Life, IT & the Rest

Those men hit it: Aussies strike it rich with $15m Google buyout

Here is a little serenade for the Omnisio guys, 2 weeks old but still fair enough…

http://www.omnisio.com/liquid/dancing-liquid

Congratulations!

Gregg Pollack of RailsEnvy created an amazing Video of OSCON 2008 asking Speakers to sum up their point in 30s. Thats fast forward, guys, watch this Oscon in 37 minutes Freak show! The viddler.com video even has an index of speakers:

Keynoters Tim O’Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David Recordon, Nathan Torkington, and Danese Cooper….

Headliner Mark Shuttleworth on stage taken from Flickr

Some guys from the HdM Stuttgart did a nice TV documentation on “the” Web 2.0:

• barcamping
• Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
• Interviews (partially english) with
  • Alpha Geek Tim O’Reilly
  • Enterpreneur Peter Ambrozy
  • Blogger Oliver Gassner
  • and many many more web 2.0 “aware” people
• and you won’t believe it: economic background

The film was sponsored by dmc, Cisco & Otto, broadcasted in german TV on 3sat and ZDF. It will be “reloaded” tomorrow 31.07.2008 13.30h on ZDF-infokanal.

Have a lot of fun!

Links Background

• http://www.web2null-derfilm.de/
• http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/view_news?ident=news20080729173439
• http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/neues/sendungen/magazin/123704/index.html

Links Stream

• http://www.3sat.de/webtv/?080729_webzweinull_neues.rm
• http://de.sevenload.com/videos/nJE9sqq-Web-2-0-Der-Film

Enjoy these Subversion commit statisics served chilled…

http://www.vimeo.com/hackontest
Download Hires: http://www.hackontest.ch/media/

Found those at http://www.hackontest.ch, which is a Hack Contest sponsored by Google.
During the http://openexpo.org/ on September 24/25, 2008 in Zürich, Switzerland three Open Source Teams will code “hard” on bugs & features rated by users. You can vote until 01.08.2008. TYPO3 is one of the favourites.

Support your local coders!

Yesterday at the OSCON 2008 in Portland the launch of the “Open Web Foundation” was announced. This is a solid approach towards Open Web standards

• TechCrunch news about the launch of the Open Web Foundation
• Open Web Foundation Members so far
• OSCON Slides of the Session by David Recordon

The small but nice T3N magazine on “Web 2.0, PHP, CSS, TYPO3, Linux” announced a press release by BITKOM that states, that “the business” starts to use bleeding edge technolgies like Blogs & Wikis for internal & external communication. It goes on starting with a funny situation

• The new technology came from private sector & community to the enterprise, inversing the typically direction
• Social Network features are more & more used to organize employees over geographical or organizational barriers
• 2/3 organisations using Web 2.0 technologies made “positive experience”
• The reasons “against Web 2.0″ were
  1. unclear benefits
  2. fear of unclear cost
  3. Security concers

I’d say: “we can work it out” :] Contact your local web guy!

Links:

• Yeebase News
• BITKOM Conference KnowTech 2008 Frankfurt am Main, 08.10.2008 - 09.10.2008
• BITKOM Press report about this study

Roll your own Browser Toolbar…

• http://commonboard.toolbar.fm/
• http://www.conduit.com/?vararrivalid=techcrunch&ref_id=techcrunch

Other Firefox Extensions I like are

• Selenium IDE: Record/Play Browser Actions http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/
• Firebug: Developer Tools https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1843
• Live HTTP Headers https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3829
• Yahoo YSlow gibt Tips zur Beschleunigung von Websites http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
• TimeStamp Converter (context menu, nice in phpMyAdmin) https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2063
• TechCrunch Toolbar Posts, Gadgets

This nice litte thingy ASUS eeePC rocks. The new “netbook” *buzzz* trend.

No Setup needed, the pre installed Linux in a stripped down Xandros Distribution. I was using the internal webcam 3 Minutes after the first boot, inside the shop :). Not too bad, compared to the session I had with my Orininal Lenovo Think Pad “ready for Vista” pre installed Vista Business Laptop…

285 EUR street price in .de, graphical WiFi Configuration Tool / Wizard, 3 USB 2.0, Skype, Media Player…

• Overview
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
• Inside out
  http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Research

The only 4 things you need to know about this netbook

• the console is hidden in the File Manager under Extras / STRG-T
• Software upgrade just do

  $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

• If the sound gets to low open the console and adjust

  $ alsamixer

• The black colored netbook has the same price as the fresher looking white one, MacBook fans might be confused…

Today I tell you “The secret to making money online”. It was blowed by David “Ruby on Rails” Heinemeier Hansson.
37signals://981-the-secret-to-making-money-online/

• Watch the integration of the slides in the video in the “dock”
• That guy talks about working 5h/day _really_ productive
• He says “take no Venture Capital, solve problems you know about, take your time”
• “Do a great app, set a price on it, (…care about your customer…) & make profit”
• “Don’t get lost trying for 1 Billion $, make a million”

By the way: You can roll your own Omnisio Presentation like this

http://www.omnisio.com/v/iSTLnTidjhG/dancing-liquid

on that side

http://omnisio.com/

Some Geeks, Googlers & people gathered near San Fransisco for an Unconference called Foo Camp organized by O’Reilly.

If you wonder why anyone is still waiting for just organizing some Bar Camps have a look at barcamp.org. If you want to get your hands dirty you might find these OpenSpace resources useful.

This is what they where up to last weekend:
http://www.techcrunch.com