BurningbirdDoc Searls brings up a conversation that started when Mary Hodder wrote a post about having to use her Yahoo identity to log into her Flickr account. The tale is rather long and involved, but it seems that the cookie that maintained her Flickr identity was reset and she was given an opportunity to log in with either her […]
Most of the time the feeds at Planet RDF reference isolated items with general interest. Other times, though, the thoughts featured strike sparks against each other, leading to a chain reaction whereby everyone jumps in and Things Happen. Starting a few days ago, people have been referencing two stories, both of which I find very interesting. The […]
Dare Obasanjo writes: Repeat after me, a web page is not an API or a platform. Versioning APIs is hard enough, let alone trying to figure out how to version an HTML website so screen scrapers are not broken. Web 2.0 isn’t about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn’t about legitimizing bad practices […]
I had forgotten to apply the MAC filter and once having done so, the machine called ‘Chris’ is history. I own the air, the bandwidth is mine. All mine. Speaking of connectivity, I was rather amazed to see that Google has hired Vint Cerf. If you’re not familiar with the name, he is literally the father […]
I’ve been fighting a real battle the last two weeks to get and hold a stable internet connection. I thought at first it was the cable connection, but that doesn’t seem to be the problem. With university starting and all new neighbors, I think that my wide open wireless router has been getting several customers, […]