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Facebook Yelps

Posted on November 18th, 2007

Facebook’s new adver­tising model includes publi­cation of activity from partner sites in news feeds. Their official list of affil­iates does not include Yelp, but tonight, I had a little DHTML “toast” pop-​​up inform me my latest review would be shared on my Facebook profile.

A little inves­ti­gating shows that this was pulled off via a JavaScript include, http://www.facebook.com/beacon/beacon.js.php and there’s already a bit of kerfuffle about it.

It does appear that authen­ti­cation is being handled entirely via facebook.com cookies, and partic­i­pating in this inte­gration requires they recognize your site as a regis­tered source.

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Visual weblog

Posted on February 16th, 2007

A crazy idea that needs to be written down to get it out of my head: a wordless, visual weblog. Posts are pictures with no expla­nation prose, and the comments form is a sketchpad for visitors to draw upon.

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Police 2.0

Posted on February 3rd, 2007

It has been fash­ionable in our culture to address unde­sirable behavior by enacting laws that call for the police to make the bad people that stop doing those bad things by arresting them. For the really, really bad things, like possessing a leaf from a plant which makes you happy if you consume it, we even mandate the judicial system exact revenge for us.

Of course, in the tubes of the interwebs this has gotten difficult to sustain. People say things we don’t approve of and publish content to audi­ences of millions without our consent, and all those pesky juris­dic­tions geographic prevent us from having our revenge on other people’s neighbors. If we’re going to create safe places for the children, we need a global security force that can be summoned in response to internet crimes.

I think a web service with an arrest(ip addr) function would do nicely. Those who have contributed enough to the politi­cians who support the force could install book­marklets like arrest site owner that imme­di­ately dispatch officers.

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Daily Bookmarks

Posted on February 2nd, 2007

Links book­marked on 2007-​​02-​​02

  • Reliably Ignores
    Google trans­lates my site to German, then Babelfish trans­lates back to English. This is the least disruptive “trans­lation poetry” path I’ve found, yet still surreal.
  • GCALDaemon — Project Home
    Publish from iCal to Google Calendar! Unfortunately, it seems to duplicate events on every sync.

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Daily Bookmarks

Posted on January 31st, 2007

Links book­marked on 2007-​​01-​​31

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