As mentioned previously, after a great deal of investigation and deliberation I’ve opted to move the TechTicker from WordPress.com to a commercial hosting provider. This was inspired largely by the various restrictions imposed by WP.com – not the least of which related to plugins and use of JavaScript. In some ways it was an unfortunate decision to have to make, because I like WordPress.com and didn’t want to have to pay for hosting, however ultimately WP’s restrictions were preventing me from taking this blog to the places I’d …

I’m presently in the process of moving the TechTicker to a commercial hosting company. This process involves me changing the Domain Name Servers to point http://techticker.net to the new host and away from WordPress.com, however this change can take a couple of days to filter through the web. At some point during this time you may find the link starts to break and/or points to a bare blog with no content.
I’ll be porting all posts and content to the new location as soon as I’m able to, however …

According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, this week’s Twitter controversy involving the deactivation of the Reply feature is resulting in people moving to FriendFeed.
“So why aren’t people screaming about the feature being gone? Because this time, they’re just heading over to Friendfeed to have those very same conversations. Friendfeed for most users was just a place to bookmarks all their activities on other social networks. Now, more and more, it’s a place that people start conversations. The early adopters got that a while ago. Now, the not so early adopters …

Consider this post a Hail Mary play in the hopes that the Tech Gods may be listening and sympathetic to my wishes.
Wordpress.com needs to start supporting use of the Seesmic plugin and embedded video clips.
As the several posts I’ve written here indicate, I’ve spent the last few months gaining a greater and greater appreciation for the potential and value that Seesmic has to offer – from both user and technical perspectives.  The Alpha video chat application is continuing to pick up speed, having launched a procession of valuable tools …

An ultra-portable version of Ubuntu is one step closer to fruition today with the release of a full developmental release of an Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) edition.
According to a post yesterday on the Canonical Blog, Ubuntu MID “has been built by the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded community that is sponsored by Canonical and in co-operation with Intel Moblin.org community…” and is based upon the highly successful desktop version.
In the product description, Canonical indicates this release is “redefining what can be done in mobile computing” with supported functionality including “Web …