http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/ 2010-09-09T21:26:46+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/ http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-03-26T09:46:10+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/a_big_spike_for_the_big_switch Tim O'Reilly 03.05.2008 We saw an amazing spike in the Bookscan sales data for Nicholas Carr's The Big Switch (a business book about the switch to utility or cloud computing) this past week. We were curious about this huge jump. We see some recent activity in the blogosphere, but nothing jumps out at us as driving this spike. Perhaps there was a publisher promotion? But if anyone knows of recent internet activity that could have driven a spike of this magnitude, we'd love to learn about it.… text/html 2008-03-29T17:54:40+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/amazon_gets_demanding_with_print-on-demand_publishers Andrew Savikas 03.28.2008 We often hold up Amazon as an example of one of the original Web 2.0 companies. Their survival amid the tech meltdown was driven largely by the value of the data they'd acquired through thousands of reader reviews, recommendations, and “people who bought this bought that” collaborative filtering. Amazon was a system that grew more valuable with more users: a network-effect-driven data lock-in. text/html 2008-03-28T11:59:50+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/amazon_improves_ec2_by_embracing_failure Jesse Robbins 03.27.2008 Amazon刚刚宣布了EC2的两项重大改进: "•多重地点 Amazon EC2现在提供把instance放到多个地点的能力。Amazon EC2 地点是由区域和可用区构成的。区域地理上分散在隔离的地区或国家。目前Amazon EC2只开放了一个区域。可用区是独立的场所，它能够隔离其它可用区的故障并且具有与同一区域内其它可用区的经济的、快速的网络连接。区域由一个或多个可用区组成。通过在多个不同的可用区发布instance你可以防止你的应用在一个单独地点的故障。 •弹性IP地址 弹性IP地址是为动态云计算设计的静态IP地址。一个弹性IP地址和你的帐号绑定，而不是绑到某一个instance上，直到你明确地发布它你都可以控制着。和传统静态IP地址不同通过弹性IP地址你可以在故障发生时把你的公开IP地址指到其它instance上，把故障可用区和里面的instance屏蔽掉。而无需等待工程师重新配置你的主机以及DNS数据。Amazon　EC2让你能够通过迅速把弹性地址指向备用instance从而绕过出现故障的instanc… text/html 2008-03-26T09:42:07+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/announcing_web2open_2008 Sarah Milstein 03.20.2008 Great news: On April 23 and 24, Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco will host Web2Open, an unconference that anyone can participate in. To promote connections among attendees and complement the Expo sessions, this year's Open emphasizes discussion sessions over presentations. That means your participation is really key, whether you share your successes, your challenges or your questions. text/html 2008-04-01T07:42:22+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/baseball_simulations Brady Forrest 03.31.2008 How likely are the world records we hold dear? Should they have happened? Should they been set by the people who did them? There's an New York Times Opinion piece written by some researchers who examined Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak to determine how likely it was to happen again. Turns out it's very likely. text/html 2008-03-26T09:41:55+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/dan_roam_s_the_back_of_the_napkin Jimmy Guterman 03.21.2008 I can't draw. Really. I'm a competent interaction designer, but my graphic design skills are those of a plankton. I can't draw on the right side or the left side of my brain. Yet, like everyone else in business and technology, I need to communicate. As so many studies -- and common sense -- show, we make decisions better (or, at least, faster) when there are pictures involved. I've written awkward stick figures and embarrassingly asymmetric circles on whiteboards and… text/html 2008-03-26T09:42:34+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/disks_have_become_tapes Nat Torkington 03.20.2008 Via Michal Migurski's delicious feed, I found Disks Have Become Tapes, a fascinating set of observations about why MapReduce is so successful. In short (as observed by Doug Cutting at OSCON last year), MapReduce hits the sweet spot by operating at the transfer rate of disks (growing at 20%/year) rather than seek rate (growing at 5%/year) as relational databases do. It also mentions the growing field of column databases, which we're watching at Radar (e.g., Michael Sto… text/html 2008-03-29T19:02:10+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/etech_video_coverage Brady Forrest 03.29.2008 At ETech 2008 Pablos Holman hacked my iPhone voice-mail and changed my greeting during