Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
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presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Performance tools @ Yahoo”
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(Abilitynet = UK equivalent of Belgian Anysurfer.be)
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Copy Is Interface”
http://www.slideshare.net/mulegirl/copy-is-interface/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Comet: Making The Web a 2-Way Medium”
http://www.slideshare.net/joewalker/comet-making-the-web-a-2way-medium/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Practical Semantic Web”
http://www.slideshare.net/carsonified/practical-semantic-web
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Ambient Intimacy ”
http://www.slideshare.net/leisa/ambient-intimacy-fowa-07/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Short on cycles, long on storage”
http://www.slideshare.net/swardley/short-on-cycles-long-on-storage/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Putting users first”
http://www.slideshare.net/vanderwal/putting-users-first/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Google Gears and taking your apps offline”
http://www.slideshare.net/dion/future-of-web-apps-google-gears/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“The Future of Firefox and JavaScript”
http://www.slideshare.net/jeresig/the-future-of-firefox-and-javascript/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Pownce Lessons Learned”
http://www.slideshare.net/leahculver/pownce-lessons-learned/
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format
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elaborating the Tom Coates “web of data” idea
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turn flickr photos into iPhoto v6+ compatible photocasts suitable for screensavers, ipod synchronisation and syncing iPhoto instances on different computers.
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Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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Architecture Behind WordPress.com http://www.slideshare.net/photomatt/architucture-behind-wordpresscom/ (presentation)
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on JPEG magazine, presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre, http://www.slideshare.net/carsonified/derek-powazek-and-heather-champ-fowa-oct-07/
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presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html
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“Interpreting feedback”
http://www.slideshare.net/carsonified/daniel-burka/
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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Creating and running communities
http://www.slideshare.net/carsonified/matt-haughey-fowa-oct07
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Ask The Wizard, Live”
presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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“Coding on the Shoulders of Giants”
http://www.slideshare.net/mattb/coding-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/
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presentation on Future of Web Apps, London 3d-5th Octobre
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
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“Because the sales of complementary products rise in tandem, a company has a strong strategic interest in reducing the cost and expanding the availability of the complements to its core product.. If hot dogs became freebies, mustard sales would skyrocket”
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better conversion rates = more spending on SEM & Adwords campaigns. And this is why Google buys metrics companies for millions and then gives away their products for free.
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Facebook’s network of 58 million active users… have made it an irresistible subject for many types of academic research. “Do birds of a feather flock together, or do you become more like your friends?”
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“it’s becoming more common for users to need to pass data from one service to another. This often requires users to hand over usernames and passwords, in spite of the obvious security risks involved. OAuth is intended to solve this problem”
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
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new programming language for age 8 and up that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
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Randall Munroe is the creator of xkcd. Taped December 7 2007, for a full room of fans
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Opt out of DoubleClick cookie tracking
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Creating a footnote is dead simple, just include it with double parentheses ((Your very own footnote!)).
(via alper)
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[Dutch] interessant Nederlands “groepsweblog over journalistiek, technologie, nieuwe media en de publieke sfeer”, verloor evenwel wat interesse voor het onderwerp
(exrss tag duidt uitschrijving aan)
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Essay with a lot of life-hack pointers:
- avoid non-productive and self-destructive thoughts like blaming, regret, negative self-image…
- most of “reality” is in fact self-created your mind, so you can as well recreate
- look at yourself at system-level
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Exhaust data is.. a clear case of “phatic communication”, communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. Phatic communication doesn’t get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
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for social media sites, culture is a function of UI:
- On sites with higher costs for creating a link, the observer has reason to believe that the links represent genuine relationships
- Once a culture takes hold on a site, it is very hard to change.
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“a new [Apache Software Foundation] project that aims to provide an open source reference implementation of the entire OpenSocial stack:
- Gadget Container JavaScript
- Gadget Server
- OpenSocial Container JavaScript
- OpenSocial Gateway Server
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range of interesting Wii Projects, including Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote (via netlash)
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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Google has so much more data at their fingertips that even if a startup does a much better job [...], Google could potentially provide a better value proposition… with an inferior algorithm powered by more data, sourced from a broader range of services.
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[Dutch] “OV-chipkaart gaat binnenkort al onze reisbewegingen vastleggen… Die gegevens zijn van jezelf… het is ook een fundamenteel recht om te kunnen beschikken over je eigen informatie” (briljante posting door alper, een model voor vele soorten data)
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
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fancy suite of design tools wrapped up in a bookmarklet (that loads an external script). Includes grids, rulers, measurements and a crosshair.
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Reality mining [..] could revolutionize social research. It provides “a new approach to studying collaboration and communication within organizations - allowing the examination of the evolution of relationships over time.”
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In the five years since the bet was made, a clear winner did emerge, but it was neither blogs nor the Times. [It was ]Wikipedia.. our most trusted source on the biggest news stories of 2007 is a horde of nameless, faceless amateurs …
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When people say, “I have nothing to hide,” they really mean, “I am not ashamed of anything” Truth is, we all have a lot to hide [...] individuals and institutions act unreasonably and irresponsibly to [our] detriment, when in possession of truthful facts.
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