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Even if you never read a single thing Dave Winer wrote in his 439 years of blogging, it's worth taking time to study his ideas about comments on blogs (he doesn't allow them). "...to the extent that comments interfere with the natural expression of the unedited voice of an individual, comments may…

If you use Google Reader, you must know about its sharing feature. "Every Google Reader account comes with a public page which you can use to share items of interest with your friends and family. (...) Like any regular web page, your public page is viewable by anyone who knows its address."Of…

Google has an emerging social network and it doesn't use it. No, I don't talk about orkut or Socialstream (which was only sponsored by Google). Gmail, Google's most successful project if we leave search aside, has the potential of gathering information from all the other Google services that can be…

Worluk ma hajnali postjában írja, hogy törölte az összes ismerősét az iWiW-en. Érvei számosak. Például, hogy mire is jó neki, hogy ott van? Oké, tisztában van vele, hogy kik az ismerősei, és a rendszer egyetlen haszna, hogy ebből azt is megmutatja neki, hogy kiket ismerhet még.…

Incentives work. Our whole economy is powered by incentives — as one of my favorite business books Freakonomics reveals. Incentives work in the blogosphere too. Commentors will respond to incentives. Motivate your readers to comment with the following WordPress plugins (hat tip to…

I do actually love this product. And I'm grateful for it too. Basically I like all Apple products. To me, it's a way to buy a BMW every month, without having to pay $60,000. Have you ever driven a mid-to-high-end BMW? I have, recently, I test drove a 535i. The car feels as if it has a…

Incase anyone was wondering just how many Starbucks there actually are in Manhattan, the answer is 171. For some inexplicable reason (perhaps to become the next big viral video star), New Yorker Mark Malkoff decided to hit them all up in just one day. On June 29th at 5:30am Malkoff makes his first…

Customized home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this morning under what it is calling its “Blizzard” release. Among all of the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social networking and customizable themes on pages. Until today Pageflakes users could…

If you want to hire a union organizer, you probably know what to look for. Someone with resilience, passion, persistence and excellent interpersonal skills. What if you want to hire someone to build an online community? Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in…

Régóta a levegőben van, hogy a hoszting cégek nem frissítenek PHP 4-ről az újabb 5-ös sorozat kiadásaira, ezért sok webhely fejlesztő, és a népszerű nyílt forrású programok fejlesztői is úgy alakítják ki PHP programjaikat, hogy azok PHP 4-gyel is futni tudjanak. Különben sok…

Nokia has created a mobile social networking site called Mosh. There’s an online and mobile component for this social network, giving you cross-platform access for networking and media-sharing. While Sprint-Nextel has added more access to existing networks via mobile devices, Nokia has created…

Míg a magyar társadalom kétharmada különböző okok miatt nem internetezik, addig a 14 év fölötti tinik négyötöde használja a netet valamilyen gyakorisággal (WIP 2006). A náluk fiatalabbak internethasználatáról egyelőre nem rendelkezünk adatokkal, de talán a VMR Kids…

A while back I tried signing up for an OpenID, an "open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." The basic idea is that, instead of needing to choose a user name and password for every site you visit, you can identify yourself with an ID that many sites will…

I'm deep in a quandary. A couple of days ago, after calling Adblock Plus "the nuclear plug-in," I actually went nuclear. I downloaded the sucker and started using it. I was seduced by Noam Cohen's description of the almost Zenlike sense of peace that flowed through him when he'd outfitted Firefox…

Back home in New York. We had about 75-100 people come to the New York demo yesterday, along with an army of Fog Creek technical staff in matching sky blue kiwi polo shirts. When I got back to my desk on Monday afternoon, I turned into the prototypical bastard client from hell. Our web designers…

TechCrunch has the news that Google plans to open "a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google's social graph data. They'll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services…

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails  —  SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.  —  INTRO /…

Rumors of a Google powered virtual world based on Google Earth surfaced in January; today there is word that Google may be testing their virtual world at Arizona State University (ASU). According to Google Operating System, ASU students have the opportunity to test a new product “that will be…

See Techdirt about the infinite wisdom of our German government and the prohibition of private copies.

John over at Library Clips does an amazing job of explaining just how detailed you can get using RSS aggregators to become more efficient by setting up a Getting Things Done implementation in Google Reader. It may even make your head swim a little. Me, I’m nowhere near this level of productivity,…

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Coming to a browser near you: "People who liked this article also liked these articles." That's right -- according to founder Kevin Rose, Digg is getting ready to do to news what Amazon.com did to shopping. At a panel at Technology Review's EmTech conference, Rose said that Digg…

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Having some eggs and coffee on Mission street. In two hours I'll be locked in a room for 15 straight presentations. Some random thoughts: Feels like doing the demo dry-run for each of the 40 companies has resulted in--on average--a 20% better presentation. Some folks had fine presentations that…

avagy a válasz arra, miért is informatika, és mit csinál ez. A most következő írássorozat inkább féllaikusoknak, és talán kevésbé a professzionális .NET C#, Java Enterprise, Xquery meg hasonló technológiákkal foglalkozóknak szól, de átfutásra érdemes. Tulajdonképpen…

avagy a válasz arra, miért is informatika, és mit csinál ez. A most következő írássorozat inkább féllaikusoknak, és talán kevésbé a professzionális .NET C#, Java Enterprise, Xquery meg hasonló technológiákkal foglalkozóknak szól, de átfutásra érdemes. Tulajdonképpen…