2008年11月30日星期日

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2008年11月29日星期六

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2008年11月28日星期五

Bookmarks From Group Collaboration 11/28/2008

  • Portable Contacts

    Tags: no_tag

    • the goal of providing users a secure way to access their address books and friends lists without having to take their credentials or scrape their data
    • OAuth has provided a standard to unify the various proprietary schemes for delegated authorization
    • we can do the same thing for securely sharing address book and friends list data
    • minimal complexity
    • simplicity of design and targeted use cases
    • unifying traditional contact info and social network data, in order to properly represent the current diversity of the social web ecosystem
    • using existing standards wherever possible, including vCard, OpenSocial, XRDS-Simple, OAuth, etc.

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2008年11月27日星期四

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2008年11月26日星期三

Bookmarks From Group Collaboration 11/26/2008

  • CityWall

    Tags: no_tag

    • CityWall is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative and
      playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city. The new interface launched in October 2008 also
      allows working with 3D objects, which enables multiple content and multiple timelines.
    • CityWall presents images, videos, descriptions and discussions on how nature in Helsinki benefits and disturbs dwellers.
      A single tree, for instance, can be both a useful physical shelter, an appreciated element in the urban landscape, a
      source for an irritating pollinosis and a danger for traffic. Many of the changes in the benefits and nuisances of
      nature are, at least partly, dependent on human activities. The settling of rabbits as permanent residents to Helsinki,
      for instance, follows partly from global warming that allows released pet rabbits to survive winters in urban green areas.
      To participate in this discussion, visit CityWall Flickr page and
      add comments there. You can add images to this discussion by attaching tags "cwnicehki" for nice things and "cwnuishki"
      for things that are nuisance in Flickr (additionally put tag "cwhkirabbits" if the photo includes rabbits!). You will need to establish your own Flickr account for this (this is a free
      service).

  • DWTS Finale Winners

    DWTS is finally coming to a halt, but who is going to win? Lance and Lacey are taking the trophy home, for several reasons. Check out the full article for a rundown.

    Tags: DWTS, winner, final, episode, lance, and, lacey, brook, burke, dancing, with, the, stars, Cody, Linley, Julianne, Hough, Lance, Lacey, finale

  • Paris Hilton Booed Off Stage at Sweet 16!

    Paris Hilton was left a party in tears after she was humiliated in front of a crowd of teens while making an appearance at a designer's daughter's sweet 16. A source at the party said...

    Tags: Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Pussycat Dolls, Christian Audigier, booed


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2008年11月25日星期二

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2008年11月24日星期一

Bookmarks From Group Collaboration 11/24/2008

  • Open Source Applications Foundation

    Tags: no_tag

    • Enable sharing with colleagues, friends and family
    • unique and under-served needs of small group collaboration

  • Chandler Project - Welcome

    Tags: no_tag

    • confluence
    • simple items which can interact and be managed with one other

  • Chandler Wiki : Nutshell Cartoons

    Tags: no_tag

    • Information is the substance of their work and more information is the output of their work: Research, proposals, priorities, direction and decisions?
    • knowledge is gained and shared
    • how people actually work
    • (too) many interesting things
    • There's something wrong with the way data
    • doesn't flow between the tools we use to manage, process, organize our information
    • software should be modeled around information
    • fundamentally non-linear, non-binary nature of information work
    • processing and re-processing information to help you stay focused on the task(s) at hand
    • everything you can't and shouldn't be doing right now
      • These things are the ones that tend to throw in a 'pot' for later action. - By Graham Perrin
    • many of the messages we send are really still drafts
    • too much copying and pasting
    • organized around your data and the semantics
    • not around which feature you used to create them
    • Not around which file format
    • or over which transport protocol
    • designed to let you re-define what it means to be a PIM
    • new Kinds of Items
    • Extend the existing schema of Attributes
    • personal definition of "Personal Information"

