Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

“Subscribed links are basically custom OneBoxes you choose to have on your SERPs. They’re triggered when your query matches a pattern, e.g. a distance measuring subscribed link could be triggered when you search for “distance from London to Moscow”.”

(tags: co-op coop searchengine search searchsyndication appsyndication widget syndication google)

“Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity. Figuring out how to be arrogant and humble at once, [...] is the problem of the designer.”

(tags: clayshirky design innovation usability)

quick demo, useful for explaining what OAuth looks like to the end user

(tags: oauth demo authentication delegation userexperience interface)

This walkthrough demonstrates a typical OAuth session and includes the perspectives of the User, Consumer, and Service Provider.

(tags: oauth authentication delegation userexperience interface tutorial)

Presentation by Tantek Çelik on SNP and microformats.

(tags: microformats socialnetworks tantekcelik portablesocialnetworks presentation)

Introduction by Joost De Valk: linkstructure, naming, content quality, duplicate content, urls…

(tags: seo tutorial webdevelopment joostdevalk linkstructure internallinking)

Language-specific Sub-domains
Modified Directory Structure
Language Code in Querystring
Country-specific TLDs
Pure Cookie-based Preference
Use of Accept-Language HTTP Header
Semi-colon/comma Path Parameter at End of Path
Language Code in the Resource name

(tags: i18n internationalisation internationalization languages localisation urls linkstructure seo)

“doing a search for “washing machine” at www.google.co.uk and www.google.com provides VERY different results whereas a search for “cheats” at both engines provides very similar results!…”

(tags: serps google ranking country localisation seo monetisation monetization)

“People really like to throw piles of poop is one thing we’ve learned” Goldstein says. “So you price the poop high and people have to answer a bunch of questions to pay for it. That’s the future of Internet advertising: throwing shit at people. Literally”

(tags: facebook marketing socialmedia widgets monetisation monetization)

“Acxiom’s new service, Relevance-X, goes further, drawing on the company’s database of 133 million households to determine which ads to show… The company classifies each U.S. household into 70 clusters”

(tags: advertising privacy marketing databases)

“Why do you think Google is spending billions of dollars a year building data centers? Why do you think Microsoft is madly trying to catch up, spending even more billions than Google? .. What’s at stake is control over personal computing itself “

(tags: nicholascarr apple google microsoft networking networkpc appliance computing future)

If you’re “checking your Twitter queue” – you’re doing it wrong… Things either catch your eye occasionally, or the messages pass you by. It’s okay to miss things. In fact, it’s mandatory to miss lots of things at a fully attentive and consci

(tags: microblogging twitter rss feedreadingstrategies rssreadingstrategy ambient ambientintimacy interruption)

[Dutch] Documentaires over privacy zijn vrijwel altijd gemaakt vanuit het standpunt van mensen van boven de vijfendertig [terwijl de] Web 2.0 generatie, er een heel andere beleving van privacy op nahoudt. (community gehost door Ning)

(tags: ning community nederland nederlands dutch privacy)

What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?

(tags: google humor funny seo)

it is two weeks later and I’m back to using Rails. So what happened ?

(tags: django rails rubyonrails ror comparison frameworks)

[German] English-language interview with German subtitles

(tags: corydoctorow interview video onlineculture rfid future privacy culture blogging german deutsch internet)

“lesson here for technologists who, like me, love to stitch services together: Just because we can doesn’t mean that we should. Facebook’s ‘is’ invites a mode of discourse that is importantly different from Twitter’s.”

(tags: facebook twitter microblogging statusbroadcast statusupdate judell jonudell interoperability context)

from Michael Wesch: “explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information [..] a conversation starter, [...] about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively”

(tags: information informationarchitecture informationmanagement tagging search video epistemology)

All of this is documented in the codex, but this list will give you a quick overview of useful and common template tags and WP features (via Denis Balencourt)

(tags: wordpress howto tips list themes webdevelopment php blogging)

“there aren’t enough Advertising dollars to go around to all the sites that want to generate revenue… 90% of Advertising revenues are made by the top 50 sites and the top 10 sites take 70% of that, with google taking 40% of all Online US advertising”

(tags: plentyoffish advertising business businessmodel publishing metrics)

“by searching for the feed in Google Reader: click on “Add subscription”, enter the name of a blog or some parts of your feed’s URL and you’ll see the number of subscribers next to each (hopefully relevant) result”

(tags: statistics subscriberstats subscriptions blogging rss feeds metrics googlereader google)

overview of all the different values you can have in your robots meta tag and which search engine supports which robots meta tag values

(tags: joostdevalk metatags nofollow noindex robots search seo)

using combinations of “strong words” and equally strong calls to action + a closer look at the “Strong” words

(tags: copywriting clickthrough ppc adwords advertising)

“Google said that some sites that are selling links may indeed end up being dropped from its search engine or have penalties attached to prevent them from ranking well.”

