Archive for October, 2007
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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… Yet another good explanation of Oauth, with screenshots
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1 Redefine the market based on the benefits
2 Break benefits down into scarce and infinite components
3 Set the infinite components free to increase the value of the scarce components
4 Charge for the scarce components that are tied to infinite components
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Facebook apps = the usual UGC, digital sharecropping story…
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Indicates “the re-distribution restrictions for a feed. The ‘relationship’ attribute is used to indicate whether a feed will ‘allow’ or ‘deny’ access. To ‘allow’ access means a feed may be redistributed to other public sources, including search.”
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with any installation of WordPress:
Fetches all of your spam comments and displays them on one page.
Sorts spammers by the amount of spam
Shows only the first line of spam
Completely hide obvious spam
Automatically checks for a new version of itself
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
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Writeup of the process; collaboration and tracking tools the OAuth advocates used
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the legal foundation of privacy law is being rendered increasingly irrelevant… consumers ignore overly complex notices and shrinking technology makes it virtually impossible to obtain informed consumer consent (BBC News, via Nicholas Carr)
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User: Millions vs Hundreds
Mind set: Fun vs Work
Organisational structure: Flat vs Hierarchical
Attitude: Sharing vs Hoarding
Skill set: Digitally savvy vs averse
Visibility:Anonymity vs Recognition
Society:Public vs Private
Cultural:Innovative vs Mundane
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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Marc Andreessen’s blog. Subscribed for his insights on web platforms, but most of it is financial and startup management stuff (exrss tag indicates RSS unsubscription)
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On Salesforce.com’s “new service enabling companies to share leads, opportunities and custom objects with each other (assuming both are using salesforce.com)”. Wow. Really Web 2.0 for companies…
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Rendering of my Public Feed Reading List in the new Grazr interface, linked to the OPML at Bloglines, so always up to date
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“I don’t get why podcast search isn’t more supported by the major search engines.” Maybe there’s less money to be made…
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examples of duplicate content issues, and some other problems:
duplicate content from aliases
Drupal’s default robots.txt has errors
Pathauto issues
Forums and Views, create sortable lists
Forward module creates a link to a URL, on each page
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to rank well for a particular keyword in standard organic results at the engines, you’re really only talking about a few big key components:
Keyword Usage & Content Relevance
Raw Link Juice
Anchor Text Weight
Domain Authority
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Adobe Air based Desktop blogging client
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“This code, extracted from the Rails codebase of dopplr.com, extends your User model with methods to pull in social network information from sites such as GMail, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and any site supporting appropriate Microformats.”
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HTML (non-javascript) version…
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Site Specific Browsers (SSB), application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web app. Avoids browser crashes on opening too many windows, and restricts your cookies for a specific application (e.g. Gmail and Google Apps!)
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Sun acts as a corporate OpenID provider but still lets users choose fake names and mail addresses. The argumentation.
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Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. Lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.Is a Ruby on Rails app itself.
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Watchblog of the nascent Widgets industry… but too specialised for my needs. Niall Kennedy’s less frequent weblog is a better match.
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intended for a technical audience with focus on implementation. To make the most out of this guide, keep the specification handy as I will be referencing it, walking you through the spec and adding color where needed.
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things that need to be tweaked in order to make it work in WebRunner or any other XulRunner application:
Register as a global extension
Add WebRunner compatibility to Gears manifest
Add Extension Manager support to WebRunner
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
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Bloglines OpenID provider… set your username in “Account” - “Blog settings”
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Implementation issues and scenarios of the WPOpenID plugin
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Linkbait can be too successful and mark your inward link structure as “not organic”,thus spam…
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obtain a feed for all the videos from the uploader of the current video - subscribe to the feed using any feed reader.
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adds chat rooms to Google Talk. You need to add partychat@gmail.com as a friend and use commands to create a room or join an existing one. To make sure nobody joins your room accidentally, password-protect it. Open-source project by a Google employee.
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Disadvantages: usability and duplicate content
Remedies:
noindex, follow: not supported
Robots-X-Tag HTTP header
Robots.txt
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The quality of your snippet — the short text preview we display for each web result — can have a direct impact on [clickthrough] (Google webmaster Blog)- you can control [the snippet] by writing an informative meta description for each URL
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a hyper-book providing a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them. By Marijn Haverbeke.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
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“The browser’s security model did not anticipate [mashups, so they're] not safe if there is any confidential information in the page. Every page has at least some confidential info in it, so this is a big problem. Google Gears may lead to the solution.”
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alternative to the older admin framework Streamlined, which appears to be in or near a state of abandonment after never really gaining much traction
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“Sitefinder301 uses the Open Directory Project and optionally the Internet Archive to find sites DMOZ listed websites that have not been updated in a while. (so are candidates for sale, or might even expire)”
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“expired domain name research and tools: expired domain name search, backlink reports, expiring domain lists”
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