Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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“explores exactly how Google’s new Friend Connect works, with screenshots, data flow, and examples. Friend Connect is a strategic move to use the 3rd party social networks to drive value for Google and businesses both.” (Banned by Facebook meanwhile)
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“neo-newspaper that grabs the freshest links posted to Twitter. Get the most out of citizen journalism with Twitter and TweetWire”
Lays out Tweets like a newspaper — Election, technology, Sports, Celebrity
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partner sites may not include “advocacy against any individual, group, or organization.”
Enturbulation, a fledgling site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology, ran Adsense _paid by_ the Church of Scientology.
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memetracker that tracks most shared stories on FriendFeed
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“Opmerkelijk is nu dat een Belgische rechter vorige maand in een vonnis letterlijk stelde dat de grondwettelijk gewaarborgde vrijheid van drukpers enkel geldt voor geschriften, en dus niet voor tekeningen, cartoons of illustraties.”
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It is not too late yet to take both political and technical action in the “Western world”.
Privacy is eroding thanks to date-retention laws, routine government processing of personal data and large scale collection of personal data by commercial entities.
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“Its goal is to provide a complete framework to develop Jabber-related applications or scripts in Ruby.”
“provides all the necessary backend to write scripts or applications acting as Jabber clients or components.”
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“add-on for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows you to securely save and access your usernames and passwords for sites that are not OpenID-compatible”
Passwords are stored either on hard disk or online at myvidoop.com.
(Sxipper has similar service?)
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“Scott and Luke talk about why SourceForge went OpenID, their support of the Open Source community, identity (why IDP vs. RP) and what issues they ran up against while implementing OpenID.”
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“The Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Dana Gardner, and Robert W. Anderson - ask former Twitter architect Blaine Cook about Twitter internals including the valuable Track feature. Google engineer Bob Lee joins again.”
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the PPSD combines the USB smart card form factor and USB flash memory on a single platform:
- Smart cards on their own can store a maximum of 256kb
- USB flash drives can hold up to 8 GB
- flash memory’s security is lacking relative to the smart card
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Web 1.0: advertise in traditional media at high rates to get people to our site, in order to sell ads at low rates
Duh!
Web 2.0: get users to create content (ucg) and then promote the service to other people (viral marketing)
How will this be “Duh!”?
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