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Sony, Matsushita, NEC, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba and IBM are among some of the companies that are involved in the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum. The CELF plans to collaborate on the development of Linux for digital consumer electronics. This could include cell phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, Internet radios, residential gateways, automotive telematics, even Karaoke machines and other audio/visual devices.

I’d certainly prefer to see Linux used rather than a propreitary Microsoft OS in these devices. One would think this would also allow consumer electronic devices to be manufactured cheaper, as there won’t be licensing fees set by Microsoft. One thing businesses have learned is if you can avoid paying Microsoft licensing fees, do it.

Adrian Holovaty mentions how targeted ads can be way off the mark, couple this with the new Google AdSense and there’s no telling what you might get. Overture’s new offering is called Content Match, and according to Search Engine Watch they’ll be using that old fashioned method of human review to attempt to prevent those inappropriate ads from appearing.

Updates to the Where Are They Now page have taken place. Of note are mentions of Shana, and the passing of Lone Wolf…

There is much hub-bub about RSS 2.0 and whether the aggregators should be using the guid or the link element to provide a permalink to the original entry. (In fact, the guid itself might not even be a permalink, though by default it is unless specified with isPermaLink=”false”) If you listen to Mark, he’ll tell you that he’s doing RSS 2.0 the way it should be done, and the tool vendors (the folks who make aggregators) are most likely doing it the wrong way.

Well, I’m not exactly a tool vendor (a tool perhaps, but not a tool vendor) but I took the time to update my AmphetaDesk skin to use guid’s if they exist. I’ve also written up a simple explanation if you want to patch up your copy of AmphetaDesk‘s templates. It’s a hack, as it doesn’t really check for the isPermaLink element, so if it’s false, something funky might happen. That’s ok, funky is as funky does, and I’m sure Morbus will fix it in the next release…

Gasp! What’s this? Does your aggregator no longer show links to Mark’s entries? Well, ain’t that the funky-fresh thing…

Hacking AmphetaDesk required about 5 minutes of my time to make it support guid’s for linking to an entry…

Have I mentioned the values of open-source software lately?

See AmphetaDesk using guid’s…