2006-02-28
Future of Web Apps Talk as mp3
EN: Carsonworkshops offers a collection of Web 2.0 talks by guys from the big players (e.g. Google, Flickr, del.icio.us) in mp3 format for free download.
2006-02-25
A project for sharing WiFi
EN: FON is a project enabling people to share WiFi and gives a lot of different options how to do this.
There is an english podcast interview (the podcast itself is in german) on Chaosradio Express with Martin Varsavsky who is leading the project.
There is an english podcast interview (the podcast itself is in german) on Chaosradio Express with Martin Varsavsky who is leading the project.
2006-02-22
Small script for YubNub
EN: A recent NewsForge article introduces into the advantages of YubNub - "a (social) command line for the web". I personally use the firefox keyword search a lot, but the advanced syntax of YubNub seems to offer more and you don't have to create a local keyword for every search site you use. So I will give YubNub a try in the next days.
Unfortunately the link to a shell script in the article is broken so I wrote a short query script myself:
Copy it into a file (e.g. yubnub.sh) and make it executable.
The script runs fine with ksh and bash for my test searches. Some examples:
Unfortunately the link to a shell script in the article is broken so I wrote a short query script myself:
#!/bin/sh
BROWSER=firefox # you can use w3m to get output in the shell
COMMAND=$(echo $* | sed -e 's/ /+/g')
$BROWSER http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=$COMMAND
Copy it into a file (e.g. yubnub.sh) and make it executable.
The script runs fine with ksh and bash for my test searches. Some examples:
yubnub.sh wp peace
yubnumb.sh man ls
yubnumb.sh ls
yubnub.sh sing Johnny Cash Desperado
2006-02-21
nosoftwarepatents-award
EN: www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com presents every month a selection of software patents and discusses their consequences.
DE: www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com präsentiert jeden Monat eine Auswahl an Softwarepatenten und zeigt derren Auswirkungen.
DE: www.nosoftwarepatents-award.com präsentiert jeden Monat eine Auswahl an Softwarepatenten und zeigt derren Auswirkungen.
2006-02-20
Stash away cacao beans
EN: For all chocolade addicted: The Spiegel (german magazin) reported about the price increase of cacao products in the case that people in India and China adept to European chocolate consumption habits. On average an European consumes 2 kg pure cacao per year, while the average Chines eats less than 20 g per year.
I hope politicians are aware of that problem and are doing everything to prevent international chocolate conflicts. Chocolate for the people! ;)
I hope politicians are aware of that problem and are doing everything to prevent international chocolate conflicts. Chocolate for the people! ;)
2006-02-17
Trust your gut feeling
EN: For decision-making in complex situtations it's better to rely on your gut feeling instead on conscious focusing on the probleme. This "deliberation-without-attention"-effect was described and proven in a recent study by Ap Dijksterhuis et al. [1]. The same issue contains a short summary [2] of this report. Practical IKEA decision studies are included!
[1] Science 17 February 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5763, pp. 1005 - 1007; DOI: 10.1126/science.1121629
[2] Science 17 February 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5763, p. 935 DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5763.935
[1] Science 17 February 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5763, pp. 1005 - 1007; DOI: 10.1126/science.1121629
[2] Science 17 February 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5763, p. 935 DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5763.935
2006-02-08
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace - 10th anniversary
EN: Ten years ago John Perry Barlow declared the Inpendace of the Cyberspace. The web evolved (exspecially in the last time) into a different, less free direction.
2006-02-06
We are what we do
EN: Save the world with little effort: www.wearewhatwedo.org
DE: Mit wenig Aufwand die Welt retten: www.wearewhatwedo.org
DE: Mit wenig Aufwand die Welt retten: www.wearewhatwedo.org
2006-02-01
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