Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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I wish I could write as clearly and well-argumented as Chris Messina…
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“There is an assumption buried in the collective mind of developers that is hard to remove, and it is that people are best represented by email addresses.[... w]hat is wrong with an email address is that it’s” [both an identifier and a way to contact you]
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YouTube - Mitchell & Webb Sound
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examples of the mismatch between search queries by non-power-users and SERPS:
1. Difficulty of Finding Long Tail Results
2. Keyword Ordering
3. Keyword Relationships
(via ReadWriteWeb)
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Humorous explanation of DNA with the language of a computer scientist:
“This is a description of the build process, make files, and programming language syntax that is life.”
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Tantek Çelik interview by Chris Messina:
“starts off by defining the open web as consisting of two components — access to your data in both directions (reading and writing) and portability”
“argue that proprietary [formats] are like writing in sand”
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’subscribe to everything, read some of it, keep the rest as searchable data, use tags’.
Steve Rubel using the power of Google Reader: “I have found that if you tap into all of its features, it’s the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management.”
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“priority, subject, location”: A faceted approach to Google Reader tags
Read the right content at the right time
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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Torrent metasearch (via Lifehacker)
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Online version of the Twitter stats script by Damon Cortesi (result is less beautiful however). You need to give an email address to get url mailed to you - my result is here: http://bradkellett.com/output/graphs_pascalvanhecke.html
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“When I enter my personally identifiable information (PII) into Facebook, I am entering into a social contract with two entities. I am trusting Facebook to protect my data [...] In addition, I am implicitly trusting the people in my social network”
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Whereas we’re used to identity/claim assertions in 1-on-1 interaction, we’re still learning how to deal with public claims and identity.
(analoguous to the “2 faces of OpenID” I’ve been thinking about myself)
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more on the 2 aspects of OpenID: “anything that has a page which can be considered to represent a user account.This would make a lot of sense, because OpenID is good for more than just authentication. [OpenID] allows a user to assert ownership of a URL”
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Yet another profile aggregator/reputation management/monitoring service: “status monitoring is actually a new, free service designed to help promote its for-pay security software, called DataPatrol [that protects against] identity theft”
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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… and yes, this is one of them!
1. Resource lists
2. Lists of tips
3. Good advice
4. Arguing a popular point of view
5. Anything with a killer headline
6. Q&As with high profile people
7. Best-of lists
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a XML document that customizes the capabilities of WLW blog editor, correctly determines the weblog features supported by WordPress XML-RCP based weblog APIs, and and more specifically tagging support - without it WLW will hide the “Keywords” field
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Customizable open source FLV player with code generation wizard
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All of these are already covered by European privacy legislation…
Every customer
- has the right to know what information is being collected and for what purpose.
- owns his or her information
- can expect that his information is stored securely.
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Tips: remove version info, keep everything updated, backup, lockdown, WP scanner plugin (but the scanner service seems to be down at this moment), prevent directory listing, protect WP-admin folder.
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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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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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