mash up (2)

Spy-erMan

Archlinux under maintenance

One of my favourite distros is archlinux, which I discovered recently. A couple of days ago, I tried to access the archlinux wiki with no success. It seemed to be down because of maintenance tasks.

Today, the archlinux site continues offline. I was wondering how to find out more about the cause, more than a day for maintenance tasks is unusual.

First of all I have used google, search engines are the gate to internet. But for this live info are not effective. In second place I thought I could search for a site specialized in sites status. But I couldn't find any relevant. (Let me know if you know one, otherwise I will create it :-), I mean, one showing the status and explaining why)

My last choice has been spy.appspot.com, a kind of search engine over social networks, like twiter, facebook and so on. Despite of been disappointed, spy.appspot couldn't find the cause, it showed me the people worries about the archlinux site stop. I hope to be luckier next time.

At least I'm happy to experience this new way of search internet. By the way, the most interesting thing about the archlinux case seems to be the picture they left to warn about the site maintenance.

2009-08-31 20:35 by pichulines (0 comments)

Mashing up

sig.ma

I just want to express my fascination about the mashup concept. Thanks to internet, people and companies publish data and services which others collect to cross data and publish new services.

Like in real life, for centuries, people like to mix the knowledge learnt from others and show it with a touch of customization.

Some famous mashups are based on the combination of google maps and "hotspots" localization, i.e. real states, pictures, people or whatever.

Today I will introduce a new one called sig.ma. It's a kind of meta search engine. A structured way of show data from different sources. The introductory video is self explanatory.

My first impressions about sig.ma:

  • I understand it as another dimension in the search space.
  • In some way it is similar to Wolfram Alpha, although I'm not sure about if this could be considered as a mash up.
  • If it becomes enough successfull other will buy it.

2009-07-27 21:50 by pichulines (0 comments)