Like any hyped technology, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folksonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social software.
Social software is there to support networking and social activities via the internet. Lots of people spend lots of time interacting with [...]
At the CSW XML Summer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Transients track. I’ve been pondering whether to write it up as a series of postings or not; there’s so much hype and information around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I [...]
For those, like me, who are somewhat privacy-oriented, and use Firefox as their browser, I recommend using the Customize Google extension. I set it up to use https for accessing Google docs, reader, and calendar, and to anonymize the Google ID for searching. You can also anonymize the Google analytics cookie, which I’m not doing [...]
If you have children, or an interest in privacy, spend the time and watch the video of Professor Valerie Steeves discussing how children’s web sites monitor their visits. It’s scary. [Link from Michael's Geist's blog.]
After seeing this, I wonder why the schools here don’t teach more about privacy. When we were last in Australia, visiting [...]
While upgrading my WordPress installation, I decided that the permalink structure’s inclusion of the “/archives” string was superfluous. http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2007/10/04/sample-post/ contains as much relevant information as http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/archives/2007/10/04/sample-post/. So I changed the permalink structure, and also installed Dean’s Permalinks Migration to take care of the 301 redirection of links to the old URLs. So far it seems [...]
I’ve now finished my current batch of postings about Sun’s OpenID IdP. Here’s a listing of the relevant postings that the team has made. I’ll add new postings to this list as they’re published, or as I find them.
Purpose and Policies
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Introduction
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Business Purpose
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Data Governance
my [...]
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