Archive for September, 2005
Yup, del.icio.us, the house of collaborative bookmarking turns two today! So here’s a big Happy birthday to them!
For those who might not know what I’m talking about, and never noticed my del.icio.us bookmarks on the right sidebar of this blog, imagine being able to share all your favorite bookmarks with the world. Later when searching for a particular subject, instead of getting all the pages that mention that particular term you have a listing with all the bookmarks people have marked as being relevant for that term in particular.
September 16th, 2005
Starting after tomorrow in London, Podcastcon will be the very first conference dedicated on podcasts!
Nicole is going to be there, and I’ll wait anxiously for her notes on this, from a quick peek on the confirmed talks there are some that i’ll probably will listen later on:
but you can check pretty much everything about the conference at the wiki they have online. For now if you’re interested you have some pre-conference podcasts recorded by Nicole in antecipation for the conference.
September 15th, 2005
According to the Internet News, Google’s Sumer of Code program designed to introduce students to the open-source software development world as ended!
At the end it scored more than double the participants originally suposed to enter this program, scoring as high as 410 participants and 38 helped projects according to this same article. Each successful coder received $4,500 for his work, and to the mentoring organizations were offered $500 for each developer project they oversaw.
The Apache Software Foundation topped the list of awards at 38 projects and KDE came in second at 24.
On the list also appeared:
but the list doesn’t end here, many other projects were sponsered by this inovativeGoogleprogram.
September 12th, 2005
Comes in two different flavours, black and white, 2 and 4 Gb, and I must confess I find it fantastic! Just take look at it’s specs, in particular it’s dimensions.
If what you’re looking is more like a phone, I guess there’s something for you two! 
September 7th, 2005
I’ve been taking some photos along this year’s YAPC, and will put them gradually online here. You can check more photos here.
September 1st, 2005
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