Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"Preferred Sites is a new experimental feature for Google Search that lets you personalize the results by adding a list of sites you want to appear more often when you search. Based on your search history, Google suggests some frequently-visited sites, but you can add any other site."

* about 2.7M users: we have most of the “giant component”
* 10M tweets
* 58M edges
The data has been taken down on Twitter's request yet it shows that for realtime media it is just impossible to control (delete, retract) your own output once it's out there…

One-time-password generating device acting like a USB keyboard (so you do not actually have to type in the password).
The whole ecosystem around the device is open-source, so purchase is your only cost.

Jaiku moving to Google App engine, to be maintained by volunteers, and the code opensourced. So according to Google:
- Microblogging is not a business in itself, but a feature
- feature will be commoditised, real struggle is between platforms it's running on

"Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface."
"If space-time is a grainy hologram, then you can think of the universe as a sphere whose outer surface is papered in Planck length-sized squares, each containing one bit of information. The holographic principle says that the amount of information papering the outside must match the number of bits contained inside the volume of the universe."