Click Friend and Enter!

Grok Headline matches for Click Friend and Enter!

Tell a Friend, enter iTunes countdown
giveaway for free

Tell a Friend, enter iTunes countdown
giveaway for free 07/08/2004 10:40 AM
Apple's iTunes Music Store is giving away iPods and a prize package comprising a 17-inch PowerBook, iPod and 10,000 song gift certificate as the service counts down to 100 million songs sold. There's a way you can participate even if you don't want to buy new music, however, according to gadget site Engadget -- and it's actually spelled out in the giveaway's rules. Apple notes that using the "Tell a Friend" feature of the iTunes Music Store will also enter users in the giveaway, if they send the link to "itunes100@apple.com."

1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click,
More-Clicks - All Patented

1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click,
More-Clicks - All Patented 04/27/2004 05:27 PM
theodp writes "Not to be outdone by Amazon's 1-Click patent, Microsoft snagged a patent from the USPTO Tuesday for a Time based hardware button for application launch, which covers causing different actions to occur depending upon whether a button is pressed for a short period of time, a long period of time, or multiple times within a short period of time. So does pressing car radio buttons for different periods of time to change or set stations constitute patent infringement?" What about double-clicking? Seems like a fair amount of prior art. I know my caller ID box requires a "double-click" to delete phone numbers. Also, I may not remember correctly, but I was under the impression that Apple's famous "one-button" mouse allows you to fake a right mouse click if you hold down the button.

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 PM

Call 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!]

Lost Per Click: Search Advertising &
Click Fraud

Lost Per Click: Search Advertising &
Click Fraud 07/29/2004 10:02 AM
Source: SearchDay - Click fraud -- the practice of clicking on a text advertisement served by a search engine for the sole purpose of forcing the advertiser to pay for the click -- is emerging as an important concern for...

Overture Pay Per Click Case Study: The
“B to B” Pay-Per-Click Bargain

Overture Pay Per Click Case Study: The
“B to B” Pay-Per-Click Bargain 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Overture Pay Per Click Case Study: The “B to B” Pay-Per-Click Bargain [PRWEB Dec 18, 2004]

Click me! Click me! The Web as a
marketing device

Click me! Click me! The Web as a
marketing device 07/27/2004 04:23 PM
Source: Minnesota Lawyer - Developments like "pay-per-click advertising" are no panacea for lawyer marketing. Indeed, they risk creating an overall climate that could lead to reduced trust in lawyers in general and reinforce some popular stereotypes about lawyers....

Your friend: the FBI

Your friend: the FBI 04/15/2004 11:36 AM

Thoughts for Tax Day:  A friend sent t his article on various rules that restrict the U.S. government from investigating terrorists.  The implication of the article is that we'd all be better off if the CIA and the FBI could work unfettered.  Certainly the widows and orphans of September 11th would be better off.  Yet our government has a history of pouring tremendous amounts of effort in the wrong areas, often resulting in months or years of misery for innocent people.  One of the more humorous recent examples is Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's detain ment at the Vancouver airport.  We want the Federales to be strong enough to hunt down Saudi terrorists in flight schools but sufficiently weak that we can throw them off our own backs when necessary.

[As noted on Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, if you're sending a check to the IRS this year put a couple of extra stamps on the envelope because it's going all the way to Iraq.]

my friend my friend, my friend ...

my friend my friend, my friend ... 09/02/2004 11:38 AM
smile, YOU'VE JUST BEEN KICKED IN THE NUTS!

IM a Friend

IM a Friend 04/14/2005 02:03 AM

Feature Creep

“Those of you who read this site via RSS/Atom/LiveJournal syndication may have missed our latest site feature, ‘IM to a friend’.

As of this last Friday, there's a tiny AIM icon next to the title of each entry. When it's clicked on, most AIM clients should give you a new message window containing the URL of the entry you'd like to share with a friend. After you enter their screen name and send the message, feel free to chat about what you've sent their way. It works transparently and is loads easier than a standard copy and paste.

Yeah, we're trying to harbor conversation about our site and drive our traffic up. We're also trying to make sending URLs to friends a bit easier. We stole the idea from our friends at blogging.la….

Note: Trillian doesn't seem to install handlers for ‘aim:‘ links. If you run Trillian and click on the link, there's a good chance that nothing will happen. iChat and the official AIM client seem to be all good tho. Sorry Trillian users.” [Preshrunk]

Intere sting idea for those libraries exploring IM. Might be a nice reverse idea on the idea of creating IM interfaces into the catalog, too.

CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend
(Really)

CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend
(Really) 08/05/2002 10:44 PM

Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon 03/14/2005 04:39 PM
After watching a few of Marc M.'s cartoons, you'll understand why he has to do all of his own character voices.

Key NI talks enter second day

Key NI talks enter second day 09/16/2004 09:21 PM
Northern Ireland's politicians prepare for a second day of talks aimed at restoring devolved government.

Last chance to enter!

Last chance to enter! 03/14/2005 04:23 PM

Enter the hedgehog

Enter the hedgehog 04/08/2005 10:42 AM

The Ubuntu community have released Hoary Hedgehog, otherwise known as Ubuntu 5.04. If you haven't tried Ubuntu yet, it's an excellent Linux distribution based on Debian with a strong focus on desktop usability. Unlike most Linux distros, Ubuntu comes with just one desktop manager (Gnome) and one obvious default application for each of the essentials: Firefox for browsing, OpenOffice for office work, Evolution for mail.

