ONE AND ONE MAKES TEN » google

OpenID to rule them all

João Moreno — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:32:55 +0000

Today Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, VeriSign, and Google have joined the OpenID Foundation as board members.

These are definitely joyous news. I bet the guys from OpenID are right now in their evil headquarters thinking: “Jesus, I still can’t believe they bought it…” .

I, for one, thank these major corps. by lowering their weapons and accept this obviously better alternative. Use OpenID!

openid, microsoft, yahoo, google

Is the Android Paranoid?

João Moreno — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:09:17 +0000

There’s been a lot of buzz on the web around Android, Google’s latest bet on mobile devices. Some think it’s great, others not so much.

As for Scobble’s rant, I don’t get it. I know this is a tiny response to a huge set of arguments, but: as we’ve seen before, it’s not what it is that matters, it’s what it does (or in this case, will do), for example. And boy, does this platform looks promising. So, I’d rather wait to see what’s coming towards us than to take the project down already.

I already downloaded the SDK and had a little bit of fun on the emulator. They provide a nice consistent SDK and also lots of examples as well as their source-code. Maybe I’ll make some apps for it later.

Summer Of Code 2007

João Moreno — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:05:58 +0000

Google has started accepting student applications for this year’s Summer Of Code.

Here’s the deal: you (students only) commit yourself into developing in a Free / Open source project, and Google will sponsor it and pay you $4.500, and $500 for the correspondent mentoring organization. Isn’t it great? I myself am applying to a couple of projects and hope for one of them to be selected.

Just click the thumbnail for more info.