Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

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.

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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)

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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)