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Powering Facebook’s proverbial brain: your Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream data

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:12:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In Facebook Connect, the company is making a play to own at least two, and possibly three, classes of data: a user’s Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream.

Clip Source: blogs.zdnet.com

In Tim O’Reilly’s influential Web 2.0 manifesto, written in late 2005, he wrote: “The race is on to own certain classes of core data: location, identity, calendaring of public events, product identifiers and namespaces. In many cases… the winner will be the company that first reaches critical mass via user aggregation, and turns that aggregated data into a system service.”

While O’Reilly wasn’t talking specifically about Facebook, let alone Facebook Connect which was only announced this May, he could well have been. In Facebook Connect, the company is making a play to own at least two, and possibly three, classes of data: a user’s Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream.

The Human News Aggregator: An Interview About NewsMastering With Robin Good

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:52:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Newsmastering is the ability to identify, select, aggregate, filter and distribute/publish news and informatiom streams on very tight, specific themes/topics.

Clip Source: www.masternewmedia.org

Newsmastering is the ability to identify, select, aggregate, filter and distribute/publish news and informatiom streams on very tight, specific themes/topics.

Newsmastering is a new emerging and much needed network function allowing the huge news flow to be categorized, filtered, de-spammed and re-routed and contextualized in one one thousand and more ways.

Tags: rss-feeds aggregation

Elements of Web 2.0 Style Content: Aggregated information + annotation, enrichment, history, and metadata

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:50:34 GMT

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Clip Source: alexanderhayes.com

Tags: web2.0 aggregation metadata

Get Coupon Code via RetailMeNot Right in FireFox

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:44:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This looks sweet!

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Never Miss a Deal with RetailMeNot

The RetailMeNot Firefox extension integrates your online shopping with coupon aggregation web site RetailMeNot to keep you abreast of deals and freebies available at the site you're currently visiting. Just surf to a shopping site and the RetailMeNot extension will automatically check for coupons and alert you of available deals for that site.

Tags: retailmenot, firefox, extensions, lifehacker

On the way towards Personal Learning Environments: Seven crucial aspects

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:29:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The practice of learning and teaching is not pre-determined, but always related to the tools and systems used in the process. The development and rising success of social software applications such as weblogs and wikis and so-called Personal Learning Environments (PLE) changes, enables and challenges learning with the Internet.

Clip Source: www.elearningpapers.eu

PLE, especially in contrast to traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS), received significant attention and are about changing the paradigm of learning and teaching. This paper tries to underpin a better understanding of the underlying concepts of both approaches and, on the other hand, to emphasise the consequences and challenges of PLE and its rising usage for learning.

We have identified seven aspects where these changes are most obvious and/or important. To sum up, learning with PLE leads to changes concerning: (1) the role of the learner as active, self-directed creators of content; (2) personalisation with the support and data of community members; (3) learning content as an infinite “bazaar”; (4) the big role of social involvement; (5) the ownership of learner's data; (6) the meaning of self-organised learning for the culture of educational institutions and organisations, and (7) technological aspects of using social software tools and aggregation of multiple sources.

Tags: personal-learning-environment

Shiitake Mushrooms Reduce Cholesterol, Stimulate the Immune System and Fight Cancer

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:26:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.elements4health.com

Cholesterol
A study in Sweden highlights the significant health benefits of shiitake mushrooms, in particular its ability to reduce blood cholesterol levels. The cholesterol-reducing compound in shiitake mushrooms, and shiitake mushroom extract has been identified as eritadenine.
At the Department of Bioresource Science, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in Japan, research has shown that shiitake mushrooms increase the level of cholesterol in feces. This in turn reduces the amount of cholesterol in the body

Thrombosis
Thrombosis, the formation of a blood clot that inhibits blood-flow, has been shown to be significantly reduced by individuals consuming shiitake mushroom oil. The Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry at Nihon University in Japan has demonstrated that the levels of lenthionine found in shiitake mushrooms inhibited platelet aggregation.

Tags: health benefits shiitake mushrooms, nutrition, cholesterol, cancer, blood pressure, thrombosis, lentinan, eritadenine

10 Tools to Combine, Mix, Blend Multiple RSS Feeds

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:47:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.tothepc.com

More and more internet users are getting familiar with the concept of RSS feeds and its uses. This has resulted in number of online and offline services to help in better RSS Management. Feedburner and Feeblitz lead the way in RSS Management services.

Many a times you want to read content from different sources. While there are tools to filter RSS feed content, tools to mix, blend and Mash-up multiple RSS feeds are more important. They help you grab multiple RSS feeds and create a single customized RSS feed. Here are 10 tools worth checking out…

Tags: rss-feeds aggregation

Glossary of Online Interaction

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:30:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Glossary of Online Interaction

Clip Source: www.fullcirc.com

Glossary of Online Interaction

Aggregation – “Gathering information from multiple web sites, typically via RSS. Aggregation lets web sites remix the information from multiple web sites, for example by republishing all the news related to a particular keyword.” - Social Signal

Tags: internet

Open Source Business Intelligence and Analysis Services

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:53:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Check this out if you get a chance.

Clip Source: mondrian.pentaho.org

Mondrian is an OLAP server written in Java. It enables
you to interactively analyze very large datasets stored in SQL databases without writing SQL.

