Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Fastest typist input over a year: 100 Meg.
Recording everything the average user does on the Internet: 4 to 8 gigabytes a year.
All Cellphone conversations: 5Gig a year
“life recorder”: 200 Gig/year for audio and 700 for video
(Schneier on Security)

(tags: storage lifelog anonymity bruceschneier databases privacy surveillance essay)

“data collected by corporations and governmental agencies is positively radioactive in its tenacity and longevity… Privacy meltdowns raise a similarly long-lived spectre: will the leaked HMRC data ever actually vanish?”

(tags: corydoctorow theguardian essay storage privacy surveillance)

“central repository of resources on lifestreaming”
Lifestream: in it’s simplest form it’s a chronological aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline.
(inrss tag indicates RSS subscription)

(tags: inrss aggregation attention lifestream lifestreaming feeds rss publishing syndication blog digitalidentity profileaggregator)

What data about you AND about your friends do you give to Facebook applications when installing? Most apps “are given access to far more personal data than they need to in order to run, including data on users who never even signed up for the application”

(tags: facebook privacy socialnetworking facebookapplications)

Arnoud Engelfriets excellent overzicht van juridische aspecten van screenscrapen, met name als het over vertical search gaat. Copyright, databankenrecht, het begrip “ongerechtvaardigde schade” en jurisprudentie in Nederland over Funda, Jaap, gaspedaal…

(tags: screenscraping arnoudengelfriet legal copyright databaselaw quoting scraping nederland nederlands dutch)

“framework for collecting your actions from services around the web into one place for you to share back out as you see fit”, here implemented as MT plugin. It takes in Feeds from all kinds of services and templates them in a Facebook-like 1-line format

(tags: syndication aggregation feeds aggregator rss atom publishing actionstreams microformats lifestream profileaggregator)

“teaches you how to make Google gadgets regardless of your skill level, even if you do not know any coding”:

(tags: google googlegadgets widgets appsyndication tutorial howto)

12 basic SEO issues that frequently plague content management systems (SEOMoz)

(tags: seo cms contentmanagement list tips publishing seomoz)

“We nofollowed dozens of links on many of our template pages to help control the flow of link juice through to our more important pages”

(tags: seomoz seo linkstructure nofollow internallinking pagerank)

“Search words are hard, while customer carewords soft, emotional and value-driven. Sometimes it’s like running a relay, as search words pass the baton on to carewords when [arriving] at the website… We search for something, but long for something else”

(tags: search keywords arbitrage keywordanalysis marketing seo sem searchenginemarketing advertising)

Ruby-based regular expression parser, a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.

(tags: ruby regex regexp regularexpressions service testing programming)

PHP5 wrapper class for the MyBlogLog API – implements all of the V1 API calls (currently in private beta) to date. It uses Curl for making the requests and implements a caching layer to improve performance.

(tags: mybloglog php php5 library api yahoo socialmedia)

interactive infographic of what happens to a blog post after you publish it.

(tags: wired blogging ecosystem visualization visualisation infographics aggregation socialmedia)

- Create separate search and content campaigns
- Think about the type of user browsing a web page and write ads to catch that user’s attention
- Include call-to-action phrases
- Highlight special offers or features
- Link ad to customized landing pages

(tags: adwords campaign contentnetwork sem searchenginemarketing advertising tips)

The only thing separating one’s private content from public content is an if/else loop, and if it fails once, that’s enough for a massive incident…. once the data hits a torrent network, there’s simply no way to recover or erase the leakage

(tags: photos privacy myspace torrent security socialnetworking)

Polling isn’t working anymore. Jabber/XMPP:
# allows for easy two-way communication and has pub-sub functionality built-in
# XML-based and easily extensible
# efficient and proven to scale to millions of concurrent users and has built-in federation

(tags: architecture computing xmpp jabber syndication http im instantmessaging)

Friend import from Facebook into Pownce:
Using the Facebook API, your Facebook Friends’ full names and links are fetched and compared to names in Pownce database _and_ the external links on Pownce profiles. A practical case of URLs as identifiers!

(tags: dataportability buddylist portablesocialnetworks identifiers urls facebook pownce leahculver)

Online service at W3.org to Tidy html and return well-formed XML. Really cool for quick testing.

(tags: tidy htmltidy service w3c xhtml xml parsing parser)

“Engelbart’s vision… a vision of human augmentation. We need to augment human capability in certain ways. In particular, we need to create — and project our minds into — a shared information space that works like a planetary associative memory.”

(tags: semweb semanticweb jonudell collaboration presentation history rest elearning)

In summary: less Web2.0, more “human” and personal.
Away with the tagcloud and the gradients!
Wider, and content column on the left.

(tags: blogs trends webdesign 2008 navigation)

Twitter is to IRC what blogging is to newsgroups and bulletin boards.
Dave Winer: “In IRC, if I listen to you, then you listen to me… There are ways to block, but it’s opt-out, where in Twitter listening to someone is opt-in. Very different experience.”

(tags: blogging communication davewiner twitter tragedyof the commons trolls jonudell clayshirky attention socialsoftware social_software chat irc messaging groupware)

PHP script that reduces HTTP request, adds long expiration header, Gzip and Minify.

(tags: performance php webdevelopment script library compression css deployment javascript)

rearranges your friend tweets, sort by user. Click through on their usernames for their “grid view”

(tags: twitter mashup visualization visualisation userinterface)

3 steps: designing images for the header and footer, entering metadata and color information in an XML file, and submitting the theme

(tags: googleapi igoogle startpage startpages api themegenerator themes google branding syndication)

In the event of a dispute, the i-DEPOT… allows you to prove that a certain idea, concept or process already existed on a specific day.
The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property will register your name and the date on which you submitted your i-DEPOT.

(tags: i-depot idepot intellectualproperty ideas registration)

First newspaper to do so – but you can’t use your OpenID to comment for the time being. Some comments are hilarious…

(tags: openid newspapers evangelism digitalidentity telegraph media publishing)

“everybody and their brother was going to attempt to become the OpenID provider of choice for as many users as possible”
Well, why not? If people have built up a reputation as a commenter on the Telegraph site, they should be able to claim it elsewhere.

(tags: digitalidentity telegraph johannesernst openid commenting newspapers claims reputation)

Transaction::Simple provides a generic way to inject transaction support into any object – that’s right, any Ruby object. All the magic happens directly in memory, and thus there are no dependencies on additional backends. (igvita.com)

(tags: ruby rails rubyonrails ror transactions programming gem)

“a technically difficult comparison because of the differing design centers of OpenID and SAML, as well as differing specification styles, and thus the difficulty in presenting the comparison to the reader, not to mention attempting to be “balanced“.”

(tags: identity identitymanagement openid saml comparison whitepaper)

The right way to request user data from social hubs:
Use the front door
Identify yourself
State your intentions
Provide secure transport

(tags: phishing oauth authentication dataportability security credentials yahoo google live.com certificate)