Archive for August, 2007
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
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Enter handpicked results for some keywords (”best bets”): an important usability improvement for Google CSE, since a lot of search queries are just navigational.
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Cut IT budgets and still have the computing capabilities you need:
1 Consolidate
2 Virtualise
3 Go open source
4 Buy software as a service
5 Buy hardware as a service
6 Think thin
7 Conserve power
8 Offshore work
9 Avoid customisation
10 Procrastinate
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Upload once distribute to several sites. You need to give up your username/pswd however!!
Suports sevenload, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, Photobucket, Metacafe, Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Vimeo, Putfile
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Yet another way to find supplemental results, probably will be disabled by Google as well…
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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This is an aggregation of popular search queries gathered from various sources across the web. This list is updated once per day.
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Privacy also allows an individual the opportunity to grow and make mistakes and really develop in a way you can’t do in the absence of privacy, where there’s no forgiving and everyone knows what everyone else is doing… “
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How to avoid being trapped by the SPF-protection (to fight ‘forged sender spam’) as a website owner using web-generated messages (type ’send to a friend’) in the name of your site visitors? (via lvb.net)
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“Web 3.0 involves the disintegration of digital data and software into modular components that, through the use of simple tools, can be reintegrated into new applications or functions on the fly by either machines or people.”
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“we would be better off keeping an old, paper-based system that we can trust rather than rushing to replace it with flawed technologies whose inevitable failure will further damage trust in the democratic process.” (BBC NEWS)
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Sponsored Open Source development: Bounties (funding for minor features), Calls for Tenders (a call to bid on a project) and Grants (a fund to promote the development of a particular feature or software). Also an index of Open Source Solution Providers
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escrow service that allows people to do three things: set up, contribute to and pay out software bounties, accept donations for projects, or set up a fund/bounty for an in house project (as a developer).
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
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Search startup, should finally be a serious new entrant in this market? (via Ulco, netters.nl)
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“The Digital Media Initiative or DMI for short, is about how the metadata (the information about the digital media) is structured and about the formats that can be used to make them available.” (via Werner Ramaekers)
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“a decision from the European Court of Justice that appears to suggest that the inclusion of identifiable personal data on a personal web page could run afoul of the European data directive.”
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“around 20% of searches are “navigational” - looking for a particular website. Another 50% of searches are “informational” (“capital of Taiwan”,“top social networks”) and the remaining 30% are “transactional” (“cheap flights to Orlan
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“a non-technical introduction to some of Google’s most popular APIs and some of the most interesting applications built on top of them.”
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Amazon’s answer to Lulu.com
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option to sort the feeds by relevance. It’s only available if you go to “All items” and select “Sort by auto”… it should mean that Google Reader “prioritizes the items based on their importance to you” by analyzing your reading patterns.
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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(Note: alternative is “Pluginstaller”)
Install any plugin/theme from local zip file or URL
Automatically checks for updates, and installs updates itself, if required.
Auto diagnostics wether everything is working properly.
Includes Firefox extension
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“… telling you that it will share your information with the application, but never what information it will share. Essentially it is an open-ended invitation…. The lack of granularity here makes it decidedly non user-centric as far as I am concerned.”
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[Dutch] Meta real estate search site not allowed to harvest and redisplay housing ads from individual brokers - only to show a max 155 char quote and thumbnailed picture.
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1 Me generation: your “handle” is a URI and the resource it resolves to is “you”
2 Trust no one: all information about you flows through the hub of a physical thing that you personally control
3 Do what I mean:applications should respect our wish
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“File uploads are automatically saved into your Amazon S3 bucket without any extra steps. Once saved, these files will be delivered by Amazon S3, instead of your web host. [Also] allows you to browse and manage files that were not uploaded via WordPress.”
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