Iterasi is an online bookmark service soon to be launched. The twist is that instead of only storing a link to the page you bookmark, it stores the whole page as it is. This means is that it’s possible to open up a bookmarked page and see it exactly how it was at the moment it was bookmarked. Not only how it looked like, a screenshot would’ve been sufficient for that, but it saves all the HTML, images, JavaScripts, stylesheets and so on so that it can be used like when it was saved. It’s a bit like a web page time machine. They’ve got a video of their DEMO presentation on the front page of their website so you can see it in action. Since I can’t use the service yet and in case they remove it from their site: the video can also be seen here.

For those who need this “serializing” pages feature it looks like a great tool. When they go live I will do a more in depth review. Until then I’ll continue working on my own bookmark engine but more on that later.

I don’t mind internet ads, not at all actually as long as they don’t slow down a page too much. Non-hobby websites must be profitable to earn their existence and I don’t mind seeing ads on the sites I choose to visit. I’ve even clicked a few. Ads are not there because someone wants to pay to ruin my web experience but because someone has something they think it’s worth spending money telling me about. So they can make money of course. So I think of ads as funding the sites I like to visit and without them some sites would simply not exist. I’ve even found some nice, cool and interesting things by clicking on ads that had a message that appealed to me.

The next big thing in internet advertising according to this sales letter is audio ads. Reading that got me thinking about how it would be if that became common.

I listen to music when I’m in front of my computer, almost all the time. Either using speakers or headphones and I dread the day when the web becomes full of noise that interfere with what I actually want to listen to. There are already video ads with audio but fortunately the ones that starts playing sound without user interaction are few so far.

For a site owner though these kind of audio ads have a couple of benefits(given it doesn’t scare the visitors away). They are invisible, hence don’t take up any space and ruin the looks of a page and they bring additional income.

With visible ads it’s measurable how many times an ad has been displayed or how many times a link has been clicked. With sound, there is no way of measuring if someone as actually heard it. This is something they have already taken into account. They expect 20% of the played ads to actually be heard by someone. I think that sounds like a reasonable number, until it becomes common knowledge how to avoid the audio for those ads to ever reach the eardrums!

What happens is that I come up with a topic that I just have to write about, an opinion or something else that I find interesting. Then I start writing a post but after a while I go back and read what I just wrote and start analyzing it. Is it good? How will that be interpreted? Is it correct? And so on. In the end I end up(see two “ends”, that looks weird) with a text that is full of comments about the text itself and fragments of half finished sentences that I’m happy with scattered all over the place and doesn’t work as a whole. After a while I feel like it’s taken way too much valuable time and gives it a rest for later. I haven’t gone back to finish one such post.

I used to be a good story writer when I was a kid, good imagination and all that. I’m also able to keep a conversation going and I can code(not relevant but anyway). So what is the problem? Possibly it’s because I feel that I can’t release anything that is not good enough. But the only judge of that if I don’t publish is me, and since I’m not a good blogger how can that count for anything?

So, here I am writing about writing. Something I promised myself not to do because I think it’s lame to fill blogs with topics like “ah I don’t know what to write” and that becomes a post about that there’s nothing to write, if you know what I mean. What happened was that I was writing another post and ended up editing back and forth just like I described and just had to stop and think about it for a minute. While thinking about it I wrote this. The good thing is, I didn’t go back and edit this(ok a little). See this post as personal exercise(for me) and in no less than in two minutes after I put this dot here. <- yes that one! …this post will go live!

Connectile Dysfunction - The inability to get a connection. Most commonly experienced when using a cell phone, but can refer to laptops with Wi-Fi cards, etc. If it persists for more than four hours, please contact your doctor. He can’t help your connectile dysfunction, but can give you something to ease your frustration.

Found on BuzzWack

After reading Paul’s post I had a look in my bag and here’s what I found:

• Asus Eee
• Umbrella
• Multicard reader
• Nintendo DS
• Glasses
• IPod Nano
• Camera + charger
• 4 GB USB memory
• Magazines
• Notebook
• Pencil

(Chargers and various cables excluded)

I used to carry around a 13″ Vaio in a bag that was just big enough to fit the laptop and not much else. It worked well but sometimes I need to carry more stuff so I bought a bigger bag. Shortly after that I got myself an Eee and that’s what I carry daily now because it’s only for taking notes and reading on the train to work. With a bigger bag and a smaller laptop there is plenty of room for other useful and not so useful things. Actually, when I looked in my bag now I had stuff in there that I had forgotten about.

This was a good exercise because it made me realize I don’t need to carry all that stuff everyday.

Blamestorming – Debating with colleagues why a deadline was missed and who was responsible.

via Metro

Since I wrote this yesterday I’ve learned that the means for doing exists and is spelled XMPP. I first heard of Jabber years ago but didn’t start using it because none of my friends did so there wasn’t much point. Now it feels like I’ve missed out on something really cool and interesting

Operation Catch-Up-On-XMPP starts now!

So far I’ve read skimmed the specs for the extensions Publish-Subscribe and Personal Eventing via Pubsub and they seem very promising to what I want to do.

It’s funny, yesterday I was thinking of why push techniques aren’t used to communicate between blogs. Then today I read this.
My idea was that blogs could have a list “friends” who are allowed to ping them when they have updated content. Just like blogs now ping weblogs.com for example, using XMP-RPC or REST. It would create small mini-Technoratis all over the blogosphere. So instead of a blog having only its own content it could also have a “buzzing in my network” page. What’s nice with the RWW article is that it reminded me of the Jabber protocol. That could be even more interesting to use in a one-to-many push call. So thinking a step further, why not use(extend?) the protocol to enable features similar to those in site-bound social networks like MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and Twitter. Like display online status, what I’m doing right now and so on.
Every blogger is master of his/her own blog, so there wouldn’t be any privacy issues, just only publish what you are comfortable with. There are millions of blogs, why not network them blog-to-blog?

Update: Through a comment on RWW I found out that this already exists someone is working on something similar.

Update2: The ISS thing seems more focused on messaging. That is not what I’m talking about here even though communication of course would happen through some kind of messages. Tell me if my idea isn’t clear or what you think of it if it is for that matter.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just have a list of upcoming events, and a display of how long time is left until they happen? That’s what I thought so I created a little thing that does just that. I call it Whenda.

In the spirit of release early, release often I put Whenda online as soon as I had the first feature ready so you won’t get overwhelmed by the current list of features. But don’t worry, there’s more to come!

I hope you find it useful!

Things are heating up for the MacWorld keynote, only hours left now. A Gizmodo piece on how Braun has influenced the design of Apple’s products got me thinking - What ever product it is that Mr Jobs will present, the only thing to be sure of, is that it’ll be in a shade of brown!