Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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“Tell a friend systemen overtreden privacywetgeving in Spanje”
“E-mailmarketing moet met opt-in… De Spaanse en Nederlandse privacywetgeving zijn op dit punt identiek. Het lijkt me dus logisch dat een Nederlandse rechter precies hetzelfde zal oordelen”
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Wordpress plugin to create custom sidebars for individual pages via the admin interface.
Places a Sidebars tab in the top menu with Write, Manage, etc…
Apply the sidebars to certain pages / posts depending on predefined options.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Service that maps email to openid accounts. So people can use their email address as OpenID identifier. And relying parties accept can email addresses and have the mapping to openid handled by EmailToId, by creating an openid on the fly or redirecting.
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Explains EmailToId as being a backup service for email providers who aren’t yet openid provider (or at least don’t indicate any openid service via XRDS). I guess existing OpenID providers will scramble to become the preferred fallback service for RP’s…
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Step-by-step how to publish a calendar on the web.
(check out the other postings on Apple Ical and Outlook as well)
Teaching people how to use consumer services like this could be the basis of interesting aggregating services…
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does the location of the data center really matter?
does encrypted information resides legally where the data is stored or where the encryption key is held?
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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How to create HTML POST forms that allow web site visitors to upload files into one’s S3 account using a standard web browser.
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“Microsoft’s decision (to limit Healthvault OpenID login to Trustbearer - who offer two-factor authentication using a hardware token - and Verisign) is a beautiful example of the Open in action, and I fully support it”
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“utilitarian software companies have built brands based on what their customers want to do
social software is part of people’s identities and lifestyle”
“The brand baggage [of Google video, Yahoo Photos] and the accompanying culture made them road kill”
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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sends you to the Google trends graph for that domain (where you get a normalised visitor stats graph, drillable down per country).
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the MarsPhoenix (team) announcing the Discovery of Ice on Mars
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create and edit a timeline, or visualise the chronology of existing data (RSS/ICAL/geodata/Flickr feeds…). Timeline, list, flipbook and map display modes. Really nice visualisations/browsing interface for Flickr photos, calendars, etc…
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“There is no requirement that you distribute a theme you develop; however, if you do so,.. then PHP and Javascript portions of it must be distributed under the GPL. Images and CSS files are data, not code, .. GPL [does] not apply to them”
WP & Joomla!
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simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in post content, makes it easy to create shortcodes that support attributes like this: Handles parsing, you just need to return the resulting html in your function.
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intro to WP2.5 shortcodes.
Howto extend “Write Page/Post” form so that users can inject shortcodes into the editor by filling out some fields and clicking a button.
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STEPS TO MICROFAME
1. Self-publish
2. Stylize
3. Overshare
4. Respond
5. Ally
6. Diversify
7. Create Controversy
8. Persist
“renown is no longer the exclusive province of a select few. Nano-celebrity is there for the taking, if you really want it. “
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“online graphical dictionary and thesaurus” Related words self-organized in network diagram fashion, indicates relationships (kind of, instance of, member of, part of, opposes, etc…)
Based on WordNet, an opensource database built by language researchers
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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FF extension that create application profiles for the Site-specific Browser Prism (aka Xulrunner). No separate installation of Prism needed.
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“For developers and users alike, our world is changing. Hardware, connectivity and increasingly software is becoming cheap or free. …
What really matters is our data, our creations, and their communication.”
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
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Howto:
- include 3 javascript files to your page
- Add the rel=”vidbox” to your video page’s link to show video links in Videobox
- add title=”my caption” to add caption to a box
(works with Youtube, Metacafe, Google Video, iFilm)
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“De eigenaar van een server mag zelf bepalen wie en wat hij toestaat op zijn server…
Je kunt dan ook voorwaarden stellen aan het gebruik van een website.”
(Arnoud Engelfriet op Netters.nl)
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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CC-licensed 2-hour movie on Mathematics - 9 chapters of 13 minutes. Download in zipped.mov format (a bit unhandy though…). Dimension 2, 3, 4, complex numbers, Fibration. Available in French, English, Spanish and Arabic, subtitles in many more languages
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Great concept: select clips from movies, annotate (e.g. with funny comment) and share (also via mobile!). Movie quotes = social currency. Film studios partner eagerly! “BlinkBox turns us all into clip artists… currently 10,000 scenes from 1,600 movies.”
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by Reuters. Service creates metadata for content submitted by users (extracts data about entities and events from natural language). Yahoo and Hakia have similar APIs.
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based on the OpenCalais automatic tagging webservice: ” As you’re writing, Tagaroo analyzes the text in your post and suggests intelligent tags for the things and events you’re writing about.”
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“MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.”
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Open source collaborative video editing platform
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