Revaluation of Social Networks

09.06.2009

Techcrunch has published their True Value of Social Networks Report for 2009 and the information actually made it on the front page of today’s tagesanzeiger. The number given for Switzerland is 1.859 million unique users per month, which means almost 25% of the Swiss population visit Facebook regulary. Marcel Weiss has a good analysis explaining [...]

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Why Google Waves might be the next big thing

05.06.2009

I remember writing email to only to three other students in the CS lab and to the one other admin that I worked with as a student. It was not really reliable, because you had no idea when and if at all the person would actually get the message (“Did you get my email about…”) [...]

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Cross browser and platform testing in a single browser

03.06.2009

Ever since the times of Netscape and the early Internet Explorer versions we have been discussing useful cross browser testing setups. I’ve seen through my career as (web-)developer, tech lead, test lead, project manager and account manager very different setups of addressing the issue of different behaviors of webpages and applications in different browsers because [...]

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Ohloh! open source directory acquired by SourceForge

31.05.2009

On Thursday SourceForge announced the acquisition of Ohloh!, an open source code and community directory that I have been following myself while Optaros were establishing and growing the enterprise open source directory eosdirectory.com. While the Eosdirectory is a collection of what Optaros believes to be enterprise ready solutions that then get rated by Optaros and [...]

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OpenID Support and Gmail Login for Facebook [Update]

19.05.2009

After opening the API for the news feed recently, Facebook announced end of April that they were working on OpenID support for signle-sign-on. Not even four weeks later you can select Google, MySpace, Yahoo, Vidoop, Myopenid and OpenID as linked account options. You can also connect with these logins later. If you do that e.g. [...]

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Plan for tomorrow

16.05.2009

This is the plan for tomorrow’s route. Ping me by midnight if you want to join in. No need to mention I guess, that I will use the GPSies iPhone GPS Logger Application to track the tour.

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GPSies for iPhone GPS Logger available on the iTunes AppStore

21.04.2009

The iPhone GPS Logger is finally online and available in the iTunes AppStore: GPSies is the most easy to use iPhone Application that allows you to geo track your sports and leisure activities. Recorded tracks can be stored locally for later reference or uploaded to GPSies.com with one tap. GPSies.com is the leading platform and [...]

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First cycling tour this year: Half a Pfannenstiel

05.04.2009

Loic and I did a little tour today to warm up for the season:

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Best of Swiss Web 2009

03.04.2009
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The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and one [...]

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Acquia and Alfresco Partner with Optaros for First Drupal CMIS Interface

25.02.2009

Content management interoperability services (CMIS) enables easy information sharing across Drupal and Alfresco platforms. Today we announced the integration of CMIS into the Drupal open source CMS. We partnered with Acquia, commercial support provider for Drupal, the open source social publishing software, and Alfresco, the open source alternative for enterprise content management, to integrate Alfresco [...]

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