a session. During that same session (Hackers Built my Motorcycle) he demonstrated how insecure RFID-enabled credit cards can be. Xeni filmed a short segment with him afterwards. text/html 2008-03-28T10:45:39+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/everybody_gets_the_iphone_interface Marc Hedlund 03.27.2008 I noticed two new web applications doing something interesting: serving their iPhone interface to everyone. Muxtape uses an iPhone-style interface for its playlists, which works great on an iPhone but for the fact that the MP3s don't play (at least, for me -- doesn't the iPod app load MP3s from MobileSafari? I guess not). Instapaper takes this further, and makes a web interface that you wouldn't know works great on an iPhone unless you happened to try it. (Their FAQ eve… text/html 2008-03-26T09:44:58+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/fabulous_eulogy_for_gary_gygax Tim O'Reilly 03.10.2008 Writing in yesterday's New York Times, Wired senior editor Adam Rogers contributed a wonderful meditation on the recent death of Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons, in which he argues that Gygax's contribution to modern culture is far more profound than most people realize: text/html 2008-09-09T10:36:40+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/getting_the_iphone_open_source_tool_chain_up_and_running Tim O'Reilly 04.02.2008 Tomorrow at 10 am pacific time, oreilly.com is hosting a free webcast with Jonathan A. Zdziarski, one of the original hackers of the iPhone and author of iPhone Open Application Development. From the announcement: "Jonathan will demonstrate how you can use the iPhone open source tool chain to design third-party software that will run on on both today's iPhones, and on iPhones that will soon be running Apple's next version of firmware based on the official SDK. Jonath… text/html 2008-04-01T14:48:35+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/good_devices_gone_bad Dale Dougherty 03.31.2008 我姐姐Doreen不是一个经常对新技术感兴趣的人，可她还是买了一个Kindle，一月份买的，三月份退回去了。 "我的Kindle是个破玩艺儿。我很喜欢这东西里面还放了15本书。结果屏幕死了只好重启，做了出厂初始化也不行。最后只能通过背面的重启键打开。UPS今天又给我送来一个新的，这是个好消息……他们置换了很多这样的机器。我仍然认为它很不错尽管我买了个“第一代残货”。"… text/html 2008-03-26T14:33:14+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/goodbye_new_york_times Jimmy Guterman 03.24.2008 I love The New York Times. I've read it almost every day of my life since I was in high school. For all its recent flaws -- the weirdo profiles of the major presidential candidates are the most high-profile -- it is still full of the most outstanding reporting. And, on the days that Gail Collins files, it offers up the most penetrating and entertaining opinion. text/html 2008-03-26T09:47:20+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/hand_of_google_google%E4%B9%8B%E6%89%8B Dale Dougherty 01.18.2008 While looking at a library book scanned by Google, I found this image, the hand behind the scanner revealed. 我在看一本Googe扫描的图书馆藏书时看到了这个图片，手都露出来了。 text/html 2008-03-26T09:41:35+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/hazards_of_wifi Dale Dougherty 03.21.2008 Our town, Sebastopol, had passed a resolution in November to permit a local Internet provider to provide public wireless access. This week, fourteen people showed up at a City Council meeting to make the claim that wireless caused health problems in general and to them specifically. These emotional pleas made the Council rescind its previous resolution. text/html 2008-03-26T09:43:55+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/i_make..._maker_faire_bay_area_may_3-4 Dale Dougherty 03.15.2008 If you wonder what Maker Faire is all about, check out this video, created by eric michael berg, a video intern working with us out of New York. He came to Maker Faire Austin and put together this simple but snappy video called “I Make...”