Well, my employer jsut released a new product I believe will become more and more used in the future by advertisers: SocialWonder. The basic idea? End users of ads can add them as widgets to myspace, facebook, etc..
The Russian media company SUP just purchased LiveJournal. Let the Soviet Russia jokes commence!
Since I don't get paid to hack on Webkit (sadly), I can only contribute in my spare time.
However, I do have some short and long term personal goals for WebKit:
- Get the threading patches to Qt integrated. For the most part, its ready:Â http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15940
- Getting NPAPI plugins working in Qt/Windows
- Potentially adding audio/video support
- Drawing issues in Qt/Windows. Some examples: http://www.neowin.net, any website with effects on rollover, etc...
I'm going to be sappy and write this to my lovely fiance Shelley Grey:
I love you sweetheart!
I just took 2 of my cousins (Angel and Harley) to see the Lights of Life at Life University in Marietta, GA. Very pretty Christmas light decorations. It's free (except for the petting zoo, which is $5), and its drive through in your car.
Intel Centrino truely rocks.
So I migrated from the "1&1 Blog" to a custom wordpress install (which also happens to be much newer). I also took the privilege of importing alot of ancient posts from Blogger (i had to create a blogspot account just to migrate my posts...).
Some files are missing, etc.. I'll probably try to fix some of it over the holiday weekend.
AT&T released their new AT&T Messenger 5.0 IM client (http://www.att.net/messenger), based on the former BellSouth Messenger client acquired from the AT&T purchase of BellSouth almost a year ago.
AT&T Messenger is probably one of the few branded IM clients provided by an Internet provider and only available to their Internet customers. It's currently only available to AT&T FastAccess DSL and AT&T WorldNet customer. There's no expected date for AT&T Yahoo! customers to have access to the client. However, AT&T Messenger is based on Jabber, so you can IM all of your friends on Gmail, Livejournal, etc.. just by adding them. They can add you via your bellsouth.net or att.net email address.
Another great feature: multi-protocol compatibility. You can add your Windows Live Messenger, AIM, and Yahoo! Messenger accounts and chat with your friends on those networks. While you can't recieve files, etc.. from those users, the 3 special features of AT&T Messenger are available to you with them, such as file sharing, photo sharing, and webcam.
AT&T provides 3 really cool features with their client:
- AT&T File Sharing: Send a file to a user on AT&T, or any other protocol it supports, and it'll send the user a download link to the file
- AT&T Folder Sharing, similar to Windows Live's product
- AT&T Photo Sharing lets you share photos with ease, manage them locally and send users a link over IM
- AT&T Video Sharing lets you watch each other's webcam, even if the other user doesn't have AT&T Messenger
Overall, their IM product is not bad, even if it can use a better UI. It's functional and fairly bug free. Kudos to the AT&T Messenger team, and if you have Jabber, hit me up at jhaygood86@bellsouth.net
Know someone with a bit of spare cash? Make sure to keep their electronics in fully functional condition by checking up with them every once in a while, and when they have a problem, fix it promptly. Provide good service consistently, and you will be promptly rewarded with some spare greenback.