Open Kosmaczewski

Ever wondered how POP, IMAP, SMTP and other cryptic protocols work? Well, Google has created a video that explains everything :)

This video is absolutely amazing!
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data [...]

If you are an avid Google Reader user (like me) you must be surely be “sharing” items that you read, for you or for your audience; in my case, you can see my recent “shared items” in the sidebar at the right side of this screen.
But can you export these shared items to a file? [...]

It all started with the search engine. I think it was sometime back in 2000, while I was working in Argentina.
I was an avid everyday AltaVista user; I found it quite useful since 1996 (when I started browsing using Netscape at the University of Geneva) and I was frankly happy with it; I was not [...]

Need to collaborate with others for the creation of some document? Need to share information with your peers? Want to stop sending those bulky (Open | MS)Office documents via e-mail?
Here’s what you need:

Word processing and Spreadsheet
Diagramming

Lately more and more of my documents are going online. I must say that while I love Gliffy.com, I would [...]

Just a couple of interesting links:

Getting Real, the book by 37signals
Google TechTalks; feed your brain

Happy learning!

Just found this INCREDIBLE and HILARIOUS presentation from Jason Dixon, with all the truth about how BSD is slowly dying…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7833143728685685343&hl=en

You can download it from here too. Don’t miss it!

Beginning 1998, nearly 9 years ago, I created this tool at my former employer’s site. It allowed customers to create their own web page, for a small fee, using all the interaction available at the time of Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer 4. You could type some text here and there, choose some (awful, really) [...]

This is something that existed for a while but I just did not notice, at all: http://code.google.com/hosting/. You can host there any kind of project, open source of course, and you get for free:

Subversion

Password-protected;
Over a secure HTTPS connection for committers;
Also open to others to freely checkout using HTTP;
Browsable online, using something similar to websvn.

Issue tracking

Very [...]

Posting from Google Docs & Spreadsheets …
This is a test posting from what used to be Writely, the online word processing tool; it turns out that you can use it to publish in your blog, just using the API that is exposed by Wordpress!