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Trip to Mountain View next Tuesday

I have a trip to Mountain View next Tuesday and I’ll stay there for almost three weeks!

I can’t wait to see the new Flock’s office and the atmosphere of聽 The Forge 馃槈 See you there all!

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Microsoft is working on three IE versions at the same time now!

Cite from networks.sillicon.com:

“Gates said Microsoft is already working on the next two versions after IE 7”

Mozilla is also working on Fx 2.0 and 3.0 at the same time, next race is just about to begin…

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LightBox rox!

Oh, this user script is great! It’s exactly the direction where we should go – make web easier to use, reduce the number of steps you need to perform an action, improve the speed of web usage…

Hell! Even ignore the website author intention if it slows down the user. Yes, I mean that, I said that! User must be the winner, we have good browsers now, we have Firefox, Camino, Seamonkey, Epiphany, K-meleon, Opera, they’re all good, but we must go to the next stage.

And the next stage is not about creating a great tool to click on the links and move back and forward. It’s about creating shortcuts through the Internet. It’s about creating algorithms that will influence the user experience, modify the websites (platypus is on the right direction), change their layout, design, aggregate data from the websites and show it to the user in the most convinient way.

In the future there will be no split into web authors and web users, every user will co-create the Internet, what was the intention of Tim Berners-Lee, and聽 the whole design and layout of the web page will be just a default skin, that user can use to to read the data, and will change if he won’t like it. Sorry, not much space for you,聽 client-side web developers, you’ll have to morph into skin authors who’ll create set of skins for companies that will share it to the users.聽 I don’t think that the WWW world is ready for this, but I know that users are. And it’s all about the users ;>

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iPod, the MS way…

Great self-joke from Microsoft folks. The style vs. fashion again?

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Web 2.0 browser

There is only one browser in the world that can compete with Flock today for the crown of The Web 2.0 browser.

It’s Deer Park alpha2 trunk nightly from Gecko Reflow branch – it supports AJAX, it supports DHTML, hell, it fixes the only Acid2 bug there is, but what makes it a truly Web 2.0 browser by heart and soul is that it goes one step forward. It does not support tables at all! Brave step 馃檪

Seriously, I’m happy to notice that David Baron is working on tables now and it seems that we’ll have the first builds that will render Acid2 properly (and zillion other reflow and incremental bugs fixed) very soon. Gecko 1.9 will rock :>

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OS X Tiger demo

Mac OS X demo. Sweet 馃檪

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Project Watcher

Projects I’m interested in:

Games:

Graphic, game engines

Linux:

Internet:

Tools:

This is a list of projects that I’m currently watching, I’m trying to find news about them, digging their Wiki’s, Bugzilla’s, SVN’s. I’m testing nightlies, I’m trying to support some of them and I’m definitly waiting for every new version.What is the best with this list, is that you can get ALL of this for FREE. Without a single penny. I’m sure that the list is not full, and I’ll try to update it and possible move it from diary post into a page on my diary so everyone could use it to find interesting projects.

I’d like to see other people creating such list on their own so I can find other interesting projects. If you have a second, and some projects that you’re watching, create such a list and ping me back!

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Jogger story

Ci, kt贸rzy mnie znaj膮, wiedz膮, 偶e jedn膮 z rzeczy, kt贸rych w internecie nie cierpie jest Jogger. Mam ku temu swoje powody, zainteresowanym przed艂o偶y艂em je nie raz przy niejednym piwie…

Zbli偶amy si臋 w艂a艣nie do wydania Joggera 2.0, kt贸ry zdaje si臋 by膰 absolutnie nietrafion膮 odpowiedzi膮, czemu dziwi膰 si臋 nie mo偶na skoro jego rozw贸j mia艂 z modelem open source ma艂o wsp贸lnego, a na dodatek osoba, kt贸ra “sprawuje opiek臋” nad Joggerem (jak niegdy艣 Beeth na IrcNetem), uraczy艂a Nas takimi oto kwiatkami. (update: Koledzy z Opery te偶 zostali uraczeni floodem) Czy to, 偶e taki co艣 zdarza si臋 nie po raz pierwszy wystarczy, 偶eby uzna膰 Joggera za 藕r贸d艂o 艣miecenia i blokowa膰 go?

Nie wiem czy to wina Planety czy Joggera, raczej stawiam na Joggera, bo planty s膮 u偶ywane od lat w wielu miejscach na 艣wiecie, a takie co艣 widuj臋 (nie po raz pierwszy) wy艂膮cznie tam gdzie planeta agreguje joggerowc贸w…Feed wydaje si臋 by膰 w porz膮dku wi臋c moje podejrzenia kieruj膮 si臋 w stron臋 wniosku, 偶e feed by艂 nieprawid艂owy w momencie agregacji.

W ka偶dym razie mam od dawna poczucie, 偶e projekt Jogger ma niewiele wsp贸lnego z tym co nazywamy spo艂ecznym internetem, jego funkcjonalno艣膰 jest na tyle odleg艂a od funkcjonalno艣ci innych system贸w blogowania i na tyle ubo偶sza, 偶e za ka偶dym razem jak korzystam z bloga postawionego na joggerze, to kln臋 jego tw贸rc臋, bo gdyby joggera by艂 nie stworzy艂, to autor mo偶e u偶y艂by np. blogger.com albo wordpress.com… I ja, jako czytelnik, 偶ycie mia艂bym 艂atwiejsze 馃檨

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Elephants Dream come true!

Hoah! Belive it or not, we’re 3 weeks from premiere of the first full screen movie created only with Open Source tools! It was create with Blender3D. It’s so cool to see the new areas where OS solutions are being used succesfully.

The message is clear, hey! If you want to create animations you don’t have to steal the software! Blender is out there for you!
I’m not 3D Artists, but I heard only one complain against Blender – it has more complex UI than 3DS. I tried working with some Blender tutorials and now I have to confirm. 3DS has ordinary, simple for beginners UI, while Blender has one of the best pieces of work I have ever seen. Their UI is innovative and intuitive (once you know it) that I’m wondering why other tools never started using things like top menu, it’s soooooooo cool 馃檪 Try it, read tutorials, comment…

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Google planet!

So, Piotr Konieczny created a Google Planet service which is for sure a very interesting idea. We use planets, we aggregate data, and Google is the term we’re looking for. So, Google Planet is the answer.

I don’t think it’ll last long till Google will contact Piotr and ask him to shut down the planet or at least rebrand it, cause at the moment it can be easly confused with original Google web service due to design.

Anyway, if you like to know what’s on the grill there, Google planet is for you 馃檪