Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging
Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural ant ...
Within just a few weeks, the video had been viewed more ...
This semester Mr. Wesch is leading a class of nine under ...

The web is better when it's social
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that ...
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications ...
Many sites, one API
A common API means you have less to learn to build for m ...

The public web is made up of linked pages that represent... people. Google Search helps make this information more a... useful. If you take away the documents, you're left with... between people. Information about the public connections... really usef

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ...
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ...
This articl

Silo free living.
Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnec ...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the cr ...
Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing ...
... * …and others

If anyone has seen a teenager’s MySpace page, you may ... a particular “aesthetic” that comes partially as the... customizing pages by cutting and pasting HTML and CSS co... profile-editing forms. It’s not clear to me if this wa... the MySpace

The education secretary, Alan Johnson, has come under fi... the use of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia for sc...

Flickrvision
Picked this web app from a friend's facebook page and I ...
Just a fleeting glimpse of strangers' lives and interest ...
Perhaps we could learn something from this for Emerge... ...

Chainki is the world's biggest collection of links that ...
Key features of Chainki:
* non-profit website
* open to all editors - anyone can edit the links - ...
... collection of website links, but which anybody can edit.

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us...
The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ...
Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ...
Newmark say

FileChucker is an AJAX-based web application that lets y... uploads on your own website. It's simple to install (ju... packed with features, fully configurable, nice looking, ...
FileChucker can also function as a full-fledged online f ...
To top it a

I've been brainstorming about a way to make a distribute... using OpenID. The goals I have for such a network are:
1. Use OpenID for global identities.
2. If you have an account on service A, and I have an ...
3. Some sort of output format that

Hashtags become even more useful in a time of crisis or ... can rally around a common term to facilitate tracking, a... today with the San Diego fires (in fact, it was similar ... Bay Area earthquakes that lead me to propose hashtags in... as I’d se

Feed43 engine converts free-form HTML or XML documents t... by extracting snippets of text or HTML by means of apply... patterns, and then joining these snippets together using... to form user-friendly content of feed's items. The princ... specific da

What's it all about?
Welcome to Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange ...

What follows are instructions for manually building and ...
* Ruby on Rails 1.1
* Ruby 1.8.4
* LightTPD 1.4.11
... * FastCGI and MySQL bindings

iRows Founders Join Google
As the title says, we have decided to join Google.
We are really excited about this transition. When we sta ...
We launched iRows in January, and will shut it down on 3 ...
Being at Google will allow us to continue doing what we

hReview is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable ... reviews (of products, services, businesses, events, etc.... Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hReview is one of several ... standards.

Rel-Tag is one of several MicroFormats. By adding rel="t... a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink ... author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the cur... that a tag may just refer to a major portion of the curr... blog post).

There are currently a million ways to embed distinct sni... and functionality on web pages. The most common two are ... and some form of javascript syndication (you put this sc... we'll document.write some stuff on your page). In the XM...
I (User:Kev

xFolk is an open social bookmarking standard that aims t... benefits. Social bookmarking services that adopt xFolk w... differentiate themselves with data services. But, the da... easy to manipulate by third party scripts and easy to sh... bookmarking

N2 Wiki
This is the home of the Talis Platform Community.
The Talis Platform is an environment for building next g ...
This Wiki is the starting point for Platform documentati ...
... ators to exchange common snippets of store configuration

With Friends Like These
webpage from facebook site
Are we revealing too much information about ourselves?
BBC Radio 4's Analysis: With Friends Like These will be ...
... c and searchable, and will be around, perhaps, for ever.

When Google announced that its new social-networking ini... extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land ... social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.
In a move that was anticipated for weeks, Google has unv ...
The initiative,

Young people are risking their privacy and leaving poten... information on social-networking sites, says the Information Commissioner's Office.
Millions of young people in Britain would not want a col ...

What is NoseRub?
NoseRub is a protocol.
What currently can be downloaded is just an example impl ...
How is it a »decentralised« social network?
... . You can build anything on top of the NoseRub protocol.

Developers
Dive into OpenID
There are a lot of great guides to getting started with ...
* http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
... are still being discussed and evolved by the community.

Dive into OpenID
There are a lot of great guides to getting started with ...
* http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
* http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID ...
... are still being discussed and evolved by the community.

How can we produce designs that can be appropriated for ... we design for unintended uses?