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British telecom (BT) and FON Community today announced that BT is partnering up with FON. While many telco’s run their own networks of wifi hotspots (e.g. Swisscom Mobile, T-Mobile) and probably consider the community their competitor, BT apparently goes a different route.
“We have integrated FON in BT and now more than more than 3 million […]
Intel Research has published about Intel Mash Maker Technology Preview, a Firefox add-on which is supposed to make mash-up development a point-and-click process. Unfortunately it’s preview only and only for a limited audience. That means you can sign-up and you enter the waiting list. If you watch these videos, you’ll most likely be as impressed […]
Reading my c’t (admittedly still with some vacation backlog) I stumbled upon this link to “Sprachnudel” - a German slang dictionary - wikistyle. It’s a dictionary of German slang expressions, of course built by the community, featuring the nowadays standard features such as tagging (incl. tag cloud), RSS feed, etc. The “random word” button seems […]
Those of you who have a profile in the social networking platform XING (TAFKA OpenBC) might be interested in the Firefox search plugin which the platform offers for download/install. Now you can search for member profiles on XING just as you would use Google, lookup a dictionary entry or any other search plugin for the […]
The Technology Chronicles have accumulated a commented top 10 lies of Web 2.0. A little bit sarcastic, sometimes cynical, but still worthwhile.
[via Schockwellenreiter]
As mentioned yesterday, my provider performed an update on the systems where my domain is hosted. This updated included a new admin interface with a rich statistics page, direct access to apache user logs and multipled my webspace by 5. And there is a number of new features, which are, surprise, surprise, marketed under the […]
As I posted almost half a year ago, I was contacted by an editor of Jon Wiley & Sons who asked my permission to use one of my flickr-published photos in a book on architecture. I gave the permission, provided I’d be mentioned as the copyright owner and would receive a complementary copy of the […]
A giant insect of about 50 meters (i.e. about 60 yards) lenght was discovered in sout-west Germany. Besides the mere astonishing size of the insect, it is quite surprising that it hasn’t been discovered before. After all, it’s not been hiding in some dark cave, but it has been found just sitting on a farmer’s […]
Ed Brill reports that IBM now has a blog roll on their corporate web site which lists blogs by IBM employees. IBM has a policy encouraging employees to blog and to identify themselves as bloggers for a while already. Ed is one of the more prominent blogs, I would guess, but that’s my limited view […]
If you read the last post about FONs new router and were interested, you should also note that apparently the login procedure is not as safe as it should be.