Archive for May 2008

Xlinks Digest – 31 / 05 / 2008

Xlinks is a digest of interesting links that have been found by the ProjectX staff.
How to pick up a VC – Guy Kawaski
Added on 05/31/2008 at 07:03PM
Google release Google Earth Plugin for Browser: 3 months ahead of when I predicted
Added on 05/31/2008 at 05:14PM
New iPhone rumoured to have GPS
Added on 05/31/2008 at 03:13PM
Prototip2 – Create [...]

The future of the mobile web is small webpages

Nat Torkington posted about this presentation by Cloudfour on their research of the mobile web – Going fast on the Mobile Web. It contains some fantastic insights of how iPhone is changing the way that people are using the mobile web.

It also outlines their research into how mobile browsers deal with compression and caching. And [...]

What happens if you have good broadband ?

Om Malik has just wrote a post about broadband usage in London. In London there are a numer of providers and they have quality services for WI-FI, Broadband and 3G. Here’s the full report from Ofcom .
In London:
* 40 percent of people watch TV or video content online.
* 20 percent make VoIP calls.
* 32 percent [...]

Speed up your javascript – run Prototype / JQuery from Google

Google has just released the AJAX Libraries API. Google has created an API that allows developers to access a number of popular javascript API from the Google Cloud.
You can use the Google AJAX Libraries API to reference:

Prototype
JQuery
MooTools
Scriptalous
Dojo

Why is this good idea ?

Its Fast – its hosted on the Google CDN.
The libraries have already been optomised [...]

Xlinks Digest – 27 / 05 / 2008

Here is a digest of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX staff.
This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix
Added on 05/27/2008 at 12:00PM
OMeta – Object oriented Language for pattern matching
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:57AM
Rolling with Rails 2.1 – part 2
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:55AM
Rolling with Rails 2.1 – part 1
Added on 05/27/2008 at 11:53AM
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