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"Web hooks let you customize, extend and integrate the web applications you use with anything else you can access programmatically. To web developers, web hooks are a simple design pattern that only require the ability to make web requests and to store some extra data about users. To users, web hooks are a way to get events and data in realtime from their web applications. From this they can use the data however they like, empowering them with the ability to extend and integrate, and start seeing the true vision of the programmable web."
Cubicle Muses - Wave's Web of Protocols
"Google Waves uses XMPP only for server to server federation. Joe Gregorio has a good overview of the actual APIs and protocols used in Wave, but I still found it easier to create a diagram. I’m actually concerned about the different protocols and the fact that only the XMPP federation protocol is documented. The other two protocols: the json-rpc robot protocol and the GWT generated client-server protocol have no documentation. Moreover, the protocols are generated rpc protocols and make heavy use of serialized data."
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Turns out, XMPP is only used for server to server federation. Joe Gregorio has a good overview of the actual APIs and protocols used in Wave, but I still found it easier to create a diagram
Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few | Research - ISNS
"A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich did a physics-based analysis of the world economy as it looked in early 2007. Stefano Battiston and James Glattfelder extracted the information from the tangled yarn that links 24,877 stocks and 106,141 shareholding entities in 48 countries, revealing what they called the "backbone" of each country's financial market. These backbones represented the owners of 80 percent of a country's market capital, yet consisted of remarkably few shareholders. [..] The results will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review E."
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A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich did a physics-based analysis of the world economy as it looked in early 2007. Stefano Battiston and James Glattfelder extracted the information from the tangled yarn that links 24,877 stocks and 106,141 shareholding entities in 48 countries, revealing what they called the "backbone" of each country's financial market. These backbones represented the owners of 80 percent of a country's market capital, yet consisted of remarkably few shareholders.
The C10K problem
"..here are a few notes on how to configure operating systems and write code to support thousands of clients. The discussion centers around Unix-like operating systems."
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here are a few notes on how to configure operating
systems and write code to support thousands of clients. The discussion
centers around Unix-like operating systems
Converting 11 million articles from TIFF to PDF-s on amazon EC2 & S3: Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun!
"I was ready to deploy Hadoop and my code on a cluster of EC2 machines. For deployment, I created a custom AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for EC2 that was based on a Xen image from my desktop machine. Using some simple Python scripts and the boto library, I booted four EC2 instances of my custom AMI. [..] thanks to the swell people at Amazon, I got access to a few more machines and churned through all 11 million articles in just under 24 hours using 100 EC2 instances, and generated another 1.5TB of data to store in S3."
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I was ready to deploy Hadoop and my code on a cluster of EC2 machines. For deployment, I created a custom AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for EC2 that was based on a Xen image from my desktop machine. Using some simple Python scripts and the boto library, I booted four EC2 instances of my custom AMI. I logged in, started Hadoop and submitted a test job to generate a couple thousands articles — and to my surprise it just worked.
I then began some rough calculations and determined that if I used only four machines, it could take some time to generate all 11 million article PDFs. But thanks to the swell people at Amazon, I got access to a few more machines and churned through all 11 million articles in just under 24 hours using 100 EC2 instances, and generated another 1.5TB of data to store in S3.
Mifos - Technology that Empowers Microfinance
"Mifos is an industry-wide initiative to address the microfinance industry's information management challenge. Using the open source paradigm, we are creating a new service model that will increase access to technology for all microfinance institutions, ultimately enabling them to extend their reach to the world’s poor. At the center of the initiative is the Mifos product, a freely available world-class management information system (MIS) that provides the core functionality required by microfinance institutions. The flexibility and scalability of the product means that we'll be able to simultaneously standardize common processes, accommodate regional variations, and scale for new innovations in the future."
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Mifos is an industry-wide initiative to address the microfinance industry's information management challenge. Using the open source paradigm, we are creating a new service model that will increase access to technology for all microfinance institutions, ultimately enabling them to extend their reach to the world’s poor.
At the center of the initiative is the Mifos product, a freely available world-class management information system (MIS) that provides the core functionality required by microfinance institutions. The flexibility and scalability of the product means that we'll be able to simultaneously standardize common processes, accommodate regional variations, and scale for new innovations in the future.
