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SitePoint: Making Friends with
Assertions
SitePoint: Making Friends with
Assertions
01/23/2003 08:57 AMReport Says Key Assertions Leading to
War Were Wrong
Report Says Key Assertions Leading to
War Were Wrong
07/09/2004 01:14 PMU.S. intelligence agencies fell victim to false "group think," a
bipartisan Senate report issued today says.
Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in
Dispute
Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in
Dispute
09/26/2004 06:52 PMReuters via Wired News Sep 26 2004 10:36PM GMT
AuctionCoast.Com Offers New, Effortless
Ways to Sell on eBay
AuctionCoast.Com Offers New, Effortless
Ways to Sell on eBay
06/06/2004 03:35 AMYou don't even need a computer. Just bring in your merchandise and our
knowledgeable staff does all the right things to sell it on eBay at
the highest price. [PRWEB Jun 6, 2004]
Octave Systems, Inc. Introduces
Effortless Live Event Recording
Octave Systems, Inc. Introduces
Effortless Live Event Recording
09/22/2004 04:12 PMThe innovative California company offers Tascam CD-RW750 a complete
solution to recording and duplicating institutional live events such
as seminars and church services. In combination with its Copy Master
CD duplicator, professional-quality recording is just a push of a
button away. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]
factually challenged David Brock
starting a web site to fight "erroneous
assertions" by the conservative media
factually challenged David Brock
starting a web site to fight "erroneous
assertions" by the conservative media
05/03/2004 10:48 AMNew Internet Site Turns Critical Eyes and Ears to the Right .. Media
Matters To Launch With $2 Million Funding .. corrigir os
media
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SymbianOne And Cognima Snap Together At
Symbian Expo; Cognima Snap™ provides
effortless photo upload for SymbianOne's
Expo coverage.
SymbianOne And Cognima Snap Together At
Symbian Expo; Cognima Snap™ provides
effortless photo upload for SymbianOne's
Expo coverage.
09/24/2004 03:29 AMWe are pleased to announce that we will be bringing live images from
the Symbian Expo show floor with the assistance of Cognima and Orange
Partner using Cognima's revolutionary Snap technology. Right now a
demonstration page is available and full coverage will start 5th
October. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]
PTY Intrusion Detection
PTY Intrusion Detection
04/20/2004 02:14 PMShell Intrusion Detection: Release 0.3.4
Zen and the art of intrusion detection
Zen and the art of intrusion detection
01/06/2005 11:51 AMMore Than Just Leak Detection
More Than Just Leak Detection
07/25/2004 02:32 AMBlacoh’s Spill-STOP® is much more than a standard alarm or moisture
sensor. The Spill-STOP® features a patented design which captures
leaked product caused by a ruptured diaphragm and pneumatically shuts
off the pump automatically! [PRWEB Jul 25, 2004]
Virus Detection
Virus Detection
02/10/2004 07:08 AMVirus Detectionhttp://link.abpi.net/l.php?20040209A2 Researchers at
Purdue University have developed a miniature device sensitive enough
to detect a single virus particle. The device is tiny cantilever, a
diving board-like beam of silicon that naturally vibrates at a
specific frequency. When a virus particle weighing about
one-trillionth as much as a grain of rice lands on the cantilever, it
vibrates at a different frequency. The work, funded by the National
Institutes of Health, is aimed at developing advanced sensors capable
of detecting airborne viruses, bacteria, and other contaminants. Such
sensors will have applications in areas including environmental-health
monitoring in hospitals and homeland security. The next step will be
to coat a cantilever with the antibodies for a specific virus. Only
those virus particles would stick to the device, making it possible to
create detectors sensitive to specific pathogens.
Pre-eclampsia detection hope
Pre-eclampsia detection hope
01/04/2005 08:53 PMLow levels of a key protein may help doctors to identify women at risk
of pre-eclampsia mid-way through pregnancy, research suggests.
JibJab.com Flash Detection
JibJab.com Flash Detection
07/22/2004 10:10 PMThis land is your land, this land is my land .. Holiday greetings from
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Structured change detection
Structured change detection
03/06/2004 01:57 AM
Consider two versions of a Word document saved as XML. There are
"structured diff tools that can map the changes at an intermediate
level, in terms of XML elements. For example, IBM's AlphaWorks site
offers he XML Diff and
Merge Tool for Java, while Microsoft's GotDotNet site offers XML Diff and Patch
for .Net. Both of these free tools can track element-level change.
