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A plugin developed within Facebook. Looks more light-weight (no "community page") than the alternative
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/
BTW:
"To reduce spamming WordPress automatically adds the nofollow attribute to all comment links, but this is undesirable when the links are generated by a trusted source (e.g the plugin). For this reason the plugin will remove the nofollow attribute from all Facebook user comments. This is configurable on the Settings page. "
Which means signing in with your Facebook credentials goes further than SingleSignOn: it implies you actually want your Facebook profile to be public and searchable… -
"The key reason [for not having inline comments] is that we want the feed to be about what your people in your network are doing and not what people you don't know are doing or saying. However with the Facebook feed I often have lengthy threads from people I don't know in my feed taking up valuable space above the fold."
Apart from that, "public" comments in the news feed are privacy-invasive since most people do not realise it's visible to all other connections and other people who have access to the Newsfeed…
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"The value of Facebook Connect to Facebook is obvious. They get to become a centralized identity provider for the Web including the benefit of tracking every single time one of their users logs-in on a partner which lets them build an even better advertising profile of their users."
"the genuine question of whether users really want to use one friends' list across every site regardless of context (e.g. interacting with the exact same people on LinkedIn, MySpace and XBox Live) or whether they want to have universal access to any of their friends lists and bridge them when necessary?"
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In this opinion published in Nature, scientists call for the availability of drugs such as Adderall, Ritalin and Provigil to healthy adults:
"[These drugs], along with newer technologies such as brain stimulation and prosthetic brain chips, should be viewed in the same general category as education, good health habits, and information technology — ways that our uniquely innovative species tries to improve itself.""Like all new technologies, cognitive enhancement can be used well or poorly. We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function. In a world in which human workspans and lifespans are increasing, cognitive enhancement tools — including the pharmacological — will be increasingly useful for improved quality of life and extended work productivity, as well as to stave off normal and pathological age-related cognitive declines"
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Online service that goes through a text and checks how much of it has been published online already
1 Copy & paste your content in the text field or upload a file in such formats like .txt or .doc.
2 Click analyze and our system will compare your text with the search engines' data.
3 Look at the results – you will see Plagiarism percentage %, as well as all the links of sources, where plagiarism was found. -
"For hard-core keyboard lovers!
"Don't waste your afternoon drawing UML Sequence Diagrams.
Just enter the description here, and click "draw". The SD/MSC Generator is an easy alternative to using mouse-centric tools like Microsoft Visio -
another site which shows what keywords a particular page/domain ranks for… "Parsed approx 44,000,000 keywords with depth of 20 first Google results!"
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free open source social network platform built with Ruby on Rails.
Similar older effort: http://portal.insoshi.com/
"Current Features
* Follow a user, mutual following is friending.
* User-to-User Messaging
* Profile Comments
* User Blogs with Comments
* Photo Gallery with Captions
* Site Search for Friends
* Profile Bio and Information
* User Dashboard (Recent Activity of Friends)
* Emailed Activity
* Flickr Integration
* YouTube Integration" -
HTML Lorem-Ipsum type filler text fragments for paragraphs and list items of varying lengths.
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Suggests Greasemonkey plugins, Adobe Air apps.
Completely under the control of the site owner, since it relies on "link rel" type of autodiscovery. That makes it kind of pointless for Greasemonkey scripts (the site controller can include the functionality anyway…), and also a lot of other extensions/scripts often reflect more the user's than the site owner's interest… Wondering whether there's already an extension that checks userscripts.org for every site you visit?
Idea by Dion Almaer (Ajaxian, former Googler, now @Mozilla).