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Testing 2.0

Monday, April 3rd, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

imageThanks to one of his quotes,
I found this interesting documentary (dutch, sorry guys) of Edsger W. Dijkstra.

In some way his plead is against unnecessary versioning, which even closed source vendors as Microsoft are starting to use for many reasons.

According to the documentary he is fighting an unwinnable battle, which reminds me of the math give-up post. The innovation that
web 2.0 is bringing so fast is great, let’s hope most of it is stable.

Revver: Money!

Monday, April 3rd, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

bloggerIf you liked the Weblognieuws idea, you’re going to like Revver.
They do pay for your videos, what I call good competition for Youtube, Google and others.

For the Bloggers b5media and instablogs pay for posts, although very unknown and still unprofitable (thx. Marco). Solution for being unknown, is having a large community. In that case large community portals are sitting on gold. Sad again to my knowledge they aren’t trying it.

Neither do I understand why all these clones aren’t even trying yet to connect one of these payment-systems to their site. Use credits or other virtual money if you haven’t got the money (like the habbo hotel and many role-play and gaming communities), just get visitors accustomed to it. Quick. Why do traditional media wait till there is a crazy social site to take over this local news market?

Update: Blogcharm, Scooptwords and Blogburst pay as well bloggers.

Update 2: Eefoof, payperpost do it too.

Podcast Logo

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

podcast logo
 
I hope they find something more original than this.
 
 
A standarized logo would be useful.
 

Time

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Just passed an interesting time.

Newton Chemistry Notes

Thursday, April 6th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

isaacnewton

After Darwins Notes,

now its Isaac Newton turn with
his chemistry notes online.
 
 

10050 Dollar Laptop

Thursday, April 6th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Ambitions get higher and higher to help technology in poor countries..

Return of the fucked up banners

Friday, April 7th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

NASA goes space flight 2.0

Saturday, April 8th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

With increasing competition NASA is adapting, that’s good.

Your favourite movie re-inacted by bunnies

Sunday, April 9th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Titanic Bunnies It’s Sunday evening and nothing much to do than browsing the net or watch movie trailers. On the weblogs everything is quiet as it is in the local bars.

I think everybody has a social life other than on the net in the weekends :-) Not me, so I start reading old post and stuff on various weblogs. Today I came across a nice post on the Dutch weblog Retecool.com. The post highlights the amazingly funny website Angryalien.com and it’s newest animation of the ‘Reservoir Dogs‘ in 30 seconds and re-inacted by bunnies.

More of these 30 second movie trailer animations can be found on their main site.

Never Never Land

Monday, April 10th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Home of XDForum and a Crazy man…

love xdwebCurrently I am building a new wp based community site with Wordpress 2.0.2 To make it a community website I needed some new Wordpress features:

1) a forum linked with WP profiles
2) a 1 to 1 chat
3) profile pages linked to profile names

Well I expected hell trying to piece everything together. Then I found this websites where just a few guys are just building it and updating it everyday. Everything is still beta but it works great. So if you need a forum on WP use XFforum, need a chat use XFtalk, need profile page like ok offcourse that plugin and readme will be uploaded tommorow.

I love these guys: www.xdweb.net :-)

update: This is so cool! A PROFILE PAGE FOR WORDPPRESS on your fp

Whole internet for Sale

Monday, April 10th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

crunchYour content, anything online really, just got ripped for nothing and sold!

Enjoy while this lasts
 
 

Open Source phone has arrived ?

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

sigSIP has been around for a long time. Moreover, its a fundamental part in the 3G phone plans, which is all about using your phone more over the internet (which is much more than just website browsing). The good news is that with SIP your phone can become as open source and adjustable as the computer is at the moment and its becoming standard soon!
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.EU domain rage was corrupted?

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

landrush

Not sure how true this story is, but the possibility of it isn’t very comforting. To quote from the article directly:

The big losers are the Europeans.
The irony of this fiasco is that the primary victims will be the Europeans. Because of the way the EURid registry allowed the landrush process to be gamed, the Europeans will have to pay ultra high premium prices for many of the names they should have had fair access to during the landrush period. This assumes that they’ll be able to get those names to begin with.

Where is data-retention heading?

Thursday, April 13th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

General dutch article talks about the lack of vision and discussion in Dutch society. Especially regarding the implications. I cannot agree more.

Why to use Firefox

Friday, April 14th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Want to know why you should use firefox?

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Let’s Bomb Iran!

Saturday, April 15th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Parody of The Beach Boys “Barbara Ann”. Visit LetsBombIran.com for lyrics and more protest videos.

Cyborg studies

Monday, April 17th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

cyborgsThe multiplicitry and complexity of the cyborg paradigm has attracted many to it because it leads to a reconception of self in ways they belief both more accurate and more politically repsonsible that what they take to be the traditional Western emphasis on unified being.

Nice link list with social scientific cyborg studies.

Ignore bloggers at your peril

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a “disproportionately large influence” on society, according to a report by a technology research company. Its study suggests that although “active” web users make up only a small proportion of Europe’s online population, they are increasingly dominating public conversations and creating business trends.

More than half of the internet users on the continent are passive and do not contribute to the web at all, while a further 23% only respond when prompted. But the remainder who do engage with the net - through messageboards, websites and blogs - are helping change the national conversation, say researchers.(…)

Mr Reynolds admits the idea of small groups being able to pressurise wider decisions is nothing new, but those who ignore online buzz do so at their peril: “You can bury your head in the sand, but very quickly you’ll look like a very old-fashioned company.” (…)

Website: http://technology.guardian.co.uk

Thanks Nodog!

P2P Foundation

Friday, April 21st, 2006 by Vincent Barnhard

On Wednesday I had a meeting with Tijs Teulings, Peter Kaptein and James Burke in Amsterdam. We spoke about webtech and virtual community building (tools). James is (like me) intellectually very interested in community building and peer to peer networks. In short more interesting stuff from our little beer drinking network / discussion group soon.

Anyway, James mailed me an interesting discussion website The Foundation for P2P Alternatives on which he is writing:

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Beware the Wheelchair

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Tank Chair is a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you to get back to nature, and can also climb up and down stairs.

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Digg Controversy

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

digg problem

Nobody online can be totally objective, no problem. Only when sensoring comes into play however this becomes a problem. No idea what happened exactly between Digg and Forevergeek but something is up apparently. Wiki is updated as well.

ChinaCrunch

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Sort of Techcrunch, only then China Orientated.

I’ve only visited 16% of the World

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 by Vincent Barnhard

I’ve only visited 36 countries (16%) of the World :-(
Great site: www.world66.com [via]

Monkidoe

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

bannerAn ensemble of painters, Monkidoe, is helping Rotterdam to color the city a bit more with graffiti-pictures of children from the hood.
 
On www.cineac.tv is an interview with them (Realplayer / Dutch).
 
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Mobile Wiki

Thursday, April 27th, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

miki

While in Finland complete cities skip landlines and go pure mobile, a new mobile wiki platform has launched, miki. Although I think eventually mobiles are going to be so powerful that they don’t care if something is built for mobiles or not it does amplify the focus on more publishing that is more mobile-minded.