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Am I scared by google?
I am. Spooky. How deep the rabbit hole is? How much of your own life can be traded for the commodity of web X.0 ?
First this Chrome thing with nr. 11 statement that owns all of the data comes in and out of browser. They say it was a mistake and will be corrected. Now this name tagging in picassa…..
Until now google only owned you in text web and now they will own you on photos too. I know many people who are trying to not show their real faces associated with their real names. But I do have their photos in my picassa albums. I am a kind person so I will not tag their names. Am I an unique character? Or will someone tag their names? How long will it take then until google will find and will tag all their photos on the net? Are you sure about what photos of you are out there that you’d prefer to keep anonymous? I am pretty sure there are some I’d like to remove before my q=michael%20tabolsky in google picks them up. Having all this global community and friending all the world is fine for me, but sometimes .. sometimes I think I’d better off to the old anonymous web where I could just say “I am gfdsa” and nobody could know what’s behind it. Bottom line, I’m seriously thinking to move away from google, It will be a costly operation that will force me to pay more to hosters, but I just don’t trust this provider of free beer.
Keywords: name tagging, photo tagging, picassa, privacy, web 2.0, google
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:12 | 3 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Firefox 3 release today?
Oh yes. They’ve told us June 17th. What do we get at 16:00 CET? You can bet we still have 2.0.14 as the only option. Why? Is there delay in the delivery? Some critical bug in software? Are their servers out of space for the new files? Nope. Did you note the 24h time notation? Ok, so the thing is that Firefox is released at June 17th at 10pm. PDT !!! Now you could say that it is okay, mozilla foundation is US based and can schedule the dates in their local time. Actually no, you can’t say that. It is a delivery of product. World wide delivery. Check this page’s map and tell me if there is a difference in the number of US and “rest of us” number of Mozilla Foundation customers. You bet there is. But who cares? Pathetic USA self-centristic behaivour.
Keywords: firefox, mozilla foundation, pathetic, software release, usa
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:54 | 2 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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lol: skype for your mobile
I did not ever like the company, but today’s news just made me laugh. Obviously the strategy is clear, take that niche and put there something later. Also “release earlier, release often” fits here. But I still think it is a step that may destroy the image of “not a telephony company” or what ever the slogan was. The thing is, that Skype for Mobile is just not a VoIP application. That’s it. Truphone is, Gizmo is, Fring is, but not the skype. Then what does this Java application do? Well, it logs into your account, updates your presence and shows your contacts. This is why you have to download it. How do you speak with contact? You dial a local access number using your cell provider. Not enough? Then take this: How do your contacts call you? right, they click you in skype. But how do you answer? you answer a traditional cell call over your mobile operator network. Hm, do you wonder who pays for the call? You do. Just like with the forwarding you skype to mobile. Whatever way the story develops further (not that I care, skype is a dying company IMO, unless it is bought by a telco) this little application is the most useless thing I’ve ever seen.
Keywords: marketing, mobile, mobile voip, skype, voip, lol
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 17:10 | 2 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Google talk badge
A really cute widget by google. You can grab one for yourself here
p.s. sorry, you can't post it inside your blog post like I did ...
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 13:18 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Nokia to acquire Trolltech!
In its letter to open source community they say: Nokia is committed to continue Trolltech’s current open source engagements, including
honoring the KDE Free Qt agreement, and we will seek to strengthen our support of KDE
in the future. As a first step Nokia will apply to become a Patron of KDE. Which is no doubt good news, put the Nokia into this list: Patrons of KDE and you will get pretty impressive supporting team ;)
Keywords: kde, qt, qtopia, trolltech, nokia
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 18:46 | 2 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Nokia to acquire Trolltech?
As reported by Trolltech here Trolltech makes software (QT, Qtopia, etc.) used in embedded platforms based on Linux and their Qtopia platform is already adapted for many devices including cell phones. It is a direct competor of Symbian OS. Is Nokia going to support both? Dump one of them in favor of other? Spooky news ;)
Keywords: , nokia, qtopia, symbian, qt
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 08:36 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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dedicated hosting
Below is a message I’ve got from support of an Italian ISP which hosts one of the servers I occasionally manage….Literally it says: Dear Michael Tabolsky,
Hereby inform you, that because of the errors suring the boot process it is not possible to bring the server online, the only solution is to reinstall the OS. Please let us know if you need to recover data from the server.
