Category: internet
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Coming out
My New Year’s resolution for 2011 is to be more public on the web. Thus I am changing all my usernames and identities from to reflect my real name. I have been thinking about this for some time now, but have held off for two reasons: naming and timing. My full name (Chad Kohalyk) is…
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Periodic Table of the (HTML5) Elements
cameronmoll: Josh Duck put together a nicely designed table showing the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements. Bonus: Enter the URL for any site to see which elements are used, such as colosseotype.com. Periodic Table of the (HTML5) Elements
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Interactive map of Facebook users
Facebook500M Powered by Tableau via RWW
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http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Inspiring talk by Ethan Zuckerman. Excellent point on how unevenly distributed “global” online media is. It is something I have felt for a long time, being a non-American geek living as an expat in Asia. By the way, here is an early version of Alisa Miller’s news map mentioned in the talk. Bridging the…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIEieyFcNAw?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] papadimitriou: Scarcity. Abundance. Indulgences. Modern Media. Clay Shirky. More from btnn.tv (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Example of the web’s free culture crossing into the real world
Today I was talking to the guy who was 2nd in the 1200 person line at the Ginza Apple Store iPad launch day. He said that people were using Twitter while waiting, complaining about the cold and hunger, and people who saw their tweets brought food! I saw a similar outpouring while watching @josephtame run…
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Forcing Facebook to Federate: A question for developers
One of the biggest fears in deleting your Facebook profile is the lack of alternatives. The sheer monopoly that Facebook has in the SNS space is overwhelming, making it hard to abandon ship. The ideal situation for social networking in the future is federation. Standard protocols are decided upon, and customers rely on interoperable service…
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Farewell Facebook
For the past 2 weeks I have been seriously considering deleting my Facebook account. The tech community is rife with doubts about how Facebook is running its business, and where it is going in the future (check any number of tech blogs to see coverage of this). I don’t want to be a part of…
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Substandard web-browsing experience on the iPad and iPhone
An astounding number of websites on the Japanese web fail to declare charset, resulting in garbled text (文字化け), requiring the user to manually switch encoding. Safari on the Mac or PC allows you to switch via the View menu. Unfortunately there is no such menu for Mobile Safari. The iPad is billed as an amazing…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc?feature=oembed&w=500&h=374] A vision of networked computer interaction (quasi-internet?) from 1969. Via The Strategist (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)