Monday, September 17th, 2007
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Public Noserub installation, a “decentralised” Facebook. Basically it is an RSS reader where you aggregate you friends’ feeds into identities, so you can subscribe to “people” instead of to separate feeds. Still impossible to follow “private” feeds. (I a
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“the concept of “platform” is the focus of a swirling vortex of confusion — lots of platform-related concepts, many of them highly technical, lots of people harboring various incompatible mental images of what’s about to happen in our industry”
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1.”Wire service”-like headlines - informative and unexciting
a. explanatory title and
b. lead sentence
2. Save a reader’s time
a. make it easy to skip!
b. make it as easy as possible to get to the content
3. “It’s the attention economy Stupid!”
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“it is time for [social networks] to bring their virtual world back to reality where most people you meet are not your friends, where you often lie or pretend to like someone, where relationships are organic and change…”
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Facebook application:”pay” in points for messages you broadcast to your extended network, and earn points for messages you read. The further away your targets,the costlier the delivery. Spammers pay with time (but I guess reading jabs can be automated…)
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“Copying enables designs and styles to move quickly from early adopters to the masses. And since no one cool wants to keep wearing something after everybody else is wearing it, the copying of designs helps fuel the incessant demand for something new.”
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There are three separate (but related issues when considering API security:
Authorization
Session Management
Privacy
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