Hiya my fellow blog readers, it’s been a while since my last post. Today, I would like to share again some nice links with you and I will start with some pretty fascinating talks of the 26C3 (Chaos Communication Congress ) in Berlin. There is firstly the talk about liquid democracy, a very interesting talk [...]
The first link is about a presentation hold a few weeks ago at the University of Manchester about which part cloud computing could play in future development of the web and managment of data.
The next link you could call, google street view advanced. It is an website which enables you to do go on a [...]
Google Wave is an great idea. It implements an open protocol, a platform with an API and a product with an GUI. The concept combines all great inventions and tools for communication on the Internet of the past days like email, wikis, forums, discussion groups and so on in one tool called “the Wave”. The [...]
Prezi is a service for creating presentations online. These are a little bit different as you know from usually presentations like Powerpoint. The main idea is that you have a big map and in the presentation you navigate through this map. But check out yourself in the short tutorial.
If your are a friend of quick references you will love this site Quick Reference Cards.
If you want to create simple flash animations like my one here, take a look on the site of the simple Java open source software Draw SWF.
Fancy that, some day cells will form the hardware and genes the software of machines. This says Paul Rothemund on his talks at the TED conference and it makes sense to me the more I think about it, but watch for yourself.
As a enthusiastic supporter of open source software and development I have to brief you about FOSDEM. Which is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. Video Recordings of the past events can you find here.
Probably you know the videos, music, maps and other on pages like youtube that uses content from more than one source to create a something completely new. Those are called mashups. Creating mashups by yourself is even simpler as never before, through the API of third party sites or even simpler with mashup websites like [...]
If you don’t know yet Python, shame on you ^^. Python is a swiss army knife under the programming languages like Perl, but unlike Perl it’s readable and easy to learn.
One of many strengths of Python is it to combine different languages. I used it first time for writing a small launch menu in the [...]