. It's all about the makers. text/html 2008-04-02T17:13:14+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/ignite_web_2.0_expo_sf_submit_your_talk Brady Forrest 04.2.2008 Array At the Web 2.0 Expo we're going to have an Ignite Event on Tuesday, April 22nd. We're also going to use voting to select Ignite talks for the Main Stage. It is patterned after Ignite Seattle! Submit a talk. Specifically, we are going to have about 16 Ignite talks. These talks will each be 5 minutes long with 20 slides and only 15 seconds a slide. Anyone who is attending Expo or Web2Open is welcome to speak. text/html 2008-03-26T09:46:47+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/interview_with_linus_torvalds Allison Randal 02.04.2008 The second half of the Linux Foundation interview with Linus Torvalds went up today. Several interesting perspectives on patents, competition, innovation, community building, target markets, and the future of Linux. If you're looking for hope that Linux will focus more on the desktop market, look no further: text/html 2008-03-26T09:43:41+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/jill_bolte_taylor_s_amazing_ted_talk Jimmy Guterman 03.16.2008 At least three of this year's TED talks were flat-out amazing: Tod Machover's, Benjamin Zander's, and Jill Bolte Taylor's. The first of them has just been posted: Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard neuroanatomist, eavesdropped on her own stroke. As I wrote the day of her talk, she walked us through what she felt and thought while her brain was going wild, from the borderline-metaphysical (“I can't define where I begin and where I end”) to the borderline-hilarious (“I'm a … text/html 2008-03-26T09:48:41+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/learning_from_financial_markets_moneytech_part_one_%E5%90%91%E9%87%91%E8%9E%8D%E5%B8%82%E5%9C%BA%E5%AD%A6%E4%B9%A0_moneytech_%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E9%83%A8%E5%88%86 Tim O'Reilly 12.17.2007 I mentioned the Release 2.0 issue on Web 2.0 and Wall Street in my post about Warren Buffett yesterday. I thought I'd take up that theme a bit further, and explore some of the big ideas that fall out of the realization that Web 2.0 and Wall Street are both networked information markets. text/html 2008-03-26T09:47:58+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/linux_and_gplv3_linux%E4%B8%8Egplv3 Allison Randal 01.09.2008 The Linux Foundation published a podcast interview with Linus Torvalds this week, the first in a new series. The interview covers a broad range of topics related to Linux, but towards the end spotlights the subject of licensing. As I suspected, 6 months after the release of GPLv3, Linux shows no signs of adopting the new version of the popular license. The quote that hit Slashdot was, “at this point in time, Version 2 matches what I think we want to do much, much bett… text/html 2008-03-26T09:41:24+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/mysql_user_conference_registration_up_32 Tim O'Reilly 03.22.2008 I was interested to note that as of this morning, attendee registration numbers for the MySQL User Conference (which O'Reilly co-produces with MySQL) are up 32% over the same period last year. This seems to be a good sign that the community is energized by MySQL's acquisition by Sun. text/html 2008-03-26T09:45:39+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/neuroscience_and_epistemology_at_etech Tim O'Reilly 03.07.2008 At ETech, I had a fascinating conversation with Marie Bjerede, VP and General Manager of Qualcomm's Portland Design Center. She was telling me how the threads we'd brought together at ETech had validated her own thinking and helped her bring together her private passions and her professional life. I asked her to write up our conversation, and she agreed. Here's what Marie wrote (links are mine): text/html 2008-03-29T14:54:04+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/new_o_reilly_radar_report_a_business_guide_to_virtual_worlds Jimmy Guterman 03.05.2008 Virtual worlds, particularly Second Life, have generated much excitement -- and much skepticism. In Virtual Worlds: A Business Guide, the newest O'Reilly Radar report, Ben Lorica, Roger Magoulas, and the O'Reilly Radar team get past the hype (and the anti-hype), detail what is happening in Second Life and other virtual worlds, and lay out what businesses need to do to succeed in these worlds, now and in the future. It examines business opportunities, evaluates what ha… text/html 2008-03-29T14:45:37+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/olpc_and_the_kindle_olpc%E5%92%8Ckindle Mike Hendrickson 12.21.2007 翻译：Douglas 当我一看到One Laptop Per Child时就鼓捣了一下子。在坐火车回家的一个小时中我发现这个小设备（OLPC）的确不同凡响。给我印象深刻是它是一个真正的计算机，带一个比Amazon Kindle的屏幕稍大一点的显示器。我不认为这两个设备会在市场上竞争，但它们却有一些相似的地方。都定价399美元，但OLPC以这个价格买到两个设备——一个给世界上其他地方的一个年轻人物尽其用；另一个给你来帮助为它开发更多的应用。