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Data protability

Will browsing along my regular sites today and RSS feeds I came across an article that was published on ReadWriteWeb titled
“ Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org

Although I’m a somewhat regular reader of ReadWriteWeb and agree with them on allot of topics I’m afraid that I have to say that they’ are wrong this time. There is no bombshell, well at least not from the side of Google. Google has had plans for data portability way back in 2006 as you can read in this article dating from 11/07/2006 on the NetworkWorld.com site.

But I must admit that I’m very happy about this initiative. And the joining of the big players on the net to make data portability between the sites possible. Specially the joining of Google and FaceBook is very important because these two have the most user data on there sites and getting them aboard is key for success of this initiative.
I already have the habit of downloading on a regular basis my data on sites that I’ve subscribed to. For example I’m fetching my data from Plaxo and from del.icio.us every night via there respective APIs.

But I hope with this initiative it’ll be possible to get all my online data to and from any provider of my choosing. This will be a big leap forward for the web 2.0 services that are out there.

Rated G

Recently I came across the the site Just Say Hi. You know the type with different kinds of quizzes. But there is also a useful tool to find out what the rating of a specific site is.







And I’m proud that icebear.net is rated G and have uphold the standards and haven’t gone down the gutter and lowered my standards.

no-www

I just came across the site no-www.org and although I don’t agree on there mission statement ‘www. is deprecated’. I thought I’ll change my default URI or URL in various locations to make it so that the primary URI is now http://icebear.net I have still a redirect in place so all my content is still available via the old www.
One point I agree with the guys on no-www.org is that if you contact a site using a web browser or you are using a valid URI with the URI scheme in this case http:// there is no use for the www. It’s kinda obvious that you are trying to connect to the world wide web server.

Nsyght - Kick the algorithm to the curb

A month ago the Nsyght website went live with a alpha preview of there site. I was already aware of the new social search engine site to be launched due to a number of visits by the Nsyght search spider to my web server. I've added an account 11 days ago to see all the possibilities of this new social media mashup of a search engine and socials bookmarking sites. They have set there selfs a lofty goal to let the users create there own custom search engine using there social network. The way this custom search engine works is that the site will create a detailed knowledge about what you think is relevant based on the bookmarks you submit and friends you make on the site. To allow quickly add bookmarks del.icio.us and ma.gnolia integration is currently build in, so starting a bookmark collection is a breeze.

The current alpha site that is running is only a fraction of the things the groups is working on. It gives a good taste of things to come. But if you want a smooth running feature packed new social site I suggest to wait for the beta release.

Firefox sports car

The folks at Mozilla Japan created this Firefox customized car for a competition in Nagoya and debuted it this weekend as part of Mozilla 24.

Belgium for sale on eBay

On the auction side of eBay.be the past few days there are placed numerous bits on a sale ‘Belgium, a kingdom in three parts’. The item was first priced at 1 Euro early Monday afternoon it had risen to 250 Euro and currently it’s priced at a cool 10.000.000 Euro.

According to the advertisement Belgium has a few down sides. First of all it’s secondhand and it has a large government debt. But to counter that you get the Belgium royal family for free with the deal. Also you have the option to buy the land in parts for example only Flanders or Brussels.

Interested people have until the 25th of September to place a bid and it will be send to you for free

Blogrush

I’ve just signed up for the new service of BlogRush I’m just curious where this service is going I’m very curious if this will give me some additional traffic. Apparently one of the arts of getting lots of traffic too your site is to promote your referral link to the maximum. I already found out that most of the reviews have listed there referral every 5 sentences. I promise I’ll post mine only once, so here you go if you also want to install BlogRush on your Blog and want to use me a referral use click here: BlogRush (referral) if you want to install without referral click here: BlogRush

If you like some additional information about BlogRush click on one of the links and view the video it explains it much better then I can.

Update : 25/09/2007 11:51 Current Credit Balance: -12 and Clicks are 0. Apparently none of the readers ever used the widget. So Blogrush is out.

Gazhoo the content marketplace

Next to new startups like Scribd and Docstoc there is a new site in this segment Gazhoo. And in my opinion it is the best by far. I must admit that it isn’t an even battle between the sites. This because Docstoc is currently only open to invited users and although Scribd has a large number of documents online, many documents focus on ‘Cracking CD Protection’, ‘13 Funny Bumper Stickers’, ‘911 Pictures’ just to name a few.

No, if you want a really good site to upload and download quality documents from you should go to Gazhoo. There you can download Legal Forms, Business Forms, Market Research, Reports and Essays. The catch to this is that, although a number of document can be downloaded for free, also payment might be required to get the document you require. But on the other hand this is also a good thing. The uploader of the document puts in an effort to produce a good document he can get some money from and this will ultimately increase the quality of the documents. All the money transactions are done fast, secure and reliable via PayPal.

My advice if you need a specific document and you guess it might have been already created by somebody else, have a look at Gazhoo perhaps you can download it for free or get you hands on it at a bargain price.

Zotero

Great Firefox 2.x add-on that turns your browser in a research management tool. It makes it possible to collect and organize your research in one place.
Zotero can do the following things for you:

• Collect bookmarks for a certain topic, and tag it.
• Find a book on sites like amazon.com and add it to your library
• Find Journal item create a snapshot and highlight certain passages.
• Receive e-mail and also attach that in your library.
• and much more..

I’m still not completely convinced but to me it looks like this extension is going to super seed my article from May 24th this year about the ScrapBook extension and all my researching is going to be doen with this extension.

Release candidate 3 is available for download from there site at zotero.org

Web Trend Map 2007

The information Architects from japan have created a great view of the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. Like you can see below the whole image reads like a metro map.

Original article can be found here : Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

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