Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
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Researchers took an anonymized dataset of the viewing preferences of 500.000 Netflix users and (partially) de-anonymized it by crossreferencing it with IMDB profiles. Private Netflix ratings at Netflix reveal political affiliation, sexual orientation etc
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P2P online backup: your data aren’t stored at a server in the cloud, but at the computer of someone you trust
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20something Robert Gaal writes how keeping a private log helps you keep an overview of your life, helps you to decide on and keep focus, and track progress (or decline).
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[Dutch] Juridische aspecten bij gebruik van foto’s en grafisch materiaal op je website (Arnoud Engelfriet)
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Video presentations: upload document (ppt, pdf…) and audio/video file and synchronise them. The result is an embeddable widget. Like Slidecasts, but they host your audio an video is also possible
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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Works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. Both for designers and email client developers
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The microformats approach reconciled with apml: ” it is still an XML file hidden away. Data that is out-of-site tends to be out-of-mind and gets “stale”. To prevent this… some XSLTs to convert the HTML we see and update daily into the APML format.”
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“[Floyd Landis ] posted 370 pages of his test documents online in the hope of unearthing experts and explanations for the suspicious result…. The effect of the Wiki Defense has been to circumvent the mainstream media by generating online debate.”
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
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Yet another overview - and linkbait
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By Aaron & Giovanna Wall from SEO Book.com
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IBM’s innovation pope. An authority in his field, but far too high-level for me… (exrss indicates RSS unsubscription)
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Dave Winer: the issue is not that data is being captured - the issue is who controls and owns it. “I’d like to give a copy to Facebook (assuming they agree to not disclose it) and maybe to Amazon, so they can recommend products I might want to purchase”
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“Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, and personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data.”
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“Privacy is not lost simply because people find these services useful and start sharing location. Privacy could be lost if we don’t start to figure what the rules are for how this sort of location data can be used.” Chris Messina (being too optimistic)
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Chris Messina sets the agenda for next year:
Economic incentives and VRM
Reframing of privacy and access permissions
Data portability and open/non-proprietary web standards and protocols
Citizen-centric web services
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Whitelisting via FOAF and OpenID
(Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs)
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… the microformats alternative to Whitelisting with FOAF and OpenID…
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“[We want] a portable block list that a user could privately share with other sites (probably via oauth or openid or both) so that they could block a troll on one service, and have the troll automatically blocked on other services as well.”
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Good old-fashioned privacy and self-reliance rant by Bill Tompson
“using commercial services for campaigning [...] raises the same sorts of issues as we see with Hushmail, because the interests of the owners are not the same as those of the users”
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Belgian local password store encrypted and secured via eID - the Electronic Identity Card
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
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allows you to easily integrate 103bees search traffic analysis into your Wordpress site.
Paste the code you received from 103bees.com into the textarea, press Update script and you’re set
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introduction to the portable social networks with explanations how OpenID, XFN and hCard can be used.
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[Dutch] “… dat Breedveld de medewerkster vele malen met naam en toenaam noemde. Daarbij ging het hem er om om haar zodanig neer te zetten dat toekomstige werkgevers dat gegarandeerd zouden moeten vinden … En dat maakte het onrechtmatig”
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Firebug/Web developer toolbar for IE. Apparently free for private use (via quinze).
(description in French: IE plugin pour DOM access, Javascript debugger, voir les headers HTTP, voir les cookies)
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Thorough analysis of the Facebook Beacon javascript:
* Beacon in a Nutshell
* Beacon from 10,000 Feet
* Blocking Beacon
* Walking through the Code
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“The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.”
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
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“Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise.”
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“open source multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Can also be used as a server to stream on a high-bandwidth network.”
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Combine words to come up with creative names and easily check their availability
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I guess “What is your mother maiden’s name” no longer is a suitable question in case of forgotten username/password…
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
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“Murdoch plugged the MD5 into Google which revealed multiple sites featuring the word “Anthony”, the attacker’s password. The approach hit on a result because the hash was in the URL [...] Wordpress stores passwords as MD5 hashes without salting…”
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“having large warehouses of data on individuals will [not] be free from unintended consequences, especially when there are incentives to try to build highly detailed models of everyone’s lives. The price of total personalisation is total surveillance.”
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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“Biased manipulation runs wild on Wikipedia, and the extent to which it influences the pages of that site will probably never be known” (SEOmoz)
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Takeways:
- ranking is cijfer tussen 0 en 25, op logaritmische schaal
- lijst wordt elke week vernieuwd
- onafhankelijk van ‘reach’, wel “capaciteit om anderen tot actie aan te zetten”
- geen externe diensten (PageRank,Technorati, Alexa) in berekening
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“If you’ve got a site/service that is ad-supported but also has some membership, do your best users a favor and turn off ads. It’ll make a small dent in your bottom line but pay off with a better user experience for your site’s biggest fans.”
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You hardly ever see an ad on Wordpress.com, so how does Automattic pay for the free hosting?
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
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A comprehensive guide to OpenID protocol and running OpenID enabled websites: Getting started with OpenID; Creating OpenID-enabled web sites; Running OpenID server; OpenID in the enterprise (free to download)
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“The disruptive, value-generating improvements for the user are realized in the “mashability” of the travel calendar app, not in its “embedability”… It’s no mystery why …: it’s designed to let other walled-gardens compete with Facebook”
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3-column port of this excellent theme, unfortunately still not widget-enabled
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3 categories that these applications can be organised into:
Identity formation 43% (self-presentation and collective identity formation)
Phatic Communication 37% (sociability more than information)
Other 20% (social organisation, communication, games)
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
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In the new version of Gmail:
- emails have permalinks - you can bookmark them
- searches have permalinks: you can mail them
- “Filter messages like this”: to filter mails sent to mailing lists
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“customized versions of the Windows Live suite, including email, photo service, messenger, writer, livedrive and more for businesses or non for profit organizations ” looking to achieve deeper and more engaging connections with their community.””
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
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Author: Randall Munroe, 23-year-old former NASA roboticist. He has made a full-time job out of what used to be a hobby.
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A Myspace cyberbullying case (by adults) leads to a suicide - and then to a journalism ethics debate involving both bloggers and professional journalists.
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