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If you are curious how fast your connection is try out The Internet Speed Test.

This is pretty sweet. Hopefully it will be better and catch on better than the corporate versions of identity systems.

OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

Looks like someone had my idea and implemented it before me. But, it doesn’t integrate into LiveJournal or anything, and it doesn’t appear to do multiple line entries. But, I could be wrong as I haven’t tested it yet.

AIMBlog

Fresh from the minds at Google… They are offering a $4500 stipind to students for working on and releasing an open source project this summer. I’d love to apply, but I currently have an internship. Dang. Would this be worth losing my job over? I’m thinking probably not. But, if anyone else is interested, here’s the website:

Google Code: Summer of Code

Some other organizations that are willing to join, but may not be listed on the Google page:
Community Mapbuilder – they are developing an open source library of browser based mapping widgets
Our Media – Free hosting for media content

Also, I was in a chatroom with the contact person from Google. Here’s the transcript from the night of May 31st:
Transcript

UPDATE:

There are a whole bunch of new organizations. Almost triple what they had listed originally. Awsome.

Here’s a short list of AIM Bot Sites I’ve come across. I’m thinking about making an AIM to Blog and/or website interface, so this list is mostly for my reference.

• Run-A-Bot – lets you run your own bot? I haven’t tested it yet.
• Cyber Prank – Send an AI Bot to chat with your friends. They won’t know its not a real person. You get sent the transcript.
• Wired Bots – Company that specializes in making bots.
• Bot Depot – Forum for AIM Bots
• Joscar – Java Library for programming your own bot
• DiaWebLog – AIM Chatroom or IRC community blog interface
• algae LiveJournal AIM Client
• WebAIM – Web Based AIM Client

yey! I have an AIM bot… lets see how well this thing works… All he does is echo right now… I think
KMTestBot

Looks like the blogging company Six Apart, which now owns LiveJournal amung others, is hiring.

About Six Apart – Jobs

Why smart people defend bad ideas – scottberkun.com

I thought this was kinda funny, but maybe only if you are a programmer.

Software Development Cycle