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"calendar-publishing service that can extract structured calendar information from semi-structured web pages"
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"In this post I will cover the major categories of enhanced share types — audio, images, video, news, blogs, games, documents, and multimedia — and walk through how site owners can stand out on shareable platforms"
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EFF deplores opt-out (but admits opt-in was maybe not a realistic expectation) for behavioural advertising yet is positive about Ad preferences manager and Advertising Cookie Opt-out Plugin.
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"50-minute documentary produced in 2007 that tries to explain Google's extraordinary success by analyzing its principles and idiosyncrasies."
See video online at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6256146808037867455 , via http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-thinking-machine.html -
Automatic filtering of best stories in a certain niche:
- start from your favourite blogs in that niche
- see what they've been tagged with @del.icio.us
- find other top sources for that combination of tags
- run these sources through AideRSS/Postrank
- splice (Yahoo Pipes) and burn (Feedburner) -
"What seemed like a simple gun possession case became an undeclared war over reality: Was Officer Ettienne a diligent cop who found a gun after chasing an ex-convict weaving through traffic on a stolen motorcycle? Or was his story a “devious” facade in keeping with the ruthless character he revealed on social network Web sites?"
Instructive legal case:
- the real world does not distinguish personas: you are held accountable for what you write online as a civil person, even if you do it in your spare time. Having a private life as civil servant or law enforcement officer becomes impossible
- the more you produce content online, the higher the risk some of that content will be used out of context against you. -
"Youtube for sensor data"
"service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual." -
Collection of resources (North-American POV!) on:
Privacy
abuse
basics
commerce
intellectual
privacy
risks
social
speech
By the NC State university