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companion wiki to the "Designing social interfaces" book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media: "We decided to share the patterns as we write the patterns and the book to get community feedback. We think that hearing a variety of opinions about these topics will make the material stronger and more representative of what's happening in social interfaces. As we complete sections of the book, we will be adding the patterns. "
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French privacy and digital rights group
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"Het reactieformulier zoals dit op duizenden sites te vinden is, lijkt de grootste dooddoener voor de wet. Zo'n formulier valt onder het elektronisch verzamelen en verwerken van gegevens; zelfs wanneer iemand dit vrijwillig invult. Ook een script waarmee het aantal bezoekers wordt geteld valt hieronder, zodra de IP-adressen zichtbaar zijn voor de beheerder."
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As usual from Dare Obasanjo: a clearly written analysis.
"Windows Azure is currently a Platform as a Service offering, not a utility computing offering"
To me, it seems like the "Azure" moniker is as all-encompassing as the .Net moniker almost 10 years ago… It does look impressive though. -
Janrain's hosted (OpenID) authentication service, "handles the UI, authentication, and import of user profile and registration data".
Should take the headache out of delegated authentication – just wondering about possible lock-in.Technical summary:
- Adding RPX to your website doesn't require any changes to your database, and its only requirements are the ability for your servers to make outbound HTTPS calls and to parse JSON or XML.
- When configuring the sign-in interface, you supply a token_url parameter to where the user will be redirected once they have finished the OpenID authentication process. A token parameter is passed to the token_url, which you must extract and pass into the auth_info API call.
- RPX normalizes profile data from our sources into a standardized format (Facebook, Hcard, Sreg…)
- you get the userdata using the token and the back-channel API calls you will make to the RPX servers -
Google has (apparently) integrated the bookmarking/tagging functionality into Google reader…
This gives you the possibility to integrate and mix stuff you share from within Google Reader with external pages (that are not part of an RSS feed) -
On Facebook platform and Google Opensocial – which risk to be abandoned, according to the author:
"we're left with a bitter taste in our mouths after the latest moves from some big platform players. The platforms of the future need to think about not just short-term marketing and buzz, but long-term sustainability and monetization" -
"building a platform isn't just about making the developers who use the platform successful but also making sure that the platform itself furthers the goals of its developers in the first place"
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"Yahoo! has allowed users to opt-in to allowing an application used by a member of their social network to access their personal information. This is a very user-centric approach and avoids the draconian practice of services like Facebook that get around this issue by not providing any personally idenitifable user information via their APIs. Instead a user can specify which pieces of their personal information they don't mind being accessed by 3rd party applications being used by their friends"