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decision makes two important points: (1) the Artistic License is a contract and (2) the failure to include the copyright notices was not a “restriction” on the scope of the license… the remedy for contract violations is damages, not “injunctive relief”
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“OAuth is an API authority delegation protocol – it allows you to grant access to your private resources (such as your Twitter status, Flickr photos, etc.) to 3rd party applications (i.e. Twittervision) without sharing your password with them.”
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“A unified social graph may benefit early adopters who want to try every new service, … But the benefits are less obvious for the average Internet user, who might join into just two or three … and maintain only tens of contacts across those networks”
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“The year is 2012, and we have finally achieved an Internet-scale identity system. Please answer the following questions about how we achieved this state.”
Archive for August, 2007
links for 2007-09-01
Friday, August 31st, 2007links for 2007-08-31
Thursday, August 30th, 2007-
plotted by Blotter, a Dapper.net product, see http://www.dapper.net/dapplications/Blotter/
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this solves privacy issues that used to be insurmountable. You can pay with your card without leaving traces that can be linked back to you
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# follow #tag: subscribe to all updates tagged with #tag
# follow username#tag: subscribe to all updates tagged with #tag from a specific user
# leave #tag: unsubscribe a tag; you’ll still get updates with this tag from your friends
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“if the Times is using search-engine-optimization techniques to push articles toward the top of [serps], does it have any ethical obligation to ensure that old errors, distortions, or omissions in its reporting don’t blight people’s current reputations?”
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OOXML are “file formats that are using ZIP and XML. Should anyone feel safe to make direct access to file parts, and start getting free of running instances of Microsoft Office and its COM object model, usually through VBA ?”
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Social Graph: data structure
Social Graph Application: require a social graph to be usable (IM), or are significantly improved by the existence of context specific social graphs
Social Networking Site: subset of social graph apps
Social OS: platform (FB)
links for 2007-08-30
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007-
Paid service to track and “destroy” harmful information on the net. Up from $9.95/month for the tracking service, $29.95 for every piece of info you want them to go after and threaten the publisher with law suits.
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[Dutch] “Online archief over het Bendedossier, synthese van de bestaande informatie, recent juridisch nieuws.” Stands a good chance of forming the memory for the current generation on the (possibly politically motivated) crimes committed by “de Bende”
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“research shows that 41% of Facebook users will divulge personal information – such as email address, date of birth and phone number – to a complete stranger, greatly increasing their susceptibility to identity theft”
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“Avoid identity theft when social networking on websites like Facebook, and learn how companies can block employees from visiting inappropriate websites.”
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Another example of applications becoming advertising, or advertising becoming widgeted applications…
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Good analysis, I’m part of the commuting and sporting “niche” audience and enjoying podcasts a lot more than online video which is not suitable for multitasking.
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“read-only access to user profiles, videos uploaded or bookmarked by a user, subscriptions, video comments, related videos, playlists, search results” “These feeds can also be used in applications like Miro to export your videos from YouTube.”
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If not useful, then still really nifty: “web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it’s being typed in the browser.” Has Code snippets, Auto completion, Shortcuts and Multiple windows
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“The following describes a simple protocol for enumerating the members of a group and for determining whether a given identifier is a member of a group. For the purpose of this protocol, a “group” is defined as a set of [OpenID] URIs.”
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“Step by step guide on how to scale your rails app out from 1 box to many. Suggestions as to what to do at each step.”
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Long urls in blog comments sometimes ruin a layout – this WordPress plugin shortens copy-pasted URLs
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“replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URI is different from entry’s (or archive’s) permalink. It is used to ensure that there is only one URL associated with each blog entry” It can also redirect from “old” permalink structures
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Hosted web chat, openID-enabled: IRC-like channels, both private and public, has RSS, private messages, search functionality. By JanRain, the OpenID advocates.
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“Do people have experience moderating web forums? Are there any known procedures for doing so? What is the best way to moderate a forum so that information seems accurate and truthful? At what point does moderating a forum become a misrepresentation…”
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“I wanted to let you know about a new project I’ve been working on called Technorati. Essentially, it is a site that creates a set of web services [...] layered on top of the wealth of current search functionality and tools available for bloggers.”
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The easiest way to tell people—and computers—about the sites you use is to link from your home page, blog, and profile pages to the other sites you use. If you add rel=”me” to the link tag, it says “this is another site about me”.
links for 2007-08-28
Monday, August 27th, 2007-
“After using different identities with a separate search history and behavior, the search results for several hononyms gave a very clear picture of how small changes in your behaviour can have a profound effect on the search results.”
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“**Alice** will be our *End User*. She is your average user, browsing the web with her favorite browser, Operfox Explorer. **Operfox Explorer** is the *User-Agent*, the program that handles all of Alice’s clicking, typing, and webby needs.”
links for 2007-08-26
Saturday, August 25th, 2007-
1 Allowing title tags to be auto-generated 2 Letting pages get indexed that should never be indexed 3 Having multiple homes for your blog 4 Not using “optional excerpts” 5 Not using rel=nofollow strategically 6 date-based archives …
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Enter the ID of the Flickr Photo set, download KML file or have it open in Google maps. Optionally, you can draw a path between photos chronologically or by set order.
