Mosnaps Presented at AT&T Fast Pitch Thursday 2008-04-03
Harish and Amit presented the Mosnaps applications and community at AT&T Fast Pitch session at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. The Fast Pitch is a way for AT&T not to miss any new good inventions in the mobile arena. Above all, it is a way for small innovative companies to get their applications shown to the world, using the muscles of a giant. “Standing on the shoulders of giants”, is an expression that comes to mind. Some hundred companies get five minutes to present their technical idea and business model before a panel of AT&T experts, and some few get rewarded with some money and a promotion vehicle. The the great job to get it working starts.
Hopefully the presentation went well and hopefully the jury was impressed. All that could be said from the mobile snapshots uploaded to Mosnaps so far, is that the guys ar good looking.
Oops Tuesday 2008-04-01
What happened to this blog of mine?
If you are my reader, I can assure you that this uncluttered and rudimentary look is only temporary and for experimental reasons.
Yours truly!
/Petit
Post Scriptum:
Should you have returned after the reset to standard template, please just disregard this message.
[Edit] Well, it’s back 
WordPress 2.5 Released Monday 2008-03-31
A safe and heavy 2.5 version of WordPress is released and installed here at petitpub.com.
As usual upgrading along the lines of the three step upgrade process went without problems.
Hopefully I will be able to redesign the Dashboard or at least the Write Post page. In earlier versions I had all widgets for setting tags, allowing pings, selecting category and creating a slug to the right of the input field. Now they are by default below the scribble area, and I have to scroll down to do that.
We’ll see!
Mosnaps on the run
I’m working hard with Harish, Amit, Alexandre, Brandon and others to get the Mosnaps site afloat. Hopefully it will happen soon now.
Not everything will work and it will still be beta, but the site is getting nicer and cooler for each day. Some nice flash viewers, which is my contribution, will be ready to present your mobile snapshots. Work is done by the Indian group to get Java uploaders for different Java enabled phones, but they are not ready yet. Until that works, people with other phones than the Blackbarry’s can upload images over the web. It is also possible to organize already uploaded images over a web interface and to view and comment your friend’s images.
It will be a lot of fun on this new social site. Is that web 2.0? You bet
Mo-Snaps at CES Monday 2008-01-07
Aloa!!
We are life at CES in Las Vegas presenting mobile snaps at the Berry review site!
Indeed we made it. Some hard days and nights for the team after we got the chance with very short notice.
Hopefully the server copes with the load.
[Edit]Well, the Berry Review uploaded just a few images from their BlackBerry phone, and now they lifted the Mo-snaps widget out.
You can still see the Berry widget on the maufait blog.
[Edit 08-03-01] Not even that is true anymore – I guess I have to keep you updated. Enjoyed it as long as it lasted. Soon the MoSnaps service will leave it’s closed beta for the first launch.
The Mobile Snapshots Saturday 2008-01-05
Ever wanted to keep your friends continuously updated on the great life of yours? Now you can! Oh well, I know you could already snap a picture of your reality using your mobile phone, and immediately send it as an MMS to your friends. And yes, some of you might even send video from your 3G phone.
So what’s the deal? You’d expect I tell you, right?
Indeed, the news is a service at maufait.com to which you can upload your mobile phone images, and have them presented on the web in a nice Flash widget. Now all your friends can follow you on line, as you rush through your life mo-snapping whatever you find significant. You don’t have to MMS them one at a time. Your images are saved at the maufait site and you can include a nifty widget on your own site, to present the mobile snaps. The service is called Mo-Snaps, and I am happy to code the Flash widget.
What’s the catch here? As it stands right now, you have to be invited to participate. The whole thing is in beta state. The upload only works for BlackBerry phones, but development is under way for any Java enable phone. There is already a MIDP application for Java phones, but a test on my SE 810i failed, so there are still work to be done on that application.
Sooner or later this service will work for all of us.
Starting this Sunday the Berry Review will hopefully report from the CES in Las Vegas, using this service.
Have a look!
WordPress Shot in the Foot Saturday 2007-03-03
This is to alert you to immediately update your WP 2.1.1 installation, if you downloaded and installed that version lately.
As I wrote, not long ago “WordPress is Secure Blogging“. However destructors traveling cyberspace are getting cleverer each day. If you cannot penetrate the installed blogging platform, why not attack and change the distribution?
According to word from the WordPress blog
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
So, earlier versions of WordPress are not affected, and bloggers at wordpress.com are safe too. Only if you installed WP 2.1.1 lately, go ahead and install the update now!
WordPress is Secure Blogging Thursday 2007-02-22
There is high security awareness in the team developing WordPress. Today, the 30 days new 2.1 version is getting a maintenance upgrade to 2.1.1, mainly containing smaller bug fixes, but also some security measures. For the earlier 2.0 version, which had its latest maintenance as 2.0.7 at the same time, there’s now a 2.0.9 security upgrade.
It’s really nice to be in good hands,and whether you took the bold step from WP 2.0 to the famed 2.1 or stayed with the 2.0, you should take the new face lift.
Just make sure you select the correct upgrade.
Spammers Go Away Wednesday 2007-01-24
Yeah, they really should disappear. I have Akismet installed for the benefit of my blog and my occasional readers. During the fairly long time I had it installed not a single spam comment has slipped through. Hurray for that!
It is still annoying, to have to log in to the admin page and delete spam messages on a daily basis.
Yes of course I’m spoiled. Just came to think about it. What if the wizards behind Akismet hadn’t done such an ingenious work, my gosh! I would have waded in spam comments spread out all over my blog, even contaminating old posts, that I had already given a good cleaning. Now I find them gathered in Aiksmet’s own container, and can select to browse them or kill them on sight.
Until this day Akismet has caught 8999 spammy messages, after todays record amount of 218.
I’m really happy about this neat and effective catch and destroy tool.
Most common fake comment lately is
Actually i am not an active serfer, but this this site is really great, i will spread it through my friends.
No, whoever you are, you are not a “serfer” at all. You are a dumb program sending dumb messages from fake adresses to make my blog unreadable. You’ll not succeed, but as the unnecessary piece of code you are, you don’t care. So what am I doing here, talking to evil code somewhere. Here endest that silliness 
[Edit 01-27] Oh, I love inventions, don’t you? Today I got a really nice spamment, which wasn’t caught by Akismet, because a machine would find it reasonable.
It goes like this:
I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins that require me to put some line in the comment loop; I can never seem to find the right spot. Can anyone tell me where I should put the php line in my comments loop? I haven not modified anything much, and I would be very grateful. Thanks!
I certainly could have been tricked into letting it through from my second defense line, the moderation queue. If it hadn’t been for the stupidity to send the same comment to three different posts. Then again I’m not that good at PHP anyway.
Your Words Travel the World Thursday 2007-01-11
By automatic syndication and by your loyal subscribing readers, the words you write, will travel far and wide. And fast! They may meet and influence people of different age and sex and from different cultures. Manuel Amador of weblog tools collection has written an interesting essay, “The wonderful journey of a blog post“, on this very subject.
It is humbling, and it makes you think ( again ), on your own blogging efforts. Is what I write about interesting enough? Would anything of it offend someone? In short, do I care about my readers enough?
Well, I promise to try. For now, I’ll say no more. Read the article and get amazed!
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