From the category archives:

Web2.0

Ocean of Copyright uncertainty
Standing on the shoulders of angry giants
Copyright risks
Statutory Damages
$750-150k damages
Personal Liability
for officers, directors, investors
no reliable shield against liability
everyone knows napster lawsuit
lawsuit contiued until a few months ago long since Napster went under
startups say “we will incorporate as LLC – if we lose we move on” – NOT THAT SIMPLA
LICENSING OF INPUTS
Good [...]

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Syndication technologies
Mostly ATOM – some RSS
del.icio.us/SyndicationTalk
will post to his blog
who is he
pushing data
Archi on windows live platfomr
new search tech and social media space
build better content online
3 things
Intermediate level
great to use feeds – popular consumer endpoints
button inside browser chrome
option in NYTimes to check fresh daily
avail by section
browser is a gateway
news, data, sites
desktop – outlook 2007 – [...]

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ted rheingold
dogster and catster
no more shrinkwrap software
have changes live within a day
customers know it – you know it
panel
Josh Schacter
founder of Del.ici.ous – Yahoo, dir of engineering
Biz Stone – founder of Obvious Corp (twitter) – odeo, blogger, xanga
Stewart Butterfield – founder of flickr, ludicorp
roles that customers can play in dev of software
beta testing
software dev with apis
graphic [...]

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DIY trends
Small is the new big
Atomization of content and objects and platforms
for a large class of problems – dont need a web dev – pull it together off the shelf
home depot concept – dont need a contractor
for a lot of problems you can solve yourself
bake this deeply into the core of your web apps
apps becoming [...]

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Even if you meet the specs and still trap users you are not accessible
at a high level javascript isnt accessible – but not really
Best indicator of accessible content is valid, semantically accessible html
many of the great web2.0 sites have valid, well managed html
if you are still developing without using the modern approach, it will be [...]

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Thomas Vander Wal
Tagging
Taxonomy
Social Web Scaling
what is a tag?
simple meta data
used for sorting
hook for aggregatinig
identifier or description
personal marker
more than 1 tag on an object
History of tagging
Lotus Magellan – 87-90
desktop
DOS world
meta data to files and annotate, add context, not really networking
using sneakernet
handing off files
good way to add context
pull info back together
more networked world
compuserve
files and adding keywords – [...]

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Law, Society, Information technology and people
Privacy – a lot of interesting things happening in the tech cpace
cyberlaw.stanford.edu
Web2.0 is about controlling data – 4.13.07
Its about data, who owns and controls, and who gives best access to
Still in early stages b/c data isnt owned yet
when a company is a bounty of new resources – at a philosophical [...]

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COmmons community working to develop the buildingblocks for these issues
Starting points – OpenID architecturee
holy grail
web-wise dist. single signon
coming together of competeing efforts to collab and cooperate
important
too much of the wbe in walled gardend
cutting edge of what it means to have identity
multiple social contexts
far from solving the problem
Trust is the heart of what we are talking [...]

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Rich Internet APps means less core – more things happening on the edge
changing the nature of the requests on the data center
no moores law for power and heat
processing power for electiricty
what does a data center look like?
who worries
coghead, quickbase – no datacenter
someone at the other end (EC2, S3) – depends on who you ask and [...]

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Heather Champ, Powazeck
1. The talent is out there
altruistic goals attract altruistic participation
wikipedia the best example
Community is grown not built
build the walls firm – be too rigid is a mistake
the people who you want know more about what they want to do with it
elasticity
how do you build this container
create the tools that they want
reqward good contributions
editorial [...]

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