Cominvent this week announced that we have started a new OpenID provider service for Norwegian users who want a Norwegian, short, easy to remember, life-long OpenID ID. Namely minOpenID.no.
The site offers to register an id under one of the two domains myid.no or minopenid.no, for free. MinOpenID.no also aims to be a place for general information about OpenID, such as useful articles, HOWTOs and news.
As a backend provider we have chosen JanRain, the people behind the worlds most popular OpenID provider, myopenid.com. We’re a co-branded affiliate. This means that the feature set and security is state-of-the-art.
We intend to give full freedom to our users. We will write articles about how to setup delegation for their own domain, and although we do not provide delegation of the myid.no ID to another provider (myopenid.com does not allow), we might setup that as well one day.
Visit the site and see for yourself. We’re open for feedback.
Yesterday Apple announced the new iPhone 3G during Steve Jobs’ keynote speech on the first day of Apple World Wide Developers Conference WWDC. Rumors had been flourishing and most of them were true:
- 3G
- GPS
- Black or white back
- Push email, calendar, contacts
- New improved software + SDK
- Exchange sync
- Enterprise support
- MobileMe replaces .Mac for web-based access to your data and files. Also for PC
- AppStore for one unified application distribution channel (Apple gets 30% cut)
- Lots of new applications
- Searchable address book
- Available in Norway and a bunch of other countries
- +++
And perhaps the most important - it now starts at $199 for the 8Gb model. We had perhaps expected a 32GB model but it was not announced. Guess mr. Jobs wants some news up the sleeve for the autumn conferences as well.
One really neat feature for developers, besides the new SDK and visual GUI builder, is that Apple hosts a push server that anyone can use. That means that if you want your application to support various alerts or notifications, your mobile app does not need to be resident polling the network, consuming valuable CPU cycles. Instead you program towards apples push-server, which takes care of delivering the alert OTA to your device when you are within reach of one of the networks. Smart!
Please head over to www.apple.com for more details.
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Most commercial search engines include a more or less advanced document processing pipeline for transforming raw input into something that can be indexed. The process involves normalization, entity extraction, linguistic processing, annotation, data cleansing etc.
When it comes to Open Source search engines, they start getting pretty good at the core of indexing and search, however they typically lack a proper document processing pipeline. When I started looking for such frameworks a few days ago, I came across this post announcing that Dieselpoint just released their own document processing pipeline as open source at www.openpipeline.org. I have not yet tried it out but it looks very promising, and could have the potential of being the preferred pipeline for deployments of Apache Solr and other open source engines.
There are also other initiatives like OpenPipe which is similar, which you can read more about in Rogério Pereira Araújo’s blog about the same subject. I might find time for a comparison later on.
Good luck, Dieselpoint, in contributing to open source. I hope that you will let the OS community really contribute and help adapt and improve this framework going forward.