DISQUS

Isn't this like the portals from the mid-90's? Its just a collection of feeds... I already do that innovation with my own start page. (alternatively, poor man style, save everything in a Firefox folder, and let it open up all in new tabs :P)

Ouch, looks painful! Tattoos are life changing, from what I hear. Does it represent a significant moment in life?

Try Mugshot. I wrote a little comparison of the two... http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/03/01...

Hi! Can you enable, in Viddler, for us to download the interview? I'd like to watch it offline...

Thanks

Congratulations on going to the rally. I'm so happy that more and more Malaysians are going, waking up, feeling alive

Amazing, as always. Your writing is awe-inspiring, and the photographs are great :) I have a feeling you're going to do really well in Journalism-school.

Please, please, publish full feeds.

If you want to keep the web page more "active", just publish an excerpt on the web page, and truncate it at say 1000 characters. But let the RSS feed itself, be a full feed. It only takes a tiny amount of hacking to do this, and a good example of "truncation" in action are:

* http://www.planet-php.net/ (look for the "Truncated by planet PHP". This could be implemented better as the RSS feed is also truncated :()
* http://www.planetmysql.org/ (look for the "read more" on the Web, but then realise that the RSS feed is the complete full feed)

So I'd say Planet MySQL got it right at the moment. If you visit the website, you only get fresh content, all truncated and so on. If you grab the RSS feed, you get it all, no "more" link...

I for one use Liferea or Google Reader to read the AppsLab blog, and if I'm offline, go on missing articles that I could have enjoyed.

Congratulations. Looks like it was a great talk, and when I'm near a computer, will take a gander at the other media you uploaded. But seriously, congratulations and I can't wait to see even better things happen for you.

Well, Microsoft has always been thinking they've got patents that Linux violates. In fact, do you recollect SCO vs. IBM? That looks like a war that ends with one company becoming bankrupt ;-)

Software patents itself, are silly.

Novell recently got into bed with Microsoft to "avoid" such patent problems. Of course, they did it to survive, and everyone generally views them as a sell out...

Keep in mind that if you buy Red Hat, you're protected against lawsuits. FWIW, that also applies to Novell these days.

So is Microsoft going to start suing? I seriously, doubt it. They've also recently started "loving" open source - look at their Port25 effort.

So, pfingo is basically a SIP client, and their service is a SIP registra. Its a case of bring your own SIM, use whatever WiFi connection is available, and be pfingo enabled?

I guess the pfingoACTIVE is what makes this application a steal. Otherwise, the Nokia phone's themselves come with a SIP client, the only catch is connecting to a SIP registra (say, gizmophone)

Wonder if it'll be available worldwide (I am very rarely in Singapore, once a year if I'm lucky - love your airport where I transit regularly, but here's hoping the service works in Australia and Malaysia).

Do continue telling us how it goes, its might interesting to see whats happening in the VoIP/WiFi space, as more phones are WiFi enabled. Cell phone companies are so going to "enjoy" the competition.

24 days to graduation, I'm sure you can sacrifice rss, and twitter. In fact, on the Mac I notice i've got a ridiculous amount of popups (go Growl!) - 1001 for flickr, twitter (something I've just started using, so now follow you too), IM, transmission completing, skype, etc. If you use newsfire, you'll see rss feed updates!

I notice that on linux, I've just got Mugshot (not available on mac) notifying me. As well as IM...

Maybe the key is to disabling growl for a period of time? ;-)

Anyways, all the best!

So, is the E65 any better than the N73? :-)

OMG! Life saviour. I hate the annoying blue light. Thanks for the tip. Though I'm beginning to hate the phone in general - frequent crashes, hangs, and so on. It does the job of a camera well, but fails in its basic task of being a device to make and receive phone calls.

All the best for the surgery, tell us how it goes. Its something that even I've considered... but not done.

Well, notice how everything they make works with Firefox? Nobody cares about the OS - what's underneath is insignificant. It can be Ubuntu (Free), Windows or OS X for all they care.

As long as you can do *everything* in the browser, they'd be pleased. That in itself is what makes the "operating system experience" useful.

When you download a Linux distribution, you get a useful office suite, graphics editing packages, and so on. When you buy Windows, you get just that - the base OS. Its those users whom Google will benefit from.

After all, they've got the basic/most important things that people use: office software. And mail. And calendering. Need I go on?

(oh, and you'd get all these ads delivered nicely inside the browser. No pain of creating an OS for consumers...)