Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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converts the query string into a search request - displays Google Search Results for images, news, blogs, videos, web, custom search engine, and your own site. Uses google ajax api
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So you can have the certificate-tied and passwordless authentication of cardspace, and the roaming-identity characteristics of OpenID (via Jon Udell: http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/12/04/passwordless-myopenid/ )
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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[In] any business, you’ll find two very different organizations: the formal organization - the one that can be represented by the boxes of an org chart. And then there’s the informal organization, the one shaped by the day-to-day interactions of emplo
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“Friendships in any network should fade over time, but be renewed by interaction… In the real world, friendships fade because of inaction… in the current online world, friendships can only end by action.”
(from the founder of Lijit)
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“the focus of discussion in the internet identity market has clearly now changed from one mostly concerned with protocols, standards and technologies, to one of market applicability” (by Johannes Ernst)
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sensationalist Register article on the “secret mailing list” of the “Wikipedia elite”. Every large and seemingly unstructured community effort has an orchestration channel I guess…
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Key message: advertising on content network is totally different from search network - run your campaigns separately for content and search network!
“site pages are analyzed, and the search engine’s algorithms decide to assign a “theme” or category”
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Export your Feedburner stats as .csv and upload them here for a nice visualisation of trends in subscribers, readers, hits.
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“RightScale’s AWS gems provide Ruby interfaces to three key Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, and SQS. The gems use Amazon’s REST and query interfaces to provide full programmatic control. An optional robust HTTP layer retries and clears transient errors.”
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Identity Woman Kaliya Hamlin doesn’t believe in portable and public friend lists, Chris Messina argues xfn and the access control list for xfn data are independant (orthogonal). Wondering what else than ACL the semantics expressed in xfn is all about?
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
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(Powerpoint) slide sharing tool, takes audio and animations in a presentation as well (which is a big plus!). Yet another service next to slideshare, zentation, Vcasmo. Also have a tool that converts ppt into lighter swf to upload or self-host!
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free PowerPoint to Flash converter retaining its effects, sound, animation, and rehearse timings - works with authorstream.com. PPS, PPT to SWF.
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“what would it mean if marketing is profiting primarily off of those who are economically and socially struggling? How do we feel about this [...]? Would we feel proud of living off of a business model that targets the poor?”
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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Dries Buytaert announces his Drupal startup Acquia: the Redhat/Spikesource/Sourcelabs model for Drupal.
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Wow! Blogger Beta has added support for accepting OpenID for comments!
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Tutorial by Kim Cameron on how to accept infocards for simple comment posting - your
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“With the latest CardSpace bits anyone who is handy with HTML and PHP, Ruby, C#, Python or almost any other language can set up CardSpace on their site in minutes - all you need to do is add an “object tag” to your login page and parse a bit of xml”
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