Category: Asides

<div class='magnolia_post'

A daily collection of linky goodness.

Collection Munchausen Lustre – Ugly home

A very cool ceiling “chandelier”!

Rating: 4

Tags: chandelier, decoration

Halo 3 Believe

A very cool and immersive diorama of Halo 3!

Rating: 5

Tags: halo 3, halo, 3d, diorama, bungie

Lights Out San Francisco

A hour when everyone in San Francisco is going to turn off their lights!

Rating: 5

Tags: san francisco, sustainability

O’Reilly Network — Women Who Risk: Making Women in Technology Visible

Where are all the women? Tara Hunt will tell you where we all are and why she thinks it is harder to find us than it should be.

Rating: 5

Tags: tara hunt, women

Cocoa Grove | Downloads

Cocoa Grove. Icons and Wallpapers download page.

Rating: 4

Tags: icons, design, mac

View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

<div class='magnolia_post'

A daily collection of linky goodness.

devizen » Blog Archive » Authorization, Oh My!

“OAuth, provides a valet key for the web.”

Rating: 3

Tags: oauth, authorization

What is OAuth?

A brief description by Mark Atwood.

Rating: 3

Tags: oauth, mark atwood

Cottyn | Fresh-Picked T-Shirts

“That’s what she twittered.”

Rating: 4

Tags: tshirts, twitter

MySpace API

“Homebrew MySpace API was created because I had nothing to do and I wanted to take a break from doing other projects, so I wondered if there was some kind of API for myspace and no there was not. Facebook has an API they are cutting edge, haha….. Anyways here is my homemade/homebrew API. Now its easier to create small neat widgets.”

Rating: 3

Tags: myspace, api

View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

<div class='magnolia_post'

A daily collection of linky goodness.

Your copyright metadata on a GRDDL – Creative Commons

As of yesterday GRDDL, pronounced “griddle”, is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation. GRDDL allows one to describe in a standard way how to map information between different XML formats. The acronym stands for “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages”, which describes exactly what the standard facilitates.

Rating: 4

Tags: grddl, microformats, w3c

Near-Time : Welcome

Near-Time integrates wikis, weblogs, and file-sharing to deliver the fastest ROI for your collaboration investments.

Rating: 3

Tags: collaboration, enterprise, wiki, ruby on rails

Between the Lines mobile edition

great write-up of the coworking movement!

Rating: 5

Tags: coworking

Microformats Would Benefit From a Pseudo-Namespace – Jens Meiert

proposal for prefixing microformst classnames. Not sure i buy it.

Rating: 3

Tags: microformats

AntiRSI – TECH.inhelsinki.nl

AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress. It does so by forcing you to take regular breaks, yet without getting in the way. It also detects natural breaks so it won’t force too many breaks on you.

Rating: 5

Tags: rsi, macosx, application

Usability of Computer Security: A Bibliography

The purpose of this web page is to provide a central resource list of published work on human factors in computer security.

Rating: 4

Tags: computer security, security, hci, papers, user experience

Non-Profits Web Tool Kit

A great summary of available web apps for non-profits.

Rating: 5

Tags: nptech, non-profit, civicspace

MicroJSON – Welcome to the MicroJSON Wiki – MicroJSON

An attempt to convert microformatted data in JSON.

Rating: 3

Tags: json, microformats

Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says — Copyright — InformationWeek

Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the Computer and Communications Industry Association.

Rating: 5

Tags: fair use, economics, copyright, ip, intellectual property, creative commons

View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

<div class='magnolia_post'

A daily collection of linky goodness.

Open Social Graph @ Plaxo

A demo a how crawling the XFN-driven social graph would work. Awesome!!!

Rating: 5

Tags: portable social networks, crawler, plaxo, social graph

DokuWiki [splitbrain.org]

DokuWiki is a simple to use Wiki aimed at a small companies documentation needs. It works on plain texts files and thus needs no database. It has a simple but powerful Syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki.

Rating: 5

Tags: wiki, open source

Four Starters » GMail Meets the Desktop [Update]

A good overview of the benefits of Mailplane and similar SSBs.

Rating: 4

Tags: gmail, webkit, ssb, site-specific browser, email

nanoc: a Ruby CMS that generates static HTML

nanoc is a CMS written in Ruby. It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server. nanoc “compiles” the local source (eRuby, Markdown, Textile, Haml, etc) files into static files (HTML, XML, etc); the static output can then be uploaded to any web server.

Rating: 4

Tags: cms, ruby

The Facebook economy – Aug. 23, 2007

The No. 2 social network is fast evolving into a new kind of software platform – and the race is on to figure out how to turn users’ every move into dollars for enterprising developers.

Rating: 4

Tags: facebook, f8

Facebook Analytics and Advertising | Adonomics

Adonomics™ is an open analytics platform for Facebook.

Rating: 4

Tags: facebook, analytics, f8

iUnlock released: the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software – Engadget

Well, looks like the iPhone has been unlocked. And the results are open source.

Rating: 5

Tags: unlock, iphone, sim

Gizmoz. The world of animated avatars, widgets and user generated video clips

Gizmoz is a free online service that enable you to create your own super cool animated avatar from a facial photo and then use it on social networks, voip calls, mobile, blogs, e-mails and web profiles.

Rating: 4

Tags: avatars, widgets, video

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – OAuth: Standardizing Authentication and Authorization for Web APIs

“OpenID gives you a way to answer the question “Is leahculver @ Pownce also leahculver @ Twitter?” but it doesn’t tell you how Pownce can then use this information to perform actions on Leah’s behalf on Twitter. Duh. I had implicitly assumed that whatever authentication ticket returned from the OpenID validation request could be used as an authorization ticket when calling the OpenID provider’s API, but there’s nothing that actually says this has to be the case in any of the specs.

“Not only was none of this thinking new to Leah, she informed me that she had been working with folks from Yahoo!, Google, Six Apart, Twitter, and other companies on a technology specification called OAuth. The purpose of which was to solve the problem I had just highlighted.”

Rating: 4

Tags: oauth, openid

View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

<div class='magnolia_post'

A daily collection of linky goodness.

iUnlock released: the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software – Engadget

Well, looks like the iPhone has been unlocked. And the results are open source.

Rating: 5

Tags: unlock, iphone, sim

Gizmoz. The world of animated avatars, widgets and user generated video clips

Gizmoz is a free online service that enable you to create your own super cool animated avatar from a facial photo and then use it on social networks, voip calls, mobile, blogs, e-mails and web profiles.

Rating: 4

Tags: avatars, widgets, video

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – OAuth: Standardizing Authentication and Authorization for Web APIs

“OpenID gives you a way to answer the question “Is leahculver @ Pownce also leahculver @ Twitter?” but it doesn’t tell you how Pownce can then use this information to perform actions on Leah’s behalf on Twitter. Duh. I had implicitly assumed that whatever authentication ticket returned from the OpenID validation request could be used as an authorization ticket when calling the OpenID provider’s API, but there’s nothing that actually says this has to be the case in any of the specs.

“Not only was none of this thinking new to Leah, she informed me that she had been working with folks from Yahoo!, Google, Six Apart, Twitter, and other companies on a technology specification called OAuth. The purpose of which was to solve the problem I had just highlighted.”

Rating: 4

Tags: oauth, openid

View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia