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YouTube offers Creative Commons licensing for video uploads

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

Today I uploaded my monster truck videos to YouTube and found the surprise that they are now offering the option to publish your videos under the Creative Commons Attribution license. That is great news! YouTube is the biggest online video … Continue reading →

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Yahoo sells Delicious bookmarks to Youtube Founders

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

Good news to those still fans of the Del.icio.us social bookmarking site. On the delicious blog is now news that Yahoo! Inc has sold the property to the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Delicious will keep existing … Continue reading →

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Freelish.us an alternative to Del.icio.us bookmarks plus microblogging

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

The people from StatusNet have released freelish.us, intended to be a social bookmarking site to replace the almost dead del.icio.us. And I say intended because its more than that. Its actually a modified instance of the status.net microblogging software, so … Continue reading →

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Emacs Identica-mode microblogging client v1.0 release

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Gabriel Saldaña

I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: HTTP backend rewrite The backend that makes … Continue reading →

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More ugly stories about depending on cloud computing

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

Depending on “the cloud” to provide all software has increasingly shown some of its issues. What’s strange is that not many people are concerned about it. Google marking all sites as unsafe Google marked all search results as unsafe websites, … Continue reading →

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Make Emacs yasnippet work with html-helper-mode

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Yasnippet is a great emacs minor mode that lets you have lots of code snippets easily at hand. Also you can create your own snippets in a very easy way without needing to write them in emacs lisp. Basically, like … Continue reading →

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