Aug
13
2008
The good folks at Yahoo! have opened up subscriptions to Fire Eagle, a location based service. You can log in to Fire Eagle and update your location info so that all applications connected to Fire Eagle can use that information. An article on Webmonkey describes how this works with Pownce and addresses some of the [...]
Tags: community, email, funambol, geospatial, gis, location based, mobile email
May
16
2008
I realized that it’s true what they say about email clients: they all suck. Some suck less, some (the majority) suck more than a Dyson vacuum cleaner.’ Mailing list archives are important for communities because they represent their collective knowledge. Having all archives all in one place is definitely better than having to redirect people [...]
Tags: community, email, forge, funambol, mutt, redirect
Feb
29
2008
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 from the file system.’ I keep my hard disks organized in folders separating my work [...]
Tags: email, gui, messaging, mozilla, non-profit, thunderbird