links for 2010-03-15

March 15th, 2010
  • Firefox extension that replaces the ads in Gmail with profile information based on the email address of your respondent.
    "Where does Rapportive get its data from?
    We combine information from several sources; at the moment, these are Rapleaf, Gravatar and Twitter. In the future we will offer integration with many more data sources, both public (e.g. social networking sites) and private (CRM).
    We make a clear distinction between:
    * Public data, which is information that users have chosen to make public on the internet, and which anyone could find on one of the major search engines. We aggregate public data, take into account corrections and feedback, and show this information to everyone who uses Rapportive.
    * Private data, which is privileged information to which only you have access. In order to provide the Rapportive service, we may need to process this data behind the scenes; however, private data will never be shown or disclosed to any other Rapportive user or any third party"
  • Looks like Google has introduced a Stumbleupon clone…
  • People search/profile aggregator by Microsoft.
    "research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence"
    - "generates summaries of Web entities from billions of public Web pages that contain information about people, locations, and organizations, and allows for exploration of their relationships"
    - "known potential problems:
    * currently only contains information extracted from 3 billion Web pages, therefore it is possible that some information for people with a substantial Web presence is still missing in our index;
    * Some names and relationships could be incorrect, and the information may not be update-to-date;
    * Name disambiguation is still largely unsolved
    * Some of the summarization features are currently only available for people. We are currently working on these for other entities."
  • Service that lets you send any document to a printer driver, extracts the mailing address and has the paper version of the document printed, stamped and sent.
    Price range per item sent around €1 (Via @kpellegr)

links for 2010-03-08

March 8th, 2010

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March 7th, 2010

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March 2nd, 2010

links for 2010-03-01

March 1st, 2010
  • Bruce Schneier tackling camera surveillance in an oped on CNN.com

    "Pervasive security cameras don't substantially reduce crime. This fact has been demonstrated repeatedly: in San Francisco, California, public housing; in a New York apartment complex; in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; in Washington; in study after study in both the U.S. and the U.K. Nor are they instrumental in solving many crimes after the fact."

links for 2010-02-28

February 28th, 2010
  • "The developers behind the OAuth protocol have developed a new variant called OAuth WRAP that is simpler and easier to implement. It's a stop-gap solution that will enable broader OAuth adoption while OAuth 2.0, the next generation of the specification, is devised by a working group that is collaborating through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)."

    Quick intro to Oauth + differences with Oauth WRAP (OAuth Web Resource Authorization Protocol):
    - simplified variant
    - communication takes place of SSL (mandatory!)
    - tokens in OAuth WRAP are short lived and can represent claims issued by an authorization server

links for 2010-02-26

February 26th, 2010

links for 2010-02-25

February 25th, 2010
  • "Er bestaat onder consumenten en bedrijfsleven een behoefte aan een hoogwaardige B2C identity oplossing met een laag trustniveau. OpenID.nl+ is een initiatief van ECP-EPN waarin potentiële Identity Providers (IdP’s) en Relying Parties (RP’s) samenwerken om dit in Nederland van de grond te krijgen"
    Grote IdP's en RP's gaan in Nederland samenwerken om "kwaliteitsgaranties" af te spreken over de data die via Attribute Exchange wordt uitgewisseld:
    "- gegevens die de consument vanaf een andere website kan importeren vaak op echtheid gecheckt en krijgt de website dus bijvoorbeeld het correcte mobiele nummer of juiste adresgegevens binnen
    - Ook voor de bedrijven die meedoen aan OpenID+ is vertrouwen belangrijk: een webwinkel die meedoet aan het OpenID+ netwerk zal geen rare dingen doen met de gegevens die het krijgt van de bijvoorbeeld hyves, anders volgen er sancties. Daarom is de Hyves dan ook bereid de webwinkel hoogwaardige informatie te leveren."

links for 2010-02-21

February 21st, 2010