Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"scraped some data from a wikipedia page into a Google spreadsheet using the =importHTML formula, published a handful of rows from the table as CSV, consumed the CSV in a Yahoo pipe and created a geocoded KML feed from it, and then displayed it in a Google map"

"uses Yahoo! Search and Delicious to help you analyze the pages that are linking to a given URL"
Powerful and permalinkable.

Andy Baio’s in-depth tutorial on submitting HITs to Mechanical Turk (with transcription as an example)

"Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send [...] the researchers estimate that the controllers of the vast system are netting about $7,000 (£4,430) a day or more than $2m (£1.28m) per year.
While this was a good return, said the researchers, it did suggest that spammers were not making the vast sums of money that some people have predicted in the past."

"lightweight OpenID based Internet identity server. Instead of registering at every web site with different username and password combinations you use your identity server to log you in"
(From the people behind the Around me open source collaboration app)

"Turk experiment to answer two questions: what do these people look like, and how much does it cost for someone to reveal their face?"
About $0.50.

"Facebook officials believe someone obtained Adrian's log-in credentials through a "phishing" scheme, luring him to a dummy site where he was asked to enter his Facebook password."
(Nigerian scam on Facebook and other social networks – another example of username-password antipattern consequences)

"The goal of this work was to gain an understanding of youth new media practice in the U.S. by engaging in ethnographic research across a diverse range of youth populations, sites, and activities. A collaboration between 28 researchers and research collaborators, this was a large ethnographic project funded by the MacArthur Foundation"

Difference with a traditional wiki: you see other editor's changes in realtime, so you effectively work together on the same document without overwriting other person's changes.
Typically to be used together with a voice and Im connection.

Long biographic piece on Chris Messina and Tara Hunt in San Francisco magazine, exploring how open people can be about their private lives, and on the difficulties they inflict upon themselves when personal relationships turn sour.
Chris Messina: “I think information should be open and free and available,” he says, “but not everyone should let all information about their relationships be public all the time. Some things should be private.”