Category Archives: Closed Technologies
Webm and public services
Today I tried to upload a funny video from Fosdem to Youtube and to be able to embed it into my webpage as a webm movie (The conversion from mp4 to webm was quick via ffmpeg under fedora. I like it!) , but it fails. IT always offers me their buggy Flash interface. On other…
Diaspora* privacy is a myth?
One of the good things about Diaspora* project is it’s privacy. Anyone is able to delete ALL data from a POD and to move to another POD or just to use any other way to connect with friends. I have created 3 accounts on joindiaspora.com, diasp.eu and diasp.org. After few weeks I have deleted 2…
Censorship of Wikileaks mirror by Pirate party of Serbia hosted on mochahost.com (as private rented server)
Commercial (and payed) server for Pirate party of Serbia was shut down without any takedown notice. Early in the Saturday mourning of 11th of December the server that hosts the site of Pirate party of Serbia was suspended (along with many other sites). Neither the admin nor the site holders were noticed before outage! People…
Posting to Facebook fan page wall as an admin using Facebook API
I know, I know. This is a blog about Open Technologies and Open Web and I am writing about Facebook. Shame on me :) It’s a little bit tricky and I’ve lost 3 hours to resolve it and that’s the reason to post it here Here is the solution.: 1. If you are reading this,…