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I am reading the feeds without a care in the world when suddenly I notice a line in Dutch in an entry of a.wholelottanothing.org. Well, that's weird...

Although I am sure Matt Haughey has many skills I doubt writing in Dutch is one of them, so I went to his site and noticed the line in Dutch is actually a video from garage.tv. Also with Dutch ads on it....apparently those bastards automatically assume I am a Dutch speaking visitor (and prefer to be addressed to in Dutch), probably based on my IP or something.



Didn't they at garage.tv learn that assuming things based on a common parameter kinda equals stupidity?

We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine.

lastyearsmodel.org

So where does the chain-reaction go from here and where will FOSS be in the next 10 years? The challenges are significant, and they're largely issues unresolved from the previous 10 years: intellectual property, companies' struggle to make money on a decent scale, tensions between the idealists and the more commercially minded members of the community, and the struggle to convince corporate users to participate and actually give back.

They are challenges that, if solved, could see FOSS and Linux hit a whole new level in the next 10 years, but if unresolved permit uncertainty to fester in a way that ultimately limits their business and technological growth.

Open source - the once and future dream

Officially there is no rss-feed available of your friends status updates on Facebook, but luckily there is a way around this. Because I wanted to get the status to appear in Gwibber, I did a search and came across a comment on techlifeweb.com.

The basics, taken from the comment:

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?friends
2. Copy the link to "My Friends' Notes"
3. Replace "friends_notes" with "friends_status"

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.

By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.

If a QR Code is static, what could we do with a dynamic device like the iPhone? Our proposed vision of the future is one where the facade of the building disappears, showing those inside who want to be seen. As you press on the characters their comments made on online appear in speech bubbles. You can also browse shop information, make reservations and download coupons. Rather than broadly tagging, we display information specific to the building in a manner in which the virtual (iPhone) serves to enhance the physical (N Building). Our goal is to provide an incentive to visit the space and a virtual connection to space without necessarily being present.

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