  • Chandler Wiki : Vision

    Tags: no_tag

    • Custom Attribute
    • Custom Attribute
    • The Chandler Knowledge Worker
    • Information is the substance of their work and more information is the output of their work: Research, proposals, priorities, direction and decisions?
    • knowledge is gained and shared
    • how people actually work
    • (too) many interesting things
    • doesn't flow between the tools we use to manage, process, organize our information
    • There's something wrong with the way data
    • software should be modeled around information
    • technological barriers
    • too much copying and pasting
    • false assumption that information management tasks are binary
    • false assumption underlying most productivity software that information and the organizational structures needed to manage that information are essentially static
    • A lone email languishes for a long time in your Inbox and then all of a sudden, blooms into an unending thread which dies down
    • the thread is revived and mushrooms into a full scale project
    • Three weeks later
    • you barely give it a thought
      • I tend to find myself involved in: at one extreme, very many varied small tasks, which are recorded/archived then intentionally forgotten; and at the other extreme: projects about which thought extends months or even years later. Between the two extremes: for me, things are hazy. - By Graham Perrin
    • the same workflow hiccups show up again and again
    • an information management environment with built-in workflows that mirror what people hack together
    • three basic workflows everybody seems to construct for themselves, regardless of what tools they use
    • varying degrees of complexity and automation
    • These three workflows however, need to exist independently of each other
    • no complicated rule-builder
    • push-button interface
    • always assume a need for iteration and change over time
    • Peeling the Onion
    • Allow Organization to Change and Flow
    • the entire gamut of organizational affordances
    • Filing, Rules, et cetera
    • Tagging
    • won't ever be asked to decide between them
    • Custom Attribute
    • Add semantics to a Tag
    • turn it into a Custom Attribute
    • Drag a Tag or a Cluster to the sidebar
    • a Cluster: a way to thread items together, a way to reflect dependencies
    • Group collaboration systems exist in parallel with personal communication tools
    • does not scale down to work for small groups
    • the majority of the significant emails we send are sent while still in a draft-state
    • Future
    • a well-defined end-user information model
    • by modeling the user experience around how people work today and the substance of that work, we can be more than just another software tool and instead aspire to be a system for information management: A smarter way to work. A better environment for collaboration
    • We want Chandler to be able to talk to other applications
    • As we make Chandler's end-user information model richer, the number of interesting applications to talk to will increase. This is one of the many areas where we hope that people in the community will help increase Chandler's ability to talk to other applications

  • Chandler Wiki : OSAFHistory

    Tags: no_tag

    • accumulated a major backlog of innovative ideas for new software products
    • adoption of innovative solutions
    • has become quite difficult
    • a licensing scheme which would permit both non-commercial and commercial development on the code base
    • very happy for others to make money
    • OSAF started in 2001

  • Vista – End of the Dream? • The Register

    Some discussion of the Chandler Project.

    Tags: Chandler, OSAF, FLOSS

    • I downloaded a copy of Chandler the other day, just to see how things were shaping up. As soon as I launched version
      • Reading the April 2007 date of this story alongside http://blog.chandlerproject.org/2007/04/18/preview-update/ and http://blog.chandlerproject.org/2007/09/11/preview/ it's clear that the version (probably a checkpoint) tested by Dave Jewell predated the 'preview' by around five months. - By Graham Perrin
    • Chandler is still an awful long way off from that magic 1.0 release
      • The OSAF vision of Chandler originated around 2001. In 2007: the preview milestone version was certainly (but not disappointingly) some way away from the release. Chandler 1.0 was released in August 2008. - By Graham Perrin

  • The Chandler Project Blog » Blog Archive » Mobile Chandler?

    Tags: no_tag

  • Immersion's TouchSense : Serious Games To Mimic Minimally Invasive Surgeries - View Message

    Immersion Medical, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets computer-based surgical simulation training systems worldwide. The medical and surgical simulators integrate proprietary computer software and tactile feedback robotics to create highly realistic medical simulations that help train clinicians. The company's key product lines are the Endoscopy AccuTouch® Simulator, CathLabVR™ surgical simulator, LaparoscopyVR™ surgical simulation system, and the Virtual IV intravenous simulator.

    Tags: haptics, medical training, Investing, Touchsense


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2008年11月23日星期日

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2008年11月22日星期六

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2008年11月21日星期五

My bookmarks from Diigo 11/21/2008

  • po-ru.com: Fixing invalid UTF-8 in Ruby, revisited

    tags: ruby, encode, utf-8

    • ic = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
      valid_string = ic.iconv(untrusted_string)