To get a sense of what's possible, check out Monsell EDM's online demo of its
Delta XML technology. The demo compares two subtly different
versions of a complex graphic -- the standard SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics) "tiger" benchmark -- and animates the differences between
the two. It's stunningly cool.
As XML becomes the standard way to represent prose, graphics, and
other content, we should expect such change visualization to become
routine. What about code? It has sections, subsections, and
paragraphs, too. XML isn't -- and probably shouldn't be -- the primary
way we read and write code. But the underlying abstract syntax tree
has structure that can -- and arguably should -- help us see and
comprehend the code's evolution. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
Ordinarily readers call me on stuff like this, but for once I get a
chance to beat them to the punch. This column certainly should have
mentioned that
Subversion,
the open source project that aims to replace CVS, reached its 1.0
release last week. It looks really good, and I'm investing some time
in learning how to deploy and use it.
...USB Memory With Ghost Detection
USB Memory With Ghost Detection
04/01/2005 10:59 AM
SolidAlliance has announced the "world's first USB memory
with ghost detection." The "GhostRadar USB Memory," in addition to
having a capacity of up to 512MB, features a magnetic field sensor,
people-detecting sensors, and a biological clock. When the unit
detects a ghost, a certain pattern will shine on the LED display.
Not that ghosts and USB memory have anything to do with each
other.
Press
Release [SolidAlliance]
Ida - Intrusion Detection for Apache
Ida - Intrusion Detection for Apache
08/17/2004 03:29 PMIda Alpha 1 released
New x-ray fluorescence fingerprint
detection
New x-ray fluorescence fingerprint
detection
03/22/2005 04:59 PMDavid Pescovitz:
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a new method
to detect the chemical residue left behind by your fingertips. They
used micro-X-ray fluorescence (MXRF) to reveal the sodium, potassium,
chlorine, and other elements excreted in sweat and deposited in a
fingerprint pattern. From Los Alamos News:
The technique has several advantages over traditional fingerprint
detection methods that involve treating the suspect area with powders,
liquids, or vapors in order to add color to the fingerprint so that it
can be easily seen and photographed. Using this technique, known as
contrast enhancement, it is sometimes difficult to detect fingerprints
present on certain substances, such as multicolored backgrounds,
fibrous papers and textiles, wood, leather, plastic, adhesives and
human skin.
Since MXRF is noninvasive, a fingerprint analyzed by the method is
left pristine for examination by other methods like DNA extraction.
LinkMicrosoft GDI+ Detection Tool
Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool
09/15/2004 01:56 AMThe Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool helps detect the presence of
non-Windows Microsoft products that contain the GDI+ component.
Microsoft customers can run this tool to help determine if a GDI+
security update should be applied.
AOL to Add Spyware Detection to Service
AOL to Add Spyware Detection to Service
01/06/2004 02:07 AMNew York Times Jan 6 2004 0:54AM ET
Intrusion detection with Tripwire
Intrusion detection with Tripwire
09/15/2004 03:18 PMFraud Detection Thoughts
Fraud Detection Thoughts
03/19/2005 02:50 AM
Some problems with using individual user behavior analysis for
fraud detection:
-
Low ROI
-
High false signals
-
Bad user experiences
IMHO, it makes more sense to just give the user the means to
protect themselves.
Allow user to move functionalities to areas with the desired
protection level and
set thresholds to the level suitable for them.
For example, divide up functions into three boxes, representing
three levels of required
authentication, and let the user move functions between
boxes. I would keep
transaction history at far left and move money transfer to the far
right which will
result in e-mail confirmation for each transaction.
Much of the user chores can be alleviated by offering a set of
standard account configuration
packages. For premium accounts, additional boxes could be
added for more intimate
verifications like a personal call from the account manager.
Hi, Don.
Are you sure you want to transfer half of your account to a russian
bank?
