pure successor WipEout Pulse for the Playstation Portable.

entertainment, interview, gaming, psp, wipeout-pulse

Netscape Browser 9 becomes Netscape Navigator (again)

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2007 3:44 AM EDT (Netscape.com Hot Stories)

To avoid confusion between the different Netscape products, we have made the decision that the next Netscape-branded browser (previously known only as Netscape 9) will be named Netscape Navigator 9. What's old is new again!blog.netscape.com

technology, browser, navigator, netscape, netscape-navigator

Student arrested over CounterStrike map ... and a hammer

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 9:05 AM EDT (eurogamer.net)

An American student who made a Counter Strike map of Clements High School has been arrested and sent to an "Alternative Education Center".

entertainment, gaming, counter-strike

Junkie XL composed SSX Blur Soundtrack to be released in February

Seeded on Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:05 AM EST (music.ign.com)

The soundtrack to SSX Blur will be released on February 20th, 2007 as the result of a joint partnership between EA and Nettwerk Music Group. The music included on SSX Blur was written and composed by legendary electronic madman Junkie XL.

entertainment, wii, gamevine, ssx-blur, junkie-xl

Disco reaches 1.0

Seeded on Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:01 PM EST (discoapp.com)

The final version 1.0 of the stylish CD/DVD burner app for MacOSX Disco has been released. Compared to the last beta release it offers tons of improvements in basically every part of the program.

technology, software, macosx, disco

Netscape 9 not exclusive to Windows

Seeded on Tue Feb 6, 2007 7:04 AM EST (Netscape.com Hot Stories)

Netscape 9 will be released simultaneously for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. according to Netscape's Chris Finke.

technology, web, browser, netscape

Killzone 2 playable soon?

Seeded on Tue Feb 6, 2007 6:12 AM EST (1up.com)

According to 1UP's Luke Smith a playable version of Killzone 2 for the Playstation 3 might be closer than you'd expect. Expect a playable Killzone 2 demo to be released (hmm, Phil Harrison is keynoting at GDC...) before gamers are participating in the beta for Halo 3.

entertainment, gaming, guerilla, ps2, gamvine, killzone-2

C&C 3: Tiberium Wars: Germany gets cut version

Seeded on Fri Feb 2, 2007 10:52 AM EST (gamestar.de)

According to GameStar.de the German version of Command & Conquer 3 (PC) might lose some features that would prevent it getting rated for players being 16 or older. The offending features are the possibility to use nuclear weapons and suicide commandos.

entertainment, pc, gaming, gamevine, command-and-conquer-3

Lost Planet patch in development

Seeded on Thu Feb 1, 2007 7:55 AM EST (eurogamer.net)

According to Eurogamer.net Capcom is working on a path for the multiplayer part of their Xbox360 action game Lost Planet.

entertainment, gaming, xbox-360, capcom, lost-planet, gamevine

Ruby HTML parser Hpricot 0.5 released

Seeded on Thu Feb 1, 2007 5:06 AM EST (redhanded.hobix.com)

why just released another version of his Hpricot library on RedHanded. Among the new features is the the option to search nodes based on their content. Hpricot is an HTML parser for Ruby inspired by the JavaScript library jQuery and HTree.

technology, ruby, html

Mozilla.org releases Bugzilla 2.23.3, 2.22.1, 2.20.3, and 2.18.6

Seeded on Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:55 PM EDT (bugzilla.org)

The Mozilla Organization just released a series of updates for multiple branches of their bugtracking system Bugzilla. All of them seem to include security related fixes.

technology, security, development, release, bugzilla, bugtracking

Google acquires x, Yahoo acquires y, ...

Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:41 PM EDT

Note: These are just my humble observations and opinions and are not really backed up by any kind of empirical analysis. It's strange. Two companies of the size of Yahoo and Google, and still two completely two different approaches on acquisitions.

Continue reading this entry ...

google, yahoo, technology, acquisitions, youtube

jQuery: Blog: » jQuery 1.0.2

Seeded on Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:35 AM EDT (jquery.com)

John Resig just released a new version of his JavaScript library/framework jQuery. This release (version 1.0.2) seems to be focused on cross-browser related problems.

web2-0, technology, development, ajax, javascript, jquery

Students protesting against high prices in Salzburg

Seeded on Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:21 AM EDT (salzburg.orf.at)

In Salzburg (Austria) students have now started a quite bizarre protest against high transportation and living costs. On Monday and Tuesday they transformed a public bus into a living room, complete with flowers.

education, costs, austria, students, university