See my bookmarks

I blogged earlier about del.icio.us (here) but I never realized how cool it was.
Not only are all my bookmarks sync via foxylicious, but all the readers
of my blogs can also see my bookmarks.

http://del.icio.us/idvorkin

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Hello + Photo Blogs

I'm not usually blown away by software, but today I was. Hello by picaso allows you to post pictures on your blogspot blogging account. No muss no fuss, everything works just as you'd expect it. That is seriously cool technology. I highly recommend it. My first photoblog entry can be seen here.

As for picasa, the other product by the same company, that almost cost me my relationship, but that's a story for my personal blog. My personal blog also contains results of me playing with picasa.

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Cashing in on Ebay

I started using ebay a few weeks ago and suspected people buy things from factory outlets and then sell them on ebay for a tidy profit. Today I watched this happen.

An ebay seller was auctioning a factory seconds item which I'm assuming he bought from dui-online.com for 50$. This seller started this auction with an opening bid of 60$ + 10$ shipping. I watched today as the auction closed for ~ 150$

After watching the auction close, I went to dui-online.com and purchased a similar item for 50$. Thanks to the way DUI distribution works, there are no shipping charges.

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Torrents and privacy

Bit Torrent seems to be the new way to distribute large files. It's currently used for media and large distributions. It's quite handy. I use azureus.
Now the thing I don't understand is why aren't all torrents protected via SSL?

Sure everyone in the swarm will know what is being transfered in your swarm but the key is that if someone isn't in your swarm, they won't know what you're looking at.

This is very useful when there are zillions of swarms. The only way to know what a swarm is d/l ing is to join every swarm.

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BookMark Sync - delicious and FoxyLicious

As you know - I use firefox. I now found a bookmark sync tool:
http://del.ico.us - a site for sharing your bookmarks
FoxyLicious - a plugin for firefox to interface with foxylicious.

Rants:

Interestingly I was originally thinking I need an RCS system for my bookmarks but then I realized, I really only add bookmarks, and I'm always online when I'm adding them, so really I only need one copy.

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Find your self

If you live in the state you can get an arial photo of your house. This is old technology but sure is cool. You can use webservices to integrate into your own application.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

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uml editor

I found a very cool UML editor.

It's written in java, and based off of argouml ( an OpenSource project)

Poseidon for UML
Community edition is free!

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