Streisand effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Streisand effect is an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples of such attempts include censoring a photograph, a number, a file, or a website (for example via a cease-and-desist letter). Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks. The effect is related to John Gilmore's observation that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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The Streisand effect is an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. Examples of such attempts include censoring a photograph, a number, a file, or a website (for example via a cease-and-desist letter). Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, often being widely mirrored across the Internet, or distributed on file-sharing networks.[1][2]
The effect is related to John Gilmore's observation that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".[3]
What is p-kassan? | Planka.nu
"P-kassan is based on solidarity. As a member you help other free riders out by getting their fines paid. When you yourself get caught it’s other free riders that pay your fine. P-kassan is a way, so that if you can’t afford the high ticket prices, you will still be able to use the collective means of transportation through out Stockholm."
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P-kassan is based on solidarity. As a member you help other free riders out by getting their fines paid. When you yourself get caught it’s other free riders that pay your fine. P-kassan is a way, so that if you can’t afford the high ticket prices, you will still be able to use the collective means of transportation through out Stockholm.
Video for Everybody!
Video For Everybody is very simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element which offers native playback in Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3 & 4. This is native OGG video playback in Firefox 3.5 (you get MPEG4 / H.264 playback in Safari). No plugins to install. The video is played by the browser itself. It loads quickly and doesn’t threaten to crash your browser. In other browsers that do not support <video>, it falls back to Adobe Flash. You can host locally or embed any Flash file, such as a YouTube video. If there is no Adobe Flash it provides download links.
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Video For Everybody is very simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website
using the HTML5<video>element which offers native playback in Firefox
3.5 and Safari 3 & 4:
This is native OGG video playback in Firefox 3.5 (you get MPEG4 / H.264 playback in
Safari). No plugins to install. The video is played by the browser itself. It loads quickly and
doesn’t threaten to crash your browser.
In other browsers that do not support<video>, it falls
back to Adobe Flash:
You can host locally or embed any Flash file, such as a YouTube video.
a company of soldiers: innovating & improvising
"CAVNET attempts to rectify our approach to actionable knowledge by providing a trusted source for junior leaders to immediately tap into and share the emerging enemy and friendly tactics, techniques and procedures laterally so that like units can arm themselves with the most recent enemy and friendly trends. This implies trust from above and a method to validate without losing the relevance. Maj. Gen. Chiarelli is a big proponent and integral cultural driver in moving from "knowledge is power" to "knowledge shared is power." His implicit trust in subordinates, realization that this is a small-unit war, and chief advocating [of] cuts across the inherent cultural divide created by hierarchical "turf wars" [is] driving this change across the organization. "
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CAVNET attempts to rectify our approach to actionable knowledge by providing a trusted source for junior leaders to immediately tap into and share the emerging enemy and friendly tactics, techniques and procedures laterally so that like units can arm themselves with the most recent enemy and friendly trends. This implies trust from above and a method to validate without losing the relevance. Maj. Gen. Chiarelli is a big proponent and integral cultural driver in moving from "knowledge is power" to "knowledge shared is power." His implicit trust in subordinates, realization that this is a small-unit war, and chief advocating [of] cuts across the inherent cultural divide created by hierarchical "turf wars" [is] driving this change across the organization.
n2n: a Layer Two Peer-to-Peer VPN
"n2n is a layer-two peer-to-peer virtual private network (VPN) which allows users to exploit features typical of P2P applications at network instead of application level. This means that users can gain native IP visibility (e.g. two PCs belonging to the same n2n network can ping each other) and be reachable with the same network IP address regardless of the network where they currently belong. In a nutshell, as OpenVPN moved SSL from application (e.g. used to implement the https protocol) to network protocol, n2n moves P2P from application to network level."
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n2n is a layer-two peer-to-peer virtual private network (VPN) which allows users to exploit features typical of P2P applications at network instead of application level. This means that users can gain native IP visibility (e.g. two PCs belonging to the same n2n network can ping each other) and be reachable with the same network IP address regardless of the network where they currently belong. In a nutshell, as OpenVPN moved SSL from application (e.g. used to implement the https protocol) to network protocol, n2n moves P2P from application to network level.
