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Be A Secret Twitter Santa This Christmas

Twichteln-logo This must be a first. Swiss web-agencies Liip and frühjahr have created a secret santa “game” for Twitter. Yes, this Christmas you can do a secret santa on Twitter. And it is pretty simple. You just register with your Twitter account and the OAuth protocol and from December 1st until Christmas Eve you can give gifts to other twitterers. But instead of books, chocolate or handwritten poems you can give links, photos or other web-ish online stuff.
The German version of the game can be found on twichteln.ch. “Wichteln” is the German word for “secret santa” and English speaking people can participate on tweecretsanta.co.uk.

So go ahead and register. And have fun receiving your virtual gifts this Christmas season.
You can also download the press release with more details.

The official hashtags are #twichteln for the German members and #tweecret for English people.

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Corsin – Also a Planet in the Star Wars Universe

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Isn’t this something? I know very few people outside of Switzerland named “Corsin” and none in other parts of Europe or the World. But somehow the name made its way to the Star Wars universe.
According to my research, “Corsin” is/was a planet in the Ploo Sector. A Corsin-year is approximately 0.93 earth years. The population is very low with under 41,000 people. But they all are very proud of themselves and of their beautiful planet.

More information on this websites:
Galaxy Map – Planet: Corsin – Star Wars Combine
Wookieepedia

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Virtual Terminal for Chromium OS/Google Chrome OS

So I managed to get Chromium OS on a virtual machine running. Now I am playing around a little bit. I will document my progress here.

First thing, you need to get the virtual console. Do this by clicking CTRL + ALT + T. More commands are on this shortcut list.

Now you have a functional terminal/console.

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Google Gears not coming to Snow Leopard

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According to a comment by Ian Fettec, Product Manager for Google Chrome, they are not planing to release Google Gears for Apple’s Snow Leopard/Safari. The reason for this is the fact, that developers should make use of HTML 5’s new features, that prior where only available in Gears.
To bad because many sites are already using Gears (Google Docs, Gmail, RememberTheMilk, Zoho and more).

We are not supporting gears on Snow Leopard and later versions of Mac OS X.
Relying on HTML5 database and appcache going forward is a good approach as a
replacement for Gears on these platforms.

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Project Participation Offer: Web Developer in Zurich

For a small start-up I am looking for a skilled web developer. For this project, I seek somebody that is interested in a partnership and gaining shares of the business to start and NOT, somebody that is “just” looking for a single assignment.

Required Skills:

  • Graphical know-how for front-end design
  • profound knowledge in various web technologies
  • Typo3 experience
  • PHP
  • HTML/CSS coding

Nice to have:

  • SQL (mySQL DB skills)
  • JavaScript
  • APIs (eg. Facebook connect)

If you are based in or around Zurich, Switzerland and are interested in the position, please drop me an email.

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“New Moon” Trending Topic on Twitter

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The next New Moon is tomorrow, November 16th. For a schedule of the moon cycles for the the rest of 2009, see the following website:

http://www.new-age.co.uk/moon-dates.htm

^I really hope the person who wrote this is not serious.

^^ he isn’t haha

Currently, “New Moon” is a trending topic on Twitter. And thanks to Brizzly’s open explanation system, we all know what it means. But in this case, we don’t ;-) . The trending topic is less about the actual new moon and more about the new Twilight Movie “The Twilight Sage: New Moon” which opens in theaters on November 20st in Northern America.

Just wanted to note, that it is funny ;-) .

Trailers can be found on the Apple Trailers website.

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