These Things Matter to Me
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Monitoring Chrome's Ascent
In the 24 hours since Google released Chrome, its browser share has reached 2.6%, at least amongst the 45,000 sites tracked by browser stats tool GetClicky.
Do with that information what you like.
(via Techcrunch)
Labels: browser, chrome, Google Reader, market share, oss, webkit
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Second big day for Opentape. Community + Policy.
- If you know anything about licensing, and would like to help a great free software project out, considering talking with Opentape. It looks like they need guidance choosing a license, and would prefer to package up some stuff made of disparate permissive licenses (MIT, GPL, etc) along with their own code.
- Opentape now has forums! This is great. People are submitting bugs, requesting features... all that good stuff.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
UbuntuLive presentation slides: Ubuntu Virtual Appliances. Best Practices (ever).
UbuntuLive is live!
My talk isn't until this afternoon, but I want attendees to be able to have access to my slides to take notes on, without having to wait until after the talk.
UbuntuLive is live!
My talk isn't until this afternoon, but I want attendees to be able to have access to my slides to take notes on, without having to wait until after the talk.
- .odp slides (Open Office format, edit inside of.)
- .pdf slides (pdf format. Less editing options, but simpler for some.)
Labels: conference, event, linux, live, open.source, oreilly, oss, slides, ubuntu, ubuntulive, ubuntulive07, ubuntulive2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
These Links Matter to You. Monday May 7, 2007
(ideally this cat pidgin will be charming, hilarious, and familiar to readers of i can has cheezburger and Anil Dash)
(ideally this cat pidgin will be charming, hilarious, and familiar to readers of i can has cheezburger and Anil Dash)- This commenter on Matt Asay's InfoWorld blog has a theory that IBM will buy Novell (to get SUSE), that IBM helped Novell buy SUSE, and that ex-IBM execs are already slowly filling Novell VP spots
- Comcast is going to use open source + commercial application Zimbra to manage 12 million + mail accounts
- Ubuntu working with Intel on a mobile/ embedded edition of Ubuntu.
- Sun is helping port OpenOffice on the Mac with two dedicated engineers.
- New York Observer magazine recently relaunched their website using Drupal. With notes on the how. And why yes I will continue to document major commercial implementations of open source software like Drupal until y'all bow down and concede that open source is just fine for "mission critical" applications. Sheesh.
Labels: comcast, drupal, embedded, intel, mac, mobile, open source, openoffice, oss, social software, sysadmin, ubuntu, zimbra
Monday, January 22, 2007
And which do you choose, a hard or soft option? Drupal 5.0 is out, does Internet, Intranet, content, collaboration!
(original screenshot snagged from Drupal.org's 5.0 screenshot page)
What's Drupal? Drupal is open source software. Drupal can be used to manage blogs, communities, newspapers, magazines, forums, wikis, on-line video channels, and other kinds of content. You've probably visited a site powered by Drupal, and not even realized it! ('Da Drupes is humble like that.)
A new version of Drupal, Drupal 5.0 was released last week. What's new since Drupal 4.7, its last major revision?
(This is a compressed Flash movie of the "What's new in Drupal 5.0" video. Consider downloading the larger, but much higher quality mp4 here.)
While it's easy to find out that software like Drupal is being used when it's running a famous public website, it's a little harder to know when it's being used internally, in corporate, community, and organizational intranets. As it turns out, Yahoo! uses Drupal internally, and outlined the process. Based on this awesome Drupal case study from IBM, one can only assume they use it for collaboration stuff as well.
Related links:
(original screenshot snagged from Drupal.org's 5.0 screenshot page)A new version of Drupal, Drupal 5.0 was released last week. What's new since Drupal 4.7, its last major revision?
- There's a web-based installer! (It's not as nice as the Wordpress installer, but it's easier than Drupal 4.7's.)
- The administration panel/ tools is totally reworked since Drupal 4.7. In a good way.
- The new core theme lets you change color stuff dynamically with CSS
- more!
(This is a compressed Flash movie of the "What's new in Drupal 5.0" video. Consider downloading the larger, but much higher quality mp4 here.)
While it's easy to find out that software like Drupal is being used when it's running a famous public website, it's a little harder to know when it's being used internally, in corporate, community, and organizational intranets. As it turns out, Yahoo! uses Drupal internally, and outlined the process. Based on this awesome Drupal case study from IBM, one can only assume they use it for collaboration stuff as well.