SUS FAQ: Client Updating Detection
SUS FAQ: Client Updating Detection
02/05/2005 09:40 PMTopic Detection and Tracking (TDT)
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT)
04/09/2005 07:19 AMTopic Detection and Tracking (TDT)http://www.itl.n
ist.gov/iaui/894.01/tests/tdt/Topic Detection and
Tracking research was pursued under the DARPA Translingual Information
Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES) program. Since the
TIDES program ends in 2005, the timing and scope of the next TDT
evaluation is contigent on resolving funding issues. More will be
known early in 2005. Stay tuned to the TDT mailing list and this site
for details. TDT research develops algorithms for discovering and
threading together topically related material in streams of data such
as newswire and broadcast news in both English and Mandarin Chinese.
The overview paper "Multilingual Topic Detection and Tracking:
Successful Research Enabled by Corpora and Evaluation," (Wayne
LREC2000) describes in more detail the TDT program, the TDT corpora
(collections of broadcast news recordings and transcripts), and the
TDT technology evaluation paradigm. This has been added to
Data Mining Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Testing MOM's Detection of Agents
Testing MOM's Detection of Agents
05/23/2004 09:12 PMTrained Rats for Mine Detection
Trained Rats for Mine Detection
05/18/2004 01:33 PMMandatory Banknote Detection Code?
Mandatory Banknote Detection Code?
06/06/2004 11:20 AMNew: Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection,
Second Edition
New: Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection,
Second Edition
06/08/2004 10:31 AMSyngress Publishing's Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, Second Edition,
covers the use of Snort, a system for detecting computer intrusions.
Crime detection figures on slide
Crime detection figures on slide
09/22/2004 08:26 AMThe proportion of crimes solved by police in England and Wales fell
last year, says the Home Office.
Worm sleeps to avoid detection
Worm sleeps to avoid detection
07/13/2004 10:15 AMAlthough it is standard practice for virus writers to protect their
malicious software, the new Atak worm apparently is exceptional.
Passive Asset Detection System
Passive Asset Detection System
08/11/2004 09:19 PMpads-1.0.2 new feature list has been frozen!
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.10
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.10
01/03/2005 11:54 AMA tool for monitoring logins.
Duplicate GUID Detection and Removal
Duplicate GUID Detection and Removal
09/09/2004 10:47 AMDefense and Detection Against Internet
Worms
Defense and Detection Against Internet
Worms
11/13/2003 01:46 PMUniversity Effectively Using Anomaly
Detection
University Effectively Using Anomaly
Detection
04/16/2004 09:08 PMInternet.com Apr 17 2004 1:25AM GMT
Process Change Detection System 2.7
Process Change Detection System 2.7
12/26/2003 11:22 AMWatch new or changing processes.
Fix Sought for XHTML Charset Detection
Bug
Fix Sought for XHTML Charset Detection
Bug
05/01/2004 09:31 PMProcess Change Detection System 2.6
Process Change Detection System 2.6
11/03/2003 10:05 AMWatch new or changing processes.
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.7
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.7
12/09/2003 06:07 PMA tool for monitoring logins.
Linux Intrusion Detection System
2.2.0rc2 for 2.6.7 (2.6)
Linux Intrusion Detection System
2.2.0rc2 for 2.6.7 (2.6)
06/29/2004 01:36 PMA Linux kernel security-enhanced system.
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1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web
1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web
06/21/2004 01:50 PMCall
for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.
You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a
conference.
Topics
The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination
of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge
representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a
practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and
business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web
technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has
been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and
harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between
them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the
project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the
next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF
project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable
descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover
companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing
and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come
to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and
challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.
Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and
publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can
maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or
business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old
friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are
based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are
stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and
business interest in portability between such sites, and for
sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for
data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of
themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such
sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however,
many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have
not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF
change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the
visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How
can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new
services with increased ease?
This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web
provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of
perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and
business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring
together for the first time researchers interested in the effects,
analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as
well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The
workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as
well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social
networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.
Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to
the following:
* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and
formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized
identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner
advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P,
Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous
changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different
datasets
[it's
the danbri and Libby show!]
Communities, social networking and open
source
Communities, social networking and open
source
05/16/2004 06:02 PM
Oh boy, something to write about on a beautiful Sunday
afternoon.
Thanks Ted - 'cause this is exactly what I've been
feeling - that the code (whether it's GPL or
whatever) is only part of the equation of
software. Clearly the Moveable Type community is
feeling riped off as they could have sworn that they had something to
do with the success of Moveable Type.
The ultimate betrayl happens when the folks who control the code -
actually think that the code is their intellectual property that gets
milked on the proverbial tit of business model - to reap the rewards
of life - called profit.
