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Yesterday. Yesterday I changed Preferences --> Originals & Exif --> Members or anonymous visitors from "Nothing special" to "Sharing code (+big size)". In other words: I made the "big size thumbnail" available to everyone. One effect is that the "View all sizes" link in every photo page is now enabled for everyone, so everyone can enlarge to (and download) the 1024 size. One other effect is that the Slideshow with Cooliris now shows 1024-sized instead of only 560-sized images. Why did I do…

I just found a very interesting article from .marius about " So Sachen mit Internetz… ". It's announced to be the first of a series, and I'm very intrigued. Reading it, I was reminded of a lecture from Microsoft that I attended about a year ago about Ajax. The lecturer claimed two things: 1. Ajax was invented by Microsoft. 2. Another name for Ajax is Web 2.0. I was very amused about those statements and did my job as an academic consumer (= always give intelligent feedback) by ignoring 1.…