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Entries from October 2007
The Short Head of Facebook apps
October 29th, 2007 ·
Why Boston will Never Be San Francisco
October 29th, 2007 ·
Because we don’t do cool stuff like this.
10-25 links
October 26th, 2007 ·
Great primer on the structured web from Read/WriteWeb.
Paul Graham on the future of web startups.
Twilight of the CIO.
The Social Graph in Plain Language.
Open Authentication.
Blogging 2.0
Mozilla Labs Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.
Facebook Ads Get Personal
October 25th, 2007 ·
Facebook is displaying ads for products that appear to be endorsed by actual users. When I clicked on the person’s name, I was directed to the ad, not the person’s profile. I don’t like being tricked like this, not one bit. But I did click.
Tags: advertising - facebookBoston Streetsweeper Needs an Upgrade
October 24th, 2007 ·
I have a love-hate relationship with Boston Streetsweeper, the service at Boston.com where you enter in the street your car is parked on and receive emails the day before the street is scheduled to be swept.
Why isn’t this a Google Map that lets me drag my car from street to street? Why isn’t it a [...]
Selling Software in iTunes
October 24th, 2007 ·
This is such a cool idea. Why not sell software in iTunes?
But if software authors were to offer their programs through an application like iTunes, the benefits would be immediate. Instead of customers blindly downloading, you could show 30-second demos, just like Apple does with music videos, TV shows and films today. Instead of one-line [...]
Playing with a Ball of Twine
October 24th, 2007 ·
Read/WriteWeb covers the impending launch of Twine.
(Founder) Nova Spivack has an illustrious history in the Semantic Web and AI business, having worked for both AI legend Ray Kurzweil and tech guru Danny Hillis (Thinking Machines). The genesis for Twine, said Spivack, came from an R&D project about 5 years ago, which turned into a research [...]
Everbody Let’s Freebase
October 24th, 2007 ·
I’m amazed at how little attention is being paid to Freebase. Freebase is going to take off once it gets more traction. It needs several more large data inputs from sources like Wikipedia before it will start to take off. Now we have Freebase. Freebase is going to take off once it gets more traction. [...]
Tags: freebase - structured_dataLiking Cardspace Persona Selection
October 24th, 2007 ·
I think Cardspace addresses the multiple-personality issue quite well, from the user-experience perspective. I’ve been playing around with the identity selector in Firefox on my Mac, which actually works some of the time. Easily selecting a persona based on the context of a given situation (game, blog post, adult content access, etc) is as easy [...]
Tags: cardspace - openid - verificationRapleaf API Revised
October 24th, 2007 ·
From the Rapleaf team:
We wanted to let you know that the Rapleaf API v2 is now available to all Rapleaf partners.
The Rapleaf API v2 allows you to go beyond reputation information and query for social network profiles, name, age, gender, location, and more.
This is all made available via the person resource, which you can learn [...]
