Two days back Yahoo announced to provide OpenID to its users (we covered the story here), and now Google Joins up by providing OpenID to to its bloggers, so far the project is declared as an experiment and is not yet ready for public release but clearly shows Google intentions to join up in providing OpenID for its users.

You can now use your blog’s URL as an OpenID URL, or any website that accepts OpenID 1.1 authentications. To enable OpenID for your blogs just edit your profile and enable the check box which says Enable OpenID for blogs .

Things are moving quit fast this year and with the start of 2008 there is an increase in centralizing the control of data. Google users will stick with Google OpenID and Yahoo users with there OpenID so this might be setting up boundaries around the consumers login information and providing them wings to fly around any site they want but then return back to the nest. On the user end OpenID helps them from the pain of “User Registration Forms”, “e-Mail Authentications” & remember the ever growing user name / password lists.

Other Related

• Yahoo annouces to support OpenID
• Other OpenID Providers
• Websites that provide access via OpenID

1. Open New Tab
   Well i am sure most know about it as its the core essential for browsing
   [ Ctr + T ]
2. Open Closed Tab
   We usually clost tabs and then realize we needed that information so no worries you can re-open your closed tabs by using
   [ Ctr + Shift + T ] >> it will open the most recently close tab and if you have closed a bunch of them you can reopen them one by one
3. Shifting Between Tabs
   Ofcourse we dont use Firefox to browse only one page at a time we open 1,2,3,4….. tabs and so on so the easy way to go from tab1 .. tab2 .. and onward is
   [ctr + 1] [ctr +2 ] …… [ctr + 9] ….. and so on
4. Quickly Clear Private Data
   You want to clear up you history quick and fast
   [ctr + shift + delete]
5. Select Search Bar
   Firefox is packed with Google, Yahoo, Amazone.com, Answers.com, Creative Commons and Ebay so to quickly access all these search bars.
   [ctr + K ] and once selected use the [ctr + down arrow] to select other search engines.

Unfortunately Hulu Invitations have packed up, all the sites that were offering Hulu invitations are out of invitations and i was one of the lucky person to get an invite on time, though for a few weeks it didn’t run well reason being i was accessing Hulu outside USA. And every time i tried to access Hulu i got the message below :

“Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country, region. We apologize for this inconvenience.”

So here is a simple easy way to watch Hulu :  read more

Yahoo Steps up and Announces its support for the OpenID 2.0 Digital Identity Framework for all of its 248 million active registered users worldwide. The move by Yahoo has placed further value to the evoloving framwork and Identity system of OpenID. With the support of OpenID from Yahoo plans to eliminate the need to create separate ID’s an logins at various websites rather with one ID Yahoo users would be able to access any site with the support of OpenID.

read more

Sun announced an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases. This acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market and reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

Source : Sun News Release

I think this mistake should be labeled as the mistake of the year, and after investigating into it the y2k bug still exists, So the story goes on that i received an e-mail from dreamhost that they have charged me for 120$ for one year hosting / domain charges. Firstly the mail was shock to me as i had already paid dreamhost for the year 2 months back. So immediately logged in my cpanel, checked my billing and unchecked by auto billing system. Although i still wondered as what had happened cause dreamhost can’t bill me without my authorization to the bank. So then i got hold of this story “um, Whoops” (Dreamhost makes a 1.7 million dollar mistake) posted on there official blog that tells that computers dont make all the mistakes but humans does and this time it was a human bugged with a Y2k bug.

So finally Apple comes up with this years innovation at the Mac World, the rumour cooking up about the MacBook Air was true apple released yet another amazing product called “MacBook Air” the worlds thinnest Notebook.

read more

Bill Gates the Co-Founder Microsoft finally retires, Bill Gates gave his final Microsoft keynote at the 2008 CES show in Las Vegas. Check out the video to see what he plans for the future ..

Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip

With the web evolving at a very high speed do we really need an operating system or do we only need a web browser? If i look at the my web activity and my desktop activity what is the one thing that i use more then anything else i would say a web browser.

Years back we used to use our desktop to process documents (using Microsoft Office) we used to check our e-mails(using Microsoft Outlook) we used to chat with friends (using MSN messenger, ICQ, AOL), we used to manage our photo galleries into folders, listened the music on winamp. But things have changed now everything we used to do offline is online, we have broadband internet to access our online applications, we use google docs to process our documents, we use gmail to check all our e-mails, we use meebo to get in touch with our friends(on gtalk, msn, aol, yahoo messenger), we use flickr to manage our pictures, we use YouTube to watch our videos, we use wikipedia to access our encyclopedia & we use last.fm to listen to our music. Do we Really need a Microsoft Windows ?

If i talk in terms of web developers and engineers yes at some level we do need linux or Windows, but if i talk in terms of general people, who use the computer in there daily activity they don’t need a full fledged OS with 1000’s of pre installed applications, spend ridiculous amount of money on softwares, firewalls, anti virus and worry all the time about the computer crashing and loosing there data.

Keeping this in view on 7th January 2008 goS (Green Operating System) lacunches.

read more

Initially i launched Ideas2o two weeks back using drupal, custom designed the drupal theme added modules and launched the site online. But to my continuous effort drupal didn’t perform the way i wanted. The load time for the site was way beyond my quality control, the 404 error pages kept on showing with little or no traffic on the site and some how it didn’t run as stable as i predicted. No doubt drupal is a very strong and very powerful system but it has its flaws.

• It loads too many modules thus increasing the load time of the site
• The system is quite complicated and takes too much time to make it perfect.
• Some modules work with some version while other don’t
• Modules in drupal some times conflict with each others like Drivers in Windows
• The system is packed with jquery so prototype and other JavaScript libraries don’t work.
• Image handling in blog is horrible and you have to use modules which requires further time and are not as perfect as you require
• There is no editor in drupal so for that you have to go for another module and it ads further complications.

So after fighting with these complications i had no other option but to close it down and shift back to good old WordPress, and the lesson learned always use a CMS that fits best on your requirements. Drupal is a social network system which is its core functionality and my requirement was to set up a blogging system where i can share knowledge and write on the topic that are interesting and exciting. So for that wordpress is the best solution, its easy, its fast and its reliable.

Next > Re-Design and Improvement on the theme .