… text/html 2008-03-26T09:47:49+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/one_laptop_per_child_will_succeed_even_if_it_fails_olpc%E8%99%BD%E8%B4%A5%E7%8A%B9%E8%8D%A3 Jimmy Guterman 01.12.2008 The way people are dismissing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project this week reminds me of how people were treating Hillary Clinton during the five days between her Iowa defeat and her New Hampshire comeback. To many observers, the inevitable has become the disaster in record time. text/html 2008-03-27T15:08:41+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/open_source_social_app_server_might_crack_garden_walls Jim Stogdill 03.25.2008 From right here in Philly's backyard, Ringside Networks came out of stealth mode yesterday to launch the first open source “social application server.” And what is that exactly? It's the software guts of a social network that you can use behind your own firewall, old school style, to build social networking “stuff” into your own site. text/html 2008-03-26T09:43:05+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/penguin_s_missed_ebook_opportunity Jimmy Guterman 03.18.2008 I've seen several softball pieces (such as this one) praising Penguin's decision to release, on Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader, some classics of English literature, starting with Jane Austen, with certain extras, in multiple ebook formats. Austen's Pride and Prejudice, for example, “will come with recipes from the era, copies of the book's first reviews, and a primer on social etiquette circa 1813.” Another source adds “rules of period dancing, and illustrations of… text/html 2008-03-26T09:48:10+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/predicting_financial_market_performance_with_real_time_web_data_%E7%94%A8%E5%AE%9E%E6%97%B6web%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E6%9D%A5%E9%A2%84%E6%B5%8B%E9%87%91%E8%9E%8D%E5%B8%82%E5%9C%BA%E4%B8%9A%E7%BB%A9 Tim O'Reilly 01.02.2008 翻译:司亮,ppip 几天前我谈到了从华尔街的经验借鉴到Google以及其他Web 2.0巨人将会逐渐地开始“为自己交易”。同样是华尔街的历史也告诉我们对于那些专有信息持有者很多新的机会将会出现，这些专有信息提供了很多搜索引擎本身不能提供的服务。 text/html 2008-03-26T09:46:56+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/radar_and_o_reilly_icons_for_your_iphone_iphone%E4%B8%8Aradar%E5%92%8Co_reilly%E5%9B%BE%E6%A0%87 Brady Forrest 01.23.2008 If you have an iPhone and you want to save Radar or O'Reilly to your home screen, we now have specific icons for you. We were inspired by Joel's work over on BoingBoing. To make your own I suggest you follow Kevin's advice. text/html 2008-03-26T09:43:31+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/radar_roundup_brains Nat Torkington 03.17.2008 Today's topic is: our brains, understanding how they work, and living with the consequences of that knowledge. *Brain Enhancement: Right or Wrong? (NYT): amazing gray areas we're getting into. Is it okay for a scientist to take brain-enhancing drugs? Compare with Wired News's write-up of Quinn Norton's ETech talk on the subject of how new bio technology will make us confront difficult questions around what it means to be human. text/html 2008-03-26T09:44:45+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/radar_roundup_ui Nat Torkington 03.11.2008 * Microsoft's Lucid Touch (DanceWithShadows): a semi-transparent device that you interact with by touching the back of the screen. A clever prototype from Microsoft Research, demoed at the recent TechFest. * Multitouch Rubiks Cube (The Future is Awesome): cube that displays the colours and you gesture to rotate. Cute. * NextWindow (ZDNet): nifty demo from a New Zealand vender of multitouch sensitive screens up to 100 inches in size. Also see the company site. … text/html 2008-04-02T14:57:47+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/radar_roundup_web Nat Torkington 03.31.2008 * Active URLs (Ned Batchelder): OmniTI have done something clever with their URLS—turned them into active verbs: their testimonials are at URLs like /helps/ning, their jobs page is at /is/hiring, etc. * What's This Fascination with Ad Networks (John Battelle): I had breakfast at ETech with jbat (who runs the Web 2.0 Summit) and got a braindump of his thinking around web-based advertising. His end-game is fantastic: brand marketing as a value-adding interactive ex… text/html 2008-04-01T10:58:04+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/review_board_is_good_software Marc Hedlund 03.31.2008 After having tried and failed to have useful code reviews