Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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The openID equivalent of Bugmenot
no authentication is performed, just use http://www.jkg.in/openid/ as openid.
Do _not_ delegate to this openid server unless you want anyone to claim your url…
(via Simon Willison)
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portaalsite voor MythTV in België en Nederland
MythTV is opensource software om een Home Entertainment PC op te zetten en concentreert zich voornamelijk op TV en video.
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open source implementation of Google’s Appengine backend (demo runs on Amazon EC2). So you can use the same Appengine SDK and push your app to your own host.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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Enter Regex and text to match, results are shown in real-time
(built in Flash - Flex 3)
(tip from Pieter Ardinois, contentprint.com)
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via @quinze : preserve your tweets for eternity, export them as CSV - need to give your credentials though…
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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create a separate account on Twitter for your group, and have everyone in your group follow that account. Then whenever that account gets a direct message, sends that direct message on to everyone in the group
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funny and awkward: in a world where work and private spheres blur, and where businesses depend more and more on the individual reputations of coworkers (with the Scobles of this world acting as primadonnas), I guess you’ll see more and more of this…
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to find and fix DNS and mail server problems at Pingability.com.
(I used to use domeindokter.be but that redirects to the paying dnsstuff.com.
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
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Google is now crawling forms, by submitting and entering data into the fields, seems like it is a beta thing since they are only doing this for a select few sites. I noticed this on some SERPS already,here’s why…
(Official Google Webmaster Central Blog)
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creates huge, rasterized images from any picture into a poster. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
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“Related video” is probably the biggest source of referrals for Youtube Videos. Just wondering if that will lead to a new kind of optimisation/spam: make your video resemble (via title, keywords) already popular other videos…
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
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Directory of products and services building on the Google’s enterprise products (a.o. Google apps for your domain). ” links customers to vendors whose solutions integrate and extend Google’s communication, collaboration, and enterprise search products.”
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Patent meta-search engine: covers over 60 different national offices and patent search sites
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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Boris Mann proposes autodiscovery for a standardized, Oauth-enabled social graph api (and basic messaging capabilities?) for SNS clients (type 8hands, Flock, Twhirl).
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Libraries implementing Oauth… by Chris Messina, Eran Hammer-Lahav, people from Magnolia, Getsatisfaction a.o.
for Coldfusion, C#, java, Ruby, Php…
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Mediamatic (Marc Worell)’s php implementation of OAuth - also a sandbox to test your consuming applications.
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from the Webstock conference
from http://yes2privacy.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/interviewing-simon-willison-about-openid/
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Use your Google account to sign in with OpenID via this proxy (buggy at this moment!). OpenID provider analogous to what idproxy.net does for Yahoo Accounts. By Google’s Ryan Barret
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“het plaatsen van een cookie op een Europese PC is genoeg om je aan de Europese wetgeving te binden”. Daardoor kan Europese privacywetgeving nu van toepassing zijn op een Amerikaans bedrijf.
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and “dismisses the claim that the Data Retention Directive could be an excuse for retaining search logs” Also: “search engines aimed at building profiles of natural persons” are held as primarily responsible and must comply with Data Protection Directive
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yes, data is the new lock-in… and several open data initiatives à la OpenStreetMap will probably pop up the coming years… (more open source datasources in the comments)
(from Bret Taylor’s blog, hosted on the brand new Google Appengine!)
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