Archive for February, 2007

Febo25

Christian Decker

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Dell has to go Linux?

I’m reallt thrilled about the post at the Ubuntu Blog:

So Dell emulated digg and put the idea to (good) use in letting people submit and vote for ideas to be implemented at Dell. The result was Dell Idea Storm. Now maybe Dell regrets it, just a wee bit. You see, the popular requests page right now is dominated by Linux-oriented requests. The most popular idea is for machines with Linux (Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/Fedora) pre-installed. Followed closely by an idea to distribute PCs with OpenOffice preinstalled. There are popular ideas that suggest PCs without Windows installed, PCs with open-source Linux drivers etc. Now, for Dell, it would be a small publicity setback if they do not act on at least a few of these ideas – them being the most popular ideas. It will be interesting to see how it develops. I hope Dell does not just seem to be attentive to customers, and actually gives them what they demand.
Could this finally be the end of half working Notebooks under Linux? That would be great news, especially after all the trouble I had (and still have) to get my Graphiccard running under OpenSuse 10.2. [via the Ubuntu Blog]

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Febo23

Christian Decker

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Fixed blog

Since my Update to WordPress 2.1 the blog was running slowly and as soon as something changed on it (new posts, comments, …) the request timed out. After blaming my Hosting Provider (sorry guys :) ), I found out that it was merely due to a plugin I had installed. I won’t put it here because I really loved it and I don’t want to harm it’s popularity. If you have similar problems just leave me a comment and I’ll contact you :D
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Febo23

Christian Decker

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OpenID in 5 Minutes

Don’t know what OpenID is? Then let Scott Kveton, the CEO of JanRain, explain it to you and why it’s so important:
I did a talk at Ignite Seattle last week and it was a total blast. I love the 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide format. The scary thing about this is that I was able to get everything across that I wanted to in just 5 minutes. Why on earth have I ever needed an hour to give a talk?! :-)

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You can view the video here.
[via Kveton.com]
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Febo15

Christian Decker

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OpenID & AOL

As I posted earlier I’m really excited to see that OpenID is started getting ever more popular. It comes to no surprise after Microsoft announcing their support for OpenID that other big players jump on the train. This is AOL’s turn:
It’s not really a secret that AOL has been experimenting with OpenID.  As I’ve said, I think that user-centric, interoperable identity is hugely important to enable the social experiences we’re trying to provide.  This is a work in progress, but things are coming along thanks to our authentication team’s diligent effort.  Here’s where we are today:
  • Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI, http://openid.aol.com/<sn>.
  • This experimental OpenID 1.1 Provider service is available now and we are conducting compatibility tests.
  • We’re working with OpenID relying parties to resolve compatibility issues.
  • Our blogging platform has enabled basic OpenID 1.1 in beta, so every beta blog URI is also a basic OpenID identifier.  (No Yadis yet.)
  • We don’t yet accept OpenID identities within our products as a relying party, but we’re actively working on it.  That roll-out is likely to be gradual.
  • We are tracking the OpenID 2.0 standardization effort and plan to support it after it becomes final.
I hope that they accept OpenIDs for their products soon, as it obviously increases the reachability.
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Febo12

Christian Decker

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Firefox to support Offline Apps

Read/WriteWeb have a post aout FireFox 3 supporting offline apps:
An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend). Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because you’ll be able to use your web apps – like Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, etc – in the browser even when offline. I deliberately mentioned all Google web apps there, because of course this plays right into Google’s hands. Although Mozilla is an open source organization, some of its top workers are employed by Google. So it’s a very cozy relationship. We’ve discussed before how Firefox 3 as information broker suits Google very nicely, because the Mountain View company has a number of best of breed web apps – and if it’s not building them, it’s acquiring them (YouTube, JotSpot, Writely, etc). Rod Drury also pointed out in his post how this makes Firefox attractive as the browser platform of choice for SaaS providers (Software as a Service). For example salesforce.com.
[via Read/WriteWeb]

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