I read on Twitter, that Gustav is now a category 5 storm before i saw it in TV.
Maybe in some months we Twitter feeds as headlines at CNN or N-TV.

just found at Ben Walkers ihatemorning Blog; cannot really agree

with his domain name, i love mornings; but the song is great. Good social advertisement.

Chris Saad suggested on his blog: “using email as OpenID” (published 22 Aug 2008).
That’s a really good idea.

All non-tech people must be confused to enter a URL as identifier on login screens and everybody knows his email-address quite well and use it very frequently.

Another idea: why not use a mobile number (MSISDN) as OpenID identifier for logins?

everybody has one or more mobile numbers and it can also be used with a handshake-SMS to handle user verification.

Easy to use, best user experience, well known and MSISDNs are unique.

I know, that there were some experiments on mobile OpenId earlier this year, yet:
The OpenID mobile experience (published on factoryjoe in January 2008).

OpenId has with email identifier a huge potential for identification.

Image is attributed to wordle.net

As the newspager “New York Times” reported on Saturday NBC tried to regulate leaks on the Web and shut down unauthorized video.
A lot of blogs commented with a lack of understanding to this NBC tactic.

NBC said, making real money is only possible broadcasting such an event at primetime.

Good, we all have a global internet environment without country barriers to watch TV on foreign broadcaster or online at Youtube.

We’ve had about 500,000 visitors over the past 3 months, of which 61% use Firefox, 23% use IE, and 11% use Safari. Opera and some browsers I haven’t heard about before make up the rest of the traffic.

This is a trend, we can see in Germany for years: the tremendous growth of Firefox usage.

Other Resources:

• German Webstats of webhits.de
• TheCounter.com statistics posted at Wikipedia

The Concept Series aims to provoke thought, facilitate discussion, and inspire future design directions for Firefox, the Mozilla project, and the Web as a whole.

The most important concept for me is:

* stable
* fast
* handling much more than 20 tabs parallel
* secure browsing
* playing flash under Ubuntu slim and fast

Today Firefox 3 is sometimes much CPU consuming with Ubuntu and instable playing flash sites.

Firefox 3.0 was a big step in this direction of performance optimization!

A cool new feature might be the Firefox extension Snowl.
It’s a prototype Firefox extension that integrates messaging into the browser. It integrates RSS/Atom and twitter.

Please, no more features to Firefox Core, simple make in faster as my favorite browser!