Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Yet another URL annotation service…
Strangely enough, this one's got the backing of Lawrence Lessig, John Seely Brown, Terry Winograd, and Clay Shirky…
Wondering whether it'll do better than Fleck, Trailfire, Diigo, Stickis…

"Google blocked South Korean users from uploading videos and posting comments on YouTube's Korean-language site in order to avoid government requirements for the real-name registration of users. Korean Internet users now have to submit their resident registration codes, the Korean equivalent of social security numbers, and names, before posting files or commenting on Web sites with more than 100,000 daily visitors, including YouTube."

Over redesign van de TU Delft website (82.000 pagina's en 9 doelgroepen), middels user centered design aanpak, inclusief doelgroeponderzoek en cardsorting.

Dave Winer's writeup on how to get a (windows) server up and running on Amazon EC2.
"The goal is to make cloud computing less mysterious by helping people through the process of setting up a server on Amazon EC2."

"succesvolle wiki's binnen mijn onderzoek [hebben] het volgende gemeen:

- ze zijn niet 'van bovenaf' opgelegd, maar zijn 'vanuit de werkvloer' ontstaan;
- ze hebben duidelijke doelstellingen;
- ze voorzien in een reële behoefte;
- ze zijn gebruiksvriendelijk (althans voor hun specifieke doelgroep);
- ze zijn langs informele wegen geïmplementeerd;
- de communicatie rondom het project en/of de implementatie is bijna vanzelf gegaan, dmv mond tot mond reclame;
- iedereen kan vrij posten, er is geen fiattering-systeem of eindredactie;
- de initiators waren enthousiaste mensen op zoek naar een concrete oplossing voor een concreet probleem;
- men is 'klein' begonnen en later heeft de wiki zich als een olievlek verspreid;
- de eerste implementaties hebben plaatsgevonden bij mensen met een ICT-achtergrond"

"De Stelselcatalogus Basisregistraties verschaft inzicht in de gegevenshuishouding van het Nederlandse stelsel van Basisregistraties. Het is daarmee een belangrijke bouwsteen voor de e-overheid."
Een basisregistratie is één organisatie die de bron is voor een bepaald soort gegevens voor andere organisaties. Zie ook http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basisregistratie

Excel 2007 template for viewing and analyzing network graphs, along with a set of .NET Framework 3.5 class libraries that can be used to add network graphs to custom applications. NodeXL used to be called ".NetMap".
Slideshare presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/2009-node-xl-overview-social-network-analysis-in-excel-2007

[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.

PHP5 library and documentation, released januari 2009.

"Mythe 1: Wiki’s zijn van zichzelf voldoende motivatie om bijdragen te leveren
Mythe 2: Werknemers weten precies hoe ze bijdragen moeten leveren.
Mythe 3: Wiki’s leveren altijd alle informatie die een werknemer nodig heeft."

Collection of a few WordPress plugins and a theme "aimed at helping people running unconferences manage their event's content in a more organized manner."

Serena software uses Facebook as their intranet…

Same functionality as twimailer.com (which has been sold/seems to be abandoned meanwhile).
Spices up Twitter new follower notifications to make them more meaningful.
Not using it however until they have implemented Oauth or another way to authenticate without username+password!

The most comprehensive source for Tiddlywiki plugins I've seen so far.

Beginner's guide to Tiddlywiki (in a Tiddlywiki of course)

Integrates Postrank scores in Google Reader.
You can sort and filter based on Postrank.
(only useful if you have been neglecting a blog for a while since the Postrank only has value after some time)

Shows the Postrank score (for the current blogpost) and the most "interesting" other posts from the same source.
Makes Feed management easier (in fact it solves the probleme AideRSS has to sync the sybscriptions you have there with your actual reading list in your Feedreader).

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a Ubuntu system running as a Windows application

Funny feedreader with Twitter-style interface. Follow blogs as if they were your friends!

list of URL-shortening services, drawn up by the Internet Archive team.
They have plans to build a database of redirected links, in case one or more of those services goes down (or becomes too greedy).

Open sourcing all of the (financial) hard data for running a DrupalCon

Tracking Twitter favourites.
Apparently they screenscrape.
Compare: http://favrd.textism.com/
Advertises a per-user rss feed http://favotter.matope.com/en/user.phpuserrss.php?user=pascalvanhecke&mode=new but that seems to be broken

Tracking Twitter favourites.
Apparently they screenscrape.
Compare: http://favotter.matope.com/en
No RSS feed to track who favourited you.

Blog by Facebook's research scientist Cameron Marlow.
Who happens to be the creator of the blog tracking classic blogdex.net

Tracking on-page events using Google Analytics.
Makes Analytics useful for Ajax applications

Paying service by SEOmoz, to monitor incoming links and "trust" (according to their metrics) gained from that.
They have their own crawler!

(Yet another) change tracking website.
This one features RSS and side-by-side comparison of previous versions of a page.

Friendster, THE social networking site back in 2004, still continues to live… but outside the US.

Neither Loopt nor Latitude log your location data. Both promise to require a wiretap order (which is harder to get than a regular search warrant) before they starts logging a user’s location for the government.

"URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day?"