Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Today's New Cool Things

StumbleUpon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Discovered: Last night.
Saw in various places: All today.

What it does:
I like/hate url X, find me more like it and find me people like me.

Why it's cool:
This is Trust in the Semantic Web for the common user. Plus, it looks better than del.icio.us.


Koders
http://www.koders.com/

Discovered: Just then.

What it does:
Open source search engine. It crawls all sorts of projects to help you reuse code.

Why it's cool:
IBM did a whole big article on Community Source; talking a lot about modularisation of specific components of code and sharing them with everyone. This is just like that, except its going to get more market share because the hurdles to using it are so much lower.

1 comment:

Dan said...

Find me a damned PHP generalized solution to TSP so I can go drinking in an optimal fashion on it, and I'll go have it's babies.