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Remember MainSoft? They were the Win32-on-UNIX company that Microsoft didn't shoot down (unlike Bristol).
Anyhow... Matt Raible reports that MainSoft has a compiler that transforms Dot-Net apps to J2EE apps. According to the marketing materials, MainSoft's product Visual MainWin for J2EE supports Weblogic, Tomcat, and Websphere. Assuming that they support operating systems other than Windows, this is a pretty amazing engineering accomplishment. They must have both a compiler that converts MSIL bytecode into JVM bytecode and what's more, a complete compatibility layer that translates ADO.Net calls into JDBC calls, ASP.Net calls into Servlet API calls, and etc. That's amazing and a hell of a lot of work, but it is not clear to me that anybody will buy it. Win32-on-UNIX was an amazing feat too, but it did not exactly take the software development world by storm.
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12:12PM Feb 18, 2004
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12:48PM Feb 10, 2004
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05:18PM Feb 09, 2004
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04:04PM Feb 06, 2004
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A new type of web site is becoming popular in the weblogging world: the Community Aggregator. A Community Aggregator is a portal-like web application that displays weblog posts from a group of closely related but separately hosted weblogs and provides synthetic newsfeeds so that readers may subscribe to the group as a whole.
I'm not sure where this concept originated. The first such site that I recall is Javablogs, but others have suggested that Blawgistan was one of the the first and that O'Reilly had a community aggregator in 2000. I'm not sure when weblogs.oreilly.com came online. O'Reilly's Meerkat came online in 2000, but it does not really fit my definition of a community aggregator.
Portal like experience for web browsers. Web browsing visitors who visit a Community Aggregator experience a portal-like web site centered around the display of the most general of the synthesized newsfeeds.
Other information included on the portal page might include list of links to the weblogs included in the aggregator and display of other newsfeeds of interested to the community. For example, an open source software project might display the newsfeed from the project's bug tracking system and the newsfeed from the project's build system on the sidebar of the portal page.
Synthesized feeds for newsreaders. Synthesized newsfeeds are intended for users of newsreader software such as FeedDemon, NewNewsWire, or SharpReader. The synthesized feeds allow you to subscribe to the community as a whole instead of picking out specific individual weblogs.
The owners of an aggregation site might set some rules to limit which weblogs are included in the synthesized newsfeeds and what type of weblog entries are included in the feed. For example, community aggregation site javablogs.com allows anybody to sign up to be included on the site and asks only that included weblogs be primarily about Java. O'Reilly Weblogs includes only O'Reilly authors. The Planet Apache community aggregator allows only weblogs belonging to members of the Apache Software Foundation.
Features useful in a Community Aggregator:
Dave Johnson in Blogging
04:18AM Feb 01, 2004
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Orkut is a new brand of web-based social software, similar to Friendster and LinkedIn. Here's how it works. You enter personal information about yourself, build a network of friends, forget about the whole thing for a couple of months until some other service is introduced, rinse and repeat.
Everybody seems to be blogging about Orkut these days and presenting lots of viewpoints, but two of today's posts were interesting studies in contrast - at least for me. You have the idealistic view and the realistic view. I'm an idealistic realist, so I find lots to agree with in both posts. I agree with Danah about fans vs. friends. Being a fan of somebody is less of a relationship than being a friend. Fans observe, follow (and in the worse case, stalk) from afar. If you notice that somebody is a fan of yours, you might be inspired to get to know them and perhaps become friends.
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12:32PM Jan 30, 2004
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06:58PM Jan 29, 2004
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05:41PM Jan 28, 2004
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