(tags: linkbuying pagerank paidlinks sem seo textlinks advertising linkbuilding ranking)

How to Create Hidden Text with CSS, Flash or unintentionally.
Detecting Hidden Text, how to get discovered.
Google’s Position: try to detect intent, and is not going to ban a site because of hidden text in a way that appears to be legitimate.

(tags: seo blackhatseo blackhat css google searchengines)

PHP5 library providing a lot of functionality and optimized for speed. Spoon is a library and not a framework. BSD licensed.

(tags: library php php5 spoon webdevelopment programming netlash)

The Identity Oracle is a business model for a service which provides consumer identities in a way which simultaneously protects individuals’ privacy and generates revenue for the business investor.

(tags: privacy business digitalidentity identitymanagement trust claims businessmodel burtongroup)

“Private Subversion repository hosting provider with plans starting at free: now there’s no excuse not to have a svn repository somewhere. Also provides web based repository browsing and a reasonable looking ticket system.” (via Simon Willison)

(tags: svn subversion versioning hosting development programming)

.. to check on your friends whether they have turned their blog into an OpenID url…

(tags: autodiscovery bookmarklet delegation openid simonwillison evangelism)

introducing the “Limited Liability Persona… a legally recognized virtual person in which users could “invest” the financial or identity resources of their choosing… consumers would use them as their legal “alter ego,” even in financial transac

(tags: privacy nyt nytimes web2.0 identity digitalidentity security legislation liability llp limitedliabilitypersona)

how to migrate a sizable MySQL database: best to go with one of the bundled backup utilities: mysqldump, mysqlhotcopy, mysqlsnapshot, and if you have the bucks, ibbackup. Determine first: online vs. offline backup, and data dump vs. raw.

(tags: backup mysql howto databases migration tips)

[Dutch] Afgelopen voorjaar blijkt een Duitse rechtbank het bewaren van IP-adressen van website-bezoekers verboden te hebben, het [...] is een verwerking van persoonsgegevens, omdat ze (met enige moeite) terug te herleiden zijn tot individuele personen.

(tags: privacy identifier logging logs ip arnoudengelfriet dutch nederlands germany legal)

Greasemonkey userscripts at userscripts.org

(tags: egodata list greasemonkey userscripts firefox)

want more control over which mails end up in your inbox? Every time you give out your email address at a site, use an alias specific for that url. It helps you to track where (and by whom) mail addresses are being used, and lets you filter or block mails.

(tags: antispam, catch all, catchall, email, emailmanagement, gmail, greasemonkey, spam, userscript, userscripts)

“I’ve been coding Ruby on Rails for the last two months and this rant is long overdue. There are just so many thing that are wrong with Ruby on Rails. Being better than PHP or J2EE is not enough to get away from a quick bashing on my blog.”

(tags: rails ruby ror rubyonrails evaluation opinion programming review list webdevelopment)

A Rails plugin that takes the verbosity out of writing HTML code in RHTML templates – everything is reduced to the structure represented by the xhtml

(tags: haml ruby rails ror rubyonrails markup plugin html templating syntax xhtml css)

Writeup by Marjolein Hoekstra: what is attention profiling, what is APML, APML sources, privacy, commercial aspects, services using APML

(tags: apml attention marjoleinhoekstra dla lifestream digitallifestyle profiling introduction)

“It was hard to buy and sell physical communities. Online communities, though, are tradable assets [..] The best way to square divergent motives [of owners and members] may well be through the careful maintenance of a set of mutually agreeable illusions.”

(tags: nicholascarr usergeneratedcontent usergenerated usergeneratedmedia socialmedia socialsoftware social_software newsvine publishing)

there is one area of privacy that we won’t surrender: the secrecy of how and whom we search… (We might feel invulnerable in the spotlight, but we don’t want to be caught sitting in someone else’s audience.) (New York Times)

(tags: facebook nyt nytimes pseudonymity privacy socialsoftware social_software socialnetworking)

Subjects touched:
Jaiku business model, sync versus federation versus import/export, Jaiku/Twitter and Jabber, business motivations for OpenID, network interoperability.
Marc Canter, Ralph Meijer(Jabber), Jyri Engeström, Dick Hardt
(I was in the audience

(tags: picnic2007 picnic portablesocialnetworks openid discussion marccanter jaiku twitter dickhardt jabber interoperability egodata)

Designed for multi-author, magazine-like blogs (be it businesses, organizations, even schools). (via Denis Balencourt)

(tags: cms wordpress theme themes webdesign publishing layout)

John Tropea is on top of all new developments in social, collaboration and personal km software, but it became too much to follow… (exrss tag indicates rss unsubscription)

(tags: exrss web2.0 blog attention km collaboration)

WordPress plug-in to aid in verifying ownership of your site using MicroID (from Will Norris, the guy that is maintaining wp-openid+)

(tags: microid willnorris identityclaim ownership wordpress plugin digitalidentity)

A short video explaining OpenID, brought to you by myVidoop.com

(tags: openid myvidoop.com openidprovider video demo education tutorial)