Before the news piece itself and congratulating Wadja I’d like to take a moment to rant.
It seems that OpenID is gaining traction, and many companies move to ‘support’ it by letting you log on to other services using their credentials.
This is of course hypocritical as until now very few let you use their service and someone else’s credentials. Support in this context means that you do the least amount of effort and take the least amount of risk that you need to get the ‘Supports OpenID’ tag in the eyes of the public.
This includes Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!. Others such as Digg have simply promised to do it and postponed it ever since.
Finally others such as Wadja surprise you pleasantly by delivering the service out of the blue. As of now Wadja.com will let you sign up using your OpenID, or link your existing account to one or more OpenID providers.
It is with our great pleasure and excitement to announce that our member and principal organizer of Open Coffee Patras, Dimitris Glezos, has been selected to join the much respected Fedora Project Board. Dimitris has been tirelessly contributing to the local Open Source and Open Coffee efforts, while now working on the equally promising Transifex, and such an appointment clearly serves as a huge boost for himself and the community at large. Let the good times roll!
Σε περίπτωση που δεν σαν φάνηκε ύποπτο, ο Μιχάλης Μπλέτσας διευθυντής του MIT Media Lab και υπεύθυνος θεμάτων δικτύωσης του OLPC δεν ήταν εύκολο να πετάξει από τη Βοστώνη για να παρευρεθεί στη συνάντηση Θεσσαλονίκης.
Ο Μιχάλης θα είναι διαθέσιμος λίγο πριν και αμέσως μετά την ομιλία του για ερωτήσεις από το κοινό Θεσσαλονίκης καθώς και τους επισκέπτες του blog.
A few days ago at the 1st Facebook Garage Athens, Konstantinos Pantos gave a sneak peek at his Facebook gadget for Windows Vista sidebar. MyFacebook brings into your desktop new messages, pokes, friend requests, albums, lists and events, plus it shows your status and a scrolling display of your friends’ statuses, while it also lets you update your status right from your desktop; we think it’s cool.
You may check out Kostas’ presentation embedded below (starting at 07:00), visit the gadget’s about page or go download it here, (yes, it works only in MSVista) and tell us what you think.
