31 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Herbert Mühlburger In: computer science| internet| videos
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 [...]
28 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Herbert Mühlburger In: Programming| computer science| google| internet
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:
27 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Herbert Mühlburger In: computer science
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!
10 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Herbert Mühlburger In: computer science| internet| web2.0
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 [...]
08 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Herbert Mühlburger In: blogging| computer science| writing
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 need to edit the following [...]
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