Notes"(The student now) fears that the school could make her give up her passwords at a moment's notice, at any time, for any reason," the lawsuit claims. It also alleges that password prying is standard practice at the Minnewaska Middle School, which the student still attends. "(Officials) have compelled other students to disclose their private information and have accessed students' online accounts on multiple occasions," it states.Unfurl
NotesPerhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recentlyâŠUnfurl
NotesMiami University's Augmented Reality Research Group developed an Android app that helps librarians find mis-shelved books and determine where they should go. It's a simple idea, and one that could save librarians hours of drudgery (or cost many temps their jobs, but that's another story). Sounds a lot more useful than virtual mirrors for tryingâŠUnfurl
NotesGoogle has quietly moved the link to access Google Reader, its online RSS reader service, below the top level navigation fold for Gmail users. Some Google Reader users are complaining about the move as an inconvenience, but the biggest loss will be to those users who have yet to start using Reader. The Picasa photo service has replaced ReaderâŠUnfurl
NotesFinding strong programming team members is really hard. Unless you've already worked with someone, it's tough to assess how strong a contributor they'll be. Technical tests only show technical ability, and good people can often pick up those skills on the job, whereas jerks can have encyclopedic knowledge but destroy productivity. At Apple theyâŠUnfurl
Notes"I almost never actually visit the Facebook web site: I follow it through a feed reader (in my case, NetNewsWire) along with all of my other feeds. "Unfurl
Notes"Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who have published their content online only to see the tools they use become broken or less desirable. "Unfurl
Notes"Not only has the poll been swamped to promote Moot (the pseudonym of the creator of 4chan, an image board and the birthpace for many internet memes) as the most influential of people, the poll crashers have manipulated the order of all the other nominees so that the first letter of each line spells out âmarble cake, also the gameâ (marble cake is not really a kind of cake btw). This is pretty phenomenal, precision hacking."Unfurl
Notes"There it was. The thing that was nagging me all along: when you are designing a user experience, how do you leave room for (or even encourage) the fun, seemingly non-productive behavior that users engage in. The stuff that encourages light interactions between community members. The stuff that includes throwing sheep, poking, giving virtual gifts and nudging. It is this fun stuff that helps community members break the ice, bridge and dabble with connections."Unfurl
Notes"This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm. This concept may not be new information to some of you - Jyri has been talking "social objects" for years now. What is interesting, though, is how well this information has held up over time. "Unfurl
NotesHonest look at what happened to ma.gnolia. Painful, but honest. In a nutshell: Make sure your backups are recoverable, and prove it regularly. Someday, something *will* go boom. It'll really hurt when the data loss is over half-a-terabyte. "This week Chris and Larry discuss the Ma.gnolia's data loss, what is has meant for the service and in the community, and what may be coming in the future."Unfurl
Notes"Popular online activity-monitoring service FriendFeed just announced IM integration and the way they implemented it is really smart. I'm now getting an IM every time someone comments on one of my items in FriendFeed, and I can reply with a comment on that very same item from inside my IM client. It's a great way to keep on top of conversations and keep them flowing. "Unfurl
Notes"MMO servers are currently limited by technological sizes. But what does a server where you know everybody (even a little) look like? What if we limited group sizes for social, not technological reasons? ... We wouldnât have these servers that resemble sprawling cities; weâd build villages, and hamlets, and travelling camps. And as they grew too big, or small groups within the community grew, theyâd break off and move to places where thereâs more space for them. In one sense, thatâs a more natural metaphor for our users, and itâs a scale that makes sense for them. ... I like this idea that everything, fundamentally, happens at a group level."Unfurl
NotesAt one point, I thought something like this would've been a good idea for Delicious. But, I never took time to think it through or make a case for it. Could be a horrible idea for all I know. It'll be interesting to see where and how far this goes: "As we develop M2, it means weâll be posting the code for most pieces in the open and having regular discussions on both technical and non-technical subjects to get input from the community and to share our progress. ... Once M2 is launched, the open source aspects can be downloaded and run as a self-administered installation that can be independent or federated with other installations, including Ma.gnolia.com."Unfurl
Notes"For example, assuming that within the next few years, more and more people will have a social presence online, my little guy will have no real excuse to âlost contactâ with anyone he makes contact with."Unfurl
Notes"As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authorsâ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."Unfurl
Notes"There are some great things happening in social media in Metro Detroit. If there was one clear lesson from last nightâs gathering of Twitterati from the Metro area, itâs that SF, Boston, Austin & Toronto are NOT the only social media hotspots."Unfurl
Notes"it really is true that if you haven't done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app from prototype to large/giant-scale on a UNIX stack, then you really don't know shit."Unfurl
Notes"Cutting-edge social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia stopped issuing new user credentials last night and now requires new users to create a Ma.gnolia account using an OpenID from somewhere else."Unfurl
Notes"Here's a toolbar bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you're on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll"Unfurl
Notes"Enter the infobot: an autonomous program that converses with users. Infobots are an ongoing experiment in how we can interact as communities with a common institutional memory."Unfurl
NotesNoticing one thing missing from most tagging schemes: Preservation of the order of tags as entered with the item. Seems minor, but it's actually important for capturing intent.FeedUnfurl
Notes"HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way."Unfurl
Pandora Relaunches Site in HTML5, Removes Music Listening Cap
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Detroit Tweetup Recap : Colinâs Blog
Layoffs and Social Media (by Jeremy Zawodny)
