Why Google should not aquire Twitter…

Twitter does not define any open standards. Actually microblogging is not high tech. On instant messaging Google chose the open Jabber/XMPP standard. Twitter is technological rather uninteresting. The only interesting subject could be the user base. OTOH those who buy Twitter will have to deal with all the old cruft.
Google did buy the [...]

Make movies free (Theora video)

As I wanted to (for the first time) convert an MP4 video to a patent free version with OGG Theora I found that the solutions is simple. There is a command line tool “ffmpeg2theora” for Unix systems. This is part of “OggConvert” and sure is available for many Unix based operating systems.
I started “GNU Screen” [...]

How free desktops like GNOME and KDE could improve marketing

As I have decided to become a bit more engaged in GNOME marketing by contributing ideas, working on the wiki and providing patches for the web pages I have rethought how marketing can be done by a free desktop like GNOME or KDE:
I found that there is often an important miscalculation made. Like in the [...]

Using and supporting Wikia NOW!

I like to do a little promotion for the Wikia search engine. Not really because its better as Google already – but because its nice to work with. If you search the results are often bad. But you can help making them better by adding URLs and by voting on the results, or changing the [...]

Getting some flash with swfdec under OpenBSD 4.3 ~current

As I havent been very successfull using Gnash as a flash replacement under OpenBSD I decided to check out swfdec as a replacement. This has been partly successfull. Youtube? No, that crashes on Firefox.
But here is how I did it so far: First I got the latest ports tree. How to do this you should [...]

Linux users not allowed to download Chrome browser?

You might say: well its only for Windows – but thats not the problem. Linux should be ok to run a Windows application with WINE – or even can download via Linux and than have a Windows machine access the setup file. But Google seems to either think that Linux has no WINE for running [...]

Googles Chrome looks good

I have read the comic about Googles new chrome browser and I must day I am impressed. It targets some points I like to see in browsers:

They call it “omnibar” – others say Opera was the first – personally I know it from Epiphany for ages – and Epi still is ahead in the implementation [...]

Fixing Adblock Plus on Firefox

As Epiphany on Ubuntu constantly crashes with Flash I needed to go back to usage of Firefox. Its so complicated t use, although it partly has added some Epiphany features like when you type it searches in your bookmarks – what Epi providied since ages. I still dont have illigent search like on Epi where [...]

mixxt social network = ridiculous

As mixxt was suggested as an opportunity for the Webmontag to use it for social networking I looked at it. And I found that it does not even meet some minimum requirement. This one minimum requirement for a social network from my view is TLS support. You can not expect users to log in via [...]

The results of using the internet wrong

This article really got me thinking twice!