Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
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Even when you don’t stare at Twitter all the time, there are several ways to make sure you notice people talk to (or even about) you on Twitter…
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Another mad idea executed by Denis Balencourt
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this package will incorporate a social profile, user board, and basic profile information into MediaWiki, specifically Avatars, Friending, Foeing, User Board, Board Blast, and basic Profile Information. Email notifications on friend request.
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visualisations of the Blogosphere (2 clusters: politics and technology), myspace comments, twitter, email and IM communication (by IBM), viral marketing (”most effective for expensive products recommended within a small, tightly connected group”)
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HTTP-based service to programmatically submit queries to, and retrieve results from, the Address Book database.
In addition to a full CRUD interface, it provides a view to a subset of the Contact data for the purposes of sending Invitations.
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Microsoft’s identity and authentication system (formerly known as the Passport Network) that you can use with your own Web site or client application. Also got a PHP SDK. No compatibility with OpenID
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open source (GPL license) web analytics software. reports on website visitors, popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak…
Features are built inside plugins, you can build your own plugins
You own your data!
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Een afgeleid werk, dat wil zeggen een aanpassing of uitbreiding, mag je dus alleen ook weer onder de GPL verspreiden. Maar hoe zit dat met een plugin?
“Een plugin die uitsluitend gebruik maakt van de gewone plugin API zou ik beschouwen als een apart werk”
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- Andermans merknaam verwerken in je eigen domeinnaam is vrijwel altijd inbreuk op het merkrecht
- bescherming is beperkt tot die producten waar je naam onderscheidend voor is (dus slim om als merknaam een niet-bestaand woord te gebruiken)
- in Adwords..
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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Hashtag Backlash!
“Imagine what Flickr would look like if all of the metadata was visually stuck to your photograph. Or what your blog would look like if you had to have a character before every word in your text that was also a keyword. Ick.”
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Superb backlink analysis tool - Firefox extension needed. Uses (a.o.) Yahoo Ajax API, ranks backlinks by PR, your pages by # incoming links, categorizes on linktype and anchortext. _really_ slow but data presentation with drill-down functionality rocks.
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The podcast has really interesting material and interviews, but the closed software development platform/service (with their own proprietary language) they try to promote is not my cup of tea… (exrss tag indicates RSS unsubscription)
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speech-to-text recognition to spawn pages of searchengine-optimised transcripts of video and audio… interesting development!
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pros and cons of Technorati, del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Google Reader Recommendations, AideRSS and Ask.com
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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“Web developers have created a lot of value by opening things up [..] But value can also be created by closing things down, by serving narrower and more specific communities: the family and friends of a specific hospital patient, attendees of an event…
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all you need to know-write-up.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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Tentative guide by Joost De Valk:
1) Template - URL optimization
2) Content optimization
3) Improving internal link structure
4) Google News optimization
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“simply search and replace strings in your database. Searches in posts, titel, excerpt, comments, comment-author, comment-e-mail, comment-url, tags/categories and categories-description” (useful when migrating: permalinks update!)
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This HTTP header allows you to do what you’d normally do in a robots meta tag - you can have it produce by php or, by adding configuration directives to the htaccess file!
(please note: meta and x-robots tag = indexing-, robots.txt = crawling directives!)
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
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security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey
Sending and receiving encrypted and digitally signed email gets just simple.
When starting it for the first time, you are guided through the basic setup.
(via Elise Huard)
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… by Geocoding the Calendar Feed with Yahoo Pipes and adding the resulting KML feed to Google Maps
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checks if the html contains alternate links to a feed, sends a request to google reader using your account for the number of subscribers. Caches the number for subsequent visits. The cache is cleared every 24 hours.
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collection of 659 online quality documentaries
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- find out the public IP address of your EC2 instance
- Update your DNS with your dynamic DNS provider
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Register your Credentials with the plugin, View the list of Available AMIs, Configure the firewall settings for your default security group, Generate a key pair for identifying yourself to your instances, Manage your AMI instances, Login via SSH
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server image for Amazon’s EC2 hosting service for a standard Ruby on Rails application:
- Automatic backup of MySQL database to S3.
- Capistrano tasks to customize the server image, archive and restore the database to/from S3, and more…
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Search for Flickr creative-commons-licensed pictures from within WP and drop them in your post, right from your dashboard with just 1 click
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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Google’s stance: “IP addresses recorded by every website on the planet without additional information should not be considered personal data, because these websites usually cannot identify the human beings behind these number strings”
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“In this article I will take a good look at XFN - the microformat for describing relationships between people. I will look at the basic markup before then looking at the benefits you can get from that data by extracting it and using it in different ways.”
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
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just images, no javascript! Parameters: center, zoom level, size, maptype, and even markers
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select some text from a web page and translate in another language. Uses Google Translate, so it supports the same language pairs. Read the translation in Firefox’s contextual menu for short texts or click on the short preview to read the full translation
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Amsterdam-based Dominiek Ter Heide on web, technology, design and international life
(inrss tag indicates RSS subscription)
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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Another Hashtag aggregator (like hashtags.org, but you don’t have to follow an account): monitors public Twitter.com tweets that have embedded tags that start with a # character. “These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term twemes.”
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World map of social network popularity!
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Web privacy expert Daniel J. Solove has put his new book online for free -downloadable as pdf.
In full: “THE FUTURE OF REPUTATION: GOSSIP, RUMOR, AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET by Daniel J. Solove Yale University Press (2007)”
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“Using Semantic Web Pipes you can fetch, mix and process RDF files published on the Web. As the output of a Pipe is an HTTP retrievable RDF model, simple pipes can also work as inputs to more complex Pipes.”
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allows you to build your own process capturing data from the Internet in a visual way, using block diagrams. The idea is that you get the data, transform it and finally you visualize it in many different ways.
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Visual “mashup editor”. Java based, proprietary add-ons in commercial version (Starting at $9,995!).
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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# One point access to MySpace, Facebook, Blogs, Flickr, YouTube and more.
# Notifications of new comments, messages, friend requests, videos, feeds
# IM/upload client for your social network friends.
# A way to organize pics, videos, posts in one place.
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“Why can’t we just maintain the silos un-linked? Part of the problem is not the front-end …but the fact that all the different personae are linked by a single sign-on ID. Nobody keeps me from setting up different personae at MySpace or Facebook anyway.”
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