The Moveable Type community ate the red pill and actually expected
to Trotts to eat their own dogfood as well. Well guess what?
Everyone has a different difinition of what 'open' is.......
Tim O'Reilly says that Google and Amazon are open source.
Macromedia thinks Flash is open. Dave Winer thinks RSS 2.0 is
open. Lots of different defintions of the same word.
At the end of the day - it's not just the code that makes
up the standard, but the people who use it. That's a
very simple statement, but so so so so so so so so true.
As Ted has learned through his life - and currently at the
OSAF, building products,
iterating features and refining the software - takes time, energy and
dedication. SixApart knows that only too well, and Joi too - so
it was their time to charge and nobody likes that. Oh well.
No - the code is only PART of the equation of what software is -
and it's the company that controls or owns the software - that gets to
call the shots.
That's why Macromedia does the stupid things it does - as it's
not controlled by me anymore. All future moves by Friendster are
not being driven by Jonathan Abrams anymore (which actually gives
Friendster some hope!)
All this doesn't happen by coincidence - it's actually the
state of the art of our software ecosystem. This is what happens
when a bunch of hackers get laid off and have nothing to do. We
change the rules.
So if Matt Mullenweg
plays his cards right, he can lead the world of WordPress forward and become the next
SixApart - at which point he'll meet the next Joi and eventually will
have to charge for WordPress.
It's called technology gravity - driven by money (and the rent and
food and health plans.)More times than not - the developer of any open
source software expects to make money off of the software - somewhere
down the line....
I can guarentee you Mitch Kapor does!
But he's throwing in his $5M bucks and a few years of his time to
get Chandler there. So
is Matt Mullenweg.
Here's Ted's post.... more response and inspiration from it
- below.
Community owned
weblogging tools. I've been trying to figure out what I think
about the whole Movable Type situation, since Julie's blog is running on it.
For the record, I think that SixApart should be
free to charge money for their product, and to price it as they see
fit. That's how business works. SixApart is't a charity, and the rest
of us have no business forcing them to be one if they don't want to be
one.
Being an open source guy, I figured that the obvious angle to
tackle was the open source one. So I thought about blogging, blogging
as freedom of expression and what I perceive to be a good match
between my personal goals/definition of blogging and open source
software development. I read Mark Pilgrim's post
about WordPress, and software freedom and open source. But as I
thought about it some more, and tried to write a post about it,
something didn't quite settle with me. Mark's post talked quite a bit
about freedom, not being locked in and so forth, all the usual
Free/Open Source stuff. But when I looked at the outcry over MT 3.0, I
saw (among other things) that parts of the blogging community felt
that their relationship with the Trotts/SixApart had been broken by
the new licensing. I had wanted to write about the need for open
source blogging software, of which there is plenty. However, I don't
think that just being open source will be enough, or that matching or
exceeding the feature set of MT 3.0 will be enough. My read on what
made MT very special was that a sizable portion of the blogging
community loved it, and felt that in some way MT was "their" package.
Which of course, isn't true. It was (and is) SixApart's package. But I
sensed in the outcry over MT 3.0 a yearning (at least in some parts of
the blogging community) for a package that people "could call their
own".
I think that some people believe that WordPress is that package, because
the GPL will protect them from term changes such as SixApart's.
Realistically, I expect to see more packages change terms as the
blogging world expands. I don't think that just having a GPL'ed
package is enoughl. The developers may still ignore the users. The
developers may get tired and walk away. There are all kinds of
problems that won't get fixed just because WordPress is under the GPL
(or any other open source license). What WordPress (or any other
suitable open source contender -- anytime you read WordPress here,
insert your favorite open source contender) needs is a community.
Normally, (from an Apache perspective) I'd say that WordPress needs to
develop/enhance/diversify/grow its community. And that's probably
true. But if the blogging community wants to have a blogging package
"to call its own", then just switching blogs over to WordPress won't
be enough. Folks should roll up their sleeves and get involved. I hear
lots of people in the blogosphere talking about community. In real
world communities like the Amish communities, when disasters happen,
people chip in to help. When a barn burns down, people come together
to put up a new one. It seems to me that some people view what
happened with MT 3.0 as the blogging community's equivalent of a barn
burning down.
