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If MIT students ride your subway system, you’d better beef up network security - The Network Hub: A SearchNetworking.com blog

jeckman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:38:49 PDT

Shocking news: The RFID fare card system that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) uses on its buses and subway is totally hackable. This past weekend, three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students (Alessandro Chiesa, RJ Ryan, and Zack Anderson) were supposed to deli...

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Tags: MIT, MBTA, Charlie Card, Defcon

DeWitt Clinton » Blog Archive » On Fighting the Web Itself

jeckman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:20:10 PDT

Excellent editorial by DeWitt Clinton about trying to fork the web and move against the open standards and open source approach.

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Tags: open source, proprietary, web, standards, RIA, Silverlight, Google, Gears

50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider | chrisbrogan.com

jeckman — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:56:11 PDT

50 online applications in social media for: Blogging, microblogging, social bookmarking, Social news, Social networks, Video platforms, and Miscellaneous

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Tags: web 2.0, cloud, asp, service, blog, microblog, sharing, social media, social

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