Techcrunch has published their True Value of Social Networks Report for 2009 and the information actually made it on the front page of today’s tagesanzeiger. The number given for Switzerland is 1.859 million unique users per month, which means almost 25% of the Swiss population visit Facebook regulary. Marcel Weiss has a good analysis explaining | View post »

I remember writing email to only to three other students in the CS lab and to the one other admin that I worked with as a student. It was not really reliable, because you had no idea when and if at all the person would actually get the message (”Did you get my email about…”) | View post »

Ever since the times of Netscape and the early Internet Explorer versions we have been discussing useful cross browser testing setups. I’ve seen through my career as (web-)developer, tech lead, test lead, project manager and account manager very different setups of addressing the issue of different behaviors of webpages and applications in different browsers because | View post »

On Thursday SourceForge announced the acquisition of Ohloh!, an open source code and community directory that I have been following myself while Optaros were establishing and growing the enterprise open source directory eosdirectory.com. While the Eosdirectory is a collection of what Optaros believes to be enterprise ready solutions that then get rated by Optaros and | View post »

After opening the API for the news feed recently, Facebook announced end of April that they were working on OpenID support for signle-sign-on. Not even four weeks later you can select Google, MySpace, Yahoo, Vidoop, Myopenid and OpenID as linked account options. You can also connect with these logins later. If you do that e.g. | View post »

This is the plan for tomorrow’s route. Ping me by midnight if you want to join in.   No need to mention I guess, that I will use the GPSies iPhone GPS Logger Application to track the tour.

Loic and I did a little tour today to warm up for the season:  

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and one | View post »