So here's the punch line: If you are considering moving your blog
to WordPress or some other open source blogging package as a result of
what happened this week, don't drop in, switch your blog over, and
drop out. Take your time, look around, and see if there's a way that
you can help. [Ted Leung on the
air]
Marc picks it up here again
So what is Broadband Mechanics gonna do about
this?
What is my company doing in this
world?
1. All we want for people using our code - is credit.
We'll simply ask folks who use the PeopleAggregator, PeopleDNS or WebOutliner (or any
other open projects we help make happen) to put our logo/emblem on the
page and point to us. It's up to us to make money after
that. But any code we open source - can be used however you
want. Breaking compatibility, forking or whatever is about a
stupid as - as - as a young entreprenuer can make it. That's not
obviously what we want to see happen - but you have every right to be
as stupud as you want.
2. Moveable Type maintained focus, compatibility and growth by
balancing their own instincts with input from the community.
They then choose who they'd be friends with, as they can't possibly be
friends with everyone! Well guess what? I disagree
with that! I think you CAN be friends with everyone -
and you do it with a social network - like Tribe, 1UP.com or Orkut. THIS is what I
mean by applying a social network into a specific context. What
better way of establishing an open community blogging platform - then
to build a socal newtork into it?
3. So I'm gonna pitch Matt Mullenweg not only on supporting a
basic FOAFnet import/export capability - but to have the entire
PeopleAgrgegator built into WordPress as well. For free - please
take it - enjoy. Just give us credit.
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
01/26/2004 07:41 PMGoogle recently unveiled an online social networking service, dubbed
Orkut www.orkut.com, that it hopes can successfully compete with the
likes of Friendster. ...
Sun CEO: Open source is our friend
Sun CEO: Open source is our friend
02/11/2004 06:56 PMSun Microsystems may have been the last major server maker to embrace
Linux, but CEO Scott McNealy argues that his company will benefit more
from it than competitors.
Script Eases Transition to Open Source
Software
Script Eases Transition to Open Source
Software
10/28/2003 11:07 PMOpenSourceAdvocate writes, "A Brazilian programmer just released a
script to automatically download and install the latest version of
Mozilla Firebird, Mozilla Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org and Gaim on any
Windows computer. The goal is to increase the internet security via
software diversity. Open Source Software is less vulnerable to Windows
virus and...
Open Source Scripting Made Easy
Open Source Scripting Made Easy
05/13/2004 06:25 PMLinuxInsider.com, CA - 38 minutes ago ... without such platform-bound
advantages, but the difference between the PHPEd native Windows
approach and Zend Studio's platform-agnostic Java manifests itself
...
The social structure of open source
development
The social structure of open source
development
02/01/2005 08:49 PMAndreas Brand is a sociologist researching ways of recruiting and
organising teams of volunteers on the Internet. He has been studying
KDE as an example of an open source project based upon collaboration
without hierarchies. As part of his work he has conducted interviews
with KDE developers, participated in several open source conferences,
analysed the KDE home page, and distributed a questionnaire among
volunteers. We asked him about his thoughts on the KDE development
model.
Open Source Social Bookmarking Service
Open Source Social Bookmarking Service
03/30/2005 01:38 AMLinuxInsider: Open Source Scripting Made
Easy
LinuxInsider: Open Source Scripting Made
Easy
05/14/2004 07:41 AMLinuxInsider.com has a new
posting today about the success of PHP despite its lack of "official
tools" such as .Net, JSP, and ColdFusion.
Yet one open source Web
scripting language has truly hit the big time: PHP, a fashionably
recursive acronym for Hypertext Preprocessor.
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
09/15/2004 02:13 AMeTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social
networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine
integrates online dating with social networking, event planning &
management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most
complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
SpikeSource to Unveil New Products,
Updates to Open-Source Stacks
SpikeSource to Unveil New Products,
Updates to Open-Source Stacks
04/04/2005 09:24 PMThe company is also expected to launch its ISV and open-source
developer programs, which include an ISV testing and certification
service.
