Monthly Archives: August 2005

It has been rumored for months now, and the rumors turned out to be right: Google just launched an IM (Instant Messaging) client. It’s called Google Talk and you can now download a beta client for Windows 2000/XP. If you look more closely you’ll see that Google Talk is just a Jabber client. Jabber isContinue reading “Google Talk”

I was just pointed to three bulletin board systems that either have adopted the concept of tags, or are fully based on it. A couple of weeks ago I posted about this idea. Apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking about it at that time. The three boards are:* bbPress, written by the same guyContinue reading “Tags in Bulletin Boards”

It seems that it’s finally happening, just two weeks a couple of days to go and I’ll be walking Irish grounds for a year. I just sent out my tuition fee payment, reserved a temporary room at Trinity and booked my ticket. Tuesday September 6th at 19.00 I’ll be flying to Dublin. I can stayContinue reading “Going to Dublin September 6th”

One thing that has been bugging me, and many others with me, is the need to sign up for every website/service/forum separately. Why not have one super username/password combination that works everywhere and be done with it? Microsoft has attempted to solve this problem with Passport, but it failed. People don’t trust Microsoft with theirContinue reading “SPTP: Decentralized Single Sign-On”

In about a month the first book that I ever contributed to is coming out. Its full title is “The Politics to Go Handbook: A Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics”. It will be launched on September 13th and will be available from Amazon and free download from the IPDI website. What is thisContinue reading “Politics to Go”

For a couple of years now, people have been thinking about the semantic web; a web where information is neatly ordered and beautifully structured. This would allow search engines to truly look for information and come up with better results. It’s a little how the web originally started. When we still used <h1> tags, andContinue reading “Rethinking Discussion Boards”

I came back from Latvia the day before yesterday after a very, very tiresome travel and about 35 hours without sleep. I had a fairly good time visiting my friend there. Although my friend had to work most of the time we did some fun stuff as well. One of which was visiting Tartu, aContinue reading “I’m Back”