Did Microsoft abuse its position of power so badly many people are still motivated by the experience? The way in which Google is releasing Wave almost makes me think so.
Unlike Microsoft, they've made it open-source and made it clear that anyone will be welcome to run it, even on their own servers and change it however they like.
Perhaps making money for Google is no longer their top priority, but here's guessing that there's a revenue stream in there somewhere.
What are Waves? While there's no simple answer, it's a combination of instant messaging and email with differences. The following are some I noted from the conference demo.
The idea is that they can be scattered around web pages around the web waiting for people to join in and make comments.
The messaging defaults to showing every character typed in real time, which is new, but will also place heavier loads on servers, perhaps a factor for self hosting.
The email will
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Wow! Back in the office after 3 days at CeBIT in Sydney! The first day spent on the floor surveying the offerings (and the competition). Then attending the Web Forward sessions which was keynoted by Google, who were never too far from peoples minds.
It's easy to get complacent while listening to the large organisations that shared some of their secrets. Our focus, however, is on how small to medium-sized businesses can take advantage of this technology. The main themes: mobile presence, SEO-ing sites and usability.
Especially for retailers, the location-aware capabilities of the iPhone and other mobiles are being utilised to attract customers already away from home. This often takes the form of special pages for mobile, and participating in directories where for mobile, google is not the only viable engine.
Being friends with Google, and hopefully great friends, means that all our sites are "crawled" by "spiders" from time to time. The spiders can be assisted
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Just a quick hello from the new guy at KayWeb. My name is Mark Simon and I've got a background in Web 2.0 applications. I will be fulfilling the business analyst role KayWeb.
I'm in near the deep end at the moment and what is apparent right away is the amount of work that's been done here at KayWeb and how clean the designs, code and interfaces are.
I look forward to meeting readers as the opportunity presents, hopefully in the near future.
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When searching content using keywords, I have noticed some programmers still use the "LIKE %keyphrase%" technique.
This is not the best way to go about it since the user will achieve optimal results by limiting the words in his/her keyphrase to one. Additionally, if multiple words are submitted, the results returned are relevant only to the keyphrase as a whole rather than to the words within the phrase itself, thus the user is returned less results, if any at all... not to say the results would not be ordered by relevance.
The solution for this is to employ Boolean Full-Text Searches.
MySQL can perform boolean full-text searches using the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier:
SELECT * FROM articles WHERE MATCH (title,body) AGAINST ('+MySQL -YourSQL' IN BOOLEAN MODE);
+----+-----------------------+-------------------------------------+
| id | title | body
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All entries by KAYWEB Staff
June 3, 2009
Google Wave a kick in Microsoft backsideDid Microsoft abuse its position of power so badly many people are still motivated by the experience? The way in which Google is releasing Wave almost makes me think so. Unlike Microsoft, they've made it open-source and made it clear that anyone will be welcome to run it, even on their own servers and change it however they like. Perhaps making money for Google is no longer their top priority, but here's guessing that there's a revenue stream in there somewhere. What are Waves? While there's no simple answer, it's a combination of instant messaging and email with differences. The following are some I noted from the conference demo. The idea is that they can be scattered around web pages around the web waiting for people to join in and make comments. The messaging defaults to showing every character typed in real time, which is new, but will also place heavier loads on servers, perhaps a factor for self hosting. The email will
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May 15, 2009
CeBIT - another way KayWeb ups our skillsWow! Back in the office after 3 days at CeBIT in Sydney! The first day spent on the floor surveying the offerings (and the competition). Then attending the Web Forward sessions which was keynoted by Google, who were never too far from peoples minds. It's easy to get complacent while listening to the large organisations that shared some of their secrets. Our focus, however, is on how small to medium-sized businesses can take advantage of this technology. The main themes: mobile presence, SEO-ing sites and usability. Especially for retailers, the location-aware capabilities of the iPhone and other mobiles are being utilised to attract customers already away from home. This often takes the form of special pages for mobile, and participating in directories where for mobile, google is not the only viable engine. Being friends with Google, and hopefully great friends, means that all our sites are "crawled" by "spiders" from time to time. The spiders can be assisted
Read more
April 27, 2009
Quick hello from the new guyJust a quick hello from the new guy at KayWeb. My name is Mark Simon and I've got a background in Web 2.0 applications. I will be fulfilling the business analyst role KayWeb. I'm in near the deep end at the moment and what is apparent right away is the amount of work that's been done here at KayWeb and how clean the designs, code and interfaces are. I look forward to meeting readers as the opportunity presents, hopefully in the near future.
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July 21, 2008
MySQL database searching with relevanceWhen searching content using keywords, I have noticed some programmers still use the "LIKE %keyphrase%" technique. This is not the best way to go about it since the user will achieve optimal results by limiting the words in his/her keyphrase to one. Additionally, if multiple words are submitted, the results returned are relevant only to the keyphrase as a whole rather than to the words within the phrase itself, thus the user is returned less results, if any at all... not to say the results would not be ordered by relevance. The solution for this is to employ Boolean Full-Text Searches. MySQL can perform boolean full-text searches using the IN BOOLEAN MODE modifier: SELECT * FROM articles WHERE MATCH (title,body) AGAINST ('+MySQL -YourSQL' IN BOOLEAN MODE); +----+-----------------------+-------------------------------------+ | id | title | body
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