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If Google was to reward you for sending specific ads with your emails, forum or blog posts or IMs to your friends, would you? Consider that the reward could be money, it could be a credit of some type, or it could be “an increased reputation ranking.
links for 2007-08-25
Friday, August 24th, 2007-
“Checkers is solved”: Professor Schaeffer, who admits he is “awful” at draughts (also known as checkers), began his attempts to solve the board game in 1989.
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Yet another thumbnail (screenshot) generator
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“The reason Deletionism has triumphed so decisively over Inclusionism is pretty simple: It’s because Deletionism provides a path toward ever more elaborate schemes of rule-making – with no end – and that’s the path that people prefer…” (Nicholas Carr)
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“adherents of inclusionism believe that there should be no constraints on the breadth of the encyclopedia… supporters of deletionism, in contrast, believe in weeding out entries that they view as trivial or … inappropriate for a serious encyclopedia.”
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As our economy becomes ever more tightly and intricately networked, its operation will hinge on the assumptions that mathematicians and software engineers embed in the code that underpins it. Usually, the assumptions will hold. But usually isn’t always.
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different types of sites and their revenue potential, technical difficulty and promotional difficulty: Community sites, Affiliate Sites, Blogging, Disposable Blogging, Traffic Arbitrage
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syndk8.net, “owned and run by the Notoriuos black seo called Earl Grey. Read about the latest seo techniques and keep up with the cutting edge exploits as and when they happen.”
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Being: linking to an internal page about an external site instead of to that site itself. Examples: Techcrunch, Wikipedia, Mashable…
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1 Prevent indexing of your search result pages
2 Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages
3 Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags
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How to Spam Google Right Now: Buying old sites Buying and redirecting sites Paid links Exact match domain names help supplemental results suck search results have a lot of hand editing in them
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Google LatLong Blog found two Mapplets invaluable:
1 Wikimapia.org Layer – people have have annotated millions of places all over the world, and you can now view these annotations on Google Maps
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“television and word of mouth are the two most frequent offline drivers of search”, for more than 1/3 each.
“Company, Product and Service Names Most Commonly Used Keyword Types” -
Syndicate date-related information to Google Calendar. An all-day event with an icon of your choice will appear, and you can have any widget/gadget pop up.
links for 2007-08-24
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007-
With 20+ posts/day, this is really too much to even just scan the headlines… I liked it when it was only Pete Cashmore writing, but it has become a multi-author funnel for press-releases (exrss tag indicates rss unsubscription)
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Allows people to make suggestions for other people/things/organizations – quick and easy way to garner opinons. Accepts Openid for Login (though not as light-weight account). From the creators of 43 things
links for 2007-08-22
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007-
Moderation concept evangelised by Henk Van Ess (and implemented by Joost De Valk): Troll postings are only visible to the troll him/herself, not to other users. The troll thinks he/she gets the wanted attention and is not provoked into further damage.
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4 techniques to bring some sanity back to the process of homepage design. People want to cram as much content in above the mythical fold as is possible – to ensure all interests are represented on the homepage – unfortunately usability and design suffer
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Roadmap:
1 Simple profile page as OpenID identify provider for the page owner and consumer
2 Upon successful OpenID login, exchange of identity tokens, to be used for private messaging
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Google Working on Social Network Aggregator (quote on portable versus decentralised social networks)“when it comes to email which is more important? The ability to send emails to people regardless of what email service or mail client they use or the ability to import your contact list from one free email service into another when you switch service?”
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“I think that the hegemony of “free” will in the long run end up narrowing our choices rather than expanding them. Edgeio’s biggest competitor is Freegeio, and Freegeio will probably win” (on Edgeio service: automates creation of a distribution network)
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“Most introductions to jQuery focus on designers and inexperienced developers. I’m going to try to explain why jQuery should be of interest to experienced programmers as well.”
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the disable-wordpress-widgets plugin disables the built-in WordPress Widgets and gives you back your K2 Widgets (which are more flexible and user-friendly)
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OpenID authentication proxy for Facebook: add the OpenID application in Facebook and use your Facebook credentials to log in into OpenID-enabled sites
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by combining birth date, surname and zip code, marketers can identify almost the whole population. [so] I never reveal my natural birth date unless some clear need for knowing it is conveyed to me by the site I’m visiting – Law 2. Minimal Disclosure.
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“What counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL. Credentials should be seen as a cost center, and accounts as a profit center.
Some Facebook is going to figure this out and gobble up eyeballs from every nook and cranny of the internet.”
links for 2007-08-20
Sunday, August 19th, 2007-
“works by sending your users to the Windows Live ID sign-in page by means of a specially formatted link – then directs them back to your Web site along with a unique, site-specific identifier [to be used for your own ID management]“
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“When you look at the long list of Open ID providers, you may be notice that there is no similar long list of sites that accept OpenID credentials… there is no such list readily available it is an embarassing fraction of the number of Open ID providers”
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Brad Fitzpatrick on social network portability: I do NOTthink this will ever work…
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top three problems … as they chase the utopia that is a unified social graph:
1 Some Parts of the Graph are Private
2 Inadvertent Information Disclosure caused by Linking Nodes Across Social Networks
3 All “Friends” aren’t Created Equal
links for 2007-08-14
Monday, August 13th, 2007-
1) Lack of Objectivity
2) Planning too much for the Future
3) Adding Features is Cheap
4) Easy to Justify
“Feature creep is the process of slowly adding features to a product or interface over time” (and the overall design becomes too complex)