labs.oreilly.com/code/ or OSearchY.com?

After playing arround with the Code Search service of O’Reilly Labs I decided I liked it and might use it more often. But that URL is just too long too remember. I could have simply bookmarked the page but why do it the easy way?

I decided to come up with a nice domainname instead of a bookmark. The result:

O’Reilly + Search = OSearchY.com

I’m sure that you will remember that a lot better then labs.oreilly.com/code/.
(The site uses a hidden frame to hide the long and difficult to remember url)

Once again I think I have proved that all the good domainsnames are still available.

;-)

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Code Search - O’Reilly Labs

O’Reilly published a new Search Engine that searches through all the code examples from 700 O’Reilly books. The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code - all edited and ready to use.

I have been using similar services to look up PHP snippets. Usually I start at php.net and if I can’t find it there I copy paste some half baked code into Google and see what that leads to. Often I end up with a few different versions of what I need within seconds and pick the one I actually understand. MashDevelopment?

Anyway, I look forward to test Code Search and wonder if it will speed up things.

Internet Entrepreneur Power Tools

Hardware:

• Blackberry
• Powerbook
• Dymo Labelprinter 320
• 23 inch screen (one in office, one at home office)
• TUMI bag
• Sony DSC-T1
• Apple Magic Mouse (one in office, one at home)
• Bic ball pens (new box of 50 x M10 click, every two months, black only
• Notebook (black cover with no marks or illustration and non lined pages only)
• 4 poweradapters for Powerbook (1 in office, 1 in TUMI bag, 1 next to bed and 1 on desk at home office)

Software:

• Firefox
• mail
• iCal
• Addressbook
• Dreamweaver
• Imageready
• BBedit
• NetNewsWire Lite
• Safe Place (for Passwords)
• Groupcal (Sync iCal to Exchange and Blackberry)

Services:

• LinkedIn
• Plaxo
• Google (Search only)
• StatCounter
• Feedburner
• WordPress
• Technorati

New name won’t help!

Turns out that at about the same time that I deleted my OpenBC account they changed the name of the service from OpenBC to Xing. Nice, but it won’t chance a thing.

Their new tagline will be ‘Powering Relationships’…

In my previous post I think I explained a bit that just powering relationships isn’t going to be exciting enough in 2007. You will also have to sync addressbooks, provide music recommendations or do something else with your service because just connecting to a few hundred people isn’t enough.

The end of social networking

2007 will bring the end of social networking as we know it. It was fun while it lasted but it is over. Networking for the sake of networking is terrible and contra productive. Who really cares that you have 3000+ contacts? How does that benefit anybody?
The only social network I’m keeping is LinkedIn. And I’m not using it for its social networking aspect but for the way it lets me build a CV with recommendations of people I have worked with. Today I deleted my Orkut and OpenBC account and slimmed down my Preople and Hyves account.

I would have considered deleting my Hyves account but I know the founders and it feels a bit condescending to delete my account there. But even if I wanted to opt-out I can’t, they don’t offer a way to delete accounts.

So here is my bet: in 2007 most people will start feeling the same about Social Networking. The thrill of collecting new contacts will have faded. Most people that want to be connected will be connected and people will start concentrating on one Social Network that actually helps them in some way.

Some networks will disappear or morph into entertainment or game sites. Social Networking will be an interesting feature that will be integrated into certain services. Amazon might offer a tool to show you what books your connections are buying or iTunes will show you what your friends are listening too.

A good example of a social network that actually works is Plaxo. You are connected to all your contacts but not for the sake of being connected but for the sake of keeping their contact information up-to-date. I don’t care how many Plaxo contacts I have and I’m not collecting them either.

Selling your Web2.0 company on eBay: should I do it?

Preople.com is a project I started as a joke and which lots of people found extremely funny. You can enter your name and find out your Preople Rank. Your Preople rank tells you how famous you are on the web. I spend about three months working on it before I moved on to more interesting projects.

So far more than 1.000.000 people have searched for a name and gotten a rank back and 3000+ maintain a permanent personal profile + blog.

Last night I read a post on Techcrunch about people who sell their companies on eBay. Now I’m considering to do the same with Preople.

Is that a good idea? Is it a good way to find a new home for a service?
Does it look like you NEED to sell?
Is it pathetic or cool?
Looking forward to receive some feedback on this, or a good offer…

Marten Mickos for diner

Tonight I had Marten Mickos, the CEO of MySQL, as a guest for diner. He emailed me last week if I knew interesting people in the Netherlands who used MySQL who he could meet. I suggested a diner, in my house, with a group of people I thought would be be interesting for him to meet. Other guests were Guido van Nispen, Reinier Evers, Robert Gaal, Ammy Vogtländer, Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm, Kiara Coen and Mark Schiefelbein.

The menu was simple but good. We had melted cheese with vanille honey and thym as a starter. Then I served a plate of Risoto with one leaf of basilicum and some trufle essence and a few mushrooms. The main course was Rösti, ‘peultjes’ and ostrich meat.

Ostrich is the largest bird on earth. They can run 65 KM per hour but get tired pretty quickly. Their meat contains only 1% fat and very low cholesterol which makes it very healthy.

For desert we had several fruits in a special sauce (’anijs’ and rum) with sorbet icecream.

using my new Blackberry to blog

Before I left on vacation a few weeks ago I spend some time figuring out how to blog via email. It didn’t work out and I gave up after a few days.

During my vacation I blogged via the web interface of wordpress on my Blackberry. That worked but wasn’t as cool and fast as just sending a mail.

Today I spend another hour on it and decided to install Postie instead of the build in emailchecker. This seems to work!

The only problem I see right now is that single and multiple returns are translated to one BR which means I can’t create paragraphs as I normally do.