Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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Answer to amazon Web services: fully integrated hosted Python development stack:
“build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications”
“500MB of persistent storage, enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views”
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uses Twitter JSON api to find friends of friends and suggests following those:
GET /statuses/user_timeline.json?callback=tellTwubble HTTP/1.1
“Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and finds people to follow. ”
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“provide enough information so the other party reaches a certain level of confidence, but stop once you reach that level” Study on situations in which power comes from controlling the flow of public info as opposed to the possession of private information
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“Within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence,” Vinge wrote at the beginning of his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. “Shortly after, the human era will be end
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“OpenID by itself can’t prevent spam. All it does is provide a globally unique identifier for any given user on the planet. This is where a [reputation] tool like Mollom comes in … maintaining an internal reputation for each OpenID account we encounter”
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“about the UI and how it affects the security and privacy… Usability is one of those very important things that the security world tends to forget. So let’s learn from FireEagle’s example.”
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Software libraries for XRDS implementations.
(by Chris Messina and Eran Hammer-Lahav)
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4 steps:
Getting your site off-line and return a 503 status code
Damage Assessment
Recovery: reinstall, patch, change pswd’s
Restoring your online presence
(from the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog)
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
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“pro blogging” is the digital era sweat shop.
(Since there’s no major upfront investment, no starting threshold, competition is fierce and staying on top leads to physical exhaustion…)
New York Times
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“Getting Creativity Done” - why GTD might not be the all-encompassing method for knowledge workers, who have to crank ideas, not widgets…
“Work has been redefined as knowledge work — the production of ideas, not goods. We’re paid to think, not make
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“every program that thinks of itself today as a “blogging client” [should] reimagine their market as being a front-end to a database in the cloud.
Apps built on smart database abstractions [should] think about this new unified cloud API.”
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fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment on EC2. Allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI’s: - load balancers (pound or nginx) - app servers (apache…) - databases (mysql master-slave…)
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Search source code from thousands of Drupal modules and themes, using regular expressions, drupal version.
Built on top of Google Code search api.
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at-a-glance look at CSS compliance across recent versions of Internet Explorer (including version 8).
Each table lists support status information for grouped CSS features across recent versions of IE.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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Fascinating: a telex communications system gathered data from factories on variables like daily output, energy use and labor “in real time,” and used a computer to filter out the important pieces of economic information to make decisions.
(New York Ti
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Robert Scoble finally getting back his senses on data portability and listing some usecases that are problematic in terms of ownership, context and privacy.
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“blog about owning your online identity in a world with an increasing amount of software that wants to own it for you.”
(inrss tag indicates RSS subscription)
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are based on the hAtom microformat, but they add their own top level concept, the “hslice”.
Solution: change “hslice” to “hfeed hentry”.
“a webslice is the concept of a feed with a single item that’s continually being updated”
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to get the entire conversation in a glance
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- filter out known SpyService IP addresses
- use proxies (paying services, Tor being too slow)
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template userscript snippet to load jQuery lib into the userscript (it checks whether Jquery is loaded already)
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data format that allows web authors to link to the various services that they use across the web. Important:
1) we’re not inventing anything new
2) it’s already widely implemented, thanks in large part to OpenID 2.0’s discovery mechanism
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provides a format and workflow for the discovery of resources metadata, and other linked resources.
XRDS-Simple allows providers to document their resources in a machine-readable way, which can be automatically discovered by consumer applications.
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interesting discussion at Ma.tt’s: in itself OpenID is no cure against spam (using it as spam deterrent might be harmful for OpenID), but because of the identity claims, a reputation system could be built, or whitelisting based on degrees of separation…
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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The latter, definitely. An email address is a means to communicate, not a public identifier. People signing up on Flickr have never chosen to become findable via their email address. They might have used it to post pictures under a pseudo..
(ReadWriteWeb)
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Firefox extension that creates and edits screenshots of web pages (Windows only).
Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations
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