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DailyDeli for 2007-02-15
Mainly technological stuff today (but a lot ;-)). Focus on Python libs and tools, Semantic Web, OpenSouce GIS stuff as well as physical computing (something new for me):
DailyDeli for 2007-02-14
Quite a mix ranging from a standalone flash video player (with a liberallicense), a python based feed aggregator and an opensource product code database to Yahoo!’s mediarss extension: Read the rest of this entry »
2006 World Digital Publishing Conference- The guardian gets it ;-)
Last week the 1st World Digital Publishing Conference took place in London. Unfortunately only the summaries of the different talks are available. There is also only little resonance in the blogosphere.
As somebody with a technological background i’m especially pleased with the following quote:
“We need to realize that our star software developers are as important to our business as our star journalists. I think if we said this three years ago, it would have been heresy, but I think it is true.”
Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
Compare this to the absence technical people i noted in my newspaper next article.
Chumby and Greenphone, opening up the embedded device market
Recently two hardware announcements caught my interest, not only because cool mobile devices were introduced. More interestingly to me was the fact they brought the openness we all know from the open source software on our PCs and Laptops to the embedded devices market.
First Qtopia, announced the greenphone, a mobile phone that targets developers and geeks by enabling them to reflash the phones memory. This week, chumby.com, goes even a step further. Their device, the chumby, targeted to replace the good old radio clock at your bedsite with something cool is more or less completely open. This means that you not only can download the software powering the device but also the 2D and 3D data files for the boards and the casings as well as a bill of materials etc.
So why is this important ? Let’s have a closer look.
The greenphone — freeing the creativity of developers from the restrictions of the phone manufacturers and mobile operators
Normally flashing a phone’s memory is something that can only be done by the manufacturer of the phone. In addition, Qtopia adds a version of its well known Qtopia SDK to the package.
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The chumby — a fully open gadget
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