at several different companies, and after feeling deep envy for Mondrian, Google's web-based code review tool, I'd been looking for some tool that would help make code reviews more painless. I think I've found what I was looking for in Review Board. text/html 2008-03-26T09:41:13+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/seeking_ideas_for_conference_speed_dating Sarah Milstein 03.23.2008 Last week, I came across conference speed dating. I immediately fell in love with the idea and wanted to try it at Web2Open. But I'm not sure how to set it up. Seeing as the Open is a community-based event, I'm hoping some of you will have stellar suggestions for making this work. text/html 2008-04-11T16:20:24+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/sharing_my_location_just_the_way_i_like_it Brady Forrest 03.31.2008 I've been waiting eagerly for FireEagle. It launched at ETech (video & Radar post). It's Yahoo's service for brokering locations. The app itself is very simple and clear; it's the way it should be because it can be used to make some very big mistakes. As I've written before: text/html 2008-03-26T09:44:06+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/shelly_farnham_on_what_makes_facebook_apps_work Tim O'Reilly 03.14.2008 As many of you know, last fall, we released a report entitled The Facebook Application Platform, with analysis that demonstrated that far from being a “long tail” marketplace, Facebook has very much of a "short head" when it comes to applications. text/html 2010-09-09T13:24:31+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/sidebar text/html 2008-03-26T09:43:19+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/simplicity Nat Torkington 03.18.2008 I got a chuckle out of this comic on app simplicity and usability. So true, so painfully painfully true. 看了这个关于应用的简单性和可用性的漫画我不禁会心一笑。确实如此。 UI text/html 2008-03-26T09:47:07+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/slow_down_and_read_make_%E6%85%A2%E4%B8%8B%E6%9D%A5_%E8%AF%BBmake Dale Dougherty 01.22.2008 The comic “Over the Hedge” featured Make in its January 21st strip. Thanks to Poncho Alarcon of Monterrey, Mexico who spotted the turtle named Verne reading Make. I'm working on a piece for the next issue of Make called “Slow Made,” which points out similar ideas in the Slow Food movement and the Maker movement. The idea is to explore ways to become a co-producer, not a consumer. Verne is said by his creators, Michael Fry and T Lewis, to be “a true renaissance-tur… text/html 2008-03-26T09:42:55+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/subscription_music_which_is_it Nat Torkington 03.19.2008 The question is: given Yahoo!'s decision that DRM subscription music doesn't work, why does Apple think they can make it work? The lifetime payment idea sounds a reasonable one: the iPod has a slightly higher cost but it comes with infinite downloads. Most important about that model is that it hides the payment to music companies; remember, by misinterpreting p2p (“the market wants convenient digital music” was interpreted as “some dorks are stealing our stuff!”) and … text/html 2008-03-26T09:47:29+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/sun_to_acquire_mysql_sun%E5%B0%86%E6%94%B6%E8%B4%ADmysql Tim O'Reilly 01.16.2008 Sun Microsystems announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire open source database leader MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. (Disclosure: I am on the board of directors of MySQL, and O'Reilly co-produces the MySQL User Conference with MySQL. In addition, O'Reilly produces the java.net community site for Sun.) text/html 2008-03-31T13:51:21+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/telling_stories_on_maps Brady Forrest 03.28.2008 Penguin books is working with 6 authors to tell 6 stories in 6 weeks. The first one, The 21 Steps, is told via embedded Google Maps. Wow. What a great method of delivering stories, especially this one that follows a man around town (inspired by the classic thriller The 39 Steps). text/html 2008-03-26T09:41:45+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/the_new_privacy Allison Randal 03.21.2008 There was a great session on Online Privacy on NPR's Science Friday today, including a guest spot by Emily Vander Veer, the author of O'Reilly's Facebook: The Missing Manual. You can subscribe to the podcast or download today's