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From their site:

"We'll be inviting 500 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web's most respected developers. We will then dive into 24 hours of hacking on a very nice collection of tools, APIs, and data, and end with awards from the sponsors plus bragging rights until the end of eternity or the next Hack Day, whichever comes first."

Now I have to thing about what kind of hack will be my part...

http://hackday.org/

Seems that the bad'n'evil giant is riding the cool horse. After supporting Creative Commons they now also know how to put error messages in hip web slag: Oops, ...

Map24 recently added some features to their interactive JAVA map display. You now can modify the perspective and tilt the camera to get a better impression of distance in you point of view. A playback timeslider is also added to watch your trip across the continent. A very well done online adaption of Googles Earth project!

About eight years ago Jackob Nielsen's analysed TV vs. computers and came to the point that broadcast TV is a medium for relaxation, where the "user" sits back and becomes immersed in whatever the program directors decided to air.

Now in the days of video blogging and broadband web news he did the experiement again and got the same results: Eyetracking data show that users are easily distracted when watching video on websites, especially when the video shows a talking head and is optimized for broadcast rather than online viewing.

Jackob Nielsen: Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online

Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. This is they do it at Google:

- Hire by committee
- Cater to their every need
- Pack them in
- Make coordination easy
- Eat your own dog food
- Encourage creativity
- Strive to reach consensus
- Don't be evil
- Data drive decisions
- Communicate effectively

TechCrunch released some thougths about Companies he like to profile but do not exist. Choose one of ten and get busy!

Opera Software today announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, the free full Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone, including low- and mid-end handsets.

Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. This makes Opera Mini perfect for phones with very low resources, or low bandwidth connections.

Jimmy Wales, President of the non-profit Wikipedia Foundation, and creator of the Wikipedia encyclopedia spoke at the Institute for International Economics about their further plans.

Mike Lee put some notes about Jimmy Wales' speech. One is about opening a public API :

"WPF has early plans to open their API. KDE adding native calls to WP. Problem with open API is cost to dynamically render pages and bandwidth required to deliver content that then is embedded by non-supporting sites in their own pages."

It took me a while to understand the PARSS concept. But after I had a look at the possibilities it adds to antville, i got it run on my local installation. There is still modification to do for typolis. Maybe its best to integrate it in the users account. So every user can subscribe to his own feeds... But if everything works fine, we will give you the possibility to aggregate every RSS-Feed you wish on your personal Account.

Microsoft have just announced the SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions), which is an implementation of two way item-sharing like a bidirectional RSS.

Simple Sharing extends the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 and Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) 1.0 specifications.

SSE (which was released under Creative Commons!) is particularly useful for scenarios in which there are multiple updates. For example, SSE could be used to share your work calendar with your spouse — either of you could enter new appointments, even if not currently connected.

More infos at the Simple Sharing Extensions FAQs.