Hyperion Editor Leaving for Internet
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Will Schwalbe is stepping down as editor in chief of Hyperion Books on Jan. 25 to pursue an unspecified Internet-related project. Mr. Schwalbe, who was at Hyperion for 11 years Â seven of them as editor in chief Â is also the author, with David Shipley, deputy editorial page editor at The New York Times, of âSend: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home.â âIâm really just incredibly excited by what is out there in new media,â Mr. Schwalbe said. âIâve had some thoughts that I want to test and see if I can put them into practice.â Mr. Schwalbeâs shepherded authors included David Halberstam; Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine; and the chef Jamie Oliver.
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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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Just been doing some heavy translation from German to English. Which lead to writing a simple command line tool for translating via Google - waste time to save time in other words. Getting a prototype up from scratch took about 15 minutes (which sheds a light on blog spam I guess). Have cleaned it up a bit and dropping it here in case anyone can use it.
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Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer.Baker is handing over the CEO job to John Lilly, Mozilla&#39;s chief operating officer, who becomes responsible for pushing out the updates to Firefox and Mozilla&#39;s Thunderbird e-mail software, the company announced Monday. Baker will retain her role as chairman and stay active within the group, she said.Baker has been with Mozilla since its inception. She was an attorney with Netscape Communications in the late 1990s when it created the Mozilla Organization, and she stayed with the group after AOL bought Netscape and helped to create the Mozilla Foundation in 2003.Since then the open-source browser has built a worldwide market share of about 15 percent, according to estimates, and as high as 30 percent in some European markets. Mozilla says it now has 125 million Firefox users worldwide.In a blog posting Monday, Baker said she&#39;d been thinking for some time about the best way to use her time and about which of her duties could be handled equally well by someone else. Those duties, it turns out, are the day to day management of Mozilla&#39;s software, while Baker sees a wider role for herself in improving the Web experience for end-users.&quot;I have a vision of the Internet and online life and a positive user experience -- and of Mozilla&#39;s role in creating these -- that is far broader than browsers, e-mail clients and even technology in general,&quot; she wrote.She said she&#39;ll focus on efforts to make the Web standards process more effective, make security &quot;understandable enough that people can protect themselves,&quot; and encourage more &quot;hybrid&quot; organizations like Mozilla -- &quot;organizations which serve the public benefit but support themselves through revenue rather than fund-raising.&quot;&quot;I want Mozilla&#39;s influence on the industry to go beyond the bits we ship as software. More particularly, I want to use the impact Firefox gives us in the market to get openness, collaboration and user control embedded in other products, services and aspects of online life,&quot; she wrote.Lilly, her replacement, will be focused on getting the next version of Mozilla&#39;s Web browser, Firefox 3, out of the door. He also wants to be more open about how Mozilla operates and how it will support itself in the future. &quot;I&#8217;d like us to start talking more in public about how the future looks for Mozilla,&quot; he wrote on his blog.Baker remains chairman of both the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit side of the project, and the Mozilla Corporation, which was formed a few years ago to help raise funds and manage product releases.&quot;I&#39;ve been involved in shipping Mozilla products since the dawn of time, and have no intention of distancing myself from our products or [Mozilla Corporation,]&quot; Baker wrote.
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US authorities issued a court order on October 7 to Rackspace to physically remove Global Indymedia servers in the US and UK. The agency requesting the seizure was the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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MonkeyDev writes &quot;Yahoo is reporting that Munich is ready to move forward with plans to &#39;abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux.
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Beehive Code Now Available in Apache; XMLBeans Officially Approved as Apache Project
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The latest beta of Mozilla's browser has been up and running for
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pk2000 writes &quot;Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce.&quot; &#39;Unfortunately, for now, we have made the decision to stop participating in UN/Cefact for business reasons and this serves as notification of our immediate
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roundup Free-roaming source code breeds new Netsky pest. Also: From IE to Opera, browsers are a likely prey.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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"Rubinius is a project to watch", so says Charles Nutter in his post Rite, Rubinius, and Everything &mdash; I think he's right.  Evan is hard at work making things work better in rubinius.  He's now got continuations working (I think this makes him the first alternative implementation of Ruby to do so), and says he should have serializable continuations soon (see his post on it here).  W00t!
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A major upgrade of HTML is in the works but won't emerge for at least two years.
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Over on our sister site, AjaxDeveloper.org today, there's a note about the latest release of Joshua Eichorn's HTML_AJAX PEAR package - version 0.3.1.    HTML_AJAX 0.3.1 is out, lots of good bug fixes, and iframe fallback support for Opera and IE with activeX turned off.  More details are available on the release notes on the wiki.  Feature wise were getting close to beta release, its mainly getting a browser compatability test suite added in and doing some basic API review. If you have experience supporting an API without breaking bc, it would be great to get your feedback on HTML_AJAX.    In the release notes, there's mention of several bugs with Internet Explorer implementations and some yet unsolved problems (IE memory leaks and table support in Konqueror). Check out the rest of the notes for more of the bugs and issues they've taken care of...
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By Steve Lawson's  HERE'S an interesting one... Webaroo.  It's a free download service that allows you to take large portions of the internet with you on your travels.
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Also: Suddenly everything's coming up widgets. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Today a new Editor was added to the site. PHP Designer 2005 (V2.0.0) has been developed by Michael Pham of MP Software and it's looking very promising.