OpenLife

Prediction: Microsoft will be an open source business within 2-3 year.

MSFT releases FelxWiki as Open Source project (Clay Shirky): “

We wrote about Microsoft’s FlexWiki project last December. Now eWeek is reporting that Microsoft is releasing FlexWiki code under an Open Source license. (Code is available on Source Forge, though it indicates that is is extensions to FlexWiki — I am not sure when or where the full codebase will be released..)

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(Via Many-to-Many.)

I don’t think that Danish authorities can muster any plausible alternatives for not advising the public to make the change from Internet Explorer to safer alternatives.

FRA varnar för Internet Explorer: “Svenska Dagbladet skriver idag att FRAvarnar folk för att använda Internet Explorer. Tyvärr säger inte artikeln något om vad folk borde använda i stället, men förhoppningsvis bidrar artiklar som denna ändå till att skynda på migreringen till fria alternativ.”

(Via Gnuheter.)

It is becoming more and more obvious to me that my most useful and most frequent interface to the web is not anymore my webbrowser but my rss feed reader.

I spend more and more time using the NewNewsWire 2.0 beta news reader and its built-in browser. Truely a great software application.

(from left to right, Nicholas Carr, MHG, Carlos Villaro Lassen, Morten Kamper and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal)

I had the pleasure of hosting a small afterparty in continuation of the FDIH conference on “Does IT Matter” with friends of FDIH and the speaker at the conference Nicholas Carr who has been scaring the s… out of the big IT company executives after publihing a well-researched book with the provocative title “Does IT matter?”.

The McKinsey Quarterly: How IT spending is changing

Interesting insight on where to place yourself in the software landscape, if you want to make software product that will actually generate some serious sales in the coming years.

Vilhelm, Jeanne and I eating outside at what will probably be the last time this year before the autumn sets in.

Just finished reading Bruce Sterling’s The Zenith Angle.

Extremely well-written as any Bruce Sterling book. Filled with good observations on the post dotcom IT industry and the business of security after 9/11.

Kind of funny that the book ends - and I am not in any way giving away the plot by mentioning this I think - with the protagonist considering to move to Denmark of all places with his family.

Vilhelm and I spend Saturday morning getting badly needed haircuts.

There’s a great article in the New Scientist about the dangers in IP extremism. As it rightly notes,

THERE are some things in life we take for granted. Among them are the ability to lend each other books, record TV programmes, back up expensive computer programs, and sell on our old CDs when we’ve got tired of them. … That could change. New technologies are giving copyright owners the power to control the time and place we can view or play digital versions of music, films and text so tightly that we run the risk of losing these rights altogether.

But to read the article at the New Scientist website, you’ll need to subscribe. Oh well. One step at a time.

[Lessig Blog]

Germans develop nasty case of IE jitters | The Register
Michael Dickopf, spokesman for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), has told the Berliner Zeitung that internet users should switch from Internet Explorer to Mozilla or Opera. Dickopf says Internet Explorer is hazard-prone, attracting too many viruses and worms.

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