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It’s time to change
My adventure with Funambol ended. Since January 2008 I’ve been working with an amazing company managing an amazing community. I’m proud to have helped the company increase its download number about 30% every quarter and also am glad to have … Continue reading
Getting Funambol 8.5 on Ubuntu Lucid LTS
I wanted to make sure that newest Ubuntu 10.04 being a Long Time Support one would be capable of running the newest Funambol DS Server version 8.5. I can confirm: not a problem there. I downloaded the 32bit .bin package … Continue reading
It’s all about Contacts: who do you know?
When it comes to doing anything, finding a job, an apartment or a used car, what counts most is who you know. In the old times it was the size of your rolodex, now it’s the size of you digital … Continue reading
Posted in business, community, eng, funambol
Tagged addressbook, funambol, innovation, mozilla, social network, sync
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The New Funambol Phone Sniper Program
After revisiting the Funambol Code Sniper, I thought it was time to adjust also the Phone Sniper program. Funambol Phone Sniper is the easiest way to contribute to the community: participants help by testing the compatibility of their device with … Continue reading
Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk
I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric: The … Continue reading
Posted in business, community
Tagged cloud, cloud computing, free software, freedom, funambol, mobile cloud, moglen, privacy, push, sflc, sync
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Three reasons to follow Mozilla Thunderbird development
Since Mozilla Messaging launched Thunderbird 3 I started using it to see if this new version is better than GNOME Evolution, the email/calendar application I used in the past 4 years. Evolution is a decent email and calendar client and … Continue reading
Posted in community, eng
Tagged codesniper, evolution, funambol, gnome, gui, messaging, mozilla, thunderbird, usability
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How to sync Mac OS with Funambol (part 3)
I noticed that my posts about using Funambol on Mac part I and part II are two of the most viewed posts on my blog, so I decided to update them with a new tutorial using the official Funambol Mac … Continue reading
Two Funambol community projects to monitor during holidays
There is an interesting movement around two Funambol community projects: the syncml clients for Thunderbird and for Palm WebOS. Mozilla Messaging is rapidly pushing Thunderbird 3 out of beta and Funambol’s community is ramping up interest in its addon. Carlo … Continue reading
Posted in business
Tagged code sniper, funambol, messaging, mozilla, os x, palm, webos
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3 ways to get cash over the holidays with Funambol
The winter holidays are a provide a good opportunity to do something useful in that downtime between celebrations. Funambol’s community programs provide three ways to have fun and earn some cash, too. 1. Participate in the Code Sniper program: it … Continue reading
Posted in community, eng, funambol
Tagged agile, code sniper, community, funambol, incentive, l1on sniper, participation, phone sniper
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