That's not to say that other applications aren't available. Ubuntu's package management inherits from Debian, with the Synaptic package manager making downloading and installing new software as easy as searching for what you want and hitting a button. The key thing is that you don't have to start your journey with Linux by making random decisions (Gnome v.s. KDE for example). Ubuntu has more in common with Python's philosophy (There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it) than Perl's.

Best of all, Ubuntu has a Live CD similar to Knoppix which allows you to try out the distribution without installing a thing - just drop the live CD in to the drive on a x86 PC and reboot.

You can grab Ubuntu from a regional mirror. Torrent files are available for both the install and Live CDs.

I vant to... buy you an enter key.

I vant to... buy you an enter key. 09/21/2004 02:52 AM
You're all dummies and you're reading it wrong! Anne Rice's latest book has gotten some crummy reviews on Amazon, and she's seriously POed that the "outrageous stupidity" of the proles allowed to review on the site are tarnishing one of her her editor-free "virtuoso performance(s)." (Scroll down to Anne Obrien Rice- guaranteed real name by Amazon, and feel free to compare this rant to the one on her official website.)

Enter the bl0gosphere

Enter the bl0gosphere 04/07/2005 05:52 PM
ZDNet Apr 7 2005 9:47PM GMT

Enter 43 things

Enter 43 things 01/03/2005 02:47 AM

43things.com/home
track this site | 3 links

Enter The Matrix

Enter The Matrix 08/19/2004 05:55 AM
FileMatrix GUI screenshot .. Enter The Matrix .. Worst UI Ever? .. FileMatrix

thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/06/02/188.aspx
track this site | 4 links

Be my friend? Only on my turf

Be my friend? Only on my turf 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 11:22PM GMT

Well, not *that* kind of a friend

Well, not *that* kind of a friend 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
Cheap i18n fun for the morning (emphasises mine):

I'm absolutely sure this will help people come together... For any non-finnish speakers out there, "orkut" is a common slang term for "orgasm". "Sain orkut" = "I had an orgasm". Well picked site name, indeed. It's even affiliated with Google :-).

ROTFLMAO!

Be my friend? Only on my turf.

Be my friend? Only on my turf. 07/14/2004 04:53 PM
Release 1.0 editor Esther Dyson examines the promise--and the confusion--around social networks.

Another New Friend for Microsoft

Another New Friend for Microsoft 05/21/2004 06:59 PM
Business Week May 21 2004 11:12PM GMT

Our Friend, The Meter

Our Friend, The Meter 06/23/2004 01:16 AM

Our friend eloped!

Our friend eloped! 12/28/2004 09:25 AM
She ran off with a guy we don't really like, and told her family but not her friends!

Internet more friend than foe

Internet more friend than foe 07/11/2004 06:49 AM
Pittsburghlive.com - Sun Jul 11, 08:25 am GMT

Friend of research?

Friend of research? 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
USA Today Jun 22 2004 2:47AM GMT

Want a friend? Use Bluetooth

Want a friend? Use Bluetooth 06/25/2004 07:26 AM
Economictimes Jun 25 2004 10:56AM GMT

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 22 2004 11:38AM GMT

mod_gzip is your friend. Really

mod_gzip is your friend. Really 02/18/2004 01:34 PM
As is whatever the module for Apache 2.0 is. I finally broke down and snagged an RSS content aggregator thingie (which, in addition to confirming my feelings that polling for RSS feeds sucks more than Cygnus X-1, now makes me want RSS feeds on places that don't have them. EurekAlert and The New Scientist spring to mind) since I've got enough places I go infrequently that I was starting to lose track of which ones I'd been to lately and which I hadn't. 'Tis keen, though I'd like to be able to twiddle more stuff than the tool allows. No...

New IE bug may be scammers best friend

New IE bug may be scammers best friend 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 0:24AM ET

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend 12/16/2002 09:08 AM

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
farhad koosha (Mar 15 2005)

strtotime(); Is My Friend

strtotime(); Is My Friend 11/20/2002 10:40 AM
Made a quick php script went through and converted my post dates to Unix time stamps. Much fun was had by all.

A friend in need...for only $5 a month

A friend in need...for only $5 a month 09/06/2004 03:34 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 6 2004 7:53AM GMT

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend?

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend? 03/28/2005 10:05 AM

It's called anthropomorphizing, giving an inaminate object a human personality. By Heather Svokos, Knight Ridder News Service

Enter Now To Win Mac Developer
Competition

Enter Now To Win Mac Developer
Competition 03/13/2003 10:23 AM

Welcome to Cicadaville (Enter at Your
Own Risk)

Welcome to Cicadaville (Enter at Your
Own Risk) 05/24/2004 08:17 PM
The cicadas of Brood X are here and singing like billions of tiny boom boxes.

Abandon all integers, ye who enter here!

Abandon all integers, ye who enter here! 12/02/2003 12:56 AM
There has been a lot of talk lately about the comment rating system shortcomings and a new and elusive rise of the trolls. The story rating system and the queues have also been harshly criticized during the on-going Fiction overload (an interesting phenomenon per si, since the queues are winning the Fiction battle - no one of the dozens of Fiction submissions has been posted; actually no Fiction article has been posted since November 19th). In my view, most enhancement proposals fail to capture the users interest because they are far too simple and easy to understand. There is a long standing marketing theorem stating that a consumer's respect for a product or brand is inversely proportional to the consumer's understanding of the said product or brand making and use.

Enter NVM1: The first use of Gigapixel
IP

Enter NVM1: The first use of Gigapixel
IP 06/26/2004 06:15 AM

Grok Description matches for Click Friend and Enter!
GrokA matches for Click Friend and Enter!

Click Friend and Enter!

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: