Friday, March 28th, 2008
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For the elderly amongst us: create your online embeddable Mixtapes, like in olden days…
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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
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“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].”
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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
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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 …)
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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.”
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Client Certificates to authenticate with your OpenID provider: “means “never logging on with username/password NOR OpenID ever again””
MyOpenID already supports them
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Facebooker is a Ruby wrapper over the Facebook REST API. It seems to be the better and more recent alternative to RFacebook
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