From SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination:
Created for scientists, by scientists, SciVee moves science beyond the printed word and lecture theater taking advantage of the internet as a communication medium where scientists young and old have a place and a voice.
See also: Video sites let scientists show off experiments.
Beta starts December 3rd 2007.
From Fixing HTML:
HTML needs fixing. The HTML 4 recommendation was published in 1999. Since then, the web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the web development community and the surprising expressive power of JavaScript, but we are at the limits. HTML is no longer a driver of innovation. It is now a serious impediment.
I’ve always favoured HTML 5 over XHTML 2.0, but Douglas Crockford does have an interesting point there, though it could unarguably be labeled as a bit drastic at times.
From The Troubles With OpenID 2.0:
Portland, Oregon’s JanRain, leaders in the OpenID movement, put on a PR push this week to promote what they say is the imminent approval of OpenID 2.0’s final draft. Specifically, they say that they expect the final signatures to be penned on Monday at the upcoming Internet Identity Workshop.
I’m a big OpenID fan myself, but like the article’s author and as much as I want to see the 2.0 specs ratified, I’m not going to hold my breath for next week. I rarely hoped so much to be wrong on a prediction.
From iPhone Screenshot Goodness at WPhone Admin Plugin:
Thanks to Matt, I can now take iPhone screenshots to my heart’s content. So I’ve updated the set showcased on this site and made a zip archive of 18 screenshots available on the same page.
The only sad thing about this is the “No Service” at the top-left corner of each screenshot… *sigh*
Soon, soon enough.
If you happen to be both a WPhone and Facebook user, we invite you to check out the new WPhone Administration Plugin page Doug had the insight to setup today.
Gotta love the Vancouver Winter Olympics mascots… Oh they’re cute all right. But leave it to an adult’s mind to see malice where none should be: go the the following pages, mouse-over the character and listen.
So, it’s not just us, right? Right? Right…
Gotta capture that Sumi sound. Bound to become the next big meme. ;-p
I guess the least I can do is post a little somethin’ somethin’ from my new toy, with the help of our very own WPhone.
If I said it once, I said it a thousand times: joy!
Turns out working from home on Friday was the worst idea I had all week… My iPhone arrived at the office, and I could have had it to play with all weekend. Unfortunately, no one in my team clued in to what the mystery package was, so they didn’t tell me. To be fair, I really wasn’t expecting it to arrive during US Thanks Giving. But I guess the USPS to Canada Post handover happened before the long weekend.
And now, I’ll have to be strong (!), and ignore it all day while I get things done before I can play with it all night. I don’t see much sleep in my future. 😉
Release early, release often being the FOSS motto, here we are again with a new version of our WPhone mobile WordPress Admin plugin.
Version 1.4.2 is all about thanking our community, because the main changes are the inclusion of new language packs, which were all gracefully provided by our very much vibrant community of WPhone users all over the World. This now brings us to a total of six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian), with a few more on the way. Not bad for a software that was only released a month and a half ago. 🙂
So in the spirit of my teammates’ current holiday: Thanks a million to all of you out there who continually help us making this project better and better. Hoping we’ll keep living up to your expectations!
And on another note, watch for the upcoming 1.5 version. I’m thinking it’ll be a big one on the feature front, especially once we’ll have received our prizes and can develop natively.
That’s the title of a spam email I got tonight.
I wonder how much a backpack branded with images of a car race involving only robot-BBQ hybrid vehicles goes for these days? Maybe I should click the link… I’m sure the kids would love one for the holidays! ;-p