Glancing back at 1998, thanks to the Wayback Machine.
W3C has Royalty Free licensing requirements and a public Process Document for good reason. I’ve been clicking back through the papertrails around the W3C P3P vs InterMind patent issue as a reminder. Here is the “Appendix C: W3C Licensing Plan Summary” from the old Intermind site:
We expect [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
A tale of two business models
All your photos…
Another day, another massive leak of hosted personal photos. They’re probably being crawled by fake dating sites as I type this.
“Meet these girls from $geoipdb.UserLocationFromIPAddress() now!“, etc.
They’ll probably end up in bittorrent too, alongside the recent Myspace leaked photos.
Posted in Image Description, Technology, privacy Tagged guessable URLs, leak, photos, privacy, smugmug Leave a comment
X-UA-Combustible
I share the concerns expressed by Norm Walsh and Jeremy Keith regarding the X-UA-Compatible mechanism for IE8. It’s certainly an important issue. By my inner tinfoil hat wearer can’t help but wonder whether this is a kind of feint or indirection that serves to distract from the real issue. Instead of being concerned directly that [...]
Posted in Technology Tagged adactio, ie, ie8, microsoft, ndw, standards, svg, versioning Leave a comment
Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Posted in Essays, Image Description, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Tagged facebook, filters, flickr, FOAF, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, twitter, xfn 5 Comments
MySpace open data oopsie
Latest megasite privacy screwup, this time from MySpace who appear to have allowed users to consider photos “private” when associated with a private profile, while (as far as I can make out) have the URLs visible of guessable. Whoopsadaisy. Predictably enough someone has crawled and shared many of the images. Wired reports that the site [...]
Posted in Image Description, Technology, ggg Tagged images, myspace, privacy, security, yasn 1 Comment
Losing the hard ‘t’
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who know how to pronounce ‘monetize‘ and those who want to turn your attention into money.
Open IDiomatic? Dada engine hosting as OpenID client app
All of us are dumber than some of us.
Various folk are concerned that OpenID has more provider apps than consumer apps, so here is my little website idea for an OpenID-facilitated collaborative thingy. I’ve loved the Dada Engine for years. The Dada Engine is the clever-clogs backend for grammar-driven nonsense generators such as the wonderful [...]
Posted in Technology, coding, openid 1 Comment
The MacBook Air question on everyone’s lips
BY MIKE FROM BOSTON AT 01/16/08 01:06 PM
Does this laptop make me look fat?
From Gizmodo via Edd, to whom I posed the same vanity question yesterday. And apparently Commodore is making a comeback. Wonder if OSX would run on a chunkier machine…