After much discussion around the @replies subject I started thinking about a system that could automatically resolve social network addresses no matter where they appear. I then decided to try the approach of writing a Chrome extension that could do the job.
The DecentralizedAddresses extension is in development and is available on github for anyone to [...]
Great news:
the Cliqset FeedProxy tool will normalize feeds from more than 70 other services into new feeds in the ActivityStreams format. It may just be an initial inroad to interoperability between these networks, provided by a 3rd party and not yet extensively used – but it’s an important step none the less.
Read the original: The [...]
That was about time! They added Lisbon and a bunch of other cities around the world. I’m finally using the Android application and, so far, I’m enjoying it.
Check out my foursquare profile and friend me!
{title:”foursquare is finally available in Lisbon”,url:”http://unfoldingtheweb.com/2009/11/22/foursquare-is-finally-available-in-lisbon/”}
I’m writing this after building Chrome OS from scratch and running it from a USB drive. In fact, what I built and ran wasn’t Chrome OS but instead Chromium OS. There’s a big difference not just in the name. According to Google:
Today we are open-sourcing the [Chrome OS] project as Chromium OS. We are doing [...]
This is a very short experimental post.
Published via tarpipe.
{title:”Small experiment”,url:”http://unfoldingtheweb.com/2009/09/12/small-experiment/”}
“How to Share a Secret” is the title of paper written in 1979 by Adi Shamir (best known for his work on the RSA algorithm). The paper describes a method for dividing information in smaller pieces so that the knowledge of all but one of the pieces gives absolutely no information about the original information. [...]
The latest Amazon S3 blackout made me think what could be done to try to solve this problem, when your application depends on S3 or any other cloud service.
Does this mean that you should all stop using cloud services and go back to your own data center? No way! There are better and more reasonable [...]
Do you enjoy wine? You’re gonna love Adegga, the place where you can discover new wines by looking at other people’s tastings and findings.
Adegga just came out of a closed beta and right now anyone can start using it as long as they get invited by another user. That’s right, during an initial phase, registration [...]
The guys at Brightkite came up with the idea of capturing user-generated content and associating it to a particular place where the user is located. Quoting their blog post:
Placestreaming, as in the stream of content originating from a specific place. We think this really captures what Brightkite is all about. We enable location based conversations. [...]
Do you have to deal with large projects on a daily basis and feel that you’re always behind schedule? Have you tried all the available frameworks and quit because they don’t really fit into your development methodology? Are you a Web designer tired of writing PHP code all day long?
PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web [...]