Archive | January, 2010

The Virtual Revolution covered by the BBC

31 Jan

The Virtual Revolution refers to the fact that 20-25% of the word’s population is using the web by now, while other 80% are yet either not connected to broadband connections or are just not using it, as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, states. In Afrika for example, people are now getting connected [...]

What is PupSubHubUp?

28 Jan

Pubsubhubbub is “A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub protocol & open source reference implementation“. But what does this mean? The following video explains it very well:

[livestream] – Apple iPad the new Apple Tablet

27 Jan

Apple has just announced the new Apple iPad. Everybody interesting in watching the live event should have a look at ustream.com. Great event and great device. Will have a try hopefully soon!

“The Age of Privacy is Over” says Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg

10 Jan

On a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg states that if he’d start facebook again all privacy settings by DEFAULT would be PUBLIC. A very interesting approach which leads to the question if people want if all of their data is available publicly? I personally do not. Here [...]

Problems with WordPress Automatic Upgrade solved

8 Jan

Image via CrunchBase While trying to upgrade my WordPress installation from version 2.9 to version 2.9.1 I always got the following error: Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.9.1.zip. Download failed.: Operation timed out with 1201840 out of -1 bytes received Installation Failed After doing some research using Google I found a solution to that problem: You just [...]