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“It’s not just about privacy. It’s about user autonomy”

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The sacrifice … is user autonomy. If you decide that Google Docs doesn’t the way you want, you can’t tinker with the software and fix it. If you want to share a map on your website, you need Yahoo’s permission. If you want to use a new social networking site, you have to re-enter all your personal data and re-invite all your friends. The data and code belong to someone else, and they’re hidden behind servers that you, the user, aren’t allowed to touch.

–Evan Prodromou, identi.ca

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Google open sources browser sync

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A while ago Google announced the discontinuation of their browser sync addon and service which, at least for some users was a pretty shocking step.

Google now just announced that they released its code into the open source world under a BSD License.

I’m curious and exited at what the community and if they will engage in development, google apps integration? Firefox 3 support is, without a doubt one of the first things you can expect.

What I’d love to see is the support to use personal servers, webspace or maybe even your gmail account to store your browser’s settings and bookmarks. To give users the choice where to store their data is pretty much all I want.

Twitter possibly buying Summize

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As TechCrunch is reporting Twitter may buy the Twitter-centred search engine Summize.

The well know service Summize is the leading Twitter search engine on the web, it enables both twitter users and non-users to search through conversations and tweets, a feature twitter itself lacks.

Both companies are already said to work together closely which of course is a given as they both rely on one another. The purchase would probably be a good decision as Summize already is a both working and well established service and developing a completely new, own search engine would take its time.

Can’t access identi.ca with Firefox [UPDATE]

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In all seriousness I’m starting to get convinced the internet is trying to pwn me.

After my ongoing struggle with OpenID now Firefox won’t open identi.ca anymore.

There’s a error page displayed saying that the page seems to be valid but Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server. I tried using new, different profiles and safe mode but nothing did the trick.

I thought maybe the server, for some strange reason, banned my ip but restarting my router did not help either.

Now, what’s really weird is that other browsers are working fine, they can open the site. And no one seems to have the same problem over at identi.ca, so I’ve to assume that somehow I, my computer or my Firefox is causing it.

Maybe sacrificing a chicken, while dancing naked on the street will help… dunno

I’m all open for ideas what to do, where to look and so on.

UPDATE: It’s working again! I’m not really 100% sure if something I did or something Evan did fixed it. I’m just glad it’s working again :D

Me vs. OpenID, the fight continues

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I start feeling like Peter Griffin fighting the giant chicken. Everytime I Think now I got everything sorted out, got it working, out of nowhere another problem appears.

The other day I decided hosting my own OpenID with phpMyID, which itself worked without glitches, delegating it on the other hand was a bit tricky because I did not realise the yadis plugin was preventing it from working, yet.

But somehow I figred it out and it worked, everything worked, was ready to use.

Then, not even 24h later, my site suddenly stopped working, access to posts and pages was no longer possible, I could access the admin panel though. I checked the Database which seemed fine, checked SEO, checked my .htaccess and everything was looking like it should.

I did not install any plugins, so checking the plugins was the last step on my list, but when I deactivated all of them, the site immediately started working again. So I checked every single plugin on it’s own, and the wp-openid plugin was causing it.

Now THAT really suprised me as it has been working for a couple of weeks now.

In its opitions there’s a button to rebuild the tables, tried that, did not help. I deleted the plugin, reinstalled it, just to get my blog killed yet again.

The current situation is that I keep it deactivated. In addition I wrote a post on the wordpress.org support forums, and I really hope I can sort out this one.