links for 2006-12-08

  • Get Mini and More
    I keep hearing it: “Mugshot is becoming useful!” … and it really is. It’s pretty cool to see the online footprints of your friends in aggregate — it’s like a very sexy portrait Planet. I would totally put the widget on my blog… if it were not Flash.
    (tags: mugshot web2.0 redhat)
  • Switched On: Pretty fly for the WiFi
    “Mylo is primarily a portable media device that can access the Internet and the 770 is an Internet device that can play back media. Mylo gets the edge for portability and polish while the 770’s Bluetooth capabilities greatly improve its connectivity.”
    (tags: nokia 770 sony mylo gmae gnome)
This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on December 9, 2006 at 09:18, filed under del.icio.us. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Kevin Otte
    Posted December 10, 2006 at 15:21 | Permalink

    I don’t quite get what Red Hat is up to with Mugshot. They are (or at least once were) a company who espouses openness of source and protocol, yet they have chosen to use AIM instead of Jabber/GTalk and the closed source Flash for their badges. What did I miss?

  2. jdub
    Posted December 11, 2006 at 14:55 | Permalink

    They’re building bridges.

    AIM is an important bridge to build because there’s a heck of a lot of people behind it, and it’s relatively easy compared to the others. Jabber doesn’t have the same, uh, ROI. :-)

    They’re building a Javascript version of the badge thingy. I imagine Flash was just simpler to start with.

    Remember that Mugshot is quite a different world. Intentionally so.