Open-Source Mesh Group Releases
Software, Discusses Social Goals
Open-Source Mesh Group Releases
Software, Discusses Social Goals
04/28/2004 01:03 PMChampaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network releases first-generation
mesh/cloud software, seeks input and development: I spoke with Sascha
Meinrath, one of the folks leading the CUWiN project, about the scope
of the project, their goals for outside participation, and his recent
trip to Amsterdam to meet with a group designing documentation on
wireless networks for developing nations. The CUWiN project wants to
allow self-forming, noncentralized, mesh-based Wi-Fi networks using
standard, old PCs with no configuration. Slightly more advanced units
could be ruggedized boxes using Compact Flash, but the basic unit
would be a 486 or later PC with a bootable CD-ROM or bootable floppy
that bootstraps a CD-ROM. Once booted, a unit finds other similar
units without any other configuration or control and forms a mesh.
"We've been developing software now since about 2000, and our idea is
to build software that is super user friendly, super easy for someone
who doesn't understand the nuances of the technology or community
wireless networking to set up their own system," said Meinrath. It's
an attempt to enable community networking to spread beyond the folks
who are self-starters. To test their current software, they put
together a bunch of old Pentium 133-based system with off-the-shelf
Wi-Fi gear, burned CD-ROMs, booted the boxes and watched the mesh
network form within five minutes. However, the current generation of
software "won't scale well: there's no route prioritization, and
there's this problem of the hidden node problem," he said. (In a
hub-and-spoke network, hidden nodes can see the hub not other spokes
and can disrupt other network traffic by improperly sending at times
when other nodes are transmitting resulting in interference and
back-off behavior that reduces network performance. Mesh avoids some
hub and spoke problems, but can effectively move the hidden node
problem to any mesh point that has some connected nodes that can hear
each other and some that cannot.) CUWiN is design a system to
prioritize routes among mesh nodes based on MIT Roofnet, and are
looking into the Hazy Sighted Link State (HSLS) routing issue. HSLS
uses packet economics: more dropped packets in a given route
de-emphasizes it shunting more traffic to more successful routes.
(Read more about this in CUWiN's FAQ.) The software release by CUWiN
of a CD-ROM image containing bootable node software along with the
developer's resource (distributed under a BSD license with plans to
move to a GPL license) is part of...
Mercury News | 10/30/2003 | Vietnam
embracing open-source products
Mercury News | 10/30/2003 | Vietnam
embracing open-source products
11/01/2003 09:36 AMFriend in need? Potential colleague
indeed
Friend in need? Potential colleague
indeed
04/13/2005 07:29 PMglobetechnology.com Apr 13 2005 11:24PM GMT
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
08/13/2004 12:47 PMeTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing
social networking, online dating, and event planning features.
Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members,
as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort
entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature.
[PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
Social people don't need social
networking
Social people don't need social
networking
12/14/2003 09:54 PMKevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn
and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected
people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to
the network:
Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they
want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach
them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service
worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.
LinkBudget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into
The Open
Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into
The Open
01/03/2005 09:41 PMSlashdot Jan 4 2005 12:48AM GMT
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
02/17/2004 11:57 PMAs per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself)
Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found
my post:
http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C
And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words:
___snip____
--
From: Katrin Verclas
Email: steering (a) nosi.net
Hi, Kevin -
NOSI actually just released a new...
Social Networking?
Social Networking?
08/17/2004 05:42 PMSo I have this account - that I spent some time setting up and
inviting people to by the way - on one of the social networking
services, but I can't remember which one.
Get Yer Social Networking Here
Get Yer Social Networking Here
01/24/2004 09:30 PMSometime in December, somebody flipped a big switch and all of a
sudden everyone was inviting me to join their
Linkedin network. Then suddenly
last week the Kozmick Finger pointed at
Orkut, and near as I can tell, all
the geeks on the planet have spent this weekend busily inviting each
other to be Orkut pals. It all seems mostly harmless; mind you, I
haven’t actually got any use out of either of ’em. For what
it’s worth, all the Orkutians seem to be heavy geeks, while about
half the Linkedincrowd is VCs and businesspeople. I don’t think
it’s gonna change the world, but I’ve been wrong before. To those
whose invitations I’ve declined: sorry, nothing personal, it’s
just that I feel I ought to either have spent some face-to-face time
with you or been in some substantial online interaction.
Open Text Potential Open-Ended (The
Motley Fool)
Open Text Potential Open-Ended (The
Motley Fool)
05/05/2004 05:07 PMThe Motley Fool - When it comes to corporate software solutions,
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) companies Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL -
News) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - News), and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) companies Siebel Systems (Nasdaq: SEBL - News) and
soon-to-be publicly traded Salesforce.com, get all the attention. But
collaboration tools and Content Management Systems (CMS) are
increasingly important, though, much less talked about corporate
software solutions.
