I’m trying this beta service

Our goal is to make content on the Web more useful and discoverable by taking advantage of your social connections. FriendFeed is a simple tool that scratches the surface of that goal by making it easier to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet.

With FriendFeed, you list the people you want to keep in touch with. They let us know what services they use (e.g., Flickr or Facebook or Picasa Web Albums), and you get a personalized feed of what they are up to. So, if your friend favorites a video on YouTube, you get a link and a thumbnail of the video in your feed. And if your friend likes a news story on Digg, you get a link in your feed. You don’t need to install anything to use FriendFeed — our crawling technology automatically picks up all the stuff you do on the web sites you already use with no additional effort on your part.

Have a look of it.

I’m recently got in a waiting time problem playing World of Warcraft, regarding login queues on a playing server. WoW is structured on various servers and every server is istantiated separately from others.

Often  some servers become overpopulated and not all can access istantly on it, there’s a login queue limitating the maximum number of player connected at the same time.

But i’m not speaking of few seconds, that’s about 1-2 minute in the best cases. That’s a little frustrating and often we need to wait more.

So, it’s not a real problems, we can do something else in the meantime, but that’s an usual problem in various online games not only WoW. And some other games can have much more time to wait. Another problem is when, playing a game, you need to wait to do something, or can’t do something, due to the high number of people connected. Let’s think about the curse of Online playing : LAG!!!

Well these can be only a minimum part in a game, often we can solve it logging in at different hour in a day or playing other games, but what can do when this kind of problems happens in the real life? Do you had same problems in real (post office, bank, market)? A community linked on a game can be compared to a community in real life? What do you feel about exclusive online friendship and real life friendship?

Personally I prefer friendship staying on both sides, not only online… but not always is possible!

Let’s write your thinking about it.

An IMS Global Learning Consortium Project Group Under Formation is focusing on ePortfolio requirements. The IMS ePortfolio specification v1.0 was released in June 2005. Since this time valuable experience has been developed working with the specification and ePortfolio technology and practice has matured. The IMS ePortfolio PUFSIG is seeking input from the e-learning community to help focus and prioritize the effort .

If you are interested to promote your broad areas of interest in ePortfolio take here a survey

IMS GLC and the PUFSIG participants are keen to encourage your participation in this use case gathering process, both so that your organization is aware of this open profile and prototype effort and, as a result of this wider consultation, greater interoperability can be achieved with less proprietary extensions to the specification(s)

How you can read at IMS Site, there are many activities currently underway in IMS/GLC.
These include Project Groups, Meetings as well as Developer Network and Learning Industry Leader Forum activities.

Current IMS GLC Project Groups

* Common Cartridge Alliance
* Content Packaging
* Question and Test Interoperability
* Enterprise Services
* Learning Tools Interoperability
* Learning Object Discovery and Exchange
* Accessibility
* K12/Schools Enhancements to Common Cartridge
* Service Oriented Architecture
* Talent Management

Today I readed on O’Reilly Radar this new:

Sun was arguably the first great open source success story, co-founded by Bill Joy, who not only led the Berkeley Unix project but wrote the open source TCP/IP stack on which so much of the internet was built.
Sun has staked its future on open source, releasing its formerly proprietary crown jewels, including Solaris, Java, and the Ultra-Sparc processor design.
Sun has long been the single largest corporate contributor to the open source ecosystem promoting others open source projects such as openoffice.org and netbeans.
Sun Microsystems announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire open source database leader MySQL AB for $1 billion.

To the question in comment :

“How they want to monetize their investment?”

O’Reilly reply with:

… have to look at is Red Hat to see a company directly monetizing open source at reasonable scale. It’s not Microsoft, but few companies have ever been that profitable…

I find interesting also the tought of Matt Asay that in his post say:

Perhaps most importantly for MySQL and its employees, an acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won’t need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source.

Is it an exciting day for open source?

SilverStripe is a great example of a well-constructed open source project. It makes innovative use of technology and it is easy to use too.

Sigurd Magnusson on the SilverStripe Release Announcement Forum inform You can find new Themes and widget.

• WIDGETS
  Google Adsense Widget 0.1
  Make money on your site by displaying Google’s ads. By Ryan Rymax.
• Google Custom Search Widget 0.1
  A powerful multi-website search to enhance your site. By samiam14.
• LastFM widget
  Advertise what music you listen to. By sharntehnub.
• PayPay donation widget
  Let people easily donate money to you. By Simon Welsh.
• Ohloh Contribution widget
  Shows your global rank as programmer. By Simon Welsh.

Download and preview widget
all of which have been produced through the Google Highly Open Participation Contest!
You can get produce further themes and widgets through the Google
Contest.
If you would like to contribute to Silver Stripe, you can joining to the SilverStripe developer documentation wiki!

I’m registering to the silverstripe developer network to contribute to this amazing CMS.

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