Listening in to several videos on DSLRs and lenses… Nikkor DX lens tour: Nikon D80: Canon EOS 400D: buon weekend, nchenga
Category: tech
sakku.worker
Via this Flickr comment I heard that there’s a Sakku competition for bloggers… I already blogged about Sakku bags some time ago. And I would love to win a bag. As a knowledge worker and digital nomad, I believe I’m the right candidate 🙂 I’ll write a review. Take photos. And test the solar cells… Continue reading sakku.worker
Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications
for future reference: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them
On Mashups
for future reference: ProgrammableWeb: How to Make Your Own Web Mashup
Bringing technology to Africa
Here’s a cross-reference to Mike McKay’s blog post on TED and Africa: Hacktivate » TED gives Africans free laptops
nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
How many online services did you sign up for, use once or twice, and then never return again? In my case, that would be lots of ’em. Some of them are really popular services like Digg or Mister Wong, where I just haven’t found a personal use case, or I’ve got a substitute or workaround.… Continue reading nchenga’s Web 2.0 roundup: Links and comments
Google Street Views
With all of the FOG posts regarding Google Maps street views, I decided to have a closer look. It’s a cool tool. I like it very much and can easily imagine using a Wifi-enabled smart phone and this to navigate thru cities unknown. e.g. Whole Foods on 4th near Moscone – an essential alternative to… Continue reading Google Street Views
Fiber and solar-powered towers
An American tech entrepreneur, dreams of bringing the Internet to Rwanda. via Lunch over IP.
Blog resource links
Here are a couple of starting points: Blog hosting Three possibilities: Sign up with a hosted service such as WordPress.com, Typepad or Vox (fastest cos it takes all of 5 mins). Sign up with a webspace provider that already includes blog software in their package. Sign up with a webspace provider that offers PHP 4.x… Continue reading Blog resource links
Beryl
for future reference (when I get myself an Ubuntu laptop): Beryl-project.org
Podcasting: The Beginner’s Guide
for future reference: Podcasting: The Beginner’s Guide If you have any tips on good and inexpensive digital recorders or mics, feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment. Inspired by Pauline’s podcast interview…
CSS Positioning
Useful reminder when divs start getting more and more confusing: CSS Positioning
The Nihilist Impulse
For future reference: Eurozine article by Geert Lovink on weblogs via Bruno Giussani
Adding a Flickr gallery to my website
Like Stefan, I’m looking for a simple way to display my Flickr photos on my website. A couple of weeks ago I had a short look at the tan tan noodles album. Today I tried out Satellite. It’s a simple php program that connects to your Flickr account. Simple and easy in setup. There are… Continue reading Adding a Flickr gallery to my website
Free Software for Malawi
Alex Antener presents a talk on his Malawi projects: Freie Software – Eine Chance für Afrika, (in German) Very interesting, and lots of screens with GNU Linux. [update] The official recording of the talk is available online.
Overcoming the Digital Divide in Malawi
Interesting: Overcoming the Digital Divide in Malawi via Hacktivate
A conference about technology in our society.
yay, I’m going to LIFT 07. How about you?
Malawi bloggers on Madonna
My Google alert for news on Malawi has never had so many US and European articles as in the past months. All because of Madonna. Topics such as the last General Elections or bad harvests – which have a much bigger impact – were only covered by the usual outlets (BBC World, CNN). I remember… Continue reading Malawi bloggers on Madonna
OpenBC IPO
just stumbled across this news item at GigaOM: First Web 2.0 IPO, Xing? Does anyone have more details?
GooTube
Om Malik was wrong and the rumors were right: Google purchases Youtube for 1.65 bn $. Somehow I felt Google wouldn’t be put off by the copyright nightmare. What’s next? P.S. GooTube is already taken.
off the beaten track
This guy has got some very nice WordPress themes: wildbits — Kram
Customizing Vanilla
for future reference: Customizing Vanilla
scrolling infinitely
Scoble says: It’s my thesis that people will scroll almost infinitely. Just give them high-quality stuff. At Microsoft they did research and found most people won’t click on the “next” button. But, they will scroll. You’ll notice that the search engine at live.com doesn’t ever end. If I remember the research right they are finding… Continue reading scrolling infinitely
on writing white papers
For future reference: How to write white papers.
MarComm Writing Tactics
Can technical writers be good marketing writers – and vice versa? The above presentation notes are old (from 2002 i.e. definitely Web 1.0), but the question is interesting… what’s your opinion on this? (update: unfortunately the site seems to be down. Note to myself: write a short summary of the main points for future reference.)