Nokia embraces Open Source

Nokia just launched their new website dedicated to development of open source technologies to use with their products.

Of particular interest Sofia-SIP, a library based on the SIP open source protocol used for many VOIP applications…

Go cool with photo sharing, anywhere!

PixPulse: directly from the announce on Scobleizer blog here’s the brand new PixPulse web service. With it you’ll be able to post on their network pictures and videos you made with any cameraphone, and your PixPulse’s friend list will be automatically notified via sms and they will be able to check your just uploaded media with any Wap 2.0 browser. You can see the wap version of their site here.

If you want to monitor any announcement from the PixPulse developers just monitor the PixPulse blog.

Tim O’Reilly on Microsoft Live Event

Also Tim O’Reilly published a nice report of the upcoming Microsoft Live, where he states that “…Microsoft is fully engaged with the right problemss, and we’ll be hearing a lot more from them…”.

It really seems like he’s right, but only time will show us.

Scobleizer goes deep with Microsoft web services

If you are interested in Microsoft approach to Web 2.0 and their upcoming services just check out one of the most active and interesting WordPress.com’s Blogs: Scobleizer.

This is maintained by Robert Scoble, a Microsoft Technical Evangelist with a good eye on blogging and the way future services should be.

Actually, his blog is #1 on the WordPress.com’s most active blogs list.

Microsoft plans to ride Web 2.0 services

While surfing the web in search of some interesting news about the upcoming Web 2.0 coolness, I found an interesting post by Michael Arrington on his great Web 2.0 related blog: CrunchNotes (I’ll add it to the links).

Well, as he posts to his blog directly from the Microsoft Live Event it seems like Microsoft doesn’t want to sit on the corner while Sun and Google are making big plans about the future integration between desktops and web services and is planning to launch a web edition of his Office suite which will integrate seamlessly with their brand new live.com portal service. For who still doesn’t know, live.com is a newer and upgraded version of the start.com service Microsoft is working in from a while, with Firefox support, AJAX implementation and much more… Here are some of the coolest features:

• AJAX desktop with Drag & Drop functionality and Layout personalization
• Support for gadgets (that’s cool!) – with just a pair of click you will be able to integrate in your Windows live desktop your favourite web services, like flickr or del.icio.us. You can easily imagine how many gadgets ill come out in a really short time.
• Outlook Express like Mail client functionality: just insert your mail account infos and be ready to centralize on a single web based client all your e-mails…
• Instant messaging with VOIP support: well, that’s really cool. As far as I know it’ll be the first web based IM service with voice support… Seems like Skype’ll have something to worry about.

If you want to get a more detailed report of the Microsoft Live Event just check Arrington’s post and, if you like to see Gates in action during the convention here’s the photostream of the event where you can get a nice preview of how Windows and Office Live are going to be.

Ah, one more thing… If you are really nethusiast about live.com and the related services you can find many more informations at the start.com blog.

Welcome to the café!

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Web 2.0 cafè!

I imagine you all would like to know what this blog is about, ain’t you? Well, maybe you arent’ and you just clicked one more link and have been warped here, and the only thing you are asking yourself is “What does this one-more-blog-like-all-the-others have to offer?”…

Well, maybe nothing, maybe a lot. It’s up to you.

The idea, as you can read also in the about page, is to offer a place to the Web 2.0 hype enthusiast where everyone can exchange infos, links, news and ideas. By now WordPress.com offers only limited features, we know, but we have much faith in the project, and we are sure there’ll be soon plugin support, multi user posting and much more!

By now the main feature is that it’s aiming to be a goo dplace for information, news and reviewing of any of the cool web apps coming up every day.

So stay tuned, more to come!

 

P.S: I’m italian, so excuse me for my not-yet-so-perfect english, I promise I’ll enhance it as soon as I can!