Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”
Michael Arrington
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Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is ...
... t to lunch today. Either way, we’ve captured it above.

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 user... Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts ... growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that mi... - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.
Wikipatterns.com is

LucidChart is the missing link in online office producti...
LucidChart was designed to fit comfortably into the work ...
1. The interface must be clean and intuitive. No loya ...
2. Collaboration must be easy to set up and easy to u ...
... g to PD

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

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
It's that k

On-demand JavaScript :: IE6/7 and Firefox 2.x
Last year, there was a lot of talk about on-demand JavaS ...

Overview
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention ...

People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every ye... avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing mo... of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhe... What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard e... ‘objects

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-... applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
From the Ajax in the view, to the request and resp ...
To go live, all you need to add is a database and ...

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).

Ripple is a dedicated scripting language for the Semanti... programs not only query the Semantic Web, but also resid... data structures, forming a global network of interlinked... is best classified as a relational stack language, close... functional

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi...
Use Riya to:
* Find similar faces and objects on many images acro ...
* Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.
... look forward to your feedback via email or via our blog.

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

Social Lending is where people lend and borrow money wit... sidestepping the banks. And the more you think about it,... sense.

Social networking site Facebook is facing an investigati... privacy watchdog after a complaint from a Channel 4 News...

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

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an... effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standar... expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and in... mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of ... publishing,

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

The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportu... the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social in... variety of contexts. Such popularity, in fact, is making... amounts of raw data from online semiotic systems (for ex... collaborati

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 ...

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

This event focuses on some significant developments in I... that have emerged in the last few years. Although these ... received widespread media coverage they have so far rece... way of sustained investigation by the social sciences. T... intended to

This next generation of web services will likely adhere ... style called REST, the underlying architectural model of... It stands for "representational state transfer". Roy Fie... created the name in his PhD dissertation. Recently, Mark... Planetfred

This page is part of the Prototype JavaScript framework ...
Overview | (...)
Prototype is a Java Script framework that aims to ease d ...
Its author and maintainer is Sam Stephenson.
... ess-apps.com/jordan/pages/Prototype%20Library%20Info.htm

Throughout the course of the past two months, our projec... lot of changes. Originally, we thought our project could... addiction, the consequences of misinformation online and... interventions, or relationships and social networks. The... relationshi

Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
J. Inf. Sci., Vol. 32, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 198-208.
Authors
* Golder SA, Huberman BA
... * HighWire: View article online

We sometimes forget the real use of data - that of provi... humanity in various forms, and providing true functional... need it. Connections are good, but functionality is para... that a company can store ticket information on the web i... but the use

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