The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Verisign’s payment gateway will become part of PayPal.
eBay, VeriSign Strike Online Payment Deal
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. announced Monday that it plans to buy VeriSign Inc.’s payment gateway business for $370 million, as it looks to further secure transactions by eBay users.
The research including videos, results, and some analysis is available at http://www.betterdesktop.org/ and is provides some insight into the usability of the OpenSuse. Developers and those lookng to migrate users to Linux desktops will find this data useful.
Novell Shares Linux Usability Research Videos
Novell Inc. released a large amount of primary desktop-usage research—including more than 200 video clips of users bumbling their way through unfamiliar computer interfaces—to the software development community Monday, as part of a new program aimed at making Linux desktops a more comfortable fit for users.
Oracle Scores Open-Source InnoDB Storage Engine
Oracle on Friday purchased InnoDB, the Finnish open-source database company whose add-on table storage engine for MySQL rivals MySQL’s own MyISAM in popularity.InnoDB Oy Inc.’s database engine isn’t stand-alone. It is distributed as part of the MySQL database. Moreover, InnoDB’s contractual relationship with MySQL is up for renewal next year.
MAKE: Blog: DIY GPS tracking
Mod a GPS enabled Nextel and fauxjack yourself…or your car, or your kid, or a big dog, or an elephant. We really, really want to track an elephant. Mologogo is a free service that will track a “friends” GPS enabled cell phone from another phone(gps not required) or on the web. It currently works on pretty much any Nextel phone with Java and GPS – even a $60 no-contract Boost Mobile phone.
freshmeat.net: Project details for FreeCast
Freecast is a peer-to-peer streaming system that makes it possible to stream Ogg audio or video to a large number of listeners from a DSL connection. The client can be customized graphically, doesn’t require a user configuration step, and is updated at startup when needed.
freshmeat.net: Project details for PfP Studio
PfP Studio is a visual programming system for rapid application development of DHTML-based applications using PHP and Javascript. The front-end runs in a Web browser. It is intended to complement the skills of the developer rather than to mask out the base languages. Its objective is to implement reusable widgets in an easy-to-use front end.
Interesting whitepaper from Yahoo! on RSS. Do the low numbers represent a market opportunity? or maybe RSS doesn’t really matter to most folks? Yahoo! sees RSS as a market on the rise.
ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mashups.
CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software.
Time to update…
freshmeat.net: Project details for FCKeditor
Development is now concentrated on bugfixes and stability, so this update is highly recommended. There are also some interesting new features like ‘Protected Source’ which makes it possible to use server side code in the editor, and the new keyboard handling for Firefox.