Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
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Advertise with functionality: ads are “mini applications”, applications are ads. Ad Agencies will need more developers to push their clients’ functionality all over the web. Ad Wigets can be shared anywhere, so will compete on “usefulness”…
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“entirely new widget analytics platform for tracking gadget success and interaction, open caching proxy hosted by Google’s geo-distributed servers, and the introduction of YouTube as a video hosting and transcoding platform free from any Google branding.”
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Babelfish for Microsoft - unlike Google Translate, they do support Dutch
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[Dutch] 3 verschillen tussen Europese privacy richtlijnen en APEC framework:
- uitzondering voor “publicly available information”
- geen uitzondering voor ras, afkomst en sexuele voorkeur
- formulering te algemeen (handhaafbaarheid)
(Arnoud Engelfrie
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“It is common to segregate different aspects in different places [but] it may be possible to link these separate identities, because the movies, articles, or authors you mention are from a sparse relation space whose properties allow re- identification”
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“Scroogled”, Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life? (Short story in Rader Magazine)
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“Need an antidote? Spend 10 minutes collecting everything you need to work on a problem, and unplug the internet for 2 hours. You’ll finish in 30 minutes.” (Matt Mullenweg)
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Generate customized CSS menus and download for free.
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Site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page: widgets, analytics, frameworks, publishing (WP, blogger…), advertising, CDNs (Amazon S3…), standards, and hosting (webserver) software.
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