Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Tiny reviews on Twitter. Follow @tweviews on twitter and format your review as follows: ‘@tweviews thing, artist … review’

(tags: review reviews twitter formatting microblogging aggregator aggregation)

follow @hreview and use the format:
@hreview Some Great Band; really exciting but too loud
Use 1–5 asterisks to rate the item (we’ll convert them into stars)

(tags: review reviews twitter formatting microblogging aggregator aggregation hreview)

Features:
* Activity feeds
* Profiles with photos and comment walls
* Connections/friending
* Discussion forums
* Blogs with comments
* Messaging,including read/replied/trashed
* Search for profiles, forums and messages
* Admin panel with site preferences

(tags: ror rails rubyonrails ruby opensource open_source socialnetwork framework application)

Fred Stutzman argues why Google can’t just move in the social space: it knows all about us, but in social networking, we want to create our own spaces…
“Google, for all its success, is constrained in the social space by a unique problem: its success.”

(tags: google socialnetworking socialnetworks fredstutzman socialsoftware social_software socialdesign)

Demo of signing in with openID using https://openid.trustbearer.com/ as identity provider and the Belgian EID card as authentication.

(tags: eid openid authentication token strongauthentication demonstration belgium)

Cross-platforum mobile Widget xml language + app hosting/social network. Create the xml file with their editor, host it at glowe.org, have the apps you created or subscribed to, rendered on windows mobile or (soon) with a J2ME client app.

(tags: mobile applicationhosting community widgets widgetbuilder j2me xml specification citylive)

“allows you to copy your data from one social network to another, keep track of your friends network and synchronise your data across services”
By the people behind Elgg, the php-based open source social network.

(tags: dataportability import export format standards xml portablesocialnetworks dataownerschip)

“Please stop the in your face registration form blockers. Instead, adopt the “gradual” introduction to the notion of registering for the service AFTER letting a user poke their head around the gist of your service.”

(tags: progressiveenhancement gradualengagement usability forms webdesign interface ui workflow interactiondesign)

General Glyphs

Quotes and Punctuation

Slashes and Brackets

Money and Math Symbols

Accents

Letter A Accents

Letter E Accents

Letter I Accents

Letter O Accents

Letter U Accents

Additional Accents

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

Numbers

(tags: html code list resource reference)

“Ray explores one piece of Microsoft’s emerging Internet operating system:the newly-announced Live Mesh: a data synchronizer born to the Web. The objects that it synchronizes are represented as RSS and Atom feeds, and are manipulated with a RESTful API”

(tags: mp3 interview microsoft webservices rest live.com livemesh judell jonudell rayozzie)

If you’re not satisfied with just one avatar, here’s a way to chronicle the faces you make all day long. Integrates with Facebook and Flickr

(tags: @twitter avatars microblogging twitter facebook flickr pictures phonecam webcam)

You can submit prior art at a the Patent Office’s wiki-like site.
“Peer-to-Patent is an initiative of New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). “

(tags: @twitter borismann socialnetworking recommendationsystems patents patenting wiki crowdsourcing)

“there’s no expectation that the frameworks, standards, etc. being evaluated will require “physical movement” of data between systems. We fully assume that the data need only be accessible across systems.. the term “Data Portability” simply caug

(tags: dataportability interoperability opendata distributeddata definition apis import export dataownerschip evangelism)

Reminds me of the excellent defunct “story of digital identity” Podcast by Aldo Castañeda – same people are showing up

(tags: inrss podcast dataportability digitalidentity dataownerschip @twitter)

“As of 1.2.2+ Rails has _almost_ transparent unicode support. It hides some of the complexity behind multi-byte operations we need to be aware of, and introduces some new security holes”
Understanding, validating, filtering and serving UTF-8 in Ruby.

(tags: encoding characterencoding utf8 rails ruby ror rubyonrails programming i18n igvita.com unicode)

“parser for both “upper case Semantic Web” (RDF, RDFa) and “lower case semantic web” (microformats) technologies. Includes modules for exporting parsed data in a variety of formats, including RDF, vCard, iCalendar, Atom and KML” Perl 5, GPL (v3).

(tags: parser perl library microsoformats rdfa semanticweb semweb kml markup rdf opensource open_source)

The best Twitter meme (url) tracker so far, design is similar to Techmeme. I guess we’ll see more of this, no barrier to entry…
(most of the top links are on twitter itself of course, “the medium is the message”…)

(tags: twitter memetracker buzz urltracking aggregator @twitter)

Tips (en links naar plugins) om je WordPress installatie up-to-date te houden en makkelijk en snel te upgraden, zodat je niet gehacked wordt.

(tags: nederlands dutch wordpress plugins list tips upgrade security mattmullenweg dreamhost)

Tools en tips gepresenteerd op Barcamp Gent (slideshare presentatie embedded)

(tags: barcamp barcampghent egoposting screencasting screencapture tools list screenshots blogging nederlands dutch)

Vergelijkend onderzoekje: .eu scoort het best in google.be en google.nl, beter dan resp. de .be en .nl extensies zelf… (bizar!)

