Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

3. Specifiy the order of search keywords in queries
5. linkdomain – An undocumented Yahoo Web search operator.

(tags: yahoo searchoperators searchsyntax linkdomain search)

if a user never logs in to your service, you never get any data about them. And if a user’s data changes since their last login, you don’t find out about until they next login, since that is the only time attribute delivery occurs.

(tags: openid syndication digitalidentity identity attributeexchange)

(French) audio search engine. Unclear what is being indexed – searching for techno-buzzwords that occur frequently in English-language podcasts do not return any results.

(tags: search french speechtotext multimedia audio audiosearch)

French search engine involved in the Quaero project. Allows advanced refining on the results page (language, geographic location, file type, categories) but also further data refinement, such as rich content (audio, video, RSS) and related terms.

(tags: exalead searchengine france search)

Yet another list:”a third of the checklist I’ve recently revised for our internal use on text-based SEO projects, but should offer small web site owners ample insight into the variety of considerations with fundamental site optimization and link buildin

(tags: checklist seo howto list tips)

Pooling financial pledges for open source software development. Pledges and proposals are collected, a developer selected, in the end bidders vote whether implementation was succesful and developer gets paid.

(tags: pooling collaboration crowdsourcing opensource open_source business)

an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: * “Containers” – social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster… * “Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within containers ( iLike, Rockyou, Slide)

(tags: marcandreessen opensocial api syndication appsyndication plugins socialnetworking socialnetworks platform social_networking facebook google socialsoftware)

“Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination be appropriate to that context and obey the governing norms of distribution within it.”

(tags: privacy academic context contextualintegrity surveillance research legislation toprint)

A smaller, less finished posting to which others can add may wind up being more influential than a polished essay, because it engages a community of contributors [..] Writing a definitive piece [tends] to be a conversation stopper.

(tags: judell jonudell blogging writing publishing community communitybuilding communitymanagement conversation interaction)

(my) speculation on the NoseRub blog on what the Google “open social network” thing might be

(tags: egoposting comments interoperability socialnetworking distributedsocialnetwork noserub digitalidentity socialgraph)

… the basic components of a widget including static assets, user preferences, processing remote data, and rendering your final widget…

(tags: niallkennedy widgets appsyndication webdevelopment development writeup)

YouTube parameters
* color1 and color2 (border and control panel): don’t forget to replace “#” with “0x”
* border (values: 0, 1) border around the video
* rel (values: 0, 1) show related videos
* autoplay (values: 0, 1) video starts to play automatically

(tags: customization code embedding youtube video onlinevideo player)

WordPress 2.3 supports keyword tagging without requiring external plug-ins like Ultimate Tag Warrior or Simple Tagging. With Windows Live Writer 2008, you can easily add keyword tags to WordPress blog posts though this feature is not enabled by default.

(tags: windowslivewriter livewriter windows tagging blogging tags tutorial wordpress)

One of the most striking issues in this context is the gap between what is considered lawful under Dutch law by the DPA and the current state of personal data on the Web [...] in many cases one needs permission to lawfully publish personal data.

(tags: privacy publishing law legislation netherlands eu jorisvanhoboken search)

Public Communication as Performance
Serendipitous communication
Lightweight Interactions

(tags: facebook socialsoftware social_software socialnetworking communication networking conferencing)

four ways to get at user generated structure:
1 Tagging
2 solicit structured data from users
3 traditional approach to the Semantic Web
4 build a central authority of meaning

(tags: metadata usergeneratedcontent usergenerated usergeneratedmedia tagging folksonomy semanticweb semweb structureddata)

Sharpen your fast and accurate typing skills with freeware application RapidTyping. Type as quickly as possible in an underwater simulation while avoiding mistakes. RapidTyping is a free download for Windows only.

(tags: windows typing training download free education software)

Prism allows users to split Web applications out of their browser, and run them directly alongside desktop applications… People who follow planet.mozilla.org will likely recognize this project by the former name “Webrunner”.

(tags: webrunner prism mozilla desktop air silverlight xul hybridapplications browser userinterface)

“Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone’s profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed — a major privacy violation. Within the company, it’s considered a job perk, and employees check this data for fun.”

(tags: facebook privacy rumor surveillance socialnetworking socialnetworks security policy)

“Your Facebook home page is displaying only a tiny fraction of what’s going on in your social network. The system that selects the right subset is impressive from both an AI perspective and a systems perspective.”

(tags: facebook personalisation personalization attenuation artificialintelligence ai algorithm aggregation newsfeed socialnetwork aggregator feedreadingstrategies filtering socialsoftware attention)

Inside Facebook, however, Google is irrelevant. Instead, Facebook owns your most important marketing channels: the News Feed, Notifications, and Messages. [Hence:]
# NFO (News Feed Optimization)
# NFM (News Feed Marketing)

(tags: facebook attention advertising algorithm marketing bestpractices socialdesign smo)

[Dutch] SEO/marketing-bedrijven [helpen een bedrijf beter te] scoren in de zoekmachines. Het is uiteraard interessant om eens te kunnen zien hoe goed deze bedrijven zelf scoren voor zoekwoorden gerelateerd aan hun diensten.

(tags: seo comparison ranking belgium belgië nederlands monitoring)

“it will take you a day or two at the beginning of every iteration to produce detailed estimates, and it’ll take a few seconds every day to record when you start working on a new task on a timesheet. The benefits, though, are huge: realistic schedules.”

