Archive for September, 2005
Starry Starry Night
Sunday, September 11th, 2005Albuquerque
又见高原辽阔的星空……
Project Backpack
Sunday, September 11th, 2005A new approach to web applications
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Jesse Garrett wrote on his daptive path:
Take a look at Google Suggest. Watch the way the suggested terms update as you type, almost instantly. Now look at Google Maps. Zoom in. Use your cursor to grab the map and scroll around a bit. Again, everything happens almost instantly, with no waiting for pages to reload.
Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web.
What makes a signal reliable?
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005You remembered what Judith said:
The simple answer is that a reliable signal is one that is beneficial to produce truthfully, yet prohibitively costly to produce falsely. Understanding the types of signals and systems that satisfy this condition is the basis of signaling theory.
Baby Blue
Monday, September 5th, 2005
Reading In the Net, with Wifi, Dylan, and baby blue.
“The continued growth and influence of global civil society face two fundamental problems: increasing monopolization of global information and communication by transnational corporations; and the increasing disparities between the world’s info-rich and info-poor populations. Global computer networking makes an electric “end-run” around the first problem and provides an appropriate technological solution to overcome the second.”
– Howard Frederick: Computer Networks and the Emergence of the Global Civil Society.