Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Richard Stallman targets javascript usage:
- should be accompanied by a readable (non-obscured/compressed) version of the same script
- "free" browsers should have the possibility of modifying .js libraries or replacing them with other libs of their own choice
- suggests a notation for alternate url + licensing url

A significant portion of search queries are or contain proper names. Given its high pagerank, twitter will further dominate the SERPs for these queries.
Worth noting that Facebook and Hyves in the Netherlands took similar steps recently.

FireEagle-Twitter mashup.
Use Twitter to explicitly broadcast your location to FireEagle, which can feed it into all kinds of other social media.
More from the creators at http://www.sprxmobile.com/we-launched-wheremenow/ :
- we believe in explicit location updates instead of implicit
- Location updates use too much battery
- you want to regulate degree of accuracy
- Location Updates when automated are not a social gesture

"I can’t see how I could be prevented from creating a heads-up display [...] But I’ve got a hunch that those magic glasses are going to be controversial."
(Jon Udell in a posting an a service that modifies web pages in a Greasemonkey-like fashion based on entitlements you get from InfoCard-proven membership)