(tags: agile projectmanagement development softwaredevelopment planning joelspolsky toprint)

the “value” of a print newspaper reader — measured by the revenue generated per reader, minus subscriber acquisition costs and other expenses of servicing him — has dropped even more precipitously than ad revenues.

(tags: newspapers publishing advertising business businessmodel)

“Sparklines are small graphs for use in tables or inline with text. Invented by Edward Tufte. Implemented in many languages.”

(tags: geoffrygrosenbach ruby ror rails rubyonrails visualization visualisation library graphics sparklines)

Tested accessibility features in some of the more popular WYSIWYG editors commonly found in open source content management systems. ( Standards Schmandards)

(tags: accessibility webstandards wysiwyg editor onlineeditor comparison list)

Four groups of threats: privacy related threats, variants of traditional network and information security threats, identity related threats, social threats
Recommendations for governments, SNS companies, developers, and research and standardisation bodies

(tags: socialnetworking socialnetworks pdf paper whitepaper digitalidentity EU security privacy toprint)

SEO and Semantic HTML are close friends. They might sometimes have conflicts of interest, which we’ll get to later on in this document, but over all, they’re friends.

(tags: seo webdesign joostdevalk semanticmarkup html xhtml article writeup)

“… the idea the one social network can serve the needs of EVERY group — shouldn’t the web as platform lead to MORE customization and more verticalization, simply because it’s cheap and easy to tailor applications to individual users’ needs?”

(tags: facebook socialnetworking socialnetworks socialsoftware metcalfeslaw digitalidentity identity onlineculture)

“a rough sketch of the different types of data that you might create online these days, across all services. The question for today is, how many of these would you like (or be comfortable with) being synchronized?” (wanderingstan)

(tags: portablesocialnetworks socialnetworks socialnetworking interoperability portability socialgraph context digitalidentity)

“Registered users’ quality increases with more contributions, consistent with [motivation] by reputation and commitment[..]. Surprisingly, however, we find the highest quality from the vast numbers of anonymous “Good Samaritans” who contribute only once.”

(tags: collaboration anonymity community research wikipedia reputation socialsoftware incentive)

Some comments on the manual Pagerank update:
PageRank is not an indicator of Google traffic or Google Rankings
Firing a PageRank Warning Shot
Target the Authorities, But Not the Wrong Doers
PageRank stands for PR
…

(tags: google pagerank pr seo ranking linkbuying linkbuilding)

“If you’re using a cell phone, the cell phone company knows where you are. It’s just a matter of time before you get an interface to that data and the illusion that somehow you gave Google (or any other 3d party) access to your whereabouts.”

(tags: chrismessina jaiku google privacy nytimes nyt mobile journalism)

a glimmer of the promise of the hashtag concept revealed… Hashtags become all the more useful
1 now that Twitter supports the “track” feature
2 in a time of crisis or emergency as groups can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking

(tags: twitter chrismessina tagging microblogging channels irc instantmessaging smartmobs)

At last… “Google has launched a clean-up operation to prevent raw RSS feeds from showing up in the search results. It’s a step that will be appreciated by both content publishers and search engine visitors alike.”

(tags: rss serps google feeds search usability feedburner)

“showcase of visual content for inspiration or simply delight of the spectator based on people recommendations”

(tags: bookmarking socialbookmarking digitalassetmanagement pictures photos del.icio.us photography)

[Dutch] Nederlandse versie van het “People search engine” concept. Heel goed uitgevoerd, en ik verwacht dat hier nog serieus wat controverse zal ontstaan. Plaatst Google resultaten naast social networking informatie naast contactgegevens naast documenten.

(tags: peoplesearch aggregation nederland nederlands privacy search)

More often than not, the extension is compatible, but the developer hasn’t updated the version information in the .xpi install file – you can change the version yourself manually in install.rdf , one of the file you get by unzipping the .xpi file.

(tags: firefox flock seamonkey mozilla extensions compatibility versioning hack browsers)

Flickr Auto Page (eternal scroll), New Contact More Links, Move Comment Form Up, Photo Rank, PM on page, Buddy Icon reply, Background color, Follow Comments, FlickrMailmanager

(tags: greasemonkey flickr list userscripts)

… is close to release, so it is worth looking at the new features it enables: * proper extension support * support for larger requests/responses * directed identity * attribute exchange extension * support for a new naming monopoly

(tags: openid authentication standards writeup toprint)

“Jaiku’s mobile application allows users to broadcast not only their whereabouts, but how the phone is being used, even what kind of music it is playing.” Yep, we’re heading for personal-context-ual ads: for your specific mood, modus, activity, location

(tags: privacy google jaiku microblogging contextualadvertising context nyt nytimes mobile)

“a map of the entire Internet, displaying the owner of each IP address (grey boxes), and which IP addresses are listed on the Spamhaus XBL blacklist (red dots) – all 4,294,967,296 IP addresses onto a huge image. Just like google maps, but more internetty”

(tags: data internet ip tcpip visualization visualisation mapping maps)

an endless feed of social relationship data, designed for web services to be able to send and receive information when changes to social relationships on their service occur (streaming real-time public changes from LiveJournal and Ma.gnolia)

(tags: api sixapart socialnetworking socialnetworkanalysis socialnetworks standards syndication interoperability socialgraph)