Ma.gnolia: John Eckman's Bookmarks

BBC NEWS | Technology | MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme

jeckman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:34:55 PDT

Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details to access lots of other sites.

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Tags: openid, identity, msypace, social networking

SoyLatte - Port of BSD Java

jeckman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:40:41 PDT

Port of FreeBSD java patches to intel based Macs running OS X for Java 6 development

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Tags: java, bsd, mac os x, mac, java 6

Araelium Group : Screenflick

jeckman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:48:55 PDT

OS X software source code and text editor, and screencast recording utility.

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Tags: screencast, recorder, OS X, Apple, Mac

Business Technology : Why Most Online Communities Fail

jeckman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:37:22 PDT

One of the hot investments for businesses these days is online communities that help customers feel connected to a brand. But most of these efforts produce fancy Web sites that few people ever visit. The problem: Businesses are focusing on the value an online community can provide to themselves, not the community. Most corporate-sponsored online communities are virtual ghost towns That’s according to Ed Moran, a Deloitte consultant who just completed a study of more than 100 businesses with online communities. Not surprisingly, these sites failed to gain traction with customers. Thirty-five percent of the online communities ...

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Tags: community, online, brand, marketing, adoption

The web is the most conservative force on Earth | The Spectator

jeckman — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:48:28 PDT

Digital technology has made us a society of mass archivers, says Charles Leadbeater. Far from rotting our brains, the web enables us to preserve all our memories

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Tags: web 2.0, lifestream, memory, ugc, culture, memorabilia

BBC NEWS | Technology | Firms 'miss' social site success

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:22:31 PDT

Businesses are not making the most of social networking sites, say researchers.

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Tags: bbc, gartner, social networking

Sweetter 2.0

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:20:21 PDT

Open Source twitter alternative

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Tags: open source, twitter

280 Slides - Create & Share Presentations Online

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:14:56 PDT

Online, browser based application for creating presentations

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Tags: slides, presentations, powerpoint, deck, online, web application, saas

Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight, Strategy, Design and Development

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:12:53 PDT

These seven building blocks--identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing--provide a good functional definition for social software. They're also a solid foundation for thinking about how social software works.

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Tags: social software, social, networking, user experience, interaction design

socialsite: Home

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:05:02 PDT

Glassfish based open social application container

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Tags: sun, java, opensocial, container, shindig, socialsite, glassfish

TwitterSnooze! v0.2

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:03:06 PDT

Hit the snooze button on verbose twitter friends - turns them off for some period of time you specify (# of days)

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Tags: twitter, api, snooze, mute, unfollow, pause

Facebook Apps Can Now Be Hosted Outside Facebook | AccuraCast Search Daily News

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:00:54 PDT

In what is clearly a very smart move, Facebook has leapt ahead of its competitors by announcing a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to run on all websites. Application providers can now create applications that will run within Facebook and can also be added by webmasters onto regular HTML websites. Facebook’s JavaScript [...]

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Tags: facebook, fb, api, javascript, external, application

Favrd.

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:50:30 PDT

Tracks interesting things that show up on Twitter. No webcocks.

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Tags: fun, twitter, random, favorites, web 2.0

Freevlog

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:46:16 PDT

Everything you need to get started videoblogging now

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Tags: videoblog, vlog, video, blog, free, open source, guide, tutorial

Dr. Dobb's | Web Maps with the Google Map API | November 6, 2007

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:42:25 PDT

Google has provided web developers with a feature rich toolset for representing geographical information.

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Tags: Google, googlemaps, tutorial, howto

Gnip: Making Data Portability Suck Less

jeckman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:29:58 PDT

Gnip is a new middleware service which sits between producers and consumers of "social data" - interesting to see if people accept this as a kind of hosted ETL for the social web

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Tags: data portability, gnip, lifestream, aggregation, syndication, open standards, xmpp, atom, rest, comet

Laconica : Home Page

jeckman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:27:31 PDT

Open source microblogging tool - will ultimately be federated open twitter

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Tags: Open Source, microblogging, twitter

posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us.

jeckman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:31:02 PDT

Interesting example of how to microblog via email with virtually no account setup

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Tags: blog, microblog, usability

Twellow.com :: Twitter users organized into business categories

jeckman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:19:17 PDT

Twitter people search that works

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Tags: twitter people search

Pylot | Open Source Web Performance Tool

jeckman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:24:25 PDT

Pylot is a free tool for testing performance and scalability of web services

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Tags: performance, load, scale, testing, open source, python

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

jeckman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:09:49 PDT

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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Tags: tag clouds, tagging, words, visualization, many eyes, ibm, jonathan feinberg

Tag Galaxy - Flickr Visualization in DesignDemo by Max Kiesler

jeckman — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:00:44 PDT

Tag Galaxy - Flickr Visualization in DesignDemo by Max Kiesler. Max Kiesler is an award-winning web and interface designer with extensive experience in website development and internet communications. He is currently a co-founder and Partner at Ideacodes located in the SOMA district in downtown San Francisco.

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Tags: Flick, Twitter, Visualization

Ajaxian » Speed Up! with Wordpress and Gears

jeckman — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:40:05 PDT

Can't wait for this to be deployed as a wordpress update - google gears to speed up the insert media popups in WordPress

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Tags: wordpress, gears, offline, speed

OpenKM Document Management System | Open Source DMS - Home

jeckman — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:33:52 PDT

Open source kM platform for document management based on java technologies,Jackrabbit, lucene, GWT google web toolkit.

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Tags: gwt, jackrabbit, lucene, OpenKM, open source, knowledge management, enterprise 2.0

For Individuals - The DataPortability Project - The DataPortability wiki

jeckman — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:09:48 PDT

Great guide to Data Portability from an individual perspective, listing all you can do - pretty geeky / tech heavy, but if you wanna be a pioneer . . .

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Tags: OpenID, YADIS, Microformats, hCard, FOAF, YASN-Roll, data portability