from wednesday (may, 31st) to friday (jun, 1st), the linuxwochen 2006 (“linuxweeks”) are taking place in vienna. the schedule offers a plethora of panels and talks on linux, security and opensource-software in general. if you are in the area, be sure to drop by!
Logoworks is a service-company specialized in the creation of custom logo-artwork. customers first fill in a questionnaire regarding their business, product and service as well as their colour- & style-preferences. after only three business-days, Logoworks replys with several concept-designs from 2-5 different designers (depending on how much you decided to pay). in a second round [...]
chatsum is a browser-extension allowing concurrent visitors of any website to chat with each other. chatsum is currently in private beta, accepting applications through their website.
chatsum’s user-interface is straight forward: living in a firefox-sidebar, it works like a very basic chat-app. moreover it unveils how many (chatsum-)users are viewing the same page. user-profiles with all [...]
thinkvitamin.com features a very detailed article by Cal Henderson (flickr.com) on how-to serve large javascript- and css-libraries in performance-critical environments. Cal describes best practices for splitting, compressing and caching of these code-monsters. A must-read for all developers, the article also gives in-depth knowledge about how various browsers handle this type of content.
mike arrington has an interesting post about this weeks innovate 2006 in zaragoza, spain (a conference foccused on technology entrepreneurship). in his post, mike introduces various european companies and their consumer-oriented web-applications, f.e. vpod.tv, an upcoming video-sharing site from france/spain, or the online-feedreader feeds 2.0 from greece (whose beta I immediatelly joined). as a european, [...]
in this weeks The Clicker, Stephen Speicher suggests newcomer youtube.com stops growing and starts making some money. while luring more and more users every day – resulting in increasing bandwidth-costs – the social video-phenomenon has yet to find a valid business-model. Speicher’s interesting proposal recommends youtube to back the costs with inserted advertisments, splitting the [...]
I’m leaving for new york tomorrow morning, enjoying a week of urgently required holidays (I’m visiting my friend thomas, who is working for the financial times germany). as I’ve just realized (thx to engadget), the new apple midtown store in new york is going to open tomorrow (19th of may, 18.00 local time). besides it’s [...]
marketing-wizard guy kawasaki has been writing on “how to be a demo god” preluding the DEMO 2006 (an event giving ~70 companies the chance to pitch their tech-product in a 6-minute-demo – sounds awesome, right?). today guy published nathan macneills thoughts on demo’ing – nathan is co-founder of Network Streaming and the winner of this [...]
by the way: if you’re interested in telecommunications, gadgets and the latest electronic craziness from japan – be sure to check out futurenews.at, a blog focussing on these topics. since martin – futurenews-host and my mate from work – is currently on his honeymoon, I’m guest-blogging there until next week… (german only!)
during the last few days I’ve been diligently working on a web-application in the area of print/typography, featuring a browser-based text-editor with support for various fontfaces. the main problem in realizing such an editor is the impossibility to load arbitrary fontfaces (besides the standards, like helvetica, courier…) into the browser.
sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), a [...]
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