Tag Archives: open standard
Non linear presentation based on open standards
If you’re like me you’re going to love Dizzy.js. Like many, I think that PowerPoint and all its clones are very poor tools to express ideas in a compelling ways. A very interesting alternative for me is Prezi, I have … Continue reading
Gmail Man vs MS Office 365 vs You
Microsoft released a series of videos featuring Gmailman, a nosy mailman that reads your email in order to send you advertising. It would be funny, if it was a video done by EFF or FreedomBox promoting privacy enhanced alternatives. Instead, … Continue reading
Facebook’s Awesome Is My Yawn
Mark Zuckerberg tried to steal Google+ thunder announcing that Facebook would soon have something ‘awesome’. Today the veil was lifted on the new feature of Facebook: video chat. Seriously? I find this boring. Facebook’s videochat only works one-to-one, no group … Continue reading
How is Google damaging consumers?
I kept this post as draft since I read Wired’s article about Google and their supposed dominant position. Today I read again about the new investigation of US Antitrust targeting bigG because it holds too much market share in online … Continue reading
Mobile Cloud Computing, Part II: Where do We go From Here?
Mobile cloud is going to be big, according to a study published by ABI research. And they’re not the only ones to say so. In this second part of my thoughts about mobile cloud — which I hope we can … 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
Architecture, Politics, Internet and Open Standards
I still have Obama’s inauguration’s speech in my mind, so full of passion and hope. It’s such a powerful word, hope.’ What most impressed me was his call to politicians to stop bickering and get to work to reform politics.’ … Continue reading
Cross-platform and interoperability is the key
When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’ That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To … Continue reading
Openness is a value
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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