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
05/07/2004 04:33 PMA key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed
to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the
legal standing of open-source software.
Decentralised social networking
Decentralised social networking
01/05/2004 10:24 PMI know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with
LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of
software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's
just one thing that's been bugging me, best explained by this quote from Om Malik:
The question I have is: why the F**K should I share my network of
contacts with these commercial entities. They are like BlogSpot that
does nothing for my brand equity and in many ways chews me out after
making the network connections. Thus what I want is a "MoveableType"
of social networking. Blogs took off because it was about one person -
me. My social networks should be of my making for me. Lets figure out
a way to cut out the middlemen.
Via John Battelle, here's the
answer: Plink, a social search engine which uses information crawled
from decentralised FOAF
files. It's nicely put together and could be just the incentive I need
to finally put together my own FOAF file.
Plink is also a nice example of the kind of thing the semantic web
hopes to offer. People provide information in easily parsed formats,
then others bulid third party applications on top of them that may
never have been envisaged by the creators of the original standards.
Feedster is another great
example of this effect in action.
Transcendental Social Networking
Transcendental Social Networking
02/10/2004 09:21 PMStewart Butterfield and Co with some really groovy stuff. Motto: Don't
build application, build contexts for interaction. The architecture of
entertainment has been shaped by the idea of Immersion. Play is about
people, not places [Thumbs Up] to this. Architecture...
Rescuing Social Networking
Rescuing Social Networking
06/17/2005 03:27 PM
Recent reports of the demise of
Social Networking Applications (SNAs), voted "technology of the year"
by Business 2.0 just two years ago, are increasing. Most recently
C|Net's Molly Wood reported on Five Reasons
Social Networking Doesn't Work. While LinkedIn and eCademy are
hanging in there, many of the other entrants into the SNA space are
really struggling. I reported
last year on what I thought was wrong with the first generation of
social networking applications, and I haven't seen any significant
improvements become mainstream since then.
Wood complains that existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take
too
much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward,
and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as
well or better. It's not clear what problem they're trying to solve,
other than to provide a list of not-very-well qualified contacts for
people online who are looking (mostly for customers, employers or
dates). They remind me a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, with
consultants and agents outnumbering 'real' businesspeople, five
sellers
for every buyer. I belong to several SNAs but use them rarely, since
my
blog provides me with a more robust network than any SNA could ever
hope to do.
The challenge, as with most business and social problems, is getting
attention. Because good stories, useful, researched advice and
helpful,
informative conversations command attention, these are the tools of
the
trade in face-to-face networking events. Face to face meetings also
provide a huge amount of non-verbal information that allows people to
make considered judgements and to establish trust, which virtual
forums
can only accomplish awkwardly, and over time.
The lowly telephone, and Skype, are an improvement. Most of us can
converse iteratively faster and more competently in a voice
conversation than in a message thread, and get past the awkwardness
and
misunderstandings faster as a result. I've had some excellent Skype
conversations with people I have never met in person, and some ghastly
ones. I have proposed
a more robust, multimedia, multi-view Simple Virtual Presence (SVP)
tool such as what is illustrated above. There are people more
technologically competent and agile than I am who are achieving such
presence using a combination of tools now, but for most of us this is
still just a dream.
SNAs are therefore inherently not very good for building relationships
or for collaborative work. How are they at finding people for valuable
personal or business relationships? Once again we're back to the too
many sellers, too few buyers problem (it's the same with dating
services, I'm told). Useful SNAs need to be under the control of the
customer, not the vendor. They would be better advised to reinvent
themselves as a kind of very detailed person-to-person 'yellow pages',
to separate users' 'what I have' and 'what I need' personas, and to
focus specifically on the former, in a lot more detail, with
credentials and samples of offerings. In a way, that's what blogs do,
providing a space for one individual to exhibit as much of himself as
possible in as much detail as possible, which is why many recruiters
are now starting to peruse blogs in the search for extraordinary
people
or matches for very difficult fits. So a good SNA could offer a
condensed version of this: Who I am, What I offer, Who recommends me,
and Samples of what I do. Then the buyer can browse this 'catalogue'
and, if he thinks I might have what he's looking for (personally or
professionally) he is given contact information (ideally with the
richness of Simple Virtual Presence) to confirm through conversation
that my offer meets his requirements. Simple as that. Forget about the
discussion forums and the form-filling and all the other bells and
whistles that just complicate use and chew up time. Just give me a
yellow pages on steroids.
