Internet User Who Joins Service And Then Quits Immediately

Yep, it's about Twitter, one of the most, if not the most pointless, time-wasting fads that came out of the big ol' Web 2.0. Like it or not, more than half of Twitter's users never even posted a single tweet, let alone 'followed' anyone. Read the report at Ars.

Οδεύουμε προς μια έντονα συγκρουσιακή κοινωνία.

Συμβολικό, ίσως σχεδόν λυρικό σε σημεία κι'όμως τόσο ακριβές. Το άρθρο της Tασουλας Kαραϊσκακη στην Καθημερινή σκιαγραφεί την ολοένα εντονότερη εθνικιστική, μισαλλόδοξη κοινωνία στην οποία ζούμε. Μια κοινωνία που αποτελείται από ομάδες που αγνοούν πως να συμβιώσουν μεταξύ τους, που στερούνται τους θεσμούς και τη πολιτισμική κληρονομιά που θα τους επέτρεπε να προοδεύσουν μαζί. Μια κοινωνία που --- σαφώς --- οφείλει να 'μάθει' γρήγορα και να αλλάξει εαν πρόκεται να επιβιώσει.

Forget me not!

Canonical announces its support for Moblin, just a year after Intel dropped Ubuntu as the basis for the project in favour of Fedora. A great move by Canonical, as Moblin seems to provide the best overall optimisations for netbooks --- and some really great æsthetics/usability --- for that class of devices.

Google Wave First Impressions

Google Wave, a new API/protocol and platform was presented on Google I It’s a hosted, embeddable communications and collaboration platform that introduces quite a few interesting features that are currently either not available or require multiple service vendors It was written in Java Google has made it clear that the protocol is going to be […]

Moblin: Proof that Corporate Support Needed.

If anything the sudden appearance of Moblin 2.0 Beta and its excellent User Interface has proven, beyond any doubt, that corporate support is essential if linux — and the open source community — is going to survive beyond a very very small niche. Linux on the server has been doing well despite Microsoft’s pretty good […]

Why Desktop Linux Sucks

“…And what can we do about it”. Linux usability (and the sorry state of desktop linux) has become a staple of this blog, but bear with me for a bit. Here’s a video by Bryan Lunduke from the Linux Action Show with reasons why the linux desktop still sucks for many (most) users. This comes […]