Monthly Archives: August 2004

Mozilla-based Google Browser

Browse Happy logoWill Google develop a Google browser based on Mozilla? I hope so, everyone trusts Google and will surely download a “browser recommender by Google” (Blogger, owned by Google, already recommends Firefox). See Kottke and Anil for more info.
Anyway, do you Browse Happy? If not, it’s because you should get Mozilla Firefox; it’s even written in the stars.

I robot: Open Operating System?

I visited the I, Robot movie site and watched the trailer. I think I’m not going to see it because I’ve read some reviews who said that the Asimov’s atmosphere is lost and this is just a classical Holliwood action movie. However, the flashy website allows you to order a “real” robot (at NS-5.com). There you find the features of your robot. The operating system? Glad you asked! It’s called Teresa 2.1.2 OS.
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Yes, pure ascii text image obtained from http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=firefox+logo
(Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search). Don’t foget to get Firefox
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OpenMedia and Galway

[still looking for a friend(-of-a-friend)* offering me hospitality in Larnaca, Cyprus, from 25 to 29 Oct 2004.]
Marc is working on OpenMedia. The project is very interesting but what catched my eye is that in the picture explaining OpenMedia there is my picture (the one representing me on WebJay).
I’ll meet Marc at the FOAF conference in Galway, Ireland (we will have a dinner in the castle you can see in the image). I’m looking forward to meet Marc and the other people in the committee. It will be fun!

Paper accepted for Coopis → looking for cheap place in Cyprus (through 2 degrees of separation)

Good news: my paper “Trust-aware Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems” got accepted for Coopis2004.
Bad news: the conference is hyper-expensive.
So I’m looking for hyper-cheap (possibly free) hospitality in Larnaca, Cyprus, from 25 Oct to 29 Oct 2004. I checked on couchsurfing (a site where people offers ospitality in their houses and a super-cool YASN [yes, you can express your friends list]) but I found none in Cyprus.
If we take for true the six degree of separation theorem, I should be connected to everyone in Cyprus by only six degrees of separation. So I guess there should be at least some cypriots in my friends of friends set, now i only need to find one of the connecting friends. So if you know someone in Cyprus, please become my friend and close the circuit (and don’t forget to write down the path from me to the cypriot host in the comments below). Thanks.