Archive for September, 2007
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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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
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Hosted quickpolls and event sheduling _without_ asking for email addresses of admin or participants:
1. Create a poll.
2. Forward the link to the poll to the participants.
3. Follow online what the participants vote for
(via Denis Balencourt)
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adds your Google Analytics tracking code to all pages with a few “extra’s”:
Tagging outgoing links
Tracking downloads
Tracking image search keywords
Adding extra search engines
Urchin
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“Part online discussion, part FAQ, and part social network for all your products and services. Anyone can ask a question, submit an idea or problem, or just talk. And it’s all public, so anyone can answer—even the companies” Compare: ShouldDoThis
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
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An open PHP-based proxy framework for the Nabaztag™ (http://www.nabaztag.com/) electronic pet (via Pierre Gorissen) (SourceForge.net)
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[Dutch] “gooi die term ‘social networks’ de prullenmand in. En focus jezelf op je speerconsumenten. Op hoe je met hén iets leuks kunt doen, waar de rest naar kan kijken en je fans op kunnen reageren” (Carl Mangold)
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
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Dutch Blog/forum/comments monitor (cfr Attentio, Metatale…) by Amsterdam University research group: “insight into discussions, opinions, and chatter around people, products, topics, companies and issues as they emerge in [] Dutch user generated content”
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cartoons explaining basic - and less basic - internet security
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Creates a Google Custom Search Engine for your del.icio.us bookmarks. Handicap: needs a browser extension to make the building process visually appealing. (As expected, more of these CSEs will pop up and try to grab Adsense for Search revenues…)
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Google does not see the use of NoFollow on your web sites as a spam tactic “[it] is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. There’s no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal link
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With the parameter strip=1 Google cache only shows the cached text and none of the media files (images, …), so you do not leave traces and are not redirected. This Greasemonkey script adds the strip=1parameter to Google cache urls on search result page.
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some of the most common parameters in a Google query: Languages, Source, Results, Advanced search…
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Optimisation tips:
1. Turn Low Performing Units into Image Only Ads
2. Harness the Comments Section of Your Blog
3. Don’t Use Adsense At All
4. Sell Your Website to Adsense Advertisers using Channels
5. When Nothing Works, Put One at the Top
6. Avoid ..
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PHP class managing iCal formatted files, built of a single class file with a simple interface and calendar component property oriented.
iCalcreator features create, parse and edit calendar and calendar components.
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
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Vanessa Fox (ex-Google) on People Search versus SNSes: “What none of the people search engines expected was Facebook. In a social network like Facebook, users willingly hand over all information that people search engines are trying to cull and aggregate”
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list comprises 25+ tools to manage your reputation, officially sign documents, aggregate your social network IDs and more.
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“I began playing out the thoughts that were going thru my head and the method of my suicide on Twitter.” “I found out the next day that my actions posted on Twitter had caused many people to become concerned for my safety.” (Life As Nick Starr)
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“the basic skeleton of the debate” - “a complex subject – similar in my mind to understanding what constitutes fair marketing vs. anti-competitive practices in capitalist markets – and it requires thorough and thoughtful analysis and debate.”
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Back when people were trying to bring OpenID, LID, and i-names together, something called Yadis was born… Yadis was a discovery protocol for identifiers that was based on XRDS, or eXtensible Resource DescriptorS. (Phil Windley’s Technometria)
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Cloudtripper is an open community project devoted to portability of personal social data: the ability for individuals to “take their data with them” as they move across different websites and applications without having it locked into any particular silo.
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… [at the Data Sharing Summit] (Scott Kveton):
Profile and registration data
Profile update push
New friend on A, update on B
eVite problem
Share resources once, available everywhere
Where did I put that?
Consolidated messaging
Friend decay:
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free open public service by the Identity Schemas Working Group (IDSWG) of Identity Commons. The purpose of the CDS is to facilitate interoperable data sharing through the use of a community-maintained dictionary of attribute definitions and synonyms.
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The funniest part of the Data Sharing Summit was the way everyone kept using the word “universal.” As in a universal API based on a universal database schema that will allow social network data to move freely from site to site [...] It ain’t gonna h
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how-to guide for setting up an Amazon EC2 appliance (Ubuntu instance) ready to deploy a Ruby on Rails app to by Paul Dowman.
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Elastic Rails is a plugin for managing capistrano recipes to deploy your rails app.
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
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Walkthrough on creating CSEs up to the annotations and context xml files
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from:
to:
subject:
OR
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l:
has:attachment
filename:
“”
()
in:anywhere
in:inbox
in:trash
in:spam
is:starred
is:unread
is:read
cc:
bcc:
after:
before:
(Google Help Center)
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
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Pass a pdf url to Scribd and have it stored into your own pdf file cabinet.
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“We talk about his background and how they came up with the idea of Twitter. We also touch on the importance of Open APIs to Twitter’s growth.”
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“we have a name for anyone who goes out of their way to find that old stuff: stalker. And we don’t really wanna work for, date, or befriend genuine stalkers. If it’s public, but not easy to find, it’s creepy that you went out of your way to find it.”
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
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[Dutch] “‘Information scent’ (geur) staat symbool voor de manier waarop mensen op jacht gaan naar informatie op websites[...]. Wordt tijdens het zoeken de geur sterker, dan weet je dat je op het goede spoor zit en ga je verder.” (Ferry Den Dopper)
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[Dutch] Usability mankementen vinden in je Web analytics rapportering: waarop moet je letten? Zeer lange page views, Bounce rate, Herhaalde page views, Zoeken, Gebruik van hulplijnen en Exit pages. (Ferry Den Dopper van Tam Tam)
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
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OpenFriend is a set of standards that allows Social Networks to discover any of your friends already on their networks while still protecting your privacy
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Formerly known as Project Koala: Firefox Extension and userscript community for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking account info…
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
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“swiss army knife of search engine tools”. The Firefox extension adds most of these tools to your context menu in Firefox.
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supplemental results analyzer in Java. Simulates the page rank formula by crawling your sites like GoogleBot would. Use it to make sure your most important pages are listed: http://www.seo4fun.com/blog/2007/08/08/how-to-exploit-the-pagerankbot-tool.html
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“I don’t really care how many of my pages are supplemental, but I do care when a page that deserves to rank in the SERP goes supplemental. One way to address that problem is PageRank distribution management. That’s what I built this tool for.”
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Attention Trust principles (re)applied to Social Networking Sites by Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), Marc Canter, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington. Ownership of profile data, connections, activity. Control of whether/how data is shared. Freedom to grant access.
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