Google must have read my review and decided to spend some cash and become the owner of JotSpot 
Archive for October, 2006
Google has acquired JotSpot
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Freedom to fascism
Sunday, October 29th, 2006Today i watched a documentary ‘America: Freedom to Fascism”, by Aaron Russo (Trading places). A bizar movie which states that there is no law that requires us citizens to pay federal taxes, no one can point the filmmaker to a law that gives the IRS the right to do so. One other bizar fact the documentary reveals is that the federal reserve bank is not a governmental institution but a private corporation (!?), to which the federal government, thus the taxpayers, pay intrest. If this is true this would be absurd, a ‘governmental organization’ that collects almost 1000 billion dollars a year in unlawful taxes…
Camstudio
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Yesterdays download of the day by the Lifehacker:
Camstudio, a freeware tool for making perfect screencasts (Windows)! It saves your recordings in avi but comes with a tool to convert them to streaming flash. You can choos to record full screen or a region you can pick your self.
This screencast shows how you can install camstudio. (Don’t get confused by the almost perfect mac-theme on this windows machine)
OPML Short Cut
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006O’reilly published a Short Cut pdf document on opml: “Getting Acquainted with OPML” by Amy Bellinger
I just bought and downloaded a copy, and took a look at it. I think it serves it purpose: it is a short cut and will save you a lot of time if you are new to OPML and want to get acquainted fast. Thats what it is, a starting point for learning more about opml, if you want to go in deeper you can start from there.
One thing, in my copy the links (or what i think are links, bold, grey) do not work. Am i doing something wrong? Or are those not links??? If those are not links then all the time one has saved is lost on searching all things mentioned in the document in google.
Other then that, i think it is great that someone has collected all things opml into one document. It would have be nicer if the document was published for free (i understand that is not o’reilly’s trade, but since Amy is sort of an OPML-evangelist) , specially if you want to share the opml experience with the rest of the world… I think this info should be on wikipedia or opml.org
30 gigs black iPod is looking for its owner
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Personal Data Browser Control
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Jason Kolb recently wrote 2 articles about how he would like to be able to access his personal data the ipod-way:
“The iPod makes the music part of my life easy. The most important thing it does is make the vast amounts of music that I have accessible and useful. And this got me to thinking. A lot of what I really want to accomplish with technology runs along the same lines. I look at all the data in my life from the perspective of a business-intelligence executive, and I see giant piles of data, none of them talk to each other, and the only systems I currently have to navigate the piles are in the stone age. I want to make those data silos that make up my digital life easy to use for once.”
When reading his articles (Browsing personal data iPod-style and Flattening the Internet with a Personal Data Browser Control), the first thing that popped in my mind was ‘that’s an opml job’. The ipod way of structuring data is just plain simple outlining. I think opml could work perfect to act as a container for this personal info. It can handle links to rss, html and other xml-formats.
Which pieces could we loosely join to create such a personal data browser?
Scrybe
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006Preview video of Scrybe (www.iscrybe.com), a on- and offline productivity suite. Taking ajax to whole different level, be prepared for a major jaw drop!
They also have a sync feature for the most important and most widely used handheld device: pen and paper (this really is less stupid then it sounds when you think about it)
Easy sunday, catching up
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006Opmlmanager blog
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006I’ve set up a brand new blog for opmlmanager that i’ll be using for news on opmlmanager!
OPML Auto-discovery Bookmarklet, update
Thursday, October 19th, 2006In case you’ve missed it, the opml auto-discovery bookmarklet i posted about a few days ago, has an improved succesor: a OPML Auto-discovery Extension for Firefox (download).