Monday, January 7th, 2008
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Alternative for the defunct Webjay bookmarklet (Lucas Gonze): when you find web pages with mp3’s that you would like to listen to, use the bookmarklets to generate playlists in M3U, SMIL, RSS or XSPF (flash). Instructions: http://playr.hubmed.org/help.php
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“Information is going to be like money. [...] Institutions that hold information are going to be like banks. With a variety of services, and with rights and duties associated with our information, varying according to the service we sign up for.”
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“Adpinion is an advertising network based on a new method of targeting ads.
We place a thumbs up and a thumbs down button on every ad we serve. A thumbs up says an ad is OK, and a thumbs down gets rid of it.”
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“the attacker needs to solve some equivalent of the Integer Factorization Problem to factor n, which is suspected to be outside of complexity class P using classical computation”
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On web startups that scrape data from other sites: “a generation of businesses that depend upon the continued good graces of a relatively small group of Internet powerhouses that philosophically agree information should be free — until suddenly it isn’t
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“how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software” from one of the leaders of the Subversion project, published by Oreilly
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Putting users in control of (and teaching them to take responsibility for) their own data and giving them the tools and contextual prompts to do the right thing has nothing to do with duping them into letting you run a scraping script for your own benefit
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