Monthly Archives: January 2009

TiVo unhappiness…

So, we buy a TiVo because it has an ‘electronic program guide’ (EPG?) which means we point and click to record. What nobody told us was that Aussie TV never runs to schedule, well actually we knew that, but hey, … Continue reading

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Good video from Graham at Sophos on Twitter ‘spammer’

As usual Graham producing good stuff, go here.

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MSN connection problems…

Also on Twitter, and I agree sooner we’re all using XMPP the better.

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Facebook XMPP?

Just spotted this on Twitter.

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Installing Twitterspy on Debian (etch)

Not a step by step but this will help to get TwitterSpy running on Debian. Dependencies Make sure you have these installed (in this order?) With Python, pysqlite and Twisted you need to download then run the following in each … Continue reading

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spotted on twitter…

‘pnormand: is using xmpp to post on identi.ca, which forwards to twitter which syncs with facebook, isn’t that simple?’

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re:Facebook is The Borg

Interesting post from Doc Searls Weblog. “Much of the activity that used to happen out in the wild unfettered Net, over email, open (XMPP-based) IM and blog posts is now happening inside the Facebook silo. It is AOL 2.0.”

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Twitterspy…

Well, it took a while but I finally got Twitterspy working on our ejabberd server. I’m not at all surprised that the process broke our Yahoo! IM gateway as I had to update to the latest version of Python… the … Continue reading

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re: Ferris 2009 Predictions: Immortalility, Mobility…

It’s nice when reputable research firms call something out that’s aligned with the Cleartext road map… See below… ‘Messaging SaaS will take off.’ and… ‘IM and presence integration with email clients will improve, and become an increasing expectation. This will, … Continue reading

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