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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Liberating the cloud one block at the time
The issue is how to bring the values of free software community to the cloud. According to reports from Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Bradley Kuhn‘s speech has addressed the issue.’ I hope he will include it in the next … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, community, freedom, funambol, identica, interoperability, laconica, open standards, standards
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Pimp your addressbook with Avatargrabber
Who said that syncing is boring? Alfredo Morresi developed the ultimate time-wasting-syncing-social-tool to pimp your addressbook. Did you know that your phone and desktop addressbook can associate an icon to any of your entries? But, honestly, who has ever wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged avatargrabber, code sniper, community, funambol, morresi, social network
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How long will it take for spammers to harvest this address?
Collabnet updated its discussion service on Funambol Forge so that now the archives hide the full email addresses of members using a simple obfuscation in the html code through a javascript function.’ Apparently there is no silver bullet to stop … Continue reading
Everybody loves forums… or do they really?
I often find web-based forums difficult to participate to. Most of the times the graphic interfaces are too rich, clogged with unnecessary information, visually tirening and distracting. Usually they have too many categories to chose from the start page, threads … Continue reading
Two days to comment on TLS-authz standard to IETF
Patent encumbered standards are the worst because they seem legit, but instead they can easily become incompatible with Free/Libre Open Source Software.’ Free Software Foundation campaign is alerting the community to act fast: Last January, the Free Software Foundation issued … Continue reading
links for 2009-02-05
Monty says: Time to move on MySQL founder leaves Sun. "The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed" (tags: sun opensource development monty mysql) A job does not … Continue reading
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links for 2009-02-03
Stimulus stimulates crowdsourced oversight, activism – Ars Technica We should setup something like this in Italy. (tags: government democrazia stimulus transparency democracy) Italian red-light cameras rigged with shorter yellow lights – Ars Technica Italians do everything better, scam included. "Italian … Continue reading
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