Having tried some of these nice web services, I would like to run it now on my own server for obvious reasons. Even after spending considerable time, I didn´t find so much useful out there. eyeOS or other web based OS produce a large amount of overhead while allowing for only one RSS reader window at a time. From the 23 or so widget management systems the only Open Source piece that I found was Posh from Portaneo who deposited at Sourceforge. I wonder why it has only 2,095 downloads so far as all other candidates (Cesar, Viewport, MuseStorm Desktop…) are demo applications only. Widgets for Posh are quite limited so far while the (most important) RSS feed widgets already work.

More useful pages are at gnetvibes.rubyforge.org.rubyforge.org, dev.netvibes.com, reblog.org.

Addendum

Dropthings: another Open Source core engine

I am a great fan of Pepe Danquart, having seen yesterday the last movie of his trilogy “Heimspiel” (2000), “Höllentour” (2004). “Am Limit” is a documentation of a speed climbing record of less than 2′48” for the nose at El Capitan in Yosemite Valley by the Thomas and Alexander Huber. (Show me more…)

I am starting here a thread of immigrant studies – seems that there are now ~100 available in the medical literature. This could be the nice question for a meta-analysis: Does the move to a high prevalence country lead to more allergy, e.g. do your peers matter? (Show me more…)

You don´t believe that? It is possible as you can see here (Show me more…)

I attended yesterday a video talk by Jerome Groopman as he had become too ill to travel from Boston to San Francisco. His speech was one of the highlights of this year’s ATS conference – basically a summary of his new book “How doctors think“. It tells you about MDs and how they make up their diagnosis. Mostly everything goes right but sometimes everything goes wrong. According to empirical research a working diagnosis is already being made within 18 seconds (Show me more…)

This is what I have found while traveling California: “Tip #70: Knowledge is power. Read the nutrition facts panel on your foods so you can make a sensible, balanced choices throughout the day.” (Show me more…)