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+ - Upik helps Facebook users managing thir privacy->

Submitted by mremond
mremond writes "Upik is a new tool recently launched to help users manage their privacy setting on Facebook. The idea is to have a sidebar that give you information about how visible are you settings, at any time when using Facebook. The tool is launched after the many controversies that have surrounded every new features release. Recently, employees have been fired due to information published on their wall and privacy has become a concern for the social network users.
Upik is limited to Firefox for now, but no doubt it will be released on other browsers soon.
Do you think this tool could help you use Facebook and give you more confidence when using it ?"
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Google

+ - Google Wave alternative implementations

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mremond
mremond writes "Various Google Wave implementation projects have surfaced recently: PyGoWave server, a Python implementation, and ProcessOne's implementation, built on top of ejabberd instant messaging server and definitely working with a first existing instant messaging client extended to support the Wave protocol. The implementation itself is a scalable Erlang code base.
Ahead of the larger beta test that will be launched by Google at the end of september 2009, this is encouraging early adoption by developers. Do you plan to support the Google Wave protocol in a nearby future ? If so, what are the type of projects you are planning to build on top of Wave ?"
AMD

+ - AMD loses $1.2 billion and its CEO-> 1

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Barence
Barence writes "AMD's chief executive officer Hector Ruiz has resigned, after the company posted second quarter losses of almost $1.2 billion. Ruiz, who has been in the post for six years, will make way for Dirk Meyer, who was previously the company's president and COO. Meyer becomes only the third CEO ever of the troubled chipmaker, following Ruiz and company founder Jerry Sanders. "The time is right to turn the company over to a new leader," Ruiz said. The company's financial results certainly lend weight to Ruiz's verdict. AMD made a loss of $1.18 billion in Q2 of 2008 on revenue of $1.349 billion."
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Announcements

+ - IMtrends publish market shares of XMPP servers->

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IM Addict
IM Addict writes "The IMtrends site has just released the first evaluation of XMPP servers market shares based on known public domains. jabberd 1.4, the first historical server developed, is still strong, but ejabberd has now taken a clear leadership. On the other end of the scope, Google XMPP server is rising and doing well through Google Apps hosting. Complete results are available from the IMtrends article. The total number of known server is 7292 XMPP domains and you can search / add the missing ones to help making the statistics more accurate."
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Businesses

+ - Are businesses ready to adopt instant messaging ?-> 1

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IM for business
IM for business writes "The avalanche of recent news shows that instant messaging is becoming a critical communication tool for businesses. Study finds instant messaging can help productivity. IDC claims that IM is expected to overtake email in business in 2010. ProcessOne research demonstrates that despite the fact that businesses are blocking public instant messaging because of security concerns, they admit it could provide major benefits. All technical tools are available so we can expect to see large internal instant messaging deployments accelerate. Do you really see large scale adoption of IM in business happening soon ?"
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Networking

+ - IMtrends launched to study instant messaging usage->

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IM Addict
IM Addict writes "ProcessOne just launched IMtrends, a "lab" whose goal is to study habits, usage and adoption of instant messaging. We have all heard various contraditory claims about instant messaging, its productivity (See recent coverage), its security, its problem for adoption in the work place. It looks it is time to have a deeper look at the facts and try to get a better understanding of the trends in instant messaging usage. IMtrends focuses on open standard instant messaging systems, for example based on the XMPP protocol, but also covers business use of instant messaging. As a first step, the site has developed an engine to gather facts on public XMPP servers. At day one, 5887 public XMPP domains have been identified. Like with Netcraft, users can add their own domains. Let's see how the list will be growing."
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Programming

Subversion 1.5.0 Released 104

Posted by timothy
from the sand-in-the-gastank dept.
Hyrum writes "The Subversion team is proud to announce the release of Subversion 1.5.0, a popular open source version control system. The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes. Among the major new features included in this release is merge tracking—Subversion now keeps track of what changes have been merged where. Source code is available immediately, with various other packages available soon."
Communications