  • 數學欣賞

    tags: 数学欣赏, math

  • 该不该投资百度？ - FT中文网 - FTChinese.com

    tags: baidu

    • 北京时间11月19日晚，百度迅速召开应对“CCTV门”的分析师会议之后，其股价继续跌势，收于111.74美元/股，比前一个交易日下跌了13.22%。前一个周末，中国中央电视台（CCTV）连续两天对百度搜索结果的可靠性提出质疑。中央电视台是中国最大的国有电视媒体，在受众覆盖面和行政级别上拥有无可匹敌的地位。被央视曝光后，百度的股价在三个连续的交易日里跌去了近38%——每股缩水了67美元
    • “CCTV门”引发百度股价大跌后，一位随即买进的对冲基金人士认为这是2008年的“年度机遇”。理由首先在于，不同于之前透过中移动发送垃圾短信遭到央视批评的分众传媒，百度拥有对平台的绝对控制力。更现实主义的判断在于，由于互联网的复杂性和中国的法制及监管缺陷，央视激起的公愤将是短暂的，而百度的繁荣显然会更长久。事实上，在上述分析师会议上，百度管理层宣称公司的所有业务在中国完全合法，因为“现行法规并不要求登广告者持有任何牌照”。

  • Software as a Service Rails Kit | Rails Kits

    tags: RailsKits, billing, payment

    • Write your app. Not billing code.


      Are you starting to build a new web service with Ruby on Rails? Do you want to avoid having to write the subscription management, recurring billing, and credit card management code?


      The SaaS Rails Kit gets your new software-as-a-service site off to a running start by providing you a well-tested and proven recurring billing system with credit card and PayPal payments. You also get a framework for building membership-based applications, including account signups/upgrades/downgrades, tiered pricing levels with customizable limits (e.g, # of users, # of projects, etc.), multi-tenant data security in a single database, and more.

      • Features



        • Supported gateways: Authorize.net CIM, Braintree, Payment Express, TrustCommerce, and PayPal Website Payments Standard, all via ActiveMerchant

        • No local credit card storage. All credit card information is stored with the payment gateway, so you don’t have to worry about the PCI implications of storing credit card numbers.

        • Automated billing script runs nightly for anniversary billing.

        • Configurable subscription renewal period (defaults to one month).

        • Automated notification and retry of failed renewals.

        • Free accounts and one-month trials are supported.

        • Optionally collect payment information for paid accounts at account creation.

        • Optionally collect setup fees, if you collect payment info up-front and don’t have a trial period.

        • Easy customization of plan levels — pricing and custom limits.

        • Ability to tweak limits and fees per account.

        • Self-serve account creation.

        • Self-serve account upgrades and downgrades, with limit checking to prevent downgrading to a plan for which the account does not qualify, based on the plan limits.

        • Account lookups by subdomain (multi-tenant).

        • Ability for users to reset their own passwords (Forgot your password?…)

        • Includes a module with shared controller methods written to scope all model access to the current account.

        • Comes with a limit on the number of users each account can have, complete with controller code, as an example of how to implement limits.

        • Integration of restful_authentication plugin, customized for a multi-tenant web service.

        • SSL protection of account creation and login via the SslRequirement plugin.

        • Code to Test Ratio: 1:1.4 (RSpec).

  • BenCurtis.com

    tags: bencurtis, blog


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2008年11月20日星期四

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2008年11月19日星期三

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2008年11月18日星期二

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2008年11月17日星期一

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2008年11月16日星期日

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2008年11月15日星期六

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2008年11月14日星期五

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2008年11月13日星期四

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  • Stack Overflow

    Tags: test

  • 方法论、方法论——程序员的阿喀琉斯之踵 - 刘未鹏|C++的罗浮宫 - CSDNBlog

    Tags: 刘未鹏, 方法论

    • 先简略地想一下这是个什么东东，他的本质是什么，出现是为了满足什么需求，等等比较“高层”的问题（即“What”和“Why”而不是“How”），这些问题应该是可以通过简单的调研和思考得出结论的，至于背后的技术细节，如果你打算入行，就可以去学，如果不打算的话则可以免了，至少前面的思考和简单的调研能够一定程度上保证当有价值的信息或机会摆在你面前的时候你不会把眼睛蒙上走开，并且多做做这类思考对于思维的广度也很有价值
    • 最佳的学习方法就是先广度优先遍历（先弄清What和Why），然后择最合适的分支深入（How）
    • 1. 一件事情仅仅让你感觉挺牛不代表这件事情就是值得做的；
      2. 一件事情仅仅让你感到很有兴趣并不代表这件事情就是值得做的。

    • CodingHorror 的作者最近在博客里面跟着 Steve Yegge 同学宣称，如果有一件事情是他想教给程序员同学们的，那就是 Marketing 。无独有偶，有一次吃饭的时候鲍志云同学也提到： Marketing Sense 是很重要的。其实也就是不要总想着写牛代码，用牛语言技术，不要落入为技术而技术的怪圈，而是首先想明白做的事情有什么价值，先弄清做什么，为什么做，再去想怎么做，这样后面的功夫才花的有价值。



      You won't-- you cannot-- become a better programmer through sheer force of programming alone. You can only complement and enhance your existing programming skills by branching out. Learn about your users. Learn about the industry. Learn about your business.


