• AJAX exploit

  A how-to guide by the person that took down MySpace the other day. Bookmarked so I’ve got a point of reference for a variety of exploits, so’s I can avoid leaving the holes myself.

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• Bhutan worries about GNH rather than GDP – a general explantion of a different set of success criteria

  Again, not tech, although you might call it New Economics. Either way, Gross National Happiness sounds like a much better way of measuring national success to me.

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• Remix Culture

  This is a semi-regular hobby horse of mine, and here’s an interesting article on the idea that 90% of people’s use for culture is to remix it, and that fighting it (in the manner of the music and film industries) is bloody stupid.

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• Squirrels on crack!

  Nothing to do with technology, it just made me laugh…

• Chameleon: icon set

  Nice set of web-ready icons in various colours

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• Six Things you need to know about Bubble 2.0

  Web 2.0 is a near-meaningless term. Means whatever the listener thinks it means. But we’re clearly in the midst of a sea change in the way people use the Web, and El Reg has an article rounding up some of the major factors that are influencing it.

• Bubble 2.0

  Scott Rosenberg on the danger of another internet bubble generated by all this Web 2.0 hype.

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• Degradable Ajax

  Useful tutorial on one company’s approach to maknig sure that AJAX enabled sites degrade gracefully. I’m almost at the point of sacking off support for non XMLHttpRequest clients, but still, it bears thinking about.

• A piece about where to keep business logic

  I’ve got a fair amount of sympathy with this, since I’ve grown up doing webdev rather than appdev – I don’t like putting the business logic elements on the database, I’d rather keep them in the scripting languauge which is generally higher-level and much better suited to complex logic.

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Another social calendar.

Other useful links for today: Identity 2.0 – Keynote from OSCON.

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PHP streams – a few things I didn’t know about working with files in PHP.

5 mistakes band/label websites make – I think we’re slowly educating people away from them, but still, a handy reference for when I’m dealing with particularly stupid artists/managers.

Google blog search may balkanise the web. I don’t think it will, but it’s two topics I want to come back to at some point – balkanisation/taste-tribes and the value of blog-searching.

Web 2.0, from Abstracted Dynamics. A lengthy and well thought out piece on what this Web 2.0 business that everyone’s talking about actually is.

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