episode directly. text/html 2008-03-26T09:40:51+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/to_be_free_information_has_to_be_smart_comments_on_chris_anderson_s_free Andy Oram 03.24.2008 WIRED Magazine's editor in chief Chris Anderson, following up on the popularity of his Long Tail meme, theorizes in the March 2008 issue of WIRED about the modern tendency to put information online at no cost. I'll start this blog with the implications of offering free information in the computer field, and build from there to what I agree and disagree with in Anderson's article. text/html 2008-03-26T09:48:21+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/trading_for_their_own_account_%E4%B8%BA%E8%87%AA%E5%B7%B1%E5%81%9A%E4%BA%8B Tim O'Reilly 12.28.2007 翻译：sniffer 我最近讲要写一些研究parallels between Web 2.0 and financial markets(Web 2.0和金融市场的并行性)的心得,一个体会就是华尔街公司从以往作委托人的代理开始现在主动给自己做工作了。自从我听到Bill Janeway讲到这一点以来,华尔街公司开始针对它的客户展开工作。像Goldman Sachs那样的直接投资活动无疑削弱了它应该代表其客户所做的一切。我在想Google、Yahoo和Amazon何尝又不是如此?… text/html 2008-03-26T09:42:44+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/trendalyzer_view_of_the_banking_crisis Jesse Robbins 03.19.2008 The team at "And Still I Persist" have adapted Hans Rosling's "Trendalyzer" (see: Radar post) to visualize the current US banking crisis. "“We chart the total assets of the bank along the horizontal axis, the value of loans that go 90+ days late on the vertical, and the size of the circles represent the total loan portfolio for that bank.”“First lets look at the top 8 banks and their mortgages that are 90+ days late. Below is a flash charting system, feel free to us… text/html 2008-03-28T20:09:18+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/troll_whispering_at_web2open Sarah Milstein 03.27.2008 Earlier today, Teresa Nielsen Hayden posted the guidelines she uses for moderating the comments on BoingBoing. Of course, not everyone agrees with her take-no-prisoners approach, and her post has drawn some fire. But whether you're a fan (which I am, big time), there's no question that Teresa's advancing our collective understanding of online community dynamics. text/html 2008-03-26T09:42:19+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/wattzon.org_-_how_much_energy_we_consume_and_what_to_do_about_it Tim O'Reilly 03.20.2008 Saul Griffith has published a version of his talk at ETech as a website, wattzon.org. Saul's key points: Solving global warming is an engineering problem. We know the connection between greenhouse gases and global warming, and can determine just how much carbon we're allowed to put into the atmosphere to give us the temperature we can live with. The answer isn't pretty. He looks at it from both a personal point of view (how do I need to change my lifestyle to use only … text/html 2008-03-31T16:21:53+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/what_is_web_operations Jesse Robbins 03.29.2008 Theo Schlossnagle的文章出色地总结了一月份我们在Velocity Summit讨论的一些主要问题： "Velocity Summit是什么？是一些高负荷网站的架构师坐在一切讨论。依照Foo的形式展开。然而让我真正喜欢这个聚会的一个原因是那里没有那些自以为是的人。所有人坐在那里谈话而不是去向别人展示他懂得的有多么多。我们在那里讨论了O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference应该是什么样的？为什么？ 我从那里学到两件事：一是认识到我们这些人缺乏职业路线（没正经的职务名称，没正经的角色责任，当然人也就没有魅力），第二是这个行业缺乏技术名词来描述所要求的技术。确定名词容易，至少我认为是这样，经过争论最后就会有结果。当然我喜欢争论所以我有这样的偏见。然而确定一个可行的职业路线就困难了。 在这次活动中Web运营被多次使用。我其实不喜欢这个词。重要的是在这个领域里的领袖、超级明星和英雄都是一些多领域的专家。他们对网络、路由、交换、防火… text/html 2008-03-28T15:58:34+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/where_2.0_schedule_and_early_registration Brady Forrest 03.27.2008 Array The schedule for Where 2.0, our conference for the geo-enabled internet, has been posted; early registration for the conference is ending on Monday. The space (and the conference) has expanded in the past year. Here's what you can expect this year: text/html 2008-03-26T09:47:39+08:00 http://radar.oreilly.com.cn/blog/why_apple_might_not_be_able_to_get_away_with_it_anymore_%E4%B8%BA%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88apple%E5%8F%AF%E8%83%BD%E4%B8%8D%E4%BC%9A%E5%86%8D%E8%BF%99%E6%A0%B7%E6%88%90%E5%8A%9F%E4%B8%8B%E5%8E%BB%E4%BA%86 Jimmy Guterman 01.14.2008 Tomorrow Steve Jobs will deliver his usual Macworld Expo keynote. Rather than speculate on what he might say -- there's plenty of such chatter out there today, ranging from the well-informed to the hilariously speculative -- I'd like to concentrate on a new challenge that Apple never had to face before.