On the way to the work I heard today on radio a report about the first search engine enabling people search. This unic (at least it was stated so) service is called Spock. About 8 Mio. $ were invested in the development. The search critera can be a name of the person, his age or an e-mail. (more…)

KWICK! Community is one of the German social networks. The users are mostly teenagers from the south region of Germany. Compared to other social networks KWICK! has “only” 900 000 registered members and thus is in no way a concurrence to such large projects as studiVZ or lokalisten. My attention was attracted by a news posting at zweinull.cc that this is the first social network that decided to extend its service by using at mobile phones. (more…)

If I had to award a prize for the most cynical Mashup of the year, Los Angeles Time would be my favourite. On the Homicide Map these guys show the victims with their photos and the places in Los Angeles where the people were murdered. To make the thing more funny, they realized a filter (more…)

Tumblelogs (also known as tlogs, tiny logs etc.) is what I’m going to talk about today. As the wikipedia article states this term appeared two years ago on April 12th, 2005. Where I have been all the time I don’t know, but what a tumblelog is, I’ve got to know only today. (more…)

Had you a good or a bad day? Being a registered user of I Rate My Day you can rate your day. There are five different funny icons from Great! to Worst!. This Web 2.0 service offers a possibility to view own month rates on a graph and to view the rates of other users. There is a possibility to leave comments to the certain rates. Besides one can (more…)

The topic of this post is a special class of high level languages that execute dynamic programm code which is not known to a compile time. The key advantage of such languages is that a program and its parts written once can be later modified and no compilation is required! In which cases can this bahaviour be useful? (more…)