Archive for July, 2008
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
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“all of the keyboard shortcuts in Office 2007 continue to work exactly as they did before.
These are a few of [Kris Gielen's] favorites”
(Using Office a lot more these days on the new job, so this list comes in handy)
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“We’ve pushed charitable giving into the social network space, making it easier to:
* find out where your social network is contributing to social causes
* rally your social network to support whatever cause you are passionate about”
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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“User generated material accounts for over 40% of all online video streams but produces no more than 4% of the advertising revenue, long-form material only 2% of the total number of streams, 40% of the ad revenue” (wondering how it translates to views)
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Original wireframe by Jack Dorsey
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The idea of using XMPP/Jabber for syndication is getting traction. Report of a presentation by 2 Yahoo (Flickr, FireEagle) guys with telling numbers on the economics of pubsub versus continuous polling.
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Like the Apache Software Foundation, but for (web interoperability) specs: “aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification”
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
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out-of-the-box “Drupal Distro” organizers can use to facilitate participatory conferences (ala Drupalcon, BarCamp etc) Will support conference invitation, registration, session proposals + voting, note-taking, and forming post-conference working groups.
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public information about early stage development work that Google is doing with OAuth
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Dealing with information overload: this study examined the usage patterns early adopters developed (video lecture + presentation). Bit weird to see your own behaviour being studied and described in an academic language… Not sure what the takeaways are
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derivative of each commenter’s IP address to build a 9-block image and displaying it next the commenter’s name: interesting and pretty way to preserve privacy while indicating where people are posting comments from
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Wikipedia mirror featuring a history dashboard on every page, helping users to assess article quality through visualizations of editors’ contributions.
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Another Adobe Air Twitter client - provides a dashboard with full stream, replies, and configurable groups. For Power tweeters….
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Social Calendar app - like Doppler, but for day-to-day activities. Plugs into Twitter and Flickr.
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Group of “traditional” open source activists rallying to tackle the Web2.0 data lockin problem: “independent group of hackers, activists, and scholars exploring the ideas of user freedom and autonomy as they relate to network communication technologies”
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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“4chan has no rival as a hothouse for memes; they’re bred and refined, and then they can escape and run amuck through the culture at large” Background article in the Guardian about this internet counterculture phenomenon.
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“more journals become available online, fewer articles are being cited in the reference lists of the research papers published”
Reason: people search online for matches and look no further. Before, they browsed manually, that broadened their view.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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“It’s possible to know too much. A lot of surveillance is just collecting haystacks and looking for the needles in them . . . but too many haystacks is not a good thing.”
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“when you click on an email address that uses the standard mailto: email protocol, Firefox 3 itself can launch Gmail instead of a desktop app”
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
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23andme customers share experiences: “We’ve been conditioned by anxious media reports to believe that people want to hoard their very personal genetic profile, in fear of [..] governments, corporations, insurance companies and the neighbors…”
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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Plugin for screenreaders - if a user encounters a non-annotated html element (image, button, hyperlink…), she notifies the project’s server. Volunteers then fix the problem by suggesting alt texts, labels or titles, stored server-side (via @roelvangils)
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Like IBM’s social accessibility project, this Firefox plugin improves accessibility by crowdsourcing html annotation. It adds
1 insertion of in-page navigation
2 Server-side OCR for images (pretends to overcome CAPTCHAs as well)
(via @roelvangils)
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“If you regularly convert files to a specific file format—say, for your iPod—you can set up a batch file with VLC that will make video conversions as easy as dragging and dropping the to-be-converted file onto the script.”
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
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Service/syndication hub for social media. RSS, REST, Comet, XMPP and Atom as input and output formats.
By Mybloglog founder + a mix of people from other Yahoo properties, Plaxo, Magnolia, Six Apart, Spokeo…
Data Polling -> xmpp subscription.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery)
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