Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 14th, 2008
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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OpenID provider,offers:
- one-button-login widget for your site
- library to automatically associate existing username+password to openID account
- “openid portal” for users with “their site-1-click-logons”
Business model: selling space on sign-on-portal?
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HTTP Header and request disposition diagram “An activity diagram to decribe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers.”
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Yet another screencast hosting service + record & upload client (windows only, fairly basic).
You can save your .flv file locally.
Seems comparable to UtipU.com
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PHP5-only RSS generator library:
# Supports all possible feed elements
# Subtags and attributes. (example: image and encloser tags)
# Completely Object oriented in PHP5 class structure.
# Handles CDATA encoding for required tags
(via pforret)
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Excellent writeup touching the most important point from a blogger’s perspective:
“OpenID allows you to tell another blogger “it’s really me, the author of (insert your blog), commenting here” because you prove to them that you are the owner of your
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Follow, archive and republish (under your own domain) a twitter user’s “with_friends” view (so you “peek” into their Twitter dashboard - limited to public info of course). Business model of these “apps”: harvest free content and plaster it with adsense..
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Too much overlap with other subscriptions… too generic to my taste. (Exrss tag indicates RSS unsubscription)
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Bottom up social software systemen versus gestuurde old-school kennismanagement systemen in functie van maturiteit van de kennis:
- wiki’s, forums, blogs: brainstorming, ontdekking, ontwikkeling
- handleiding: vastleggen van de “platgetreden paden”
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Quoting from Youtube videos: Christian Heilmann implemented video captioning in a few lines of code using the video API that YouTube just released.
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Allow users to edit their comments 10 minutes after they’ve posted. Ajax-powered.
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Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.
» Example: Pages (17): [1] 2 3 4 » … Last »
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static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing.
Relies on mod-rewrite and .htaccess.
Only for non-logged in users (=without cookies)
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Adss a custom html snippet to every entry in your RSS feed: custom tagline, signature or © copyright message, or a link to your blog to take advantage of splogs.
(Has a simple administration interface for it)
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downloads latest WP version, unzips and overwrites your current files.
Also has FTP mode for hosts where the webserver doesn’t have sufficient rights. Looks simpler and is more recent than the “Wordpress Automatic upgrade” plugin I used before.
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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{keyword “key phrase” keyword} as an abbreviation of keyword or “key phrase” or keyword…
Also works with other operators: from:{person1 person2}
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(another) site thumbnailing service aimed at web developers who can invoice it further to their customers. It’s worth signing up just to test the experience (OpenID, progressive disclosure…). Oauth-enabled libraries to hand out tokens to customers’ apps
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“True productivity is messy & imperfect… requires mistakes and small sacrifices, elimination & survival of only the most useful actions. Sometimes the quickest, roughest solution is more effective than the right one, & some rules are meant to be broken”
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Ditching 16 other rel values for lack of adoption (tactically simplifying XFN to further the case). The behindlying “contextless” “real social graph” concept was ill-conceived anyway: rel values have only meaning (and purpose) _within_ a specific context!
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Presentation by Joseph Smarr at the Internet Identity Workshop (january 2008?)
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Amy Jo Kim’s blog - I subscribed after an excellent Etech presentation (podcast I listened to) on game strategies that was widely quoted.
However, her blog is a bit abondoned nowadays and only brings sparse industry commentary.
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Stigmergy is a concept from entomology now applied in social software systems: “a method of indirect communication in a self-organizing emergent system where its individual parts communicate with one another by modifying their local environment.”
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
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AOL: users can opt out of some ad targeting
Google: edit the search histories linked to their user names
Yahoo: a policy to obscure people’s ip addresses connected to search results
Microsoft does not link any of its visitors’ behavior to their user n
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customizable and dynamic chart software libraries (no services):
Open Flash Chart
amCharts
Php / Swf Charts
Fusion Charts Free
Yahoo! UI Library: Charts
Flot
SAC
Similie
Plotkit
LibChart
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Social network analysis of all MSN messenger chats in June 2006!
“this study is noteworthy for another reason: it gives a curious insight into the limitations of this kind of analysis: too much data! 30 billion IM conversations between 180 million people”
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Hair-raising: a freeware GMail archive utility turns out to harvest Google usernames/passwords.
A clear-cut case for Oauth, also for “private” usage by desktop applications….
(on Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror)
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you _need_ one since the last terms & conditions update!
(by JenSense)
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Physical proximity (in the office) determines most what people get to know: “Location far outpaces other factors such as what projects people have worked on.., job title, internal email lists,colleges they attended or who has worked on code in the past.”
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
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Kathy Sierra 1 year after.
