Filed under: Rumors, World wide web, World wide web Tools, .Mac
What’s next for .Mac, Apple’s much-maligned online service offering for OS X users? TUAW has learned that .Mac will no longer be sold by Apple after WWDC, as new users will migrate to the new MobileMe service (not too shocking, given the swirling rumors as of late). Existing users will have their @mac.com e-mail addresses forwarded to their @me.com address in perpetuity, which should provide some relief for nervous .Mac users who depend on that email.
MobileMe is slated to include a host of new features, which we alluded to early in May; in addition, there will be new web interfaces for all aspects of MobileMe — calendars will look just like iCal, Contacts will look just like they do in Address Book, etc. This is similar to the way .Mac Webmail works this day, though we’ve heard that the new interfaces will be much snazzier (yes, that’s a technical term). Apple should also be updating the .Mac dependent applications (iChat, iWeb, iPhoto etc.) to work with the new service. The new service will be backwards compatible with .Mac protocols for the time being — so developers won’t have to rush out updates as soon as they hear the official word.
MobileMe is scheduled to be available sometime in late June/early July. We have also heard reports that the latest build of the iPhone beta firmware (2.0) has already undergone revisions to handle the new MobileMe service. Some of the features of the service on iPhone will include: over-the-air syncing of contacts, calendars, and photos. Interestingly, there’s also a Windows version of MobileMe planned.
Though we’re confident in the source of this information, this is still a rumor until Apple reveals all. We should hear more information about MobileMe at the World Wide Developer’s Conference starting on Monday (June 9th).
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So, less than .0000000000000000001 percent of the world uses Twitter. Even fewer get any value from it. (Note: I am not among that group.)
Now, to make it even more obscure, there’s a new, open-source Twitter called Twoorl. I have nothing against Twoorl (other than its a clone of …
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It’s official: Open-source software makes people happy and proprietary software makes people sad. Thus spake Greta, my five-year old daughter. Clearly she’s a very smart child…
…Or perhaps she’s her father’s child, and knows which side her bread is buttered on. 
Open source makes people …
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Filed under: Internet, Internet Tools, .Mac
If you’re a .Mac mail user, then you probably know that .Mac’s mail system has been down for nearly 6 hours. According to the .Mac system status, 100% of users are experiencing the problems. Here’s what Apple says:
100% of members might experience slower than normal response when using IMAP mail. Mail can be sent and received using .Mac webmail. Normal service will be restored ASAP.
This comes after .Mac has been rumored to undergo re-branding around the time of WWDC (which is next Monday).
Update (8:38p EST): Apple just updated the system status to report that some may not be able to access the .Mac welcome page. Stay tuned to TUAW for updates on the .Mac outage.
Update (9:37p EST): Apple is telling users that they have the ability to access the .Mac mail by using the webmail system; however, most users can’t access the entire .Mac website. We’re currently experiencing a “504 Gateway Timeout” error when trying to load both the homepage and webmail. Looks as though the same services are down.
Update (10:40p EST): Some commenters are noting that they’re now able to retrieve their .Mac mail. Apple has yet to update the .Mac system status.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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It’s official: Open-source software makes people happy and proprietary software makes people sad. Thus spake Greta, my five-year old daughter. Clearly she’s a very smart child…
…Or perhaps she’s her father’s child, and knows which side her bread is buttered on.
Open source makes people …
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Over the past six months, I’ve discovered a great way to interact with my customers. It has been around for a long time, but it has only been recently that I’ve put it to good use. In fact, several of Alfresco’s biggest deals have been shut using this technology.
Which technology? The lowly text message.
SMS doesn’t have the buzz of Twitter nor, at only 160 characters per text, the length of an email. But SMS/text messaging has become my preferred tool to interact with prospects and customers (when not speaking to them on the phone, of course).
Why?
Because texting is personal, direct, and virtually guaranteed to reach the intended recipient. It’s also somewhat secure, since most people can’t (or don’t know how to) forward SMS messages.
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