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14 Jan, 2010

Slovenian government is trying to censor the Internet

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant| Tech

Most forms of gambling is illegal in Slovenia with a few highly regulated exceptions that are given concession from the government. Most notable are Loterija Slovenije (Slovenian Lottery) and Športna Loterija Slovenije (Slovenian Sport Lottery) in addition to real-world casinos and gambling places.
With growing popularity of online gambling these organizations as well as government are [...]

09 Jan, 2010

OS X tray icon overload

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

We used to make fun of Windows users and impossible number of tray icon in bottom right corner. Observing my OS X tray today I noticed that it’s almost 700 pixels wide and that it doesn’t look like the trend of expanding will stop.

Does this mean that next version of OS X will slowly start [...]

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03 Jan, 2010

Migrating Prevoz.org to GeoDjango/postGIS

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Today we finally switched Prevoz.org to new backend that allows us to start offering an option to add international carpools. It looks pretty boring at the end of the day:

In the process we all learned a lot about GIS systems, different GEO API solutions, Geonames and that it’s not a trivial problem.
For now I just [...]

30 Dec, 2009

Social media presence is not what your product needs

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech

Today everyone blogs and we expect everyone to have their own blog, Twitter account, LinkedIn profile etc. Being present on as many services as we can. We can then measure measure engagement levels with one of the many different approaches (number of followers, sales, replies or even Klout rank).
What often don’t see is companies taking [...]

29 Dec, 2009

A confession of newage virtual schizophrenic

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Rant| Tech| everyday life| ideas

Hi, I’m Jure and one of the things I do is to help people talk and work with their communities so they can improve their products or services. Often they want to outsource at least part of the talking to me, so I’m given a new online identity. The name is still the same, but [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).