Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

[to get an...] economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no leverage.

Saul Hansell on behavioural targeting and how to inform users on data collected and used in targeting process.
Wondering whether the envisaged "privacy dashboard" would simply be to complex to be visualised.

"I learned that recruiting and retaining users is a huge challenge and requires an additional marketing/publicity mindset (beyond design and development) and I learned that all these modules in Drupal provide amazing functionality but it takes additional effort to make them all work together into a coherent, usable website."

"Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative."

Totally resonates with me:
"The dead spaces in my life have been completely consumed by a diet of information snacking t…
It used to be the case that waiting in line at the grocery store provided an opportunity to press pause on the day and think a little bit. Not necessarily the Big Thoughts either— but just about anything that might have happened throughout the day that might be worthy of a few extra CPU cycles."

open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript

Typically Google: instead of relying on explicit markup like Yahoo does, they extract meaning from unstructured data by relying on observation on already existing usage patterns and applying statistical analysis.