Firefox’s first candle!

Woah, our most beloved browser is bigger every days… Release 1.5 is coming, and in the meanwhile Mozilla announced it’s first year of life.

Happy birthday, firefox! 

“Extend Firefox” Competition

Seems like the Mozilla Foundation want to bet even more on Firefox and the community supporting it with the constant development of many great extension. The news is they wills tart to pay them for doing so!

Mozilla launched the “Extend Firefox” competition with a lot of interesting prizes: Desktop PCs, iPod nanos, O’Reilly books, Gadgets and more.

This is also a good way to promote the upcoming Firefox 1.5 and encourage developers to make or update their extension compatibility with the new release of this great browser. 

Check out the official announcement for the details!

Web2con article by NewsForge

Ok, I know these days I don’t talk about anything else, but this event rumbled a lot in the Web development underground… Anyway, I found really interesting news item on NewsForge about the Web 2.0 Conference ad how it is related with Open Source software.

Making the point

As now, there are plenty of cool emerging Web Services applying the Web 2.0 principles (usabilty, semplicity, user centered), and every day there are more and more emerging with new and innovative features (just ake a look at Remember The Milk!), but what are the top services around at the moment? The ones with thousands of registered users, those the Web 2.o enthusiasts couldn’t live without?

As the Web 2.0 Café blog has just opened (we registered on WordPress.com about a week ago) I think it would be cool to start a series of reviews of the most intereting Web Services around at the moment and of the most interesting upcoming or still in beta services.

These reviews will be divided in two categories:

• Making the point: Under this title you’ll find reviews of the well known and widespread services
• What’s coming: This will be the title for the reviews of the most interesting upcoming products

Stay tuned…

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…

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!