January 2011
9 posts
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Yahoo! and OpenID: Opens to Third-Party... →
Everyone said they are supporting OpenID and became providers (Google, Microsoft, etc.). So, you had even more identities available but almost nowhere to use them. (nb: there are sites out there that allow OpenID, but much fewer than what was expected when OpenID initiative started1)
OpenID is fairly pointless if every site wants to be a producer but not a consumer.
Yahoo! is once again making...
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Google App Engine Updates
I haven’t upgraded the Python Google App Engine in a while and now I’m trying to catch up with the latest changes.
Version 1.4.0
The developer who uploaded an app version can download that version’s code using the appcfg.py download_app command. This feature can be disabled on a per application basis in the admin console, under the ‘Permissions’ tab. Once disabled, code download for the...
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How is Google Reader any better than Facebook or... →
Google have zero interest in your being able to read the news anywhere other than on their servers, where they can know everything you read, every website you follow and every action you take. That is why there is no RSS reader built into Google Chrome. Without knowledge Google is powerless and a native RSS reader gives them no knowledge of you.
By the same Kroc Camen.
What Exactly is a Business Model? →
Everyone in the tech world talks about business models. But I’ll bet that if you quizzed a random sample of these people, you’d find that they really don’t know what a business model is. I did…
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Android Gingerbread Ported to iPhone →
Hilarious:
And, yes, this once again means that the iPhone has gotten the latest version of Android before many Android devices have.
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If RSS Would Die →
Great article on the implications of RSS dying:
We lose a common standard by which content can be aggregated. A developer should not have to be fluent in Twitter, Facebook and a million different private APIs just to aggregate content from different websites you read
Summarized:
we would lose all sense of privacy
we would lose any control on what, when, and how we consume
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Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web... →
Marco Arment on the Google search degrading quality:
But recently, spam has taken over the “guide” query results, and even many “reference” queries. It wouldn’t surprise me if spam even started defeating the “address bar” queries — Google’s ranking algorithms recently have had a lot of trouble detecting the canonical source of duplicated content.
In other words, it’s now nearly impossible to...
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Android: The First Widely Open Source Client OS
Kevin Marks:
The most remarkable thing about Android is that it is the first widely adopted Open Source client operating system.
epeus.blogspot.com
No. Probably the most remarkable thing about Android is that it has a chance to reduce the extremely segmentized mobile world. With all its versions out there, I’m not sure it is doing the best possible job though.
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The Almighty Google Search
If these dime-store scrapers were doing so well and generating so much traffic on the back of our content – how was the rest of the web faring? My enduring faith in the gravitational constant of Google had been shaken. Shaken to the very core.
codinghorror.com
If you are Wikipedia, you have a special flag in Google Search.
If you are StackOverflow, you may get a couple of Google people to...