At your disposal for further clarifications Gentile Michael Tabolsky,
Le comunico che non è possibile avviare la macchina a causa degli errori in fase di boot, l’unica soluzione e reinstallare l’OS, ci faccia sapere se deve recuperare dati dal server.
Rimaniamo a disposizione per ulteriori chiarimenti.
Speechless, just … well.. yeah, what kind of … well, why do they sign their e-mail as “Staff”?!?! Should it bring me back to the Italian services question? I don’t know if it’s a normal practice in other countries, neither I know if it is a normal practice in Italy. First time I’ve been thrown such a thing into the face:( P.S. such a crash has already happen with Milan IN server, and our hoster did not behave like that .... In fact, they offered various solutions and started from READING the error messages ...
Keywords: ISP, hosting, Italian service
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 18:24 | 1 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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ClubINcall in Action 2: Lost in translations
Dear MilanIN-ers and guests!
After the first business day of ClubINcall in public has come closer to its end, I've already learnt a lot. Thanks to your questions and feedback I could fix one bug in ClubINtext and got another proof that writing non technical documents is not my strongest skill. Especially when it comes to Italian which is so beautiful, varied, multiform and non trivial that complicating the simplest things ever is not a challenge at all for me :). Therefor, I've decided to describe ClubINcall in English, hoping that if someone reads the original explanations in Italian then shakes his head and says "Ma.. .che serve questo aggeggio???" he will have a second chance ;) Or maybe someone who has succeed in extracting idea from the original will help me and will translate the English one (assuming it will be better than Italian).
Now then, what is ClubINcall? It is a service developed by me ad-hoc for Milan IN members that creates a small Contanct Center for a member profile accessible by other members and web site guests. This means that any visitor of your profile may contact you leaving a text or a voice message that will be delivered to you by e-mail.
It is really simple to use, all that is required from a visitor of your profile for leaving voice messages is to have a fixed phone line (landline) in one of the supported countries or a keyboard and creativity for typing a text message. Whenever this visitor gets to your profile or weblog, he can see a "Contact" link above your photo, clicking on it will open a small panel where he should enter his phone number (not your number, his number) and by clicking on the green button he will ask the Milan IN server to call him on the phone and record a voice message for you (the profile owner). This is absolutely gratis for both profile visitor and you since the phone call is offered by Milan IN. If the profile visitor does not have a phone line, or his country is not supported, he still can drop you a text note.
So, how to start using it, or how to make this thing to appear on your profile? Simple!
- login first, then go to your profile editor
- scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will see two options ClubINcall and ClubINtext, which respectively refer to the Voice Messages and Text Messages.
- check these boxes to enable it and verify the desired access rights, just like all the profile details your contact centre can be seen by either anybody (PUBLIC), Club Members (LOGGEDIN) or nobody but you (PRIVATE).
- click on the "save" and you have "Contact" above you profile picture!
Follow my blog for updates and news!
Keywords: ClubINcall
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:23 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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ClubInCall in Action
Cari Soci,
Questo post è una presentazione tecnica di ClubINcall, in realtà è cosi semplice ad usare che basta un paragrafo solo per spiegare come funziona:
Update here: ClubINcall in Action 2: Lost in translations
In qualsiasi momento un netizen (cittadino del Internet) arriva ai vostri profili o blog su www.milanin.com vedrà
sopra la vostra foto il quadratino "Contact" (potete già vedere adesso sulla destra, sopra la mia faccia)
cliccando può inserire il suo numero della linea fissa e cliccare sulla cornetta verde. Il Server Milanin lo contatterà sul numero fisso che ha inserito e il visitatore potrà
così lasciare il messaggio vocale che vi arriverà con posta elettronica. (a costo 0 per voi e per visitatore perché è MilanIN che lo contatta).
