Final Verdict on Qumana   May 3rd, 2006

I’ve been using Qumana for the past few days to do the post. Mainly I’ve been writing up the Web 2.0 Conference many people attended last week. Well I just spent an hour doing the final entry and qumana just lost all that work. As I pasted in the last section of notes the screen went ‘funny’ and that was it all edits scrapped. Looks like it might be a cut and paste bug.

A nice tool, but not quite ready for prime time. It is beta-software so I’ll give it a another shot when it exits beta.

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The Enterprise Ireland website doesn’t render properly in FireFox. Shame, Shame….

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How Not to do RSS   May 3rd, 2006

Check out where you land after clicking the RSS link on the DigitalTrends website. A nightmare page of fifty or more feeds, with no single aggregator for the whole lot.

Try not to do the most stupid thing guys..

Delicious adds networks   May 3rd, 2006

Del.icio.us has added a network feature that allows you to add users you know to your network. Then you get to add their links to your del.icio.us cloud.

Andrew Tridgell (developer of Samba) seems to have speared Microsoft at the EU anti-trust hearings this week.

“It’s not certain Samba will benefit, but the IT industry as a whole will," Tridgell said in the interview. "That’s why this case is seminal for the IT industry. The interoperability the Commission is demanding from Microsoft will allow the industry to return to the sort of cooperation that existed in the 1990s,� he said. “Cooperation is the norm."