1. Author starts blog
2. Blog becomes wildly popular
3. Popularity causes problem for author
4. Author stops writing
5. Everyone loses
(also on Dare Obasanjo)
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Stefan Brands has been working on “Minimal disclosure” technology since the early 1990’s - Kim Cameron explains why Microsoft has aquired the technology and the patents.
Seeing recognition for privacy is good, seeing it as propietary MS tech feels less
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“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.”
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on stupid social media marketing for simple consumer goods…
“before brands waste their money implementing marketing campaigns, they should consider their position in the world and in an average consumer’s life”
(from The Drama 2.0 Show)
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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“Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Watch Jane Kim explain how these features bring the power of mashups to the browser, and how you can tie your web site or service into IE8’s chrome using only web standards”
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Quick intro with screenshots to:
Activities: next-generation bookmarklets
WebSlices:syntax is based on the hAtom microformat
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Never give username and password: “this allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds.The client application can request a list of a user’s contacts, query, edit, delete content in an existing contact”
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Dare Obasanjo quits blogging: such a loss, such a damn, damn loss…
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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tips for an effective talk: how to start, cycling in on the material, using verbal punctuation to indicate transitions, describing “near misses” that strengthen the intended concept, and asking questions. By MIT Professor Patrick Winston.
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Adobe Air based FLV (Flash video file) editor, by Berlin-based Benjamin Dobler at richapps.de. Can a.o.:
* Read flv Metadata
* read/edit/modify/delete cuepoints
* cut and stitch flvs
* convert the sound of the flv to mp3
* convert flv to swf
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“FLV Extract” Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved to AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F are supported) and the audio is saved to MP3 (requires the .NET Framework 2.0 )
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Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer: tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file.
GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.
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IP- and browser header checker, but this one gives also whois (RIPE) info for the IP address you’re at.
(from: MetroPipe: Privacy Tools)
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“you can’t ask users what they think, you have to watch what they do”
“Normal users of social networks use Facebook apps in the same way that middle America forwards emails to one another.”
(another insightful post by lsvp)
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Stages for Performance: with both the recipient and their profile['s visitor]
Lighter Weight Communications: maintain some “heartbeat” with an occasional ping
Context for communications: helping prompt more by helping to surface topics for communicati
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Another brilliant piece by Clay Shirky on how the internet changed PR: “Winfrey had embraced the internet as a way to talk to her fans, and to let them talk back to her (or at least her staff). [On the internet,] her fans were also talking to one another”
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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avatar system completely analogous to gravatar, but with OpenID urls instead of email addresses - so still centralised.
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“One of the most important architectural decisions that must be done early on in a scalable web site project is splitting the data flow into two streams: one that is user specific and one that is generic.”
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Close All Unecessary Ports
restrict the access to port 22, in particular, to a set of hosts or networks that you trust
Ditch Those Passwords: Use ssh Keys
Keeping Current: Regular Updates
(and the usual Unix security stuff)
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“I could take my Facebook “data” with me to another Web 2.0 service, but if the friends “contained” within that data aren’t using that service, what’s the point?” … unless you take pointers with you to their identities they keep using cross-
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anti-hype Bubble 2.0 blog: “Drama 2.0 spikes the Web 2.0 kool aid by providing a critical analysis of Web 2.0 startups and the impact of Web 2.0 on the media industry. Other topics are explored when Drama 2.0 has a slight buzz.”
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Another Identity blogger: “Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to blog about each of these trends: Identity, Data Portability, Recommendation Engines, and the Attention Economy”
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SEO Consultant in Seattle, Washington.
Cited by Aaron Wall a few times,that convinced my to add him to my subscriptions.
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provides static DNS services as well as many advanced services such as Dynamic DNS resolution, Secondary service, AXFR service, and domain2web redirection.
From David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS.com
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“”The 20th century was about sorting out supply,” Potter says. “The 21st is going to be about sorting out demand.” The Internet makes everything available, but mere availability is meaningless if the products remain unknown to potential buyers.”
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In-depth article on personalized news by Greg Linden (Findory, now Microsoft Labs). Discusses recommender systems in general, the techniques used by Findory and Google News, and the long-term goal of personalizing information
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zelf Wordpress installeren en tweaken: excellente tutorial site met screencasts door Dave Lorrez
“Maak Zelf Je Eigen Website En Scoor Hoog In Google !”
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all-in-one plugin for SEO: tagging, analytics, custom titles and descriptions, section targeting, changing theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages…
Preferred SEO plugin for Joost De Valk and Dave Lorrez, seems to encompass “All in One SEO Pack”
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Marc Andreessen’s personal impressions and analysis of Obama as a person and a politician - and Obama’s interest for social software as a way to organize people and political campaigns
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Description of what later would be released as Buddypress, an open source WPmu plugin, and now (March 4 2008) is taken on/over by Automattic.
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