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An position doc for the 2009 Web2.0 summit.
Key ideas:
- more and more data comes from sensors instead of from users
- our conversation with the web is enhanced by sensor input (GPS, voice, context…)
- we do not need to wait for unique identifiers for a given domain: descriptive information is most of the times good enough
- realtime feedback loops will become more commonNote on privacy: "There is a race on right now to own the social graph. But we must ask whether this service is so fundamental that it needs to be open to all."
Funny how also Tim O'Reilly considers the social graph as data on itself, and not something that is context-sensitive (so no real "shadow" of the real world). -
"You use your iPhone camera to take a photo of a map that contains details not found on generic mapping applications such as Google maps – say a trailhead map in a park, or another hiking map. Use the phone’s GPS to set your current location on the map. Walk a distance away, and set a second point. Now your iPhone can track your position on that custom map image as easily as it can on Google maps."
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Article stresses the consequences of the notion of "data controller" for users (although that will actually depend on the EU country's own interpretation…).
The household exception is quoted incorrectly as an exception to the SNS provider' responsibility – it is an exception to the users' responsibility. -
This FT article came out even before the Opinion was published… ironic that it asked US privacy advocates to comment on it.
"The European move marks the first attempt by regulators to address the “open” internet platforms that the social networks, led by Facebook, have rushed to create. By letting other applications ride on top of their systems, tapping into personal data about their members, the networks have sought both to tie in users for longer and create money-making opportunities." -
A whole bunch of tools for SEO, performance, analytics, usability, backlinks…
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Interview with Simon Willison, who developed The Guardian's crowdsourcing (expenses-scandal) experiment:
- 170 000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours
- 20 000 volunteers
- set up like a game
- participation shot up when he added the smiling face of the MP to the expenses
- lists of top-performing volunteers
- use framework (Django) and scalable hosting (EC2) -
Like the HTML Validator but for your server’s HTTP headers.
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Collection of points of interest with itinerary and time to spend:
"You just specify the location of your hotel and the length of your trip and City Tours will map out an itinerary for you"
A permalink can be constructed as follows: http://citytours.googlelabs.com/search?city=CityName&reset=true
More at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-city-tours.html