random($foo)

AIM 5.5, released last week supports video IM, and of course is compatible with iChat AV. I mentioned when iChat (and it became explicitly clear when iChatAV was released) that this was AOL’s way of skirting around the FCC concession they made during the TW/AOL merger requiring interoperability with competing instant messenger tools. It seems to me that in this sense Apple has become the default Judas of the computer industry (MS: see, we have competition! [here’s some cash and Office]; RIAA: see, we’re offering music! [go sell some iPods]; AOL: see, we’re interoperable!)

(BTW, the mess that is SIMPLE doesn’t bother me so much. XMPP is moving forward, both in IETF-space, and more importantly, in the market: Gush, XIFF, SoapBox, Jive. I’m pretty confident that the next-generation social networks will subsume and make irrelevant proprietary services. In a decade, we’ll hopefully look upon AIM, MSN, and its ilk just as we do with CompuServe and Prodigy mail today)

BuddyZoo is an interesting concept hampered by too high cost of an effort required to get your buddy list in (speaking from a Trillian/Adium/iChat user perspective) and a lack of being very interesting without a large user base.

A Short History of the Photocopying and Dissemination of My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable

• Hacking Friendster, Part I – XSS strikes again, lots of other goodness at More Theory
• Lurker – an innovative mailing list archiver/reader; good stuff. Would be even better w/ JSRS
• Dell Linux Blog – whoa cool.
  

  This webpage is for informational purposes only, may contain typographical errors, technical inaccuracies, and information about configurations which are not officially supported by Dell. The content is provided as is, without express or implied warranties of any kind.

• PEPSI / APPLE SUPERBOWL PARODY 2004 – what’s the new song in the background?
• Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science – full book now online; the rest of the site looks interesting as well

Find/write: Bookmarklet to a page that will call and aggregate Technorati/Pubsub/PubSub/Google similar/Blogdex etc for any site/post/search

towrite: Thoughts on natural metadata properties of links

Oh, so I’ll be at ETCON next week. Driving down from LA. Anyone have floorspace I can crash at? Please drop me a line.

• unstruct.org – Unstructured Information Management
• One-Way and Collision-Resistant Functions [PDF]
• Just out of curiousity: Comparative Review of Secure GUI FTP Clients, Daring Fireball: MacSFTP,
• the Anomy mail tools – once you get started w/ mail processing tools, it can be downright addictive
• Gush – Jabber/XMPP IM + news aggregator; must look into it
• Blogdigger Development Blog
• PubSub vs. Feedster
  

  The key difference between PubSub.com and previous free systems is that we provide, or *will* provide, “Push” delivery mechanisms. There are other differences, but that’s probably going to be the most noticeable one for awhile.

• PubSub – PubSub blog
• Alarm Clock with iTunes & Cron Solution
• iTunes Scripts for iCal v1.5.1
• Want her? You cadaver! – fascinating sculpture made from plastinated cadavers (creepy)
• Social Routing
  

  This is my attempt to build a model of how implicite SocialNetworkingSoftware could work. The reasons why explicite SocialNetworkingSoftware I presented in CritisizmOfExpliciteSocialNetworkingSoftware. Alternatively one can treat that as a ThinkingFramework of how to analyze SocialNetworkingSoftware.

• XNS Public Trust Organization
  

  The XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG) works with the Internet community to determine the future direction of the open eXtensible Name Service (XNS) protocol. XNS is an open, XML-based protocol for identifying and linking any resource participating in any kind of digital transaction. You’ll find the complete technical specifications on this site.

• Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
  

  Most unix text editors cannot (easily?) be set up to reflow a paragraph
  automatically if you edit it somewhere in the middle. In vim this means
  a bit too much typing of the gqip command when editing a paragraph to
  reflow it. Like changing modes, this becomes second nature — I’ve
  probably done it at least twice while composing this paragraph.

• Alex King’s Blog – some good webdev content; I really like his Tasks tool as well
• RASMUS’ TOYS PAGE
• Jamie Zawodny blogs about his house-buying experiences
• Common Sense for a New Century – Howard Dean’s platform makes sense

• The Trouble with RFID (/.)
• The Stanford WebBase Project – where Google and Kaltix come from
• heerforceone – google + friendster = eurekster?,google buys kaltix
• Kaltix and personalized search
• Elucidon, Grokker
• FuzzyBlog
• Eastgate – Tinderbox, Storyspace
• sxswBlog – back up and running

reBlog – hacking a simple metablogging system out of Feed on Feeds. I’ve been kicking around the server-side Aggregators that I could find. Feed on Feeds certainly kicks the stuffing out of rNews (and is cleaner as well: all the code isn’t in one big file). I’m in the process of making some changes, including republishing (either as a post or linklog format) and some interface changes that I’ll hope to send upstream soon.

Things I’m working on:

• Multiple category filtering and visual grouping
• One-click link-logging (w/ via), reposting
• Entry diffing/updates
• Ability to parse invalid feeds