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Apple Adds NDA to App Store Rejection Notices
The situation regarding Apple's App Store for the iPhone is getting weirder by the day. Several applications have been rejected from the App Store based on seemingly dubious claims such as duplication of functionality (even though they didn't duplicate anything), or alikeness to default applications. Two such cases made headline news over the past few days; Podcaster and MailWrangler. The developers of these applications openly protested against these rejections, and apparently, Apple doesn't really like that. Apple now reiterates that rejections fall under the NDA, prohibiting developers from speaking up about rejections.
DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 4
I've registered for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 4 on Saturday 2nd December. I missed DDD3 because I was on vacation but I found the first two were well worth attending.From the DDD site:This FREE one day event builds on the success of the previous DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Days. As before it is all about developers learning, sharing and interacting with each other in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.There will be NO Microsoft speakers presenting, just speakers from the UK .NET developer community; although we will have some of the Microsoft UK Developer Team on hand to help out and chat to attendees.The day is put together by the community for the community, in other words you. With Microsoft UK very kindly providing the venue, logistic support and a free lunch.Register here but be quick.
BalanceNG 2.196 (Default branch)
BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancingsolution. It is small, fast, and easy to use andsetup. It offers session persistence, differentdistribution methods (Round Robin, Random,Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth,Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and acustomizable UDP health check agent in sourcecode. It supports VRRP to set up high availabilityconfigurations on multiple nodes. It supportsSNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB withNet-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memoryIP-to-location database, allowing powerfullocation-based server load-balancing.License: Other/Proprietary License with Free TrialChanges:A general problem with NAT and multiple instanceson the same machine has been fixed; upgrading isrecommended if multiple instances are being usedin conjunction with NAT. A problem with packetprocessing and multiple instances on Solaris basedmachines has been fixed and a new controllingparameter has been added (bngfilter). Upgrading isrecommended if multiple instances are being usedon Solaris. Both fixes have also been applied tothe 1.x branch, resulting in release 1.934. Themanuals have been updated accordingly. The UbuntuJeOS VMware virtual appliance has been updatedaccordingly.
Apps Bring Web 2.0 to Your Old-Fashioned E-Mail
Email is truly the elder statesman of the Internet, and Twitter is undoubtedly the golden child. Email has been there since the beginning, while Twitter hasn't been with us for a full 2 years yet. But there has been a lot of talk lately about the death of email (rumors that may turn out to have been greatly exaggerated), thanks to messaging on social networking sites. Yet, Twitter's popularity continues to climb in spite of a few recent stability issues (to put it politely). Basically, Twitter is a Web 2.0 darling, while email is about as Web 1.0 as you can get. This month, we'll look at a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that brings a little bit of Web 2.0 (and some analytics) to your email and an AIR (Adobe integrated runtime) app that could very well be "Outlook for Twitter."Xobni (www.xobni.com)What is it? A plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that automatically provides contact information and easy access to emails and attachmentsWho cares? Overwhelmed Outlook users and the forgetfulHow does it work? Xobni adds a sidebar to the right side of the Outlook window that provides a search field and contact information. Xobni indexes your email and searches across all folders. Unlike Outlook's default "Look for" function, Xobni actually displays a snippet of text with the query term highlighted.But Xobni really focuses on the contact information. Whenever an email is selected in Outlook's reading pane, Xobni displays the name of the sender and his or her phone number, which it extracts from email text. If you've never received an email with the person's phone number, a link to send a preformatted email requesting the sender's phone number is provided. There's also a link to send an email scheduling a meeting with that contact.Xobni also graphs all email interaction with that contact,...
Site Explorer Gets a Makeover
A few years ago, we launched Site Explorer with the goal of providing site owners with better visibility into how we index their websites and what data we use in our search service. Over the years we've moved beyond simply providing information to webmasters to allowing them to tell us what to do with their site, using functions such as submitting feeds, deleting URLs or reporting spam. Our most successful function among all has been Dynamic URL Rewriting. We've had thousands of site owners enter rules for their websites and webmasters auto-rewrite an average of 25,000 URLs per rule, with some sites rewriting millions of URLs in 1 shot.Today, we launched a new look and feel for Site Explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new) that provides a more dynamic interface to accommodate future feature roll-outs. The new interface also includes a new Site Summary page to provide statistics for authenticated sites. On top of this, we're also increasing the number of rules for Dynamic URL Rewriting that you can enter from 3 to 10. The new site is located at a special URL to give you some time to play around with it and update your tools that use our interface. We will make this the default experience soon, so please use this time to update your tools. And, as always, please give us feedback on your new experience. We want to hear from you!Priyank GargYahoo! Search
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