TAG: notes
September 20th
Doc Searls has a nice writeup of Blog Search engines, including the new Google Blog Search, IceRocket, PubSub, Technorati, Blogpulse, and A9.
He answers the question: What’s the difference between a Wide Web Search and a Live Web Search?
The difference? Syndication. I wonder how long that distinction will last.
September 17th
If you’re a PHP programmer, check out Joe Stump’s article on Understanding MVP in PHP. Ever since I started doing things the MVC way, I’ve become much more productive…
September 16th
(via Infodesign) In The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems Scott Golder and Bernardo Huberman of HP Labs examine folksonomies. From the abstract:
“Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.”
September 15th
This has the potential to be very popular: a project called Ajax pages has just been released, with the intent to allow people to embed Javascript code in HTML like we do with PHP, ASP, and JSP.
It’s not server-side, though, from what I can tell. It’s simply a way to manipulate things client-side in a familiar way.
Here’s an example:
<html>
<body>
<% var hello = "Hello World"; %>
<%=hello%>
</body>
</html>
Check out the tutorial to see how it works.
September 14th
An interesting piece at Wired about a new browser called Flock.
The first question will probably be, unfortunately, this: How do you monetize a browser?
Instead, let’s ask this one: What does this do that I can’t do now?
September 13th
“At one point, Battelle paints a disturbing picture, sketching out a scenario in which the federal government could demand that Google provide personal information about its users in the name of national security.
If that were to happen, Google would have to notify all the affected parties, right? Not under the U.S. Patriot Act, which specifically forbids companies from making disclosures about government requests for information.
Didn’t know that? Don’t feel bad. Neither did Brin when Battelle asked him earlier this year about the potential perils of Google becoming a secret tool for the U.S. government.
September 12th
Doc Searls in Talking Markets:
“The Powers that Were are no longer the only ones with the power to communicate, influence and change culture as well as prices. Look how the market for (actually the category of) photography has changed, thanks not only to what Nikon, Sony, Canon and Flickr have done, but to what any of us can do with tagging.”
September 12th
Tom Coates writes up how to build bubble-up folksonomies. It’s an interesting piece, sure to become more useful over time, as systems migrate toward bottoms-up instead of top-down.
Are you thinking of building something like this?
September 11th
I think that sums up the new browser, now in beta. Just look at some of the new and updated features:
See the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta for Developers page for more info.
September 8th
The next wave of applications will be web-based. Many will be online equivalents to what we have on the desktop. In recent months the push has been toward applications that mirror Microsoft Office: made up of a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs.
ThinkFree Office is in Beta, written with Java, and pretty darn robust.
You can try out the apps, too:
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