Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 21st, 2008
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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I followed this blog for a while for its Wordpress postings, but nowadays it’s more of a business/life blog. (exruss indicates RSS unsubscription)
“cre8d design: blog design, Wordpress themes, Drupal, Web 2.0″
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“suddenly there’s a wide-open source of information about who lives where on the Web. With a minimum of fuss it would be easy to go grab a Twitter status, del.icio.us bookmark set, or Flickr feed for anybody listed below and slot it neatly into place”
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
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Explanatory post on the Bike Shed Syndrome, see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed
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Eran Hammer-Lahav on why the “Open web community” is derailing:
“Change is driven by need, and so far, the needs of the open social web has not been fully figured out.” 10 rules for community driven open-web projects.
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You can now use your blog’s URL as an OpenID URL on any website that accepts OpenID 1.1 authentication.
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“people exhibit a strong tendency towards shallow, horizontal, `flicking’ behaviour in digital libraries. Power browsing and viewing appear to be the norm for all. The popularity of abstracts among older researcher [...]. Society is dumbing down.”
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
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Facebook application developed by Linkedin:
“Let your friends and networks know your company is hiring. List available positions, and let the referral bonuses start rolling in.”
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dedicated to listing webbased applications on a beta trip.
This site is in early alpha, I still need to figure a few things out.
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Pictures from the Library of Congress with “no known copyright restrictions”
“this pilot can be used as a model [for] other cultural institutions, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by cultural heritage institutions all over the world”
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1) Capturing screenshots with a simple macro using AutoHotKey
2) Stitching all these images together so they appear as an animated movie or a flipbook (import all of them as a sequence inside Windows Movie Maker or any other video editor )
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
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Provides basic Amazon EC2 management features within Mozilla Firefox.
* List available AMIs
* List your running instances
* Launch new instances of an AMI
* Manage security groups and launch permissions associated with your instances
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(Rarely insightful Techcrunch posting) “Open standards tend to be good for spurring the adoption of new technologies, but not so good for generating profits directly. That is why companies choose to be open along axes where they don’t compete.”
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why newspapers have lost their relevancy: summary of a 66 slide powerpoint by The World Association of Newspapers
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Aaron Wall’s review of the MS keyword research tool
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“web-based time management and analytics tool for information workers who want to be more productive”, it keeps track of how much time you spend focused on different applications and on different websites and visualises your usage patterns.
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Youtube has feeds, but doesn’t show them in the interface. They’re available via the Google api:
1. Search feeds
2. Search in a category
3. The latest videos from a channel
4. Feeds for favorite videos
5. Your subscriptions
6. Playlists
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“you can’t rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks so Google artificially inflates the rankings of the recently-created pages based on historical data and the few backlinks that are detected.”
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1 Gmail: Set up mail fetcher in the backup account and add the main account as a custom From address
2 Google Calendar: Click on “Manage calendars” at the bottom of the window, share the main calendar and add the backup account.
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Rule #1:
if you reply to someone’s email, that person is added to your Gmail contact list.
Rule #2 (opt-out):
if you reply to someone’s messages more than 2-3 times, that person is added to the list of Google Talk friends.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
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computer science event tracker and topic and social network tracker - Collation of automated metadata based on conference organisation/presentations/papers
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“verification of an HTTP request by requiring an XMPP entity (normally an IM user) to confirm that it made the request. Can be combined with native HTTP authentication to provide a stronger association between the request and a particular user”
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“the supplemental index is no longer, well, supplemental. Google has long had a two-tiered index: historically, those pages weren’t crawled as often as those in the main index, weren’t returned unless the main index didn’t contain enough matching pages”
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“Never tell people what you’re going to do for them on the Web. Just let them do what they came to do as quickly and simply as possible.” (Gerry McGovern)
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“research paper” on internet memes, itself being a meme (by Cyle Gage)
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
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“A workstream is a live updated record of work you’ve completed. When doing group work with remote colleagues, it allows you to keep track of what everyone else is doing. When working solo, it helps you keep track of your own productivity”
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
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“Opening the social graph will destroy social networks, and turn them into sterile public spaces in which formation of meaningful and intimate relationships is not possible” Eloquently explains socialnetworkportability is a bad or at least sterile idea.
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Greasemonkey script that shows what trackers a site is using (e.g. when someone has the Mybloglog script running without showing the visitors)
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18-minuten feature overview. Voice-over en tekstballonnen zijn identiek, zodat je de voice eventueel kan weglaten (slechte geluidskwaliteit). Via Pierre Gorissen.
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