Monthly Archives: February 2008

Messaging, not email

Posted on 29 February, 2008 by Stef

During the past weeks in the mobile world at Funambol I’ve started deepening my thoughts about how computers are still inefficient and largely too hard to use. One thing that I hate is how the whole online things are separated … Continue reading →

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Using Funambol on iPod Touch

Posted on 28 February, 2008 by Stef

Even if I don’t have an iPod (and I won’t buy one … I’ll tell you why one of these days) I’ve asked Funambol’s community to translate into English an article by Luis Medina written in Spanish. Paulo Sergio Lopes … Continue reading →

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Girl Geek Dinners Italia: ci sono

Posted on 27 February, 2008 by Stef

Sono molto contento di essere tra i 20 fortunati invitati alla cena delle Girl Geek italiane venerdì prossimo. La lista dei Guy Geek (invitati ognuno da una sola Girl Geek) è stata annunciata con tanto anticipo e si è riempita … Continue reading →

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Qualche indizio per trovare i 10 milioni

Posted on 21 February, 2008 by Stef

Ecco la tabella allegata alla lettera di cui parla Flavia, ovvero la risposta alla richiesta di chiarimenti al ministro Nicolais sui 10 milioni di euro stanziati a favore del Software Libero. Innanzitutto, sono contento che qualcuno abbia risposto, il che … Continue reading →

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Open position at Funambol: Symbian developer

Posted on 20 February, 2008 by Stef

I’ve just received from Funambol’s Engineering a request for a Symbian developer. announcement remembering that I became Funambol’s Community Manager after reading Roberto’s blog. Here is the announce: The development team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Symbian developer with … Continue reading →

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Wengo stopped developing wengophone

Posted on 12 February, 2008 by Stef

Some disappointing news today: Wengo stopped developing Wengophone, the VoIP SIP and XMPP/Jabber multiplatform client.’ ’  They announced it in the developer’s mailing list. Update: the’ development of OpenWengo software has been taken over’ by an experienced Wengo programmer. I wonder why Google … Continue reading →

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Upgraded wordpress, closing the week

Posted on 8 February, 2008 by Stef

This WordPress needed some maintainance, but this time instead of upgrading ‘manually’ I decided to use the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin: boy, it was fast and simple. It seems to be working fine.’  If you spot any glitches let me … Continue reading →

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Bruce Schneier on Wired: ‘Security’ Is Code for ‘Control’

Posted on 7 February, 2008 by Stef

I couldn’t agree less with Schneier’s post on Wired: lock-in is bad for users.’  I liked this sentence that explains well how I’m feeling now after having used a Mac for 2 weeks (I promise, I’ll write a long post … Continue reading →

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Openness is a value

Posted on 6 February, 2008 by Stef

Doc Searls asks on LJ: What if Yahoo’s main value isn’t its search engine or its advertising business, but the openness that makes it more Net-native and hacker-friendly than Microsoft? Right… what if? I don’t think that today’s Microsoft understand … Continue reading →

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Affero GNU GPLv3 evaluated by OSI

Posted on 5 February, 2008 by Stef

As Fabrizio reported, Funambol submitted the Affero GNU’  GPLv3 to the Open Source Initiative for approval (it was my first task as Funambol Community Manager).’  OSI’s stamp on AGPLv3 makes business sense for Funambol, afaik the first big free software … Continue reading →

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