Today a group of our students held their diploma presentation on aka-aki. The unusual thing is that they did not make a communication campaign for aka-aki, but they actually created it. The extremely positive reactions to their product and presentation plus the fact that they seem to be really smart make me think that I might have whitnessed the next big thing on the web 2.0 frontier.

After the event I was tempted to ask what their business model might be, but hoping to be acquired by Google, Yahoo or Holtzbrinck seems like a valid plan nowadays.

While looking for a non-obstrusive, degradable, minimal and clean solution for tabbed settings dialogues (think Firefox settings or OS X) in Javascript, I stumbled over Tabber which seems just too good to be true. It does all of the above and you only have to write semantically correct markup (which we should use anyway) and the rest is magic.

I’m working on a prototype for the TYPO3 install tool and this makes writing the GUI part a breeze. Definitely a keeper for the whole TYPO3 BE overhaul that’s long overdue.