(tags: seo tld domainnames domains dutch nederlands inventis netherlands belgium google)

8-second audio tweets: install extension/userscript to see the effect on your twitter page.
By “_Why”, the illustrious Ruby genius!
More at http://hackety.org/2008/04/23/yourEightSecondCallingCard.html
It’s pointless, but fun

(tags: twitter @twitter audio userscript flash greasemonkey microblogging voice whytheluckystiff)

Online Form Builder for e.g. surveys and polls.
Distinguishes itself by nice layout, and usage of web standards.
(I registered when it started over2 years ago, never actually used it though – good to see it’s still around)

(tags: forms service formbuilder generator html accessibility wufoo survey poll feedback datacollection)

Twitter currently offers a feed of all “public timeline” updates via an informal implementation of the Jabber PubSub specification. If you’re planning a Twitter API project that needs a constant stream of public updates to work, this is the way to do it.

(tags: twitter jabber xmpp pubsub api)

Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server, written in Erlang/OTP, licensed under GPLv2 (Free and Open Source). Among other features, ejabberd is cross-platform, fault-tolerant, clusterable and modular.

(tags: jabber server chat instantmessaging im communication open_source opensource erlang xmpp)

Java-based XMPP/Jabber server. Formerly known as Wildfire.
(GPL’ed, also available under a commercial license)

(tags: jabber server chat instantmessaging im communication open_source opensource java xmpp)

“Gadgets on iGoogle now support canvas view and OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, HTML, and JavaScript designed to let you easily build social applications. Build and test your gadget in the new sandbox for iGoogle.”

(tags: api googleapi opensocial appsyndication webdevelopment igoogle gadgets widgets documentation)

“Over a year after Google shot down their SOAP Search API they released a JSON based one supporting “Flash and other non JavaScript environments”. Strange requirement that an HTTP referer be sent with every request; API key is optional” Via Simon Will

(tags: googleapi json searchfeeds searchfeed rss feeds googlereader webdevelopment search syndication webservice webservices)

“Cloud Computing” from an IT security perspective.
CC: “nebulous term covering an array of technologies and services: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage in the Cloud and Virtualization”
(inrss tag = rss subscripti

(tags: inrss cloudcomputing security storage webservices computing networking blog analysis @twitter)

“[Marketeers will] be able to monitor what we think directly – at the cellular level. Not only will they be able to spend their marketing budgets more efficiently, but they’ll be able to wield more influence over the purchases we make.” (The Guardian)

(tags: nicholascarr theguardian neuromarketing marketing advertising neuroscience psychology brain)

“worth saving… is investigative journalism. We need someone.. to do long, deep, boring research, for stories that may not even pan out. Without that, government at all levels will simply slide back into the nepotism and corruption of the 19th century.”

(tags: clayshirky nicholascarr journalism newspapers internet publishing media advertising businessmodel)

word frequency comparison tool

(tags: twitter monitoring buzz tracking memetracker search twittersearch stats visualization trends)

Nice layout, but Tweetscan is faster and more complete…

(tags: twitter search twittersearch tweetscan @twitter searchengine)

Twitter-Upcoming-FireEagle mashup, offering functionality similar to Dodgeball.
“Instead of creating Yet Another Social Network, forcing you to re-add all your friends (AGAIN), we just tie together the best tools out there (that you probably already use)”

(tags: fireeagle locationbased location dodgeball fireball twitter upcoming mashup events)

Track time spent on projects with Tempo, Bookmarklet, Twitter, iPhone, SMS, Email, or a Mobile browser. Visualises your time consumption with nice graphs

(tags: timetracking timesheets productivity tracking time timemanagement time_management projectmanagement)

Javascript widget to add to your OpenID login box. It presents you with the most popular OpenID provider to select from, so you only have to add your username on that service.
“Making OpenID easier”

(tags: javascript widget openid authentication sso tool usability web2.0 idselector)

Shows number of comments as an inline image at the end of every feed item. The url remains stable so items are _not_ marked as new every time a comment count changes…

(tags: wordpress plugin comments commenting stats discussion blogging counter @twitter)

“the story about throwing a frog into hot vs cold water, that I love to use, is totally false. The blog he linked has an entire category chronicling the slow-boiled frog showing up in the news: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/boiledfrog/ “

(tags: urbanmyth metaphor language boiledfrog politics strategy change)

or: “how to avoid getting hacked on WordPress”, by Matt himself. (Am keeping a draft post on the same subject now for a while…)

(tags: wordpress security upgrade plugins tips blogging hosting mattmullenweg)

script for converting a PhpBB 2.0.X forum database to bbPress “Bix” 0.73 format. It’s based on the previous work of Bruno Torres and The phpBB Group

(tags: bbpress forum import conversion phpbb script forums php)

via @robinwauters: Ugly divorces, blogging and social media
(New York Times)

(tags: @twitter blogging privacy freedomofspeech onlineculture sociology divorce relationships)

“Romeo wants to find the current location of Juliette.. But Juliette wants to protect information about her current whereabouts and reveal it only to people she trusts, so [requires] the user agent to authenticate itself in order to get more information.”

(tags: openid authentication foaf digitalidentity oauth)

Feed/html aggregator and remixer. You can : aggregate several rss to one, make an rss out of emails, make pdfs out of rss, send rss to mail, turn your pop account into an rss feed, make a podcast of rss with voice reading and so on.

(tags: feeds aggregation aggregator rss email service mashups remixing opml conversion splogging)