Polar Rose, a facial recognition based search engine that allows you to find photos of people by their name, is getting ready to enter public beta.  Yesterday I received an e-mail from them with my invite (at last, I was subscribed since around November 2006!), and their blog states that they have  a “public beta coming up“. Polar Rose works by...

Less than two months after moving to our new home at Webfaction and activating Akismet on the blog (previously I used Spam Karma), Akismet today reports that it has caught an astonishing 1000 comment spams.  Considering this count starts on March 19th, and that the blog has very little traffic, this is quite astonishing, isn’t it?  According to Google...

This one is for the people who often ask me, when I embark on another “for pleasure” project, “when are you going to do something that makes some money?”.  Well, how about this for an example: Marco Kaiser, a german developer, had his own little personal project called Twhirl.  Twhirl is a Twitter client written for Adobe’s AIR...

Pay It To Me is one of those odd ideas that just might work out.  Conceived by some guy from Belgium (of course, given that they put mayonnaise on their French Fries, what can you expect from people like that), the idea is strange enough that it might actually work: people send pictures of stuff they want (anything) and their Paypal username to the site.  The...