It’s getting exciting in the world of cross-network authentication. Let’s review. I can now: sign into Digg using Facebook sign into DISQUS using Facebook or Twitter sign into Facebook automatically using OpenID (with two-factor authentication) or Google sign into FriendFeed using Google, Twitter, or Facebook We’re quickly approaching the point where we’re going to be able to log…
Standards For Addition to Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, and LinkedIn
Here’s an interesting question: what is your standard for deciding when to add a given person to these various services? Twitter Facebook Friendfeed LinkedIn Here are mine (I think). Twitter Anyone that seems interesting. I treat this as a content discovery method in addition to a personal communication system. I differentiate this by only doing SMS updates to…
LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com
The ultimate way to demonstrate (in a semi-rude fashion) that when people ask you questions they’re just outsourcing work to you, and that they should do it themselves. Example: How many feet in a mile? Answer: [ How Many Feet in a Mile | letmegooglethatforyou.com ]
My Idea For A True Content Aggregation Service
I’ve been struggling with a problem for a while now. The problem is how to properly display on my site everything online that I create vs. everything online that I find and enjoy. The issue is that these two types of content need to be differentiated to provide maximum value to readers. So here are my requirements. I…
The Simple, Effective Way to Track What’s Said About You on the Internet
You don’t have to be an ego-freak to wonder if others are talking about you online. Egosurfing, i.e. the act of looking yourself up in search engines, is something most regular Internet users have done at least once. It’s very human to want to know if we’re affecting the world we live in. So the old way to…
Lifecasting: What It Is and How It Will Change Society
Our society is about to change drastically, and not in 20 or 50 years, and not because of cybernetics or nanotechnology. It’s about to change due to lifecasting. Lifecasting in its current form is where people broadcast, usually via a mounted camera at home, a significant portion of their lives. Justin.tv is one of the most successful examples…
Internet Security Love
The information security community is a relatively small one, and it remains so even on the Internet. It feels good to get noticed by your fellow infosec enthusiasts — especially when they’re known for being sharp themselves. Some kind words recently came my way from Mike Rothman, of Security Incite. Speaking about my recent post on OS X…
Some Thoughts on Google’s Bookmarking and Linkrolling Strategy
If you use Google Reader you can instantly “share” any entry you’re viewing by simply typing “S” (shift-s). This adds the story’s title and source to your very own feed of shared links. And that feed can even be published as a linkroll on your site. Very cool. Here’s what mine looks like when published on my site…
Saying No To “www”: A Fortune 50 Company Analysis
I recently wrote a piece about why we need to abandon the use of “www” both in speech and in technical implementation. The overwhelming response led me to wonder how the business world was handling the issue. How do the “serious” companies deal with requests that don’t include the “www” prefix? I started with the 2007 Fortune 500…
Digg and Reddit: It’s Not Wrong to Create and Submit Your Own Content. In Fact, it’s Necessary.
I wrote recently about learning to differentiate between blogspam and self-submitted content on meritocracy-based sites like Digg and Reddit. My goal was to try and reverse the negative programming we all have towards reading self-submitted material. I attempted to do this by showing how it differs from spamming — which is taking someone else’s writing and submitting it…