The Paul Allen Suit

" The patent’s best example of why the invention is necessary describes a webcam of a watering hole in Africa. “There would be many periods during which nothing of particular interest (e.g., no animals, etc.) would be happening at the watering hole.” Sometimes, though, there would be something awesome, like lions, and people would want to know. That’s where the invention comes in. It would tell you the animals are there (hopefully with a helpful alert like “Oh my God! Lions!”). "

Erbix CommonJS soft-coding engine

After the Helma powered AppJet has come and gone, say hello to the Ringo powered Erbix!

In the spirit of AppJet, Erbix is a serverjs app engine web IDE. Erbix allows you to write and deploy CommonJS modules in a sandboxed hosted soft-coding environment.

And get this: Erbix is itself an Erbix app! Now that's cool!

In principal, Erbix claims to follow a "no vendor lock-in" approach. Eventually, CommonJS may indeed become an eco-system that will deliver on that promise. If you want to dabble with the interoperability of running CommonJS inside and outside of Erbix, the way to come as close as possible of rolling your own self-hosted setup would be to take RingoJS for a Ride.

Nice comparison of Ringo and Node

http://nodejsbot.blogspot.com/2010/09/ringojs-and-nodejs.html

Faked web browsing

"Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction. The Fake Workflows you create can be saved, reopened, and shared. [...] "Developers can use Fake for graphically configuring automated tests for their webapps, including assertions, assertion failure handlers, and error handlers."

Angry World by Neil Young

>>> Anno 1987: Knowledge Navigator