Archive for November, 2007
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
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Like the Nabaztag, its aim is to bring information services into the intimacy of home and family via wifi and configurable over the web. This is however a full-fledged media player, open source ad with an open architecture.
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Widget using Google apis to move email, contacts and calendar:
* Gmail account to a Gmail account
* Gmail account to a Google Apps account
* Google Apps account to a Gmail account
* Google Apps account to a Google Apps account
(make sure to change pswd!)
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example: gMOVE from LimitNone, a tool that migrates your email, contacts and calendars from Outlook to Google Apps. gMOVE also migrates the tasks from Outlook to an iGoogle gadget. The tool costs $19 and it works with any Google Apps account.
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some ways to disable [Google] filters or to create custom filters:
- add + in front of the word to avoid different morphological forms or related words
- add &filter=0 to avoid duplicate filtering,host crowding
- /webhp : noUA detection
- /ncr: no country
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custom Wordpress admin interface for your phone. It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface:
an iPhone / iPod Touch specific interface with full Javascript and animation support
a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types
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Search engines drive shopping comparison sites out of the market…
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“During WWII, the world’s first software developers were recruited by the Army to program the quirky ENIAC,the first all-electronic programmable computer.These six pioneers invented many of the concepts of programming, and remarkably, they were all women”
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“What kills me… is how good the design is. At every step they’ve done things almost perfectly. They’ve pinpointed the motivations of users at each step, and designed the screens in such a way as to make the default action the seemingly best one.”
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NYT reporter testing personal DNA analysis service 23andme: “For as little as $1,000 and a saliva sample, customers will be able to learn what is known so far about how the billions of bits in their biological code shape who they are” ( New York Times)
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
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this simple search in Gmail shows you messages it believes is written in Spanish:
language:Spanish
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“Use the Webmaster Tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, submit sitemaps and view statistics about your websites.” (analogous to Google Webmaster tools)
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for un-obfuscating JavaScript that has had its whitespace stripped out (Online tool - source code also available )
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screen capture tool: images and screencasts, compatible mac/pc, allows free hosting of capuresv(on screencast.com). By the company behind camtasia and snagit
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
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there are a lot of options out there for prediction market software, prediction market public sites, and general “wisdom of crowds” (such as idea selection and voting systems).
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“… waits in the edit comments dashboard until you’ve decided to respond to a comment. Type in your response inside the dashboard and Comment Ninja will post the comment to your blog, or send the comment by email (or both) while you keep commenting.”
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common programming idioms in multiple languages: “repository for code examples that go beyond the traditional “Hello World!” example. A variety of tasks are listed, and visitors to this site are invited to solve the tasks in the language of their choice.”
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“allows JavaScript and Java execution for trusted domains. NoScript optionally blocks Flash and other potentially exploitable plugins too, and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser.”
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“The OpenSocket Facebook application allows you to run OpenSocial gadgets within Facebook!
As soon as I tidy up the source code and add some documentation, the framework will be released as an open source project.”
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“Unaltered Google gadgets work on all Open Social platforms… They need not be altered to work in Open Social containers or anywhere else. [The] Google gadget syndication directory is essentially a directory now of gadgets that can be added anywhere”
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# Logging in Firebug (with String Substitution pattern )
# Grouping the logs or messages
# console.dir and console.dirxml
# Assertion (console.assert() )
# Tracing (console.trace() )
# Timing (Measuring the time of your code)
# Javascript Profiler (intro)
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# Javascript Profiler
# Tracing error
# Tracing XmlHttpRequest object
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“any time you load [a] Beacon-enabled page, Facebook knows exactly what you are looking at. In essence, this setup is sending your clickstream and path data to Facebook, precisely correlated to your Facebook identity.”
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“I hereby do notify the world that I shall not join any form of online service that has any of the following features:
* Requires me to work out who my friends are.
* Asks me to approve you before we can communicate.”
(Sigh. What about context…)
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“Pre-teens in Mattels’ free Barbie Girls virtual world can chat with their friends online… But as an ingenious (and presumably profitable) bulwark against internet scum, Mattel only lets girls chat with “Best Friends,” - people they know in real life”
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“it didn’t produce a darn thing that was productive except for being a giant black hole for energy, time and resources. There may come a day when this technology is capable of doing what it says it can deliver, but boy, that’s not now.”
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the easiest way to monetize their content is to turn bits into atoms and sell the atoms:
1. Single order custom manufacture
2. Small order custom manufacture
3. Tying an online experience to an offline purchase
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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You have to precede both the link: and the linkdomain: commands with a plus sign. For example:
+link:www.ukeig.org.uk/training/
+linkdomain:www.ukeig.org.uk
Google has a link command which is virtually useless, Yahoo has both a link and linkdomain command
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[German] “Mit mehr als 50 Anpassungsmöglichkeiten erlaubt das wpSEO-Plugin eine perfekte Optimierung der eigenen Blogseiten…- auch für SEO- und Blog-Einsteiger. Dynamische Generierung der “Meta”-Tags und des Titels abhängig vom Inhalt der Seite…”
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One year free hosting for Facebook app developers (up to one instance of a virtualised server)
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“open mainly fits Google when it’s behind competitively in a space” Being “open” generally is the weapon to defeat any incumbent… (undercutting its business)
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“Using multiple classes within selectors. Pretty much definitive guide to using multiple classes in a CSS selector, including problems with IE 5 and 6 and one way of addressing them using conditional comments.”
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
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GINY,JUNG,HyperGraph,JDigraph,WilmaScope,JGraphT,TouchGraph,GVF,JGraphEd,VGJ,Zoomgraph,Walrus,Prefuse,ZVTM,InfoVis Toolkit & Cyberinfrastructure,Large Graph Layout,NV2D,GUESS,Otter,Gravisto,Linguine Maps,Rox Graph Theory Framework,Jiggle,Zest,Relo,Sonia
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sparkline diagram of relative daily Google Adsense earnings, updated hourly
(data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics)
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“introduction to OpenID by Peter Nixey—includes some really nice analogies for explaining both the concept and the implications” (Simon Willison) Aimed at web property owners
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
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[French] nice examples on customized Adsense layouts, rather to make them stand out and avoid “Adsense blindness” than to blend in. I doubt that it’s compliant with the Adsense policies though… (via Denis Balencourt)
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What Mark Cuban calls “Personal Database Publishing” is the best description of Vendor Relationship Management (a Doc Searls concept) I’ve read so far!
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“Web service that allows users to submit their location via a number of devices and then expose that information to application on a per-application basis.Each application has to register with the system and can be granted different levels of granularity”
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Paper by danah boyd: “In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments.”
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“The conversation gives some background on the history behind the protocol, the problems it was set to solve, and a bit of advice for getting started. We talked about what is needed to make OAuth a success, and how it is relevant to today’s web.”
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“measures the rate at which your site is being indexed, which also translates into the rate at which it is growing. A stagnant site with little content having added, will have a low IndexRank. If you constantly increase content, you will have a high Rank”
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Engage Quickly
Mimic Look and Feel
Enable Self Expression
Make it Dynamic
Expose Friend Activity
Browse the Graph
Drive Communication
Build Communities
Solve Real World Tasks
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
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