tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19697548913314419422011-09-18T20:03:35.764-03:00Vanessanoreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-28567834623465487682009-09-08T12:28:00.002-03:002009-09-08T12:28:54.302-03:00

This blog has moved to http://baniverso.com/

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-50251144525560303602008-10-03T14:33:00.003-03:002008-10-03T14:43:22.850-03:00

I've been following the discussions about license proliferation that have been going on the past few weeks.I'm really glad that they are bringing up all those issues now because they are very closely related to the subject of my master's dissertation and it will surely enrich my research.But one thought that crossed my mind today was that everyone participating in that discussion knows somehow

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-17653725224126936752008-09-19T14:26:00.001-03:002008-09-19T14:28:27.492-03:00

This saturday, September 20th, is Softare Freedom Day!

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-21680308151709690612008-09-03T22:46:00.002-03:002008-09-03T22:51:37.005-03:00

September 24th will be the World Day Against Software Patents.Although the day celebrates an achievement that has been made at the European Parliament five years ago, there is still a lot to be done. Visit http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/ to learn what else can me accomplished and how you can help.

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-32148769366902278632008-08-22T03:13:00.000-03:002008-08-22T03:14:33.684-03:00

Found this license today. It is cute.This work ‘as-is’ we provide.No warranty express or implied.We’ve done our best,to debug and test.Liability for damages denied.Permission is granted hereby,to copy, share, and modify.Use as is fit,free or for profit.These rights, on this notice, rely.(c) 2005 Alexander E Genaud

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-18251368535746511872008-08-17T21:05:00.003-03:002008-08-17T21:10:50.902-03:00

Just a rant: when you aren't going to do things right, let other people do it.

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-87015962940106374342008-08-06T17:07:00.003-03:002008-08-06T17:33:00.051-03:00

Today the Wikia Search team announced something that dramatically changed how easy it is to help build a better search engine. It is a new Firefox toolbar that lets you add sites and metadata about them to the Wikia Search index in a few clicks, without ever leaving the page. You can also add search results from Google or Yahoo directly to Wikia Search.Now, if only they could figure out a way to

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-21238244352929860272008-07-07T21:19:00.002-03:002008-07-07T22:33:19.204-03:00

Since I've read these slides by Jyri Engeström at an OpenSocial meeting I've been thinking if writing shorter and more frequent blogs would be the right way to go.At the moment I write at two blogs and one microblog. But I also have five inactive blogs.Here I try to discuss ideas that some people (including me) are really interested in thinking about a little further, to understand what is going

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-91552815347036445412008-06-18T13:56:00.002-03:002008-06-18T13:59:34.314-03:00

Looks like the viral marketing has been working well for Firefox 3. You can keep track of the progression at the download counter page.It would be interesting if they released a graph of downloads per hour.

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-63379914981646348752008-06-18T13:40:00.001-03:002008-06-18T13:56:15.177-03:00

Two weeks after my last rant, I just would like to say that I feel things are working better in the project now. People are being able to discuss ideas and there is better communication about what is going on.

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-20331906684329875132008-06-03T14:01:00.004-03:002008-06-03T20:15:45.416-03:00

Today a message has been sent by Jimmy Wales to the Wikia Search Mailing List:Just pinging this list to make sure everyone here is seeing the newlaunch today... lots of new features, new and much better index, etc.Getting favorable reviews so far...My first question is how the other people who wrote reviews knew about it already. Did they find out by themselves as soon as the got up in the

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-62758912949637027362008-05-27T01:20:00.004-03:002008-05-27T01:27:09.414-03:00

Once Alexander Pope wrote Forever reading, never to be readThat is what is happening here. Lately I've been too busy reading so I didn't have time to write on this blog.But I'd like to share with you some books written collaboratively that are worth reading:- The Wealth of the Networks- Code 2.0- Wikinomics Playbook

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-33238891135927448872008-05-08T21:36:00.005-03:002008-12-13T01:15:59.775-02:00

The graphic above is known as the Gartner Hype Cycle. Wikia Search had its peak of inflated expectation on January 7th, and this is where I think it is now.Are you going to help take it to the next level?

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-32384388745980899232008-05-07T23:15:00.005-03:002008-05-08T21:26:49.243-03:00

I'll use this post to explain about the title: Iridescence is an optical phenomenon in which the color seen in a surface changes according to the angle of view. This means that when more than one person is looking at the same thing from different perspectives they can be seeing different colors. This is how the stuff I plan to write about here works: different people see each project by their own

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-59026547878257515032008-04-26T23:20:00.003-03:002008-04-27T00:00:38.163-03:00

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, considered the grandfather of hypertext, was already concerned about the information explosion in which we live today. In his essay As We May Think he wrote: "The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-86204341095679332132008-04-14T23:55:00.003-03:002008-04-26T22:01:35.721-03:00

Permissive licenses like the BSD and MIT impose few restrictions on the use and redistribution of the software. Created in an academic environment, they are based on the principles of publishing and reusing ideas with as much freedom as possible. The absence of stronger conditions for the distribution of software under these licenses implies limitations for its use with other licenses that work

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1969754891331441942.post-31303920716630584702008-04-09T17:47:00.000-03:002008-04-09T17:48:50.730-03:00

This will be my second attempt of writing a blog in English.

Vanessanoreply@blogger.com1