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2008年11月12日星期三

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2008年11月11日星期二

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  • Overview : DaoPay.com - the way to pay

    Daopay provides an improved and ready to use solution: Payment by Phone!

    tags: payment, daopay

  • Google considers opening its platform - Internet - iTnews Australia

    tags: google, platform, news, web2.0, technology

    • Google could be mulling a move which would allow outside developers to play around with the firm’s development stack, according to comments by Google exec, Dave Girouard at a Web 2.0 Summit panel in San Francisco.
    • "We want to open up the Google stack, the Google platform in many, many ways, and in the end if we do it right, you will have the same access to Google that our own developers do” said Girouard.
    • Girouard’s comments could be taken to mean that outside developers will soon be able to try their hands at building their own Google apps, or adding bits and pieces to existing Google apps.

  • 方法论、方法论——程序员的阿喀琉斯之踵 - 刘未鹏|C++的罗浮宫 - CSDNBlog

    tags: 刘未鹏, 方法论

    • 先简略地想一下这是个什么东东，他的本质是什么，出现是为了满足什么需求，等等比较“高层”的问题（即“What”和“Why”而不是“How”），这些问题应该是可以通过简单的调研和思考得出结论的，至于背后的技术细节，如果你打算入行，就可以去学，如果不打算的话则可以免了，至少前面的思考和简单的调研能够一定程度上保证当有价值的信息或机会摆在你面前的时候你不会把眼睛蒙上走开，并且多做做这类思考对于思维的广度也很有价值
    • 最佳的学习方法就是先广度优先遍历（先弄清What和Why），然后择最合适的分支深入（How）
    • 1. 一件事情仅仅让你感觉挺牛不代表这件事情就是值得做的；
      2. 一件事情仅仅让你感到很有兴趣并不代表这件事情就是值得做的。

    • CodingHorror 的作者最近在博客里面跟着 Steve Yegge 同学宣称，如果有一件事情是他想教给程序员同学们的，那就是 Marketing 。无独有偶，有一次吃饭的时候鲍志云同学也提到： Marketing Sense 是很重要的。其实也就是不要总想着写牛代码，用牛语言技术，不要落入为技术而技术的怪圈，而是首先想明白做的事情有什么价值，先弄清做什么，为什么做，再去想怎么做，这样后面的功夫才花的有价值。



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2008年11月10日星期一

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2008年11月9日星期日

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2008年11月8日星期六

Bookmarks From Group Collaboration 11/09/2008

  • Are we really collaborating? :: Blog :: Headshift

    Tags: no_tag

    • simply because people
      work together to meet objectives and reach goals, doesn't mean they are
      collaborating
    • efficiency
    • 'Collaboration' thrives on difference, insight and spontaneity, rather
      than structural harmony
      • For me, this is thought-provoking. We're in a multi-institutional and in some ways displaced environment, in which — over a period of fifteen or so years — I have grown weary of choice/proliferation of ICT solutions. Certainly, 'more' and 'diverse' can be good — if the multiples work well with each other — but too often, we find incompatibilities. By coincidence, I have used the word 'harmony' a few times this week; considering past and present approaches to collaboration, greater harmony is *exactly* what I'm aiming for… - By Graham Perrin
      • 'Harmony of structure' is a fairly loose expression, open to interpretation. - By Graham Perrin
    • creativity and innovation
    • systemic
      overuse of email as the means to facilitate
      • Add to overuse: misuse, and blatant abuse. I can no longer treat e-mail as a reliable way of communicating. Whilst there is some necessity to read e-mail, I no longer feel any guilt if (amongst scores, hundreds or thousands of other messages) one or two important messages go un-read or ignored. - By Graham Perrin
    • When they moved the discussion to a blog
    • key team members joined in
    • personal
      dashboards
    • reducing the amount of time spent looking for information
    • spaces where people feel confident about
      participating
    • worthwhile to do so
      • Too few people realise the worth of Diigo. Hence my pleas for refinement http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/annotated-urls-annotated-links-may-allow-public-anonymous-views-of-some-not-all-private-annotations-7168#3 and wider availability http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/diigolet-get-annotated-link-7124 of the 'Get Annotated Link' feature — excellent for displaying Diigo features to non-users. - By Graham Perrin
    • flexibility
      • Such a catchy, feel-good expression: 'more flexibility'. My problem with this: too often, 'more' is offered (or forced) upon us without proper consideration of whether — in the broadest sense — flexibility is genuinely *improved*. - By Graham Perrin
    • providing workers with more
    • can result in new forms of
      cooperative action, more fruitful collaboration, faster
      decision-making, and greater productivity
      • Providing 'more' of something *might* result in what's described here, but there's a very real danger that if you add to much, people will not know where to start. Put simply, people switch off. I see it regularly - By Graham Perrin
    • a
      clear view of the driver

