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Facebook launches zero.facebook.com – Text version of facebook for carriers

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At the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Facebook’s Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Growth, Mobile and International shortly presented today zero.facebook.com. Presumably, Facebook will offer Facebook Zero to carriers for free, since it helps them make the social network as ubiquitous on mobile phones as possible. According to techcrunch.com, Facebook spokesperson Brandee Barker wrote back in reply to them [...] Read more »

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How to escape from Facebook after your Death! What is your Social Media Last Will?

As many of you are aware you can’t delete a facebook.com account, you only can de-activate it. I don’t know exactly why, but I was asking myself the other day, if at least your death could potentially put an end to the physical storage of all your collected data at facebook.com. This was the kick off [...] Read more »

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What are your friends buying?

Philip Kaplan is the co-founder of blippy.com. Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. Based on a pretty provocative idea — it allows users to share all the purchase information from one of their credit cards – I doubt what the rationale behind this idea should be. [...] Read more »

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Google Alert reveals a 13 year old article

In June 1997 I published together with Michael Zimmer and Detlef Hartmann a para-medical article “Die Hautpflege als unterstützende Dekubitus-Prophylaxe“. Even though I can now recall that I still have a paper copy of the original abstract, I haven’t remembered this article for years now. Interesting that my Google Alert on my first and lastname [...] Read more »

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Connecting facebook.com to iChat (OS X)

This small tutorial shows you how to connect facebook to iChat (on OS X) through the Jabber protocol. Further details of how to configure iChat can as well be found on the following video: First please open iChat an go to the preferences and press the ‘+’ sign to create a new acccount – you will [...] Read more »

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Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Advancement Act

Microsoft’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith spoke about this at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C. on January 20th 2010.Brad focus in this speech on security concerns due to Cloud Computing (his whole speech can be downloaded in the article. Read more »

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Embedding getclicky.com Web Analytics into your InvisionPower Board

This hook helps you on getting getclicky.com Web Analytics integrated into your IP.Board 3.000.x without the need to make any further changes on your installed skins. You can download the hook here: The detailed view after installation looks as follows: Installation / Update Process: 1. Go to your ACP panel and chose “Manage Hooks” 2. Select [...] Read more »

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Requirements for cloud and SaaS solutions

When checking out cloud / SaaS solutions the focus should not only be on functional requirements, but also on non-functional requirements. They can be different to requirements for on-premise solutions. Requirements Following some requirement statements, which could be on your wish list: Integration into the Corporate Intranet Look and feel like the Corporate Intranet Availability [...] Read more »