Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

van ruw materiaal (.vob HD-TV bestanden of MPEG camrecorder files) naar video op het web: workflow (omzetten naar .avi, filters voor deinterlacing, cropping, logo… omzetting naar .flv) en tools (VirtualDubmod, videozilla, AutoGK)
(door Luc Van Braekel)

(tags: nederlands dutch video onlinevideo videoediting videoprocessing lvb googlevideo youtube)

Dries Buytaert’s version of Akismet, aimed at larger publishers with a moderation problem. Also offers hosted CAPTCHAs, profanity/quality filter and a reputation system for openid-claimed URLs. API client implementations available for Drupal and Java.

(tags: akismet captcha driesbuytaert antispam commentspam moderation moderating reputation reputationsystem openid)

WordPress plugin that fixes the embed code for Flemish broadcaster deredactie.be (by removing the quotes in the content descriptions)

(tags: wordpress plugin deredactie.be inferis tomadriaenssen embedding onlinevideo belgium flanders vrt)

“…showing how insecure biometrics are, especially one you leave all over the place…”
“It’s basically like leaving the password to your computer everywhere you go without you being able to control it anymore.”

(tags: security biometrics fingerprinting CCC passwords @twitter)

For the elderly amongst us: create your online embeddable Mixtapes, like in olden days…

(tags: audio music remixing service widgets widgetbuilder community gimmick)

tutorials and sample course content [for] CS students about current computing technologies and paradigms. Creative Commons licensed.
Current topics:
* AJAX Programming
* Distributed Systems
* Web Security
* Languages

(tags: academic googlecode tutorials resource elearning courses creativecommons learning education google)

“young people don’t understand or care about privacy [...] I couldn’t be further from the truth. Facebook in 2005 was the perfect community, a digital place they felt so comfortable with that [using privacy options would have been weird].”

(tags: facebook privacy community fredstutzman socialnetworking socialnetworks)

with the “feature:” operator:
feature:table – pages containing tables
feature:audio, video, acrobat – pages linking to audio, video, pdf
feature:activex, script, applets – pages with , javascript, applets
linkextension:ogg – linking .ogg files

(tags: yahoo searchsyntax search tips formats)

aha, that’s how they do it! Clear indication that Google toolbar’s surfing behaviour monitoring actually influences search results… (why else on earth would they have the toolbar for …)

(tags: googletoolbar googlesitelinks sitelinks tracking monitoring serps statistics spyware @twitter)

create client-side SSL certificates (openSSL certs), and configure Apache to use them.
“only users with a cert could communicate with your site AND the connection would be secured via the magic of SSL.”

(tags: apache apacheconfig certificate security authentication credentials ssl howto openssl tutorial)

Client Certificates to authenticate with your OpenID provider: “means “never logging on with username/password NOR OpenID ever again””
MyOpenID already supports them

(tags: openid authentication certificate browser security ssl singlesignon)

Facebooker is a Ruby wrapper over the Facebook REST API. It seems to be the better and more recent alternative to RFacebook

(tags: api facebook ruby rubyonrails rails ror tutorial install)

[Dutch] Frank Janssen was één van de eerste nieuwe media bloggers en hij heeft van zijn blog een succesvolle media outlet gemaakt. Echter, daarmee vervlakte de blog ook en verloor zijn originaliteit… (exrss tag duidt desabonnering aan)

(tags: exrss frankjanssen nederland nederlands dutch blog marketing trends web2.0)

Overview of available research on male/female differences and the implications for IA and interaction design.

(tags: usability search ia informationarchitecture interactiondesign webdesign gender)

shows a list of the five Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to your current location.
Mashup of Wikipedia, GeoNames, Google Maps and FireEagle, implemented via OAuth.
Built by Simon Willison with less than 200 lines of code and in two hours.

(tags: simonwillison mashup oauth privacy wikipedia geocoding geotargeting locationbased googlemaps geonames fireeagle @twitter)

Javascript code sample using JSON output of Yahoo Pipes

(tags: yahoopipes JSON javascript syndication feeds rss widgets widget callbackfunction howto)

Dion Almaer suggests having an openid login button in the browser and a for autodiscovery. I commented this maybe could be realised by using the openid_url input name convention and a bit of Greasemonkey.

(tags: greasemonkey openid singlesignon usability browser dionalmaer)

Toggling between multiple states of interaction by using html classes and javascript: prefix some classes with pp_xx, pp_yy etc… Polypage will collect the different states from the classnames automatically and present you with toggle buttons!

(tags: interactiondesign wireframes wireframing javascript html css webdesign presentation prototyping tool)

Javascript navigation overlaying framed social networking presences acting as corporate website… Brilliant!

