Monthly Archives: September 2007

Weird Wonderful Web Links for September 27th

By Ian | September 27, 2007

Appfuel Joins The Facebook Ad Party « GigaOM The latest Facebook-specific ad networks is Appfuel, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a way to target ads inside Facebook apps using keywords.
Google To Out Open Facebook On November 5
Via the Will and Amber show (aka commandN 104), wikirage lists the pages in Wikipedia [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for September 24th

By Ian | September 24, 2007

vowe dot net :: The Platform as a Service –
– fp soa REST
ThoughtFarmer – Facebook for the Enterprise | StartupNorth – changing enterprise work flow, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
– social_networking business Enterprise web2.0 Wiki intranet facebook fp
An Oracle for Our Time, Part Man, Part Machine – New York Times – [...]

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Uncrackable DRM is, very likely, Neither.

By Ian | September 11, 2007

The title of the Information Week column by Alexander Wolfe is both provocative and misleading. Microsoft has patented (U.S. Patent 7,266,697) “Stealthy audio watermarking”, which Mr Wolfe suggests could lead to “Uncrackable DRM“.
However even reading the patent’s abstract (”The watermark identifies the content producer, providing a signature that is embedded in the audio signal [...]

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Facebook roundup for Sept 8th

By Ian | September 8, 2007

The Facebook juggernaut continues although not without its critics.

Social Media – Five Facebook Predictions (and Why They Will Matter to Marketers) – online Search; its own internal advertising toolset; go public; move to Auto-Refresh; launch a Payment Tool
SocialMedia Opens Self-Serve Facebook Advertising For All – SocialMedia Appsaholic advertising network soon after F8. They have [...]

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As Seen in a Fortune Cookie

By Ian | September 7, 2007

“Ask not what your fortune cookie can do for you but what do can do for your fortune cookie.”

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Recent Code and the Culture of Code Links for Sept 5th

By Ian | September 6, 2007

With Accordion Magic, Will Shaver has taken Stickman Labs’s accordion sections and added the ability to close panels, and code to keep contents hidden while page loads. Outstanding!!!
Common Prototype mistakes and how to avoid them : Here’s another list of things that tend to confuse (me) unexperienced “prototypers”
DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous – Not Bad! [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for September 4th

By Ian | September 5, 2007

This is what is Weird and Wonderful on the Web through September 4th:

Explaining DRM to non-technical people – Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light, says Cory Doctorow
- DRM Movies Cory Doctorow
HBO Buys U.S. TV Rights to [...]

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Japan link roundup Sept 07

By Ian | September 4, 2007

I’ve gone and collected another set of Japan links once again, cause its the future, or at least one piece of it….
Via TokyoMango : Takeshi Kitano ( sometimes credited as ‘Beat’ Takeshi and best known in the West 1995 for his role is the 1996 “Johnny Mnemonic” film adapted from the William Gibson short [...]

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