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I am trying the new version of TipicIM, based on ATE client, and it really works fine. A great and simple addition is the Web Button on the roster; pressing the button authenticates you and automagically takes you to your Blog on TipicWeb :-) In a few days, an English version of the client should be ready for selective downloads.
Yesterday's flight from Naples to Milan was terrible; I was sick, had flue and couldn't wait to get home. Now I am here in bed taking aspirin and trying to catch up with e-mails.
Posting through blog@alerts.tipic.com. Now the service is based on ATE and XML-RPC. If you are a registered Tipic user, when you send a message to blog@alerts.tipic.com, the message gets to ATE which makes a XML-RPC call to the content management system that finally posts to the blog.
Interesting article about IM and Jabber on O'Reilly OpenP2P
Another interesting use of 802.11b, this one very specific: 802.11b Space Suits
Being a wireless 802.11b virtual operator is the strategy of Boingo Wireless - The face of public space wireless service changes Thursday as Sky Dayton, founder of the dial-up Internet service provider Earthlink, launches Boingo Wireless. Boingo will build no hot spots. Instead, they are aggregating the network infrastructure of other companies and wrapping it up through a single user account, a single bill, and a single set of pricing.
I am spending sometime in Naples. I thought it would be hotter than in Milan, but I hadn't thought about the Siberian wind that has been blowing for the past few days. It actually snowed in Naples yesterday (very rare for a Mediterranean city). It also means that, since buildings are not designed for this kind of cold weather, it is actually colder when you are inside here than it is in Milan.
Welcome back Kuro5hin! from their return post: "Well. That Sucked. - As you can see, K5 is finally back. I don't have very much to add to the ongoing history chronicled in our dispatches from the front lines of Operation Enduring Downtime, but I did want to profusely thank some people, and describe the new hardware setup both current and near-future.
Small is beautiful, at least for wireless ISP :-)
Getting ready to go to the Italian McKinsey Alumni Christmas Party, at 8:00 p.m. in Milan; going to meet some friends there, curious about what they have been up to lately.
Happy to announce the start of beta testing of TW32JS, Tipic Win32 Jabber Server :-)
Water on Mars, that could help establish a human presence - First finding for Mars Odyssey - The latest probe to the Red Planet makes its first discovery: large quantities of hydrogen (possibly water) in soils and rock.
The news feed alerting system through IM is now active :-). It's a cool service, give it a try! It runs on the new version of ATE (Active Tipic Engine). If you have a Jabber account, just add news@alerts.tipic.com to your roster and you will start receiving the news. Take a look at the news sources from where Tipic gets the news. At this stage you will get the news from all the sources, not only from the ones you have subscribed to (this feature should be available in the next couple of weeks). If you want to unsubscribe it's easy, just delete the contact from your roster.
Multi-billion-dollar software piracy bust - Warez community decimated by US Customs
For reasons of national security and national pride, government officials in countries like China, France and Germany are increasingly adopting the free, open-source computer operating system known as Linux.
The personal site feature is coming out nicely. I started posting some new pages taken from my old site splinder: this page about ocrampal is a short resume. It was very easy to add it to my personal site with the WYSIWYG editor - which is not perfect yet but almost there too :-).
Blinkenlights in Berlin is a big 8 stories display that can be programmed.
I tried the new TipicIM yesterday for the first time. The client has been completely rewritten and is based on ATE Client Technology. I must admit it is amazingly light and fast; I am not sure how big the official distro will be, but the zipped file I got was less than 400KB. It is stable and fast, very fast and completely open to external plugins. I'll spend this week-end in Sardinia, with Francesca her parents and my parents. That's the first time they meet, so it is going to be an interesting WE. The schedule is tight with lots of activities organized: tour of Cagliari and a sea food resturant on Friday, sight seing an ancient pre Roman city on Saturday, theater on Saturday night (classical music - not my favourite), and Sunday a big lunch at Francesca's parents.
When you own the Desktop and the Browser it is hard for others to compete, but some try: Taking Curl for a Whirl - Some of the best minds at MIT, including Tim Berners-Lee, are working on a new Web-building technology called Curl. It faces a host of challenges, including Microsoft stomping it to death. By Kennedy Grey.
Passport, DotGNU, Liberty Alliance, etc. these technologies/platforms try to solve the authentication problem, both in wireline and wireless: Nokia kingmaker in Passport-killer alliance - You've got authentication!
Another sign of the Internet becoming really mainstream? Internet users more chic than geek - A new survey reverses the stereotype of anti-social internet "nerds", saying they lead more sociable lives than non-surfers.
Laurence J. Peter - "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
Is it really My Yahoo? Or is it theirs? - Who owns your online identity? Do you? Most likely, you don't -- almost all Web sites that have a concept of identity do (and badly want to) maintain an identity profile for each of their users. At the end of the day, that identity belongs to them, not you. A note I recently received from Yahoo illustrates this nicely, and serves as a good warning for users of online identity systems.
DMCA went too far probably, it is a law thought with a pre-Internet mindset that is applied to post-internet reality; the law should be changed to face the new circumstances; here are the current consequences: Sklyarov waiting for trial, again
During the past few days, we have been working on improving Tipic's blog module. You now have a wider choice of customizing your own blog: more colors and the option of adding HTML tags. Give it a try!
Software like a living being: Software Evolves. It Isn't Designed. - Fascinating series of mailing list postings by Linus Torvalds and others in which Linus argues for guided natural selection in software rather than classical software design. "Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question is how strictly you _control_ the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of mutations." An absolute "must read."
uServ: produce and serve content from your PC!
Interesting concept: Here's a cure for bandwidth blues. Kevin Werbach. The concept is that wireless frequencies could be shared among many users rather than assigned in exclusive licenses to individual companies. Smart devices subject to rules ensuring that no one player could hog the airwaves would replace networks defined by governments and service providers.
A Perfect Face for Radio - Anonymity on the web isn't the only thing disappearing.
There have been many ideas lately about merging separate technologies into something useful and less cahotic. It goes without demonstration that there are too many ways of producing, storing and exchanging information; think about Blogs, personal Web pages, Word Documents, an e-mails, IM messages, SMSs, forums, file transfers, etc.. |
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