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Well I can see the light at the end of the tunnel 
I am about finished with the Sister of Mercy Higher Education conference (click here for the visual demo). This site will be used as a communication tool for the Sister of Mercy. It integrates flash chat, word press, and phpbb with a single logon. I have also been thinking about placing an image gallery on the site for them to use as well. You can think of it as their very own social network. I just need to clean up the images make a few more skins and work on the documentation!
I am also about finished with HomeGuard security a company out of Des Moines. It is a slick little flash site. We are also thinking about integrating a blog so the client can update his own content and then streaming it with an rss reader for the web front end on their site! This page will be wrapped up soon though. I am looking forward to finishing these sites then I will have more time to blog
Well everyone knows the next revolution will be the ability to use a cell phone as a computer. Most people think the whole concept is silly but if you had new ways to display content like a simple set of glasses it makes sense. Google is currently making deals to provide people with free cell phones that will host advertising. The old Ma Bell companies should be aware that Google bought tons of dark fiber and may be waiting to create more free wifi areas. When the intenent is free everywhere it will be the death of cell phone provider networks and old ma bell companies. Europe already has hybrid cell phone! Linksys and Skype teamed up to create a cell phone that will work on both wifi and on a cell phone provider network it is only a matter of time before it becomes a standard. It will be nice to have a device that is truly mobile and can multitask. It is also safe to say the way things have been going on the web there is little you will need to do with traditional software in the future because more and more software is being exported to the web.
http://pixer.us/ – on-line image editor
http://us.ajax13.com/en/ – open office for the web!
To say that I have been busy would be extremely modest. I have been overwhelmingly busy. I recently setup a blog for what will soon be Wurgler Properties. Jerry has been busy purchasing land in south Omaha and then gutting it and redesigning it! He has been working with several investors and they will be selling Condos as early as December. I have been helping them with marketing here and there. I must say Jerry has done an extremely good job at interior decorating. I am looking forward to seeing all the before and after photos on their blog showing the progression of the properties. I have also been working on creating a cd-rom for wurgler properties as a promotional and informational piece (still in it’s early beta phase)! I have also scooped up a contract to redo the Sisters of Mercy Higher Education Conference site. This site will allow blogging, chat, bulletin boards, and informational content for the Sisters of Mercy. In short this site will be used as a communication tool for institutions for Higher Learning from here to Rhode Island! So it is a big deal and I am looking forward to implementing it in the near future! I will also be doing some advertising in the Reader soon for my side projects
Well recently you might have noticed Adobe rather large contribution to the Mozilla foundation! Adobe handed over all the code to create an open source flash virtual machine. This is a big deal because this will ensure flash runs on more operating systems with out a catch. Adobe now has flash player 9 available for the Linux community. It will be pleasing to see the flash open source community to grow.
Some of you might be surprised to learn of Microsoft’s new deal with Novell. Although Novell has been catching a great deal of flack I do agree that some integration between the systems would be nice. It also seems to signal Microsoft’s realization that the Linux will always be a competitor in the server market. I believe it is too tough to say right now if this move by Novell was a good move or a bad move only time will tell. Microsoft has also recently moved to support projects like Zend so it is nice to see Microsoft being more open to open source.
The drupal content management system is also on the verge of its fifth release!
It is certianly an exciting time for open source and I think open source will benefit from Microsoft’s upcoming release of Vista. I really don’t see Vista being utilized the way Microsoft believes it will be and I see this as a key opportunity for Linux to catch up!
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