(tags: javascript interface socialnetworking webdesign socialmedia modernista)

In order not to miss their new products, like the new Semantify service

(tags: inrss dapper blog screenscraping mashups syndication)

News about new modules, tutorials…

(tags: inrss yahoopipes screenscraping syndication blog mashups mashupcreator)

distinguishing between “friends” and “business” turned out to be a good move, according to Plaxo. Apparently people do take the effort of qualifying their relationships. Business = 75%.
from: Plaxo’s Personal Card: “Open” is Good for Business (Part

(tags: plaxo socialnetworking @twitter socialgraph socialnetworkanalysis statistics stats)

(Java)scriptlet using JSON output from Yahoo pipes to create a Widget for any RSS feed.
(by Kent Brewster)

(tags: widgets widgetbuilder generator javascript syndication yahoopipes rss feeds kentbrewster @twitter)

on the FAIL meme. Twitter clearly accelerated internet meme spread! “[nowadays] we’ve found a much more efficient way to express disdain, distilled into only four letters: FAIL… its recent explosion in popularity comes from 4chan and the Lolcats memes”

(tags: @twitter meme jargon FAIL EFAIL twitter andybaio onlineculture language lolcats etiquette)

Can an ISP sell your clickstream data to advertisers: debate in the UK. Interesting: “are ISPs the proper proxies for Phorm’s system. Why aren’t internet users Phorm’s primary customers?”

(tags: privacy jorisvanhoboken clickstream personaldata advertising vrm vendorrelationshipmanagement attention profiling @twitter isp)

Flash demo explaining the features (conceptually). Credentica, Stefan Brand’s company was recently acquired by Microsoft.

(tags: minimaldisclosure privacy nonrepudiation identity digitalidentity token claims usercentricidentity)

Enable the “Awareness API” in your FB account to visualize and publish your subscription stats. It seems to be about feed stats only, not about site traffic as measured by Feedburner Pro…
A previous version of this tool required you to upload csv data.

(tags: egodata feedstatistics feedstats feedburner api @twitter blogging rss subscriberstats subscriptions visualization visualisation graphs)

(so you don’t have to)
Features, Ease of use and Design/UX of
Profilactic
Socialthing
FriendFeed
iminta
Plaxo Pulse
Readr
Second Brain
Soup.io
Onaswarm
where is me?
liveZuu
Superglu
iStalkr
correlate.us
OneSwirl
Rather feature than service I guess…

(tags: @twitter comparison review list aggregation aggregators lifestreaming profileaggregator socialmedia)

How Google (employees) manually evaluate search results in order to help finetune their algorithms

(tags: google seo search serps @twitter ranking)

add any statistics tracking code to your WordPress blog without having to edit your WordPress Template’s code – just copy-past it in the admin panel.
Specify whether you’d like the code to before the tag or just before the closing tag.

(tags: wordpress plugin statistics @twitter blogstatistics javascript tracking webstats webstatistics analytics webanalytics)

The freakonomics of charity:
- seed money is a better investment for charities than generous matches
- the higher “model donations” the higher the actual “mimicking” donations,
- but the “model” shouldn’t be alienatingly high
( New York Times)

(tags: economics charity pooling pledging motivation nytimes psychology money)

Brilliant essay on standards and specs, engineering and backwards compatibility.
And on the bind IE8 is in between standards backwards compatible “pragmatists” and standards-compliant ‘idealists”.
Joel on software.

(tags: IE8 IE7 ie internetexplorer firefox browsers standards webstandards upgrade engineering backwardscompatibility compatibility joelspolsky)

(_themes_, not plugins!)
Checked for hidden links, errors, and modified to be more efficient with search engines.
Note: These themes will work best on sites that use the All-In-One Seo Pack plugin for WordPress.

(tags: wordpress seo themes templates collection resource blogging)

Theme without references to dates, so the posts are like any pages (and WordPress -> CMS). Optimized to target specific keywords. Widgetized.

(tags: theme seo wordpress keywords contentmanagement cms wordpresstheme)

Feature lists for:
NicEdit
Kupu
TinyMCE
Kevin Roth RTE
FCKEditor
Yahoo UI Editor
WebWiz RichTextEditor
CodePlex Rich Text Editor
XStandard

(tags: list wysiwyg comparison editor javascript webdevelopment)

“We are programmed for scarcity and can’t dial back when something is abundant…
as we become more familiar with the Web and its torrent of information, maybe we’ll do a better job learning what is useful and what isn’t”

(tags: @twitter reading informationoverload informationmanagement timemanagement procrastination brain biology gtd productivity)

(I did not know you could just see them all in plain text….)
“In Firefox, from the Tools menu, choose Options, and in the Passwords tab hit the “View Saved Passwords” button. Then hit “Show Passwords.”"
Solution: master password (to enter every session)

(tags: firefox security passwords password lifehacker @twitter)

based upon a technique purportedly used by Jerry Seinfeld:
1) Pick a goal.
2) Mark off the days on which you work toward that goal.
3) Use your chain of marked off days as a motivator.
Widget for your blog (social control) or Igoogle (daily monitoring)

(tags: gtd procrastination motivation coaching gadget widget @twitter calendar calendaring lifehack)

Some tips on styling html emails with css so they’re rendered well by clients like Gmail, Outlook…

(tags: emailmarketing mailinglist email html webdesign css)