Links for October 31st through November 1st:
- Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches – NYTimes.com – By their very names — MySpace, YouTube — companies promote a sense of ownership about content that users create. But control of digital assets is often disputed, and the mediators — whether they provide e-mail services, social networking or virtual real estate — have a big say.
“Access and control are the two big levers,” said Devan R. Desai, a visiting fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University in New Jersey and professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California. “Assuming it’s yours, can you access it, and how easy is it to move it around?”
- New York Times – Linked Open Data – data.nytimes.com
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- Replace watch.swf with warp.swf on YouTube – If you replace /watch with warp.swf in a url on youtube, a new application shows up that dynamically opens up new nodes of related videos. Its both interesting and bizarre, and a good way to burn five minutes: YouTube Warp.
If you really like it you can install this Warp Bookmarklet to quickly jump to Warp from any YouTube video. Right click on the link ‘this bookmarklet’ in the previous sentence and select Add to Favorites or Bookmark this Link, and place the link in the browser’s toolbar.
- MediaPost Publications Facebook’s Developer Changes May Benefit Brands 10/30/2009 – New application and games dashboards are slated for the home page, making it easier for people to see the latest apps they have used as well as discovering new ones based on what friends are engaging in.
To provide easier access, the applications bookmarks will be moved from the bottom left side of any page on Facebook to a more prominent location on the left side of the home page. An "Ad Bookmark" button will also be created for apps.
Among broader changes in the works, Facebook will end its verification program for apps, instead applying the initiative's more rigorous standards to all apps. Facebook is also launching an "Open Graph" API (application protocol interface) so any Web page can, in effect, become a Facebook brand page — users can become a fan of the page, and it will show up on that user's profile and in search results.
- The power of tweets | From the Guardian | The Guardian – But others are not quite so positive. The sheer weight of Twitter's collective voice, some believe, might even prove a danger to free speech. Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence". The danger of these "vast explosions of offence-taking" is that they create "a 'you-can't-say-that' culture in which one is scared to speak one's mind".
Brendan O'Neill, journalist, writer and editor of Spiked Online, coined the term, in an article for the Irish site Forth, "the offencerati" to describe the "those computer-bound Twitterers who enjoy nothing more than being outraged, scandalised and allegedly harmed, and who refuse to tolerate anything so intolerant as a Daily Mail rant".
In person, O'Neill freely confesses he "really hates Twitter: it's not a place you can talk in detail or …
Bookmarks for October 31st through November 1st
Links for October 31st through November 1st:
“Access and control are the two big levers,” said Devan R. Desai, a visiting fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University in New Jersey and professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California. “Assuming it’s yours, can you access it, and how easy is it to move it around?”
For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data.
The Data
The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions.
Browse individual data records:
If you really like it you can install this Warp Bookmarklet to quickly jump to Warp from any YouTube video. Right click on the link ‘this bookmarklet’ in the previous sentence and select Add to Favorites or Bookmark this Link, and place the link in the browser’s toolbar.
To provide easier access, the applications bookmarks will be moved from the bottom left side of any page on Facebook to a more prominent location on the left side of the home page. An "Ad Bookmark" button will also be created for apps.
Among broader changes in the works, Facebook will end its verification program for apps, instead applying the initiative's more rigorous standards to all apps. Facebook is also launching an "Open Graph" API (application protocol interface) so any Web page can, in effect, become a Facebook brand page — users can become a fan of the page, and it will show up on that user's profile and in search results.
Brendan O'Neill, journalist, writer and editor of Spiked Online, coined the term, in an article for the Irish site Forth, "the offencerati" to describe the "those computer-bound Twitterers who enjoy nothing more than being outraged, scandalised and allegedly harmed, and who refuse to tolerate anything so intolerant as a Daily Mail rant".
In person, O'Neill freely confesses he "really hates Twitter: it's not a place you can talk in detail or …