Un paio dei step semplicissimi per abilitare:
- Effettuare login
- Andare allo vostro profilo (è compilato in pieno,
vero?) - Cliccare su "Edit profile" sopra
- Girare la rotella di mouse ad a fine della pagina
- Abilitare il ClubINcall/ClubINtext cliccando sul checkbox e cliccare su "Go" sotto
- Sopra la vostra foto c'è il "Contact"!
Se leggete questa riga, vuol dire che sono stato proprio bravo che sono riuscito a tenere la vostra attenzione cosi tanto con la lingua terribile ;) Per sapere di piu` seguite il mio blog, qua faro avvisi dei bugfixing e di features. Se invece avete qualche problema o domanda, non esitare di scrivermi un email, chiamarmi su ClubINcall o andare sul nostro forum alla sezione di supporto tecnico. Grazie per la vostra attenzione e spero che sono stato abbastanza
chiaro e non ho fatto peggio con questi spiegazioni ;)
Alla prossima!
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 23:24 | 7 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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KDE 4.0
Awaited for a long time, very anticipated, highly provoking, heavily discussed, promisingly shiny, acceptably unstable, stunningly impressive… 
It is released.
Keywords: KDE, KDE4, event, release, Linux
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 21:33 | 4 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Am I a magician?
Well, I am not, but another global white pages wannabe Zoominfo, think I am: 
why? I have no idea, I realy do not know any tricks. I have passed by this image just in time, there are a lot of discussions around the correctenss of spock tags, and especially the ones harvested from on-line profiles by robots. So this image above is just an example, that the contextual serach for personal data doesn't work ye. Even for someone who cares about on-line reputation. Well, I hope the things are going to improve soon ;) Will you spock?
Keywords: people search, personal information, spock
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:12 | 1 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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SUP acquires LiveJournal from Six Apart
If some reader does not know what LiveJournal is, it is a large blogging community with friending. SUP instead is a shadow Russian IT company that invests capitals here and there. In Russia (which is second in numbers of LiveJournal accounts after US) LiveJournal has become a synonymous of "blogging". Now then, the acquisition comes the day after Russian elections. If it still does not ring the bell, on-line community was almost the only source of information from the real people about the Russian politics. Way to go tzar, way to go.
Keywords: livejournal, politics, sup, russia
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 09:41 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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The next big thing to fear
From recently published report by McAfee Avert Labs: VoIP Attacks Speak Up VoIP attacks should increase by 50 percent in 2008. More than twice the number of VoIP-related vulnerabilities were reported in 2007 versus the previous year—several high-profile “vishing” attacks, and a criminal phreaking (or fraud) conviction—so it’s clear that VoIP threats have arrived and there’s no sign of a slowdown. Although ABI Research estimates 1.2 billion VoIP users by 2012 (with $150 billion annual service revenues), the technology is still new to many and implementing defense strategies is lagging.
which brings us to the next biggest job in VoIP technologies, security and privacy. speaking of security, here is a graph of VoIP Vulnerabilities from the same report:  As about privacy... trust me, the global providers just don't give a .... don't care about it. If I would want to spam with voice messages, it would take one day of work to develop a system with near 100% hit rate...
Will see ;)
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 20:56 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Forum: Le critiche sulla moderazione
come era sicuramente previsto, sono arrivati i reclami. Voglio chiarire cosa ho fatto, e perche. Ho cestinato circa 20-30 messaggi nei topic di candidati che erano fuori delle regole. I messaggi che si trovano adesso sul forum sono completamente in regola. Se i nostri candidati fanno un impegno e cancellano i post di loro nei topic di loro dove rispondano a vari attachi - sarebbe meglio per i propri immagini perche adesso stanno parlando con se stessi. Vi prego ad usare vari strumenti di communicazione per domande e reclami anzi che creare messaggi nuovi sul stesso forum dove siete stati gia` moderati. Cosi` possiamo evitare la perdita del tempo vostro e mio. Grazie
Keywords: forum, moderation, elezioni
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 16:16 | 4 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Il www.milanin.com, un sito business
basta vedere la evidenza qua: 
per capire che la maggiore parte dei visitatori arriva a sito proprio nel orario uficcio
Keywords: site, www.milanin.com, stats
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 12:19 | 2 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Forum moderation buzz
Following the buzz on the candidates forum. A copy is there. Or better the copy is here of what is there. Well... it is here and there anyway. 1. The difference between a moderator and the site administrator:
Moderators control the users. They moderate the content published by them and prevent abuses. Administrators watch for moderators to act as they are requested and do a lot of other things to keep the forum up and running. As the consequence of the difference described an Administrator can unwillingly create content that will be moderated.
