Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier - it's getting more interesting. Amazon wants to add persistent storage space to EC2 (again paid according to usage).
Archive 14. April 2008
CHDK in Brief - it begins. Hacks for Canon compact cameras. Sounds quite interesting, not just a toy. In my opinion, camera manufacturers should simply provide this from the outset, it is simply the next logical step. But they probably look too much at "product design" by arbitrarily removing features (as is often done with RAW storage)
Court: Display of Thumbnails in Search Engines Illegal - classic "Hmm" ruling. Meta-tags have long not been so important in search engine optimization and robots.txt should be known to every website creator as basic knowledge. How this all fits into reality is not entirely clear to me. I mean, what about my pages here - they don't have meta-tags. Can I now sue Google?
Latest Advance in Artificial Intelligence: Computer Wins a Game Against a Go Master - "During the Go Tournament in Paris, staged between 22 and 24 March 2008 by the French Go Federation (FFG), the MoGo artificial intelligence (IA) engine developed by INRIA - the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control - running on a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, won a 9x9 game of Go against professional 5th DAN Catalin Taranu. This was the first ever officially sanctioned 'non blitz' victory of a 'machine' over a Go Master."
SeasideXUL - an interesting project that directly generates XUL interfaces from Seaside (the Smalltalk web application server) and allows the creation of applications with native interfaces. Very interesting, as here a web server technology is used for local applications (and yes, this sounds damn similar to AIR, only with Smalltalk and XUL instead of JavaScript/ActionScript and HTML/Flash)