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My technology week in review ending 2009.11.20

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 14:21 — DavidSky

My summary of interesting URLs from last week, including stories related to:

And for those of you on Twitter, the stories relate to: @wavety @jeresig @jgemmell @yayQuery @maassp

Web tools and standards

Improvements in the web continue; some links related to the standards and tools that are defining the power and scope of the web:

Yahoo! Query Language - Yahoo Developer Network

The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services.

Delicious tags: javascript web programming SQL api json database web2.0 development data xml Mashup webservice Yahoo yql query

Idée Inc. - The Visual Search Company
Idée develops advanced image identification and visual search software including TinEye and PixID.

Delicious tags: Ontario-tech Toronto image photography visual search web

Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
A 6 minute highlight of where the Web might be in 5 years ( a factor of 10 in Moore's Law ) including the decline of English as the primary language, broadband media, real-time, and user-generated content going strong.

Delicious tags: Google Schmidt video web future technology socialmedia media internet trends

Google Groups is Dead | John Resig
Many reasons why John Resig has decided to stop using Google Groups for jQuery discussions - largely thanks to spam. A good rant and well through through

Delicious tags: jQuery web Google Google-groups forum
Associated Twitter users: @jeresig

Follow Button Launched in Google Wave | Wavety blog

The Google wave team have launched a new feature enabling users to follow and unfollow waves, in an attempt to declutter the inbox and give the user more choice in the waves in which they are part of.

Delicious tags: google-wave web google howto
Associated Twitter users: @wavety

Alone in Google Wave? Public search tutorial | Sky on Tech
Many people I've talked to were excited to finally get their Google Wave invitation, only to realize they were all alone in the latest document collaboration system. What good is collaboration if you have no one else to work with? Here's a quick hint to get you up and running and experimenting with Google Wave until your friends catch up: searching for public waves.

Delicious tags: google-wave Google Wave tutorial public search how-to web

Closure Tools - Google Code
The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient. The Closure tools include a JavaScript optimizer, broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library, and Closure Templates that are small components that you compose to form your user interface.

Delicious tags: javascript google programming library tools development webdev ajax optimization web

World Wide Web Foundation

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, the World Wide Web Foundation is an international, not-for-profit organization that leads transformative programs to advance the Web as a medium that empowers people to bring about positive change.

Delicious tags: web internet standards future www webstandards w3c foundation Berners-Lee

yayQuery Podcast episode 0
In this episode of yayQuery, the team introduces themselves. Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, Adam J. Sontag, and Alex Sexton each offer their insight on a variety of topics. Paul Irish continues his anti-pattern knowledge-giving that he started at jQuery Con '09 and then goes on to publicly show his support for the end of Thickbox's life. Mobile front-end development is discussed in some detail, however any information passed on is nullified by the dancing at the end of the video.

Delicious tags: web jQuery javascript podcast webdesign tech
Associated Twitter users: @yayQuery

Podcasts

The various podcasts I listened to this week

Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell discuss their book Total Recall | Tech Nation

Moira talks with Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell about what it means to digitally record everything in our lives. The authors of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything discuss how new technologies allow average people to record their entire lives.

Delicious tags: technation technology podcast memory book research Microsoft
Associated Twitter users: @jgemmell

yayQuery Podcast episode 0
In this episode of yayQuery, the team introduces themselves. Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, Adam J. Sontag, and Alex Sexton each offer their insight on a variety of topics. Paul Irish continues his anti-pattern knowledge-giving that he started at jQuery Con '09 and then goes on to publicly show his support for the end of Thickbox's life. Mobile front-end development is discussed in some detail, however any information passed on is nullified by the dancing at the end of the video.

Delicious tags: web jQuery javascript podcast webdesign tech
Associated Twitter users: @yayQuery

Crude Oil author Peter Maass | Tech Nation

Peter Maass speaks with Moira about his book "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil" on the global state of oil, and how technology plays a role.Oil is central to our world, but what role does it play in violent conflicts and the divide between rich and poor?

Delicious tags: technation technology podcast Maass oil environment global green sustainability crime book
Associated Twitter users: @maassp

TED talks

The TED talks I watched this week. They are all highly recommended
Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales | Video on TED.com
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views.

Delicious tags: ted video architecture green Ingels design sustainability China

Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds | Video on TED.com
Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples' thoughts -- and judges their actions.

Delicious tags: video ted Saxe brain cognitivescience mind cognitive mit psychology social research science philosophy moral