On “censorship”

Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Life, Politics, Web | No Comments »

So this is about a law recently passed in Germany and more specifically about the discussion. For those not in the know: This law dictates that ISPs must block sites with child pornography on it based on a list created by ...

Crushed by the Wave

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Web | No Comments »

As many of the blog reading net citizens Google has recently (well some time ago actually, but still feels pretty recent) opened up a draft for their Wave protocol. They plan to work together with "the community" to improve it ...

socialXMPP

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Web | No Comments »

As I've already mentioned earlier I've been thinking about using XMPP for social networking for some time. I have now started hacking on a web application as a proof of concept.  It's nothing fancy yet (especially not very social), but I ...

Wikia Search

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Fun, Web | No Comments »

Yay, Wikia Search opened its gates today. I personally like the idea of user rated results a lot. It is not yet as complete as Google or Yahoo or whatever, but the new version alows adding results directly from the web ...