2. Where moderators and administrators come from?
Moderator duty is assigned by the club entity for which a forum was created. This forum is dedicated to elections and we have an executive committee that controls all the related activity.
Administrators in contrast are not voted here. There are historically two site administrators, me and Andrey Golub. It is not a privilege it is our day-by-day duty.
Anyone wishing to join the administration team - is always welcome. He will need first to demonstrate his technical skills and spend some time in the IT Team to prove his capacity.
3. Offer.
Since there is a lot of buzz about this section moderation I officially candidate for moderation. My neutrality and Internet dependence should do the trick.
Keywords: elezioni
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 18:13 | 9 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Milan IN: Da Astratto a Reale
In questi giorni io, magari per prima volta, riesco ad applicare la idea che per guadagnare i punti ci servano anni, ma per perdere basta due parole. Fino che ho osservato i elezioni nel nostro Club era` sempre un concetto astratto per me. Grazie MilanIN, il Club che rende il astratto reale!
Keywords: elezioni, Milan IN
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 21:27 | 4 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Elezioni 2.0
Why? just because of my site administration duties I had to intervent into some dirty discussions between our candidates and their supporters.
So what is the point? My opinion. I am a club member. I am not a democrat in a very the same way as I am not a religious fanatic. I don't support any of the candidates. I am neutral. And I beg you, that is not because I am scared or because I want to keep up with the winner. I just don't participate in this democracy and stay away from stinky politics. Thats it.
Now, back to neutral observations.
1. The "Elezioni 2.0" have to be cancelled. There is only one candidate and there is no choice.
2. The Pier Carlo Team is HIS TEAM, because he has insipred everyone and HE has put it all together.
3. Marco is NOT anti-milanin. In no way. But he can't be a president of a local club not being local by himself.
4. Andrey is not Sovietico.
5. Andrea can't participate in the club management because of simple ethics. Whatever was said about on-line/off-line differences, there is kinda interests conflict.
6. To candidate someone (Michele, no?) into presidents is great. But who is it? What did he ALREADY do for the club?
7, On the other hand, some are very well known, but for some reasons they popup to candidate after an year or two of silence.
Well, I hope you get the point.
In general, I have a feeling that too many here are better at speaking than at doing.
P.S. almost forgot, www.liberamilanin.com, just for readers to remember that there is one P.P.S. Just to mention, there is no Santa.
Keywords: democracy, freedom, milanin, Elezioni
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 14:28 | 8 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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ADSL2@20Mbit+Telecom Italia == ?
Oggi ho letto nel blog di Elena le polemiche sul ADSL2 di Telecom Italia, e ho visto tanto confusione sua e di commenters. E allora ho deciso di scrivere questo avviso, magari sara' utile per qualcuno.
Keywords: ADSL, ADSL2, Alice, Telecom Italia, 20Mbps
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 10:57 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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Gmail: How do I enable IMAP? Finally!
How do I enable IMAP? You can retrieve your Gmail messages with a client or device that supports IMAP, like Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail. Good news for all who loves IMAP as I do!
Keywords: imap, mail, gmail. google
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 16:29 | 1 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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no internet tax petition
http://firmiamo.it/nointernettax please sign, or you will wake up one day and will not find the internet as you love it
Keywords: internet tax, petition
Posted by michael.tabolsky at 16:45 | 0 comment(s) | Send to a Friend
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