Neofreko

Though it’s hard to believe, Performancing, or recently known as ScribeFire seems to be going to deadpool. Performancing is a decent extension for me. And it’s a very valuable tool for some others. That’s why it make sense when it got a deal with PayPerPost. However, after a recent departure of its CEO (CEO seems to always leaving when their startup got acquired), the castle started crumbling. As TechCrunch have written, the deal fell apart earlier this month. PayPerPost had walked away from the acquisition after digging out that it was not what PayPerPost looking for. It’s quite a shame to see some big venture capital not doing their homework like that.

Turning around from Performancing, let’s take a look at Foxytunes. Yes, Foxytunes is a well known Firefox extension (and for IE as well) to control any of your media player form a browser. Recently FoxyTunes just creates a private beta service to lookup information about currently playing song..err singing artist. WebWare wrote it as: a new mashup site that integrates the music controls of FoxyTunes with an aggregation tool to give you more information and media about your favorite musical artists and new discoveries. One guessable step to social network service (startup ) I believe.

Meanwhile, the Big Boys seems to want some cut in this myspace-like (read: social network) game. It’s still a huge cake for everyone to enjoy. R/WW wrote, IBM has released an enterprise social networking suite, called Lotus Connections. Uh oh, and also, even Microsoft had something to say. Its recent spins, I meant press release, Microsoft announced new tools that will help IBM Lotus Notes/Domino customers to move off to Microsoft service. And Microsoft will, off course, happily assist the migration. Boy, God forbid. I don’t know what Microsoft doesn’t want to get into. While everybody start going into specialized field, that bad boy just want everything. Not a new story though. We’ll see how this big boys competes with start-from-scratch boys.

Finally got the mood to write one, despite I didn’t read much news lately. Yeah, blame on the earthquake. May the victims rest in peace and their relative can go on with their life. Amen.

So, you must have read the blogosphere lately. Some recent brouhahas. KDE Gnome thing on OSNews. Not so crowd but stll, kinda interesting to pay attention to. Afterall, I’m still a KDE fanboy :p. No, that’s not the essence. The essential thing is, sometime user thinks that what can be seen is what the software developer has done. Sometimes, this kinda perspective hurt some developer in their sensitive time. Aseigo put a good explanation what happen under the hood of KDE developer camp, which has been exposed by OSNews as well. The KDE3 to KDE4 library porting progress and other new architecture achievement: Phonon and stuff. From this news, I learned that some people doesn’t take OSNews seriously or believe that OSNews is suck. My take? Well, I don’t read comments on OSNews. I prefer Slashdot’s more. Nevertheless, OSNews will still supply some OS related news for me which sometimes doesn’t get covered in Slashdot. Something like this library and that library update, etc.

Acer Ferrari Vista and Office 2007 has been the recent buzz. Given this laptop the some bloggers has triggered the ethical and objective manners question. Web Worker Daily wrote that there ain’t no such thing as free laptop. There must be some catches as obviously it everyone would question the related blogger of whatever action taken. And Web Worker Daily believe that this matter cannot be simply regarded as black or white. meanwhile, Om Malik of GigaOM has also received this $2000 worth laptop. Some commentators told to ditch the laptop right away. Either sent back direclty to Micosoft, or given to other people to remove the obligation to make a review. The review itself is never been an obligation. But it’s has become an implicit fact that the laptop surely will demand a review. Not to count that this is a Microsoft thing. Anyone will surely tickled to know how fast and how good Vista would go on the Ferrari.

More brouhaha, there is also Google Zeitgeist story. As an annual activity, Google has always published the stats of search keyword. Either, the popular, the weirdest or any other thing that may sparks some interest to people. A little different to what has been the tradition each year, Google has filtered some of the keywords. Obviously this has raised some “WTF” question from some people. Why the “Don’t Be Evil” company did such thing? Is there any bad intention behind? Explained in GigaOM, what has make “Bebo” came onto the top is the removal of X-rated keywords and some generic keywords like “ebay”, “map”, “dictionary, and etc. For sure, Google will learn form these kinda responds.

I spoke no politics, but it will tickle me to speak some, regardless the quality of speech. The local brouhaha must has been the mysterious MoU (note: link in Bahasa) of Microsoft and Indonesia Government. There has been debates and raised brows about the inconsistency of goverment’s action regarding the path choosen for IT in Indonesia. Believe me, there is more than enough of Open Source activists and believers in Indonesia. The Depkominfo (Communication and Informatics Department?) itself has promoted the proudable Indonesian-hand-made linux distro dubbed as IGOS desktop, and is recommended to every government institution. These excludes the effort made by non-government institution such as WinBi or BlankOn project. And recently, the Kuliax project. But still, this MoU showed up.

Uh oh, I got a new link on Semantic Web. Got this link from #direktif. Well, I have new bookmark now . I’m happy.

Mama sudah datang, waktunya pulang :*