Today I will talk about some tools I’m using daily, namely feedreaders. It is likely that at least a good half of the people with whom I’m working use these readers in order to browse among dozens, if not hundreds of feeds. For the readers of this blog who don’t use such tools, here’s a […]
Charles @ April 29, 2008
The Cloud, Web 2.0 | Comments (0)
I don’t write that much about the overhyped “web 2.0″ name, but this article from TechCrunch got me thinking. Could there be a new and an old Microsoft? Could there be the Microsoft we all know (Windows, MS Office, OOXML, monopoly) and another Microsoft (young, web 2.0-ish, cloud-oriented) and blissfully unaware of the methods of the past? I […]
Charles @ March 13, 2008
Open Standards, OOXML, Ars Aperta, Web 2.0 | Comments (3)
The title of this piece is an old French saying. You will soon understand what it means. Forget a moment about the Microsoft-Yahoo stories. They’re important, although even the best take on them, in my opinion, still largely misses one important element of the proposed deal: Namely, that such an acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft […]
Charles @ February 8, 2008
Open Standards, OOXML, Ars Aperta, Web 2.0, General | Comments (1)
Microsoft claims it was IBM who really screwed the whole OOXML standardization process. I beg to differ. Ars Aperta did most of the work! And it does not stop there. Ars Aperta is secretly in command of IBM (that’s the High Command Center against Microsoft and Everything American I have been mentioning here from time […]
Charles @ February 1, 2008
Web 2.0, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format | Comments (0)
- “Microsoft denied on Friday antitrust claims from Opera Software that the software giant is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the Internet Explorer Web browser.” I love this sentence.
- It’s been a long time I haven’t talked about OpenOffice.org. Some news: OpenOffice.org released the bug-fixing 2.3.1 recently. Grab it here.
- There […]
Charles @ December 14, 2007
Web 2.0, General | Comments (0)
Below you will find some links to resources that provide information on a broad range of topics, but each of them shows what can be achieved to help such things as transparency, free markets, democracy, and participation. Some of them accuse, others help promote and build a better world. Don’t think I’m an idealist. I’m […]
Charles @ November 20, 2007
Open Source, Free Software, Web 2.0, OpenDocument Format | Comments (0)
Lots of interesting things happened these last days, and I was slow to catch up with them. A few of my highlights below:
Rob Weir from IBM talks about the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and that’s what will shut the mouth of lots of OOXML minions. I’ve had enough of them bragging about the ability to […]
Charles @ October 28, 2007
Web 2.0, OpenOffice.org | Comments (0)
As the OOoCON 2007 is now over, some of you may ask what OpenOffice.org has in store for 2007 and 2008?
That’s a good question. I’ll try to answer it. There will be two major milestones for OpenOffice.org in 2008. The first one will be the final agreement on MS OOXML. The outcome of this decision […]
Charles @ September 27, 2007
Web 2.0, OpenOffice.org | Comments (0)
Today was the first « real » day of the conference.
I’m just done with my own presentation whose slides are available on the conference web site. Live coverage is done by Kiberpipa, a great team from Slovenia who’s been working with us ever since three years. Kudos to them!
Now Rob Weir is talking about interoperability (much […]
Charles @ September 19, 2007