Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
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# Pick a proprietary silo of user’s personal social data
# Write some open source code to extract their data
# Place their data into the open formats listed below.
# Link to the code repository on the DataPortability Wiki.
# Win love and admiration
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The Widget allows visitors to a particular site to (1) seamlessly import contacts from multiple address books, (2) select entries, and (3) enter selected data into web page forms.
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Unofficial, made mainly by reverse engeneering the protocol.
Requirements:
* http client
* GET and POST support
* Cookie support
* https client
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“something like Dave linking to Cory who then links to Scoble who links to Dave who links to Tim who links to Steve who then links to Dave who links to Doc who follows through with a link to Dan, and so on.”
men have a real thing for the hypertext link
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
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“Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace” (New York Times)
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“a personal picture hosted on _your_ webspace which is then used by websites to display whenever referring to content provided by YOU, the user.”
80×80 px in PNG, JPG or GIF format
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free, open-source utility that displays your disk usage in a color-coded map that shows what file types and folders take up the most space on your hard drive
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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Make sure you are aware your profile becomes viewable by all members of the networks you join - if you join a regional network with hundreds of thousands of members, your profile might as well have been public…
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“most internet users are not concerned about the amount of information available about them online [...]
includes quotes from online survey respondents as well as experts in the fields of privacy, online identity management and search.”
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
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… is now available for all Blogger blogs. “We’ve chosen a few popular OpenID providers to highlight on the comments form, but OpenID is, well, “open”! Use any OpenID service to post a comment by choosing “Any OpenID” and filling in your OpenID URL.”
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[By it,] you allow Google to track every webpage you visit. What if every time you loaded a webpage, the Google toolbar flashed a message “Google just recorded that sarah@gmail.com just visited http://espn.com at 11:30AM on December 12. 2007, Thank You!”
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With very little effort, do an HTTP POST as part of an OpenID authentication transaction, and carry arbitrary payload that is subject to the OpenID authentication crypto, i.e. cannot be changed in transit and whose sender address cannot be falsified.
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[Dutch] definitieve tekst van de Richtsnoeren ‘Publicatie van persoonsgegevens op internet’. Deze Richtsnoeren leggen uit hoe het CBP vindt dat de Wet Bescherming Persoonsgegevens toegepast zou moeten worden op internet, met name bij websites en forum
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“web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon S3 and EC2, collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud.”
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“Let me reiterate: communities need love, not math. Communities have sprung up in the unlikeliest of places, with minimal “tools” - because the organizers have discovered how to demonstrate their love for stuff, and surface it in others.”
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“Knol relies on individual authors rather than “the crowd.” Each article, or “knol,” will be signed and owned by the person who writes it, and articles on the same subject will compete with one another…”
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
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People in a RoomWare enabled space can use the services running on a local server through Bluetooth, Wifi or RFID. Possible services range from live interaction with the music or video screens to introducing parts of an online profile into a local space.
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with a javascript tag include (If your API returns different results depending on the client’s cookies, the site that calls the script will be able to glean information about the state of the current relationship between the client and your site)
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“Russian cyber-crooks have unleashed a software robot, or bot, that poses as a would-be paramour in sex chatrooms. It entices randy gentlemen to reveal personal information, such as their address or birthday, or even to submit photographs of themselves.”
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Superimposing computer graphics on the real world, instead of displaying them on screens, has many potential uses. It is known as “augmented reality” (AR) or as “augmented vision”, because the real world is augmented with virtual text or graphics.
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“Facebook Recycle harvests files from a user’s Trash Bin and posts the findings to their News Feed, as well as sending a copy to your business.”
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
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“valuable reference for the novice as well as for the expert who needs a wider scope of coverage within the area of cryptography. It is a necessary and timely guide for professionals who practice the art of cryptography.”
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decentralised contact syncing service, an open source Plaxo (project in design phase still). By Tijs Teulings and Michell Zappa.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
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“Microcelebrity is the phenomenon of being extremely well known not to millions but to a small group” “feels like a presidential candidate, worries about making off-the-cuff remarks” “people are developing interesting social skills to adapt to microfame.”
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the missing trackback bot for Twitter! Just add @backtrackr as a friend and your posted links will be recaptured and published here on BackTrackr. (reconverts tinyurl-type links to the actual link and makes linking tweets discoverable via technorati etc.
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“By distributing and taking ownership of your own data [...] you get full control [...] a dramatic redefinition of the way the internet works, so dramatic that it will not happen anytime soon” Tijs’s comment: “I guess it is time to just get down and code”
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“No one should be surprised that social network users can’t ‘vote with their feet,’ because most users give up a portion of their autonomy when they choose to use web services. [...] protecting autonomy is desirable and should be designed in to soft
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
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Presentation by Ralph Meijerabout exchanging (changes to) social objects between sites like Jaiku, Twitter and all the others using open formats like Atom on top of XMPP Publish-Subscribe
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Soundbites from the main players in the user-centric identity world:Phil Windley and Kaliya Hamlin, David Recordon, Eran Hammer-Lev and Chris Messina, Mike Jones, Joseph Smarr, Terrell Russell, Michael Graves, Paul Trevithick, Drummond Reed, Pamela Dingle
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lets you dynamically generate charts, hosted by Google - all data are enclosed in the request URI
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“By using Google Gears with the Firefox Greasemonkey plugin, you can inject Gears code into any website that you want. Don’t wait for your favorite website to enable offline support — do it yourself.”
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Joost de Valk’s checklist:
Improve your titles, meta descriptions, and “more” texts
Pick the correct permalink structure and slug
Improve your template: breadcrumbs, headings, clean code
Remove duplicate content
Interlink related posts
Linkable content..
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adds links to the Google SERPS for the tested keywords (in the chosen language version)
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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“many Internet start-ups are hemmed in by linguistic barriers that limit their ability to attract users and generate revenue. The European market, for example, is theoretically huge … But Europeans speak more than a dozen languages”
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“Comet is an umbrella term for any technique that allows a web server to “push” events down to a browser. You can think of it as an alternative to Ajax polling, with the benefit that events are relayed in almost real-time and “wasted” requests”
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“if you understand how important SEO is for enabling customer acquisition via Google & Search, then you should similarly understand why SMO — Social Media Optimization — is important for enabling customer acquisition via Facebook & Social Networking.”
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“having more books available more cheaply doesn’t mean any more books read… Time, not price, is the limiting factor.” Tim O’Reilly trashes optimistic predictions on e-book evolution, like ad-supported e-books and profitable long-tail self-publishing.
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Experimental OpenID provider by Microsoft Research, testing whether inkblot images (similar to a Rorschach test) help to create and, later, remember a strong password. By a small group at MS Research working in the security and distributed systems space.
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