Public Timestamp
"Timestamping creates evidence, that some digital data already existed at a specific date."
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Timestamping creates evidence, that some digital data already existed at a specific date.
tehdely: On Amazon Failure, Meta-Trolls, and Bantown
"It's obvious Amazon has some sort of automatic mechanism that marks a book as "adult" after too many people have complained about it. It's also obvious that there aren't too many people using this feature, as indicated by the easy availability (and search ranking) of pornography and sex toys and other seemingly "objectionable" materials, otherwise almost all of those items would have been flagged by this point. So somebody is going around and very deliberately flagging only LGBT(QQI)/feminist/survivor content on Amazon until it is unranked and becomes much more difficult to find. To the outside world, this looks like deliberate censorship on the part of Amazon, since Amazon operates the web application in question. To me, this looks like one of two things: 1. Some "Family"-type organization astroturfing Amazon in an attempt to rid the world of EVIL PRO-HOMOSEXUAL FILTH!! 2. Bantown"
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- It's obvious Amazon has some sort of automatic mechanism that marks a book as "adult" after too many people have complained about it. It's also obvious that there aren't too many people using this feature, as indicated by the easy availability (and search ranking) of pornography and sex toys and other seemingly "objectionable" materials, otherwise almost all of those items would have been flagged by this point. So somebody is going around and very deliberately flagging only LGBT(QQI)/feminist/survivor content on Amazon until it is unranked and becomes much more difficult to find. To the outside world, this looks like deliberate censorship on the part of Amazon, since Amazon operates the web application in question. To me, this looks like one of two things:
- Some "Family"-type organization astroturfing Amazon in an attempt to rid the world of EVIL PRO-HOMOSEXUAL FILTH!!
- Bantown
- Some "Family"-type organization astroturfing Amazon in an attempt to rid the world of EVIL PRO-HOMOSEXUAL FILTH!!
erikfrey's bashreduce at master - GitHub
"bashreduce lets you apply your favorite unix tools in a mapreduce fashion across multiple machines/cores. There’s no installation, administration, or distributed filesystem."
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bashreduce lets you apply your favorite unix tools in a mapreduce fashion across multiple machines/cores. There’s no installation, administration, or distributed filesystem.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”
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“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”
Kadoo, Ka-done for now: bizjournals.com Business News - MSN Money
“We’re just trying to see what’s happening in the general economy and then we’ll make some decisions down the road,” he said. Until then, he said the Web site continues to operate in “hibernation-mode.”
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“We’re just trying to see what’s happening in the general economy and then we’ll make some decisions down the road,” he said. Until then, he said the Web site continues to operate in “hibernation-mode.”
Home - MongoDB - 10gen Confluence
"MongoDB is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document database designed for cloud computing. The project's goal is a cloud-scale data store that's easy to deploy, manage and use."
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MongoDB is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document database designed for cloud computing. The project's goal is a cloud-scale data store that's easy to deploy, manage and use.
On Location With Rick Lee: Push Button, Receive Bacon
"We were washing our hands in a McDonald's somewhere and I said to him "look at this... to me this looks like it says push button, receive bacon." Well... we laughed and laughed all day about that. I thought it up all on my own but I have no idea really what year that was. When I put this post on my blog, a friend of mine said "did you get that idea from Charlie Cooper?" I said that I thought it up all on my own, but she said that she heard that Charlie said that. Well... I did a quick Google search and found that the phrase was all over the place."
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We were washing our hands in a McDonald's somewhere and I said to him "look at this... to me this looks like it says push button, receive bacon." Well... we laughed and laughed all day about that. I thought it up all on my own but I have no idea really what year that was. When I put this post on my blog, a friend of mine said "did you get that idea from Charlie Cooper?" I said that I thought it up all on my own, but she said that she heard that Charlie said that. Well... I did a quick Google search and found that the phrase was all over the place.
Dead Swap
deadSwap is a social experiment exploring the possibilities of creating an entirely off-line fire-sharing and communications platform where people pass a USB memory stick from one to another.
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deadSwap is a social experiment exploring the possibilities of creating an entirely off-line fire-sharing and communications platform where people pass a USB memory stick from one to another.
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