Related links:
- Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert's personal blog (powered by Drupal, duh)
- Drupal superstars Lullabot
- The Digg.com Drupal 5.0 announcement thread. (for the patient and thick-skinned)
Labels: cms, collaboration, collaborative, content management system, drupal, enterprise, enterprisey, internet, intranet, open source, oss, software, sysadmin, video
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Flashtastic! Adobe finally has Flash 9 for Linux. Also: Flash is good at some stuff.
We now have a decent Flash version on Linux.
quick notes:
Less than two years ago, being a couple of versions back with your Flash player wouldn't have been the end of the world. This is as much about Flash's totally reinvented usage, as it is about Linux. Previously, not having Flash didn't make you feel totally left out. Maybe you'd miss some animated banner ads (but they'd probably still work). With the increasing importance of search engine optimization (Flash isn't so easy to index for Google), and social bookmarking (Flash isn't so great with the unique URL's), and people's patience (Flash can get people kinda mad when they have to renavigate 6 steps after hitting the "back" button), web sites managed by Flash were getting less popular.
But then the YouTube/Vimeo/Google Video/Blip.tv/Revver embeddable video storm happened.
(original photos via Chris Pirillo's video experiment)
And Flash was actually really great for video inside of an otherwise non-Flash page. And then people started using it even as an embeddable mp3 player.
(a screengrab of a del.icio.us page set to browse mp3's and podcasts)
You didn't have to download podcasts and other mp3's. You could cleanly play audio and video in a browser page. (Yes, other specialized players/ plugins could previously do it, but way more clumsily than Flash).
With the newly realized ease of embedding video and audio (aided not just by Flash, but by the excellent players being made by the likes of YouTube and del.icio.us), audio and video was being used a lot more not just for entertainment stuff, but for delivering technical, business, and basic communications stuff. (For example, here I have an embedded demo of VMware Fusion Beta. In Flash!)
In any case, the huge wave of new Flash content really stung when you were on Linux, because all over the web, almost any embedded video was a reminder that you were a second-class citizen.
Ideally in the future the web won't be dominated by closed players, and users won't be held hostage by any single company. But given how much better Flash performs these basic multimedia functions at the moment, it's a good day for Linux.
related:
quick notes:
- You can get Flash 9 for Linux here
- Red Hat will include this in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, released February 28
- Novell will put Flash 9 in Service Pack 1 for SLED 10 (date undetermined)
- step by step Flash 9 installation how-to for Ubuntu Linux (thanks osnews.com!)
- still no 64bit version
Less than two years ago, being a couple of versions back with your Flash player wouldn't have been the end of the world. This is as much about Flash's totally reinvented usage, as it is about Linux. Previously, not having Flash didn't make you feel totally left out. Maybe you'd miss some animated banner ads (but they'd probably still work). With the increasing importance of search engine optimization (Flash isn't so easy to index for Google), and social bookmarking (Flash isn't so great with the unique URL's), and people's patience (Flash can get people kinda mad when they have to renavigate 6 steps after hitting the "back" button), web sites managed by Flash were getting less popular.
But then the YouTube/Vimeo/Google Video/Blip.tv/Revver embeddable video storm happened.
(original photos via Chris Pirillo's video experiment)
And Flash was actually really great for video inside of an otherwise non-Flash page. And then people started using it even as an embeddable mp3 player.
(a screengrab of a del.icio.us page set to browse mp3's and podcasts)
You didn't have to download podcasts and other mp3's. You could cleanly play audio and video in a browser page. (Yes, other specialized players/ plugins could previously do it, but way more clumsily than Flash).
With the newly realized ease of embedding video and audio (aided not just by Flash, but by the excellent players being made by the likes of YouTube and del.icio.us), audio and video was being used a lot more not just for entertainment stuff, but for delivering technical, business, and basic communications stuff. (For example, here I have an embedded demo of VMware Fusion Beta. In Flash!)
In any case, the huge wave of new Flash content really stung when you were on Linux, because all over the web, almost any embedded video was a reminder that you were a second-class citizen.
Ideally in the future the web won't be dominated by closed players, and users won't be held hostage by any single company. But given how much better Flash performs these basic multimedia functions at the moment, it's a good day for Linux.
related:
- the Gnash project, an source Flash player currently playing stuff up to Flash 7
Labels: audio, browser, flash, gnash, linux, macromedia, multimedia, oss, player, plugins, standards, ubuntu, video
