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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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links for 2008-03-01
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People Down on Pownce
Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a note about micro-blogging website, Pownce releasing an updated API to programmers this coming Friday. The comments seem to be swayed towards most people disliking Pownce. People saying things like "Let it die" and "I can do this through email, im, or something else" and I think people are either a) missing the point or b) to set in their twittering ways to give anything else a shot.
The "let it die" comments I will leave be. These people offer no reason as to why TechCrunch should stop writing about the still very much active service, they just want to troll. It is the other set of comments I want address. Those comments that say things like, "I can do this with email or instant messaging. Why do I need Pownce?" seem to really be forgetting one thing the internet is about, choice.
links for 2008-02-28
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** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Creative? The music industry? Absolutely. At a major music industry conference in New York, execs gathered to talk about the industry’s shift to Music 2.0—even if no one is quite sure
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Why Adobe AIR is Important
On Monday, Adobe announced the official 1.0 release of their Adobe Integrated Runtime (also known as AIR) to the public. The runtime, which has been in beta for while now, has become a platform for some popular internet applications like Pownce, Twhirl, and most recently AOL’s XDrive. The release of AIR is a big deal, but I don’t think people are making as big a deal as they could be.
FOAF & Social Networking
I’ve been doing a lot of reading on FOAF (Friend Of A Friend). This XML based idea focuses on the concept of using XML and XHTML tags to create a circle of friends using links on a personal blog. For example, if I link to my friend Derek and I place a “rel=friend met” in the HTML <A HREF> tag, it would link me to Derek as a “friend” and someone I have “met” and if he was to do the same to me, it would connect us via those links. It is a really interesting concept and Google’s new Social Graph API is based largely on this idea.
This works great for connecting yourself to others you know and communicate with via the internet. If you have a lot of friends that you connect to via your web blog, there is almost no better way to connect everyone than by using FOAF. However, this only focuses on the who and how of your social network. What about the problem of where you are social?
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Tagged foaf, opml, social networks
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