Once some standards emerge on formats for this information, it could
then be possible for people to post this information anywhere, in the
agreed-upon 'SNA2' format, so that we would no longer have to post my
information to each SNA 'yellow page' directory -- the SNA tools could
go out and harvest it automatically wherever we posted it, so we would
only have to maintain it once
(perhaps on our blog-jacke
t, personal website, or other online space).
So then we would have three
easy-to-use SNA tools, working in tandem, all built around the
'customer', the guy looking
for something:
- The
standard-format 'yellow pages' displaying our personal 'offerings',
- A Simple
Virtual Presence tool to qualify those offerings and to enable
powerful conversations, and
- Blogs as
'personal filing cabinets' that people could browse if
we were away from our phone/SVP tool, or if they wanted to see some
more of our stuff before attempting to call us and offer us a job, a
contract or a date.
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What
would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter
it, so that
the tool could track time we spent on each call and, with the
agreement
of the
other party, automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an
agreed-upon rate. Because it's the value you add person-to-person,
helping them in their personal context, once the introductions are
over
and they know they've found the person they want to 'hire', that could
finally realize the promise of online commerce.
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Social Television Networking
Social Television Networking
06/28/2004 05:22 AMWhile lots of media companies have been trying to figure out how the
whole "social networking" phenomenon impacts their business, it looks
like AOL is trying to take the concept to the next level while also
being true to their plans of "convergence." They've patented the
concept of
buddy
list TV sharing. The idea is that you could see what your friends
were watching on TV and immediately tune in yourself. It's not too
hard to see how this would work. Already, the latest version of Yahoo
Messenger includes the ability to see what music your friends are
listening to and immediately tuning in yourself. This idea tries to
go a bit further. For instance, someone could set up a chat room
around a particular TV show, and could then play that show, while
everyone else could discuss it in real-time. To understand what
you're watching, it would require a set-top box that would tie into
your internet connection as well. Of course, it's unclear how such a
system will work in an age of TiVo when no-one watches a show at the
same time.
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
02/11/2004 08:34 PMAnother recently debuted site is Orkut.com, designed by a Google
engineer, though the site's connection to the search company is
unclear. ...
Anti-social networking
Anti-social networking
06/17/2005 04:25 PMGlenn Fleishman writes in the NY Times about a Seattle cafe that gives
free wifi on weekdays but is wifi-free on weekends in order to
encourage conversation......
Bringing social networking to everything
Bringing social networking to everything
04/25/2004 02:40 AMI'm sorry I disagree.....[read response after
article].......
The next
big thing in online social networking.
According to Reuters Social networking sites, which look to
introduce friends of friends or people with common interests, have
grabbed the attention of Internet users and venture capitalists but
many are still looking for ways to make money.
Online dating siteTickle (
>2million profiles) launched a People Search
service on its network that includes AskJeeves' . The partnership fuses the
uncertain social networking phenomenon with a search model that has
proven invaluable to both consumers and marketers on the public
Internet.
Kolabora news expert Scott Allen blogs in his Social Networking
News: According to Tickle CEO James Currier, “Search is a natural
way for online social networking to move forward”. (..) "Tickle
people search brings online search full circle, back to letting us
find the right people to talk to.”
Reuters press release (April
22)
read more in the full articles quoted from three blogs
- Ask Jeeves Brings Search to Tickle (ClickZNews)<
BR>- Jeeves, what’s the next big thing in online social
networking? (Online Business
Networks)
- Education — the real "next big thing" in
online social networking (Online Business
Networks)
[Smart Mobs]
I'm certainly in favor of putting social networking into context -
but search is not a context. It's sort of like getting it
backwards.
It's not about bringing search to social networking. It's
about bringing social networking to everything.
Social networking for fish
Social networking for fish
11/17/2003 03:07 PMKen Rinaldo's amazing 'augmented reality robotic fish tanks' will have
their first showing in Lille on the 6th Dec: "Augmented...
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