  • Media's last diehard? -Victoria Barnsley (HarperCollins)

    Tags: e-books, publishing, technology, social_network, digital_media, president_obama, Google

    • The technology of these e-ink screens is developing rapidly. Right now, put in television terms, we’re still in the 1950is with a black and white model.  But the future is bright and colourful.  In the months to come we’ll have foldable screens, colour screens, screens which can handle moving images, screens with interactive clickable advertising   And a company I think you’ll be hearing a lot about soon is Plastic Logic.  Using technology developed in Cambridge they’re going to be producing an ereader with a flexible screen.
    • all the different players that make up the digital landscape - the network owners, the device manufacturers, the platform operators and the likes of us, the content providers. All l of these players, derive their value from different parts of the chain. The problem for us, is that for the first three – content is something to be squeezed in the value chain. For them, content is like petrol in a car -the relatively cheap motive power of a costly and complex machine.  Whereas, for the content providers, content is more akin to wine in a bottle -something of high value in a cheap encapsulation.  We want to retain the high value of content, but have it delivered on cheap, multiple, globally available, platforms, networks and devices.
    • Can everyone have a profitable future?  Because the digital revolution is being driven by the first three, surprise, surprise, the price of content is being driven down.  This is obviously very worrying.  Equally worrying, is the fact that some of these players, are able to fund the development of all aspects of the value chain themselves.   This brings me on to my fourth challenge which is media convergence.  Sky is a good example of a company, that started as network player which went on to invest heavily in content and finally in hardware.  Of more relevance to publishing, are the likes of Google and Amazon, who are broadening their remit and are both now in the hardware game.
    • Unfortunately, the book publishing industry, is probably too fragmented, and undercapitalised, to follow this route.  Instead, it has to make sure it adds sufficient value to content, to retain its place in this converging world.  Publishers recognise that they can’t subsume the activities of other players but they have to work with them, in a model that protects the value of content, and their role in developing it and selling it.  That’s why the recent deal with Google, is of such historic importance.
    • Thankfully, the book industry is in better shape than the music industry.  And I’m not as worried as some by risk of disintermediation.  A publisher’s job is complex, and I believe we still have an important role to play going forward.
    • The old model whereby a publisher commissioned a work and then went through a series of steps to deliver it to a retailer, who delivered it to an unknown reader, isn’t enough.  The interactivity of the Web allows readers to play a part in the process, to engage with authors and each other and in some instances, become authors themselves.  The old linear model is becoming circular. For 500 years, the consumption of books was largely a private affair but the Internet has socialised that experience.  If publishers are canny, they will see this as an opportunity to add more value and to create new revenue streams.
    • Going forward, we need to operate two models: - the existing model, whereby we add value by selecting, nurturing, marketing and finally selling content to the consumer – in whatever form they demand and a second model whereby we create value in the experiences around that content  where we facilitate the dialogue between writers and readers. 
    • This project is a purely marketing exercise aimed at increasing the continued relevance of Doris’s work to new generations but it also illustrates the kind of value, that can be added, by a publisher, to the experience of consuming a text.  Connecting readers, writers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers, is all part of a publisher’s new mandate and with this project, we’re doing just that.
    • The interesting thing about authonomy  is that by putting us at the centre of a hub of interactivity, between readers and would-be writers it provides us with a new business model.  In addition to being a new pool for talent spotting, we’ve also created a community of people who love reading and writing.  It’s growing at such a rate - over 2m page impressions in just 6 weeks – that we’ll soon be able to start generating advertising income. 
    • The last initiative, I’d like to mention, is our most ambitious project to date – which we’ll be launching in January next year.  It’s called Book Army and it’s a fantastic social networking site organised around books and authors.  Every book and every author that’s in print
    • the secret weapon, in BookArmy’s arsenal, is a sophisticated algorithm, which generates book recommendations, based on feedback from other readers about their likes and dislikes. 

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