Mondrian 3.0 includes olap4j 0.9.6 along with significant improvements to security and additional function support. Highlights of this release include:

olap4j API — an Open Java API for OLAP
Rollup policy enhancements
Aggregate role support
Support for aggregation of distinct-count measures
Improved dimension sharing
Over 50 new scalar functions
JNDI support

Tags: open source

Obama's Foreign Contributions And The F.E.C.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:43:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here, for example are the tabulations for how much a Karen Olsen, a free lance interpreter from Geneva contributed to Obama's campaign, and how much a Canadian management consultant from Toronto named Ronald Hickel got away with. In a way, Mr. Hickel's misdeeds were even more brazen, as he did it in a number of days and it is listed on contiguous entries on the FEC files. Amazing. Wildly amazing that it would not attract any attention: one would think the goverment would have computers that would sound alarms on stuff like this.

There is another aspect of all of this, and is is vaguely reminiscent of a ponzi scheme. The federal government is never actually in possession of this money. It stays with the campaigns. In effect, from the day of receipt until the day the money is spent, it is in control of the Obama campaign, totally without interest. And, if it is refunded, it is without interest.

Clip Source: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

The F.E.C. has simply been trampled by the Obama campaign.

This first and primary issue concerns “bundling,” the aggregation of small individual contributions, submitted for verification for legality by the Obama campaign to the F.E.C. John and I touched on this issue in my previous post, “Obama's Foreign Contributions: Who is Jeanne McCurdy,” in which the bundling tactics of an Obama fund raiser named Jeanne McCurdy was disclosed.

We documented almost $800 worth of campaign contributions which simply cannot be documented by anybody as to where they came from, or from whom, or whether the persons were American citizens or perhaps from person with interests violently opposed to American interests.

We continue to analyze Obama's foreign contributions by

a.) payments by contributors way over the limits, and

b.) lack of oversight on the part of the F.E.C. There is no indication the F.E.C ever did anything about it: the entries go from pp. 89-90.

Tags: obama bundlers, fec, foreign contributions, canadian, switzerland

Pinax - Django project

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:18:57 GMT

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Clip Source: pinax.hotcluboffrance.com

Pinax is a Django project intended to provide a starting point for websites. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.

This site is just a running example of Pinax. The source code is available as part of the Hot Club of France project.

If you have any questions about this site or the Pinax project, please contact James Tauber.

You can Sign up and Log in to try out the site.

At this stage, there is openid support, email verification, password management, site announcements, user-to-user messaging, friend invitation (both internal and external to the site), a basic twitter clone, interest groups (called tribes), per-tribe threaded discussions, per-tribe wikis, blog aggregation, bookmarks, contact import from vCard, Google or Yahoo and a notification framework.

Tags: django

Aggregation of data - Facebook

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:41:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Date displayed on social networking sites like Facebook are too easily aggregated and abused

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

And concerns were raised about the amount of information put on social networking websites like Facebook and Bebo, Dr Walport said: "Many individuals are posting more and more personal information on the web and of course web technology means that it can be aggregated in a very powerful way."

Tags: technology, facebook, socialbetworking, data, aggregation, vulnerability

FriendFeed Social Aggregation

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:56:02 GMT

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Clip Source: web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com

It's beginning to look like 2008 might be the year of the social aggregator as users begin to employ these emerging new tools to better manage and track their various online relationships, both personal and professional. The introduction of these new Web applications, such as Friendfeed, Socialthing!, Spokeo, Second Brain, and Iminta, are making it easy for users to keep track of what their friends are doing online while simultaneously demonstrating that there are compelling alternatives to being social online without having to, say, actively maintain a Facebook account. In fact, that's the very premise of this new type of social Web utility, which automatically tracks a user's public activity at sites around the Web including blogs, Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us and so on, and creates a single convenient feed for others to consume and track.

Tags: friendfeed

Birthgate Continues

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:36:57 GMT

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Clip Source: web.israelinsider.com

Faked certificate suggests that Obama may not be "natural born" US citizen

It is now a certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake.

The image became increasingly suspect with Israel Insider's revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image aggregation website -- including one listing the location of Obama's birth as Antarctica, one with the certificate supposedly issued by the government of North Korea, and another including a purported photo of baby Barack -- one of which has a "photo taken" time-stamp just two minutes before the article and accompanying image was posted on the left-wing Daily Kos blog.

Tags: obama, birth certificate

The Future of the Internet

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:19:33 GMT

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Clip Source: itmanagement.earthweb.com

The Future of the Internet, according to Web Trendsetters

Many sites hope they can “just sprinkle social magic dust” and it will all be fine. They think it will be easy – “Put a little button on our site that says social network, or turn our site into a Facebook plug-in.”

Social networking “has very little with do with the aggregation of ‘friends’” – that’s kind of an ‘arms race’ and rather a silly one, he said. Instead, the core of effective community building is a site with a clear identity and purpose. A sustainable social network evolves organically around such a site based on users with shared interests.

“They’re not about social networking first, and content second. They’re about content first, and social networking second.”

“The world doesn’t need another generic social network. The world needs an infinite number of hyper-focused social networks that are about specific subjects,” Anderson said.

Tags: future, internet, web 2.0, social networking, social, community