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Carbonmade is a new portfolio site that lets you quickly and easily make your own online portfolio. I could see a site like this being used by a school for student portfolio creation. Why shouldn't your students' portfolios look this professional?
via @photojojo
This video does a good job at showing how simple a browser-based operating system could be. This could work wonders for users without high tech demands or high tech skills. Or is it also for experts?
Google ditches Windows on security concerns
In wild, but not shocking, news Google is phasing out support for Microsoft Windows on employee machines. This doesn't seem to be a public announcement so much as news sniffed out from employees. According to the FT article employees can choose the Mac OS or Linux (no mention of which version/flavor). They also discuss Chrome, although unlikely that engineers will be working on Chrome since it is supposed to be a web-OS, no? Don't they need apps, compilers, hard drive storage, etc? Lots to be seen in this story, but for now just looks like Google taking a jab at Microsoft. Nice jab.
via @courosa
doubleTwist is a good-looking software package that can manage your media (music, photos, video, podcasts) so that it can be accessed by your mobile device (Android, Palm, BlackBerry, etc). If someone wants the media skills of an iPod with the flexibility of an open platform, this might be the killer app.
As I look to transition from my BlackBerry to likely an Android-based phone, this might be just what I need.
This is a somewhat surprising upgrade path for Wordpress, but I guess I'll have to do it at some point. Just not sure I'm ready for the "nonce_salt" step yet. Maybe on the long weekend...