Monthly Archives: April 2006

AjaxOS

AjaxOS is a concept that allows an OS to use remote AJAX-based applications to be treated as if they were local. Michael Robertson presents his view of AjaxOS. He claims that moving software into services is going to be successful and a way to compete with Microsoft. Besides he admits that they never will clone [...]
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Is the Internet about to be disintegrated?

Network neutrality is a principle of network design. It asserts that, in order to promote innovation, network service providers such as telephone and cable internet companies should not be permitted to dictate how those networks are used (i.e., not permitted to ban certain types of programs, to ban certain types of devices connecting to the [...]
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Three Webmontag events today

Just a note: Today there are »Webmontag«-Events in Berlin (28 attendees), Munich (33 attendees) and Bielefeld (5 attendees).
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We love the funk!

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Feedburned my RSS feed

I have decided to publish my RSS feeds through Feedburner.
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Eye-tracking websites

Jakob Nielsen in his Alertbox newsletter provides some results of a eye-tracking study.
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Create screenshots with different browsers

There are a couple of web applications out there that allow to test a website in different browsers. I think that is a service the vendors of all theses browsers should pay for, but anyway: Browsershots.org: Free but you need to wait a long time to see results. Browserpool.de: German; Uses remote access, so you [...]
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Ars Electronica 2006: Simplicity

The topic of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz this year is »Simplicity«.
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No one reads what you write?

I am considering a new writing style on this blog.
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Half of corporate PCs can’t run Vista?

If something is really shifting the market share in favour of Apple, than I think it is the fact, that Microsoft does have a real problem with innovating their OS on an outdated base of hardware. According to InformationWeek Gartner estimates that half of the PCs in corporations won’t be able to even run Vista. [...]
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Kinja.com

Somehow I missed the site Kinja.com completely: The about page says: Kinja is a weblog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.Weblogs are much [...]
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Access point distribution

Today during a train ride between Cologne and Aachen I let MacStumbler scan vor access points that I passed by. During the 70km ride it catched signals of around 65 wireless LANs: Usually regular housing is only close to railways in cities. On the country site buildings are rather sparse. Taking these facts into account [...]
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Learning & commerce

Nuvvo is a platform where teachers can add an online course and optionally sell enrollments. Nuvvo is free – but once the instructor charges money Nuvvo will keep an 8% commission of all enrollments sold. Besides of the fact that this is a really interesting business model, the Nuvvo web application is designed to be [...]
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