Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

In hoeverre zijn beheerders van user-generated content aansprakelijk?
Samenvatting van scriptie van jurist Ben Zevenbergen.

open platform for researchers and a set of tools for users that can be used to examine the state of your broadband connection – to figure out if an ISP is actually actively throttling a connection or preventing certain applications from working properly.
(Google, together with the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium)
Some background at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_announces_measurement_lab.php

Hyves app that publishes your Tweets to your Hyves status updates.
Nicely done, no username/pswds involved!

Behind-the-scenes story on how Telco companies are joining forces with advertisers and Microsoft to battle Google via US regulatory ways, taking along privacy as an easy anti-Google argument.

Load Flickr images based on Colour picker input.
Similar tool exists for Alamy stock photo search engine http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/

"Upload an image, and this returns results from Alamy stock photos that match your image in tone and colour. Amazing. "

Open source data integration.
Java-based. Has visual editor to define workflows.

Ook in België worden de plannen concreet om internettrafiek op het niveau van de ISP te gaan blokkeren.
Pleidooi tegen + tip om OpenDNS te gaan gebruiken.

"Het gaat te ver om van een forumbeheerder te verlangen dat hij voorafgaand aan plaatsing van iedere forumbijdrage afbeeldingen op mogelijke inbreuk op auteursrechten controleert."
"Een forumbeheerder heeft echter wel een zorgplicht: hij moet optreden wanneer hij klachten krijgt."

PHP application for a self-hosted lifestream/activitystream.
Unlike most open-source apps, really great-looking out-of-the-box.

On synergy between journalistic work and blogging (published 2004!)
"For almost a decade I've used the Web — and most recently my blog — to research, develop, and enhance the articles I write for magazines [...]
The basic pattern is simple: a story gestates in blogspace, appears in print and online, and then matures in blogspace"

Allows you to record and replay the user interaction at your site.
Looks similar to CrazyEgg.com, robotreplay.com and clicktale.com.

Interactive demo of various Google AJAX API's – it looks like this replaces the Google Mashup editor?

"Now researchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election."

your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend [...]
even the breakout success of a hot new pop band might be nearly random [...]
Any attempt to engineer success through Influentials is almost certainly doomed to failure.

"online version of the App Store which scrapes the content of the store in iTunes…"
(it's a shame someone actually neede to build this…)

Upload your OPML file and get reading suggestions.
So far, only share.opml.org did something similar.
Suggestions are a bit bland though.

"comment spam bots love form fields. When they encounter a form field, they go into a berserker frenzy (+2 to strength, +2 hp per level, etc…) trying to fill out each and every field [...]
use CSS to hide a honeypot form field from human users, but not bots. When the form is submitted, you check to make sure the value of that form field is blank."
Brilliant idea!

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Crowd sourced documentation and of the inauguration.
By CNN, using photosynth