I initially thought that it’s useless on the web because it’s a bit on the heavy side. I even noticed that Firefox 10 started to slow down. It’s an awesome idea, really, but practical uses on the web are few and far in between.

Sequence is the jQuery slider plugin with infinite style. It provides the complete functionality for a website slider without forcing you to use a set theme. In fact, Sequence has no in-built theme, leaving you complete creative control to build a unique slider using only CSS3 — no jQuery knowledge required!

That’s when I realized I saw something similar before, but aimed at presentations. It’s Prezi by Canonical’s Design Team.

Prezi is something that I would love to use, but won’t simply because it’s Flash-based. If you haven’t seen Prezi at work, try looking into the What is Ubuntu? demo. Also awesome, but again… I’m allergic to Flash.

As for Sequence.js, it’ll be great if the LibreOffice Impress team integrates it into their software. Although it’s just jQuery + CSS3, implementing it into their code might be a bit hard. For now, I’ll stick with static presentations and hope that it shows up soon on Impress.

Check out the Sequence.js Sliding Horizontal Parallax demo here.

I’m also surprised and laughed at the reaction of some people who were not aware of the blackout. Reading those articles made my day.

And I’m happy that a lot of website owners from across the globe decided to participate. Everyone is, afterall, affected by it once it passes congress. Philippine citizens who owns a .com cough cough and .net domains/websites are especially affected. No one wants to be extradited to the US and tried for copyright infringement even if what we did is legal in the Philippine soil.

Business owners and SME’s running community sites are also affected. Imagine someone copying a jpeg from another website and posting it to yours. Someone complains, and the next thing you know, US IP packets are blocked from reaching your website. And that’s not all. Once SOPA (or PIPA) becomes law, say goodbye to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Why? Just take a look at your timeline, everyone is sharing everything.

Anyway, here’s a nice article explaining why a lot of sites went black yesterday.

And here’s a screencap of this blog when it went black.

Another feature I miss is Pulse’ ability to share seamlessly from the app to Twitter and/or Facebook. Sharing a link from Taptu to Tweetdeck ain’t fun, I also need the title of the blog or article I’m sharing.

The Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) is the pioneer organizer of Software Freedom Day (SFD)  in the Phippines are already starting to organize the SFD 2011, on-behalf of the CPU we are inviting some individual volunteers from different organisation/Local group/Company to join the 2nd Meetup of SFD 2011  on August 6, 2011 and help us organize the SFD 2011.  For more information you can email secretariat [at] cp-union.com you can also confirm your attendance at FB: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161439537257490&notif_t=event_invite

If you’re sympathetic to the cause of helping Free/Open Source Software move forward, join us on August 6. You can contact RJ Ian Sevilla (the main organizer) via the email address posted above or confirm your attendance on the FB event page. The SFD 2011 will be held this September. Specific details will be discussed in the meeting – so stay tuned.