John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
I have a couple of interesting tools for you to use to improve links and tags with when composing your next blog post!
The first one is from Tagaroo, which uses the (Reuters) Calais API to determine tags that match the content of your posting. Like Akismet, you need to sign up to use the Calais [...]
Brady just posted links to numerous presentations from Web 2.0 Expo Europe. The LolCats have taken over presentations at most major web conferences these days. Nearly every presentation I looked at had a LOLCat on one of their slides.
Those that were lacking in an actual LOLCat slide featured lots of LOLSpeak. I know we’re discussing [...]
Here I am at work, at Twitter during the 1st Presidential debates, making sure things are running and keeping track of our metrics. Twitter and Current.tv worked together to provide a live election site and placement of user generated tweets on live video of the debate. Our team did wonderfully and Twitter stayed up through [...]
If your site uses common AJAX libraries like jQuery, jQuery UI, mootools, prototype, script.aculo.us, or dojo, the first thing that you’ll notice is that these libraries are quite large and impact page load time.
For a browser with a completely empty cache, the browser will load the requested library (and block all other requests during the [...]
You’ve probably read my other article here on the Retina blog about building a Hackintosh, and recently I made the fatal mistake of killing my machine by attempting an upgrade of the working Kalyway 10.5.2 installation with Kalyway 10.5.3. It pushed the machine into a horrible state and all attempts at recovery have been lost.
I [...]
My discoveries with the Wall of Sheep at Defcon 16 and it’s application to Twitter security were mentioned on the August 12, 2008 Data Security Podcast.
They called me one of the “good guys”. Heh!
You can listen to it here:
http://datasecurityblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/data-security-podcast-episode-13-aug-11-2008/
As someone who takes many photographs of random people in nightclubs and at events, I’m intrigued by the efforts of Columbia University’s team to write software that performs automated face replacement in digital photographs.
The software is able to replace faces within images from a database of candidate images drawn from the Internet and other sources, [...]
Tag Galaxy is a 2008 thesis project from Steven Wood at the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg. It allows you to explore flickr tags while looking at solar systems that represent photos and related tags.
Check it out at http://www.taggalaxy.de
People keep saying to me, “I don’t get Twitter, what is it that you do anyway?”
We just put out a pretty slick video showing people in San Francisco and New York using it, so maybe this’ll help !
How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo.
I’m heading to Defcon 16 on Thursday to talk to some fellow hackers, meet colleagues, and to hopefully, not lose my shirt in Vegas. I think I’ll be much too busy to gamble, really.
For a conference that is so technically minded, they didn’t post the conference schedule in a useful format (HTML only! ew!), so [...]