+ - AOL opens its Instant Messaging protocol->

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IM lover
IM lover writes "AOL has just made a clever move to boost its instant messaging platform. They have just released the specifications of their Instant Messaging protocol, called OSCAR. In their initiative called Open AIM, they officially support development of third-party clients, gateways, bots and plugins.
It means that aggregation of AIM and ICQ in a multi-protocols client is now officially possible for the AOL part. The client developer has the choice to display or not the ads, but if they choose to display them, AOL revenue sharing programme can be used. This clever approach is both an incentive to grow their network and to get advertisements revenues from a larger users base.
You can also now expect to see high-quality XMPP-based Instant messaging gateways.
Will Yahoo! and MSN follow this move ?"
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Software

+ - ejabberd 2.0.0, the XMPP server-> 1

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niconico
niconico writes "XMPP, the 'next big thing', aka the open standard technology for generalized XML routing, after being adopted by AOL and Yahoo! has seen ejabberd, the most scalable XMPP server, published in version 2.0 under the GPLv2 license, bringing even more scalability and robustness. It also adds Pubsub application framework, Personnal Eventing, file transfer proxy, integrated HTTP file server and HTTP binding for Web 2.0 applications, PAM authentication, LDAP improvements, remote administration with Ad-Hoc commands, localizations in 24 languages, and the usual bugfixes. Read the release notes and the changelog, and of course download."
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Medicine

+ - Female G spot 'can be detected' ->

Submitted by CambodiaSam
CambodiaSam writes "According to BBC News: The mysterious G spot — supposedly a route to female sexual satisfaction — can be located with ultrasound, claim Italian scientists.

"For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has got a G spot or not"

-Dr Emmanuele Jannini
University of L'Aquila"
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Programming

+ - Is XMPP the next big thing on the Internet ?

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Open Standard Lover
Open Standard Lover writes "XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) has been getting a lot of attention during the last month and it seems that the protocol is finally taking off as a general purpose glue to build distributed web applications. It has been covered that AOL was experimenting with an XMPP gateway for its instant messaging platform. XMPP has been designed since the beginning as an open technology for generalized XML routing. However, the idea of an XMPP application server is taking shape and getting supporters. A recent example shows that ejabberd XMPP server can be used to develop a distributed Twitter-like system.

Do you think XMPP will take over the Internet world ?"
The Courts

Jack Thompson Faces Disciplinary Hearing 231

Posted by Zonk
from the disbarment-we-can-only-hope dept.
CoolC writes "Gamepolitics is reporting that attorney Jack Thompson is to face a disciplinary hearing before the Florida Supreme Court. The attorney faces five counts of professional misconduct, three of which are correlated with his ongoing campaign against violent video games. Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment."
User Journal

Journal: MacBook Owners: Slow to Sleep? 1

Journal by Oculus Habent

Hey - any of you MacBook or MacBook Pro owners -- do you notice any delays in sleep? My PowerBook G3 was insta-sleep, insta-wake. The MBP will sit for several seconds before sleeping.

Some guesswork on this yet to do. I did copy my profile over when I got the new Mac, so I'll be creating a new user and seeing if it happens on that one.

I'll keep you posted.

Novell

Novell May be Banned from Distributing Linux 553

Posted by Zonk
from the when-penguins-get-to-meddling dept.
Hymer writes "Reuters is reporting that Novell may be banned from selling Linux. In the wake of the (much maligned) Novell/Microsoft deal, the Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell's right to sell the operating system at all. The foundation controls the rights to key parts of the operating system, and council for the organization said that 'the community wants to interfere any way it can' with the Novell business arrangement. No decision has yet been reached, but one should be made in the next two weeks." Is this a measured response, or an over-reaction to the Novell/Microsoft arrangement?

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way. -- Daniele Vare

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