January 17, 2010 – 9:48 pm
While reading Want to commit Facebook suicide? No, really, there’s an app for that! I came across a link to 100 years old essay Desintroductions by Ambrose Bierce which is truly brilliant.
Short citation:
Mr WHITE: Mr Black, knowing the low esteem in which you hold each other, I have the honor to disintroduce you from Mr Green.
Mr BLACK (bowing): Sir I have long desired the advantage of your unacquaintance.
Mr GREEN (bowing): Charmed to unmeet you, sir. Our acquaintance has distressed me beyound expression. We are greatly indebted to our good friend here for his tact repairing the mischance.
Mr WHITE: Thank you. I’m sure you will become very good strangers.
November 28, 2009 – 12:06 am
Fakt přemýšlím, že bych udělal malé české Autocomplete me. Anybody to join?
November 18, 2009 – 8:38 pm
Stejně jako Robin Wauters píše v updatu na TechCrunchi, i já od teď budu sledovat Autocomplete Me Blog.
Udělal jsem nový eshop pro strejdu Michala Moravce. V nakladatelství Toužimský & Moravec vydává knížky o Bigglesovi, dobrodružné knížky z divokého západu včetně těch od Karla Maye a sem tam něco od Wericha nebo dokumentárního mimo normální edice, takže pokud toto čtete, tak jinde těžko najdete nižší ceny (omlouvám se za malou reklamu, ale je to pravda).
Technicky jde o upravený Wordpress. Žádný kouzla, žádný nákupní košík ani placení kreditkou. Prostě místo příspěvků do blogu, krátké anotace knih a navíc jednoduchý formulář pro objednání. Easy, easy, teď mě jen zajímá, za jak dlouho si to na sebe vydělá.
February 22, 2008 – 10:27 pm
GeoURL is a service that maintains list of web sites and their geographical coordinations. It is possible to search a site and get it’s location as well as search a location and get all nearby sites. However the results are not shown on map. There have been attempts to map results (see comments under GeoURL meets Google Maps post at GeoURL offical blog). Some of these attempts don’t work any more or require server instalation.
Now that Google Mapplets have been released for quite some time I decided to write one for GeoURL:
var map = new GMap2();
var overlay = null;
GEvent.addListener(map, "moveend", function() {
map.getCenterAsync(function(center) {
var overlayTmp=overlay;
overlay = new GGeoXml('http://geourl.org/near/?lat=' + center.lat() + '&long=' + center.lng() + ';format=rss10');
if (overlayTmp!=null) {
map.removeOverlay( overlayTmp );
}
map.addOverlay( overlay );
});
});
This was not super hard and solves the visualization problem nicely. Once installed to Google MyMaps it displays the nearest sites to map center wherever you go on Google Maps. It can be used together with other Mapplets so one can see GeoURL sites next to flickr images or any other geocoded information provided by mapplets.
To instal this GeoURL Mapplet use this link or search for GeoURL on Mapplets gallery.
This is how Prague center looks like after instalation:
January 27, 2008 – 11:14 pm
I wanted to do this myself, but first I searched, if somebody wasn’t faster. And there I found it. Complete kmz file for all Czech golf courses with some basic info like address, email and www of each course. It includes a bit of advertising for the map creators but I think this is much deserved credit where its due.
Personally I like this map much more than the one provided by Czech Golf Federation. It does not filter by course size or region, but viewed in Google Earth or Maps it can be used to find directions and zoom in to see actual course if Google has bought satellite map good enough for the location. As an example, this is a GE screen shot of Golf Hostivař (including the new clubhouse under construction).
View the original map in Google Earth, Google Maps or embedded underneath.
View Larger Map
Update: This has been implemented at identitu.de. I’m not sure if the implementation details are exactly as described in this post, but they seem so. See (de)railed blog for details.
Facebook does not officially support OpenID. But would the Facebook Platform make it possible for 3rd party developers to implement OpenID App on top of it? I’ve been thinking about this lately while reading the API documentation. I think it is not possible to implement OpenID consumer, so those of you who wanted a way how to log in to Facebook with their existing OpenID might now stop reading.
OpenID provider on the other hand should be possible. According to Authentification description in the documentation:
In order for a Facebook API client to use the API, the user of the client application must be logged in to Facebook. To accomplish this, direct your users to: http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&v=1.0, which will prompt the user to log in if necessary.
After successfull login it is possible to retrieve all user date with facebook.users.getInfo method and thus verify the user’s identity.
So the complete workflow looks like this:
- User enters OpenID enabled site (OpenID consumer) such as this blog, Zooomr, Jyte or whatever.
- He enters his OpenID URL such as http://www.f8ID.org/700107342. The number is his facebook profile number and the domain is a domain of the hypothetical OpenID App service provider (the domain is free as of writing this).
- The consumer site redirects him to f8ID according to OpenID protocol.
- f8ID redirects him to Facebook login page.
- User logs in with his Facebook password.
- Facebook redirects him back to f8ID.
- f8ID calls the Facebook getInfo method and verifies that this session has the the same profile number as is in the OpenID URL. If they are equal f8ID redirects back to original OpenID consumer site according to OpenID protocol.
This might seem complicated and unintuitive. But as with OpenID in general, the theoretical description puts off average internet user, but practical use is much easier to understand and use. I practice the user is involved only in step 2 and the first time of the day also in step 5. The rest is transparent to him.
So technically implementing this is possible, but would anybody actually use it? I’m not sure. There are many OpenID providers to chose from. This app would have just one advantage - one can use just one password for OpenID, one password that you need to have anyway. In principle it is very similar to idproxy.net, which turns Yahoo ID into OpenID. I can’t find the numbers, but I guess that only a very small fraction of Yahoo users use idproxy.
Please share your opinion. Would you consider using Facebook as OpenId server?
Google has done another big thing. They released the Street View feature for their maps. As with every google announcement the blogosphere is exited with a post about it every few minutes. And as with almost every google product people are asking if it compromises our privacy. Maybe, may be not. I don’t have a strong opinion yet.
All I have is one positive experience: I have been to the states only once for a few months. I stayed in New York only about a 4 days of the time. I have walked down the Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge and I have seen the Flat Iron Building. I also remember eating several meals at one pizza place across the street from the hostel. It is probably a place like hundreds others, but I liked it a lot. Especially the fact, that the waitress spoke worse English than me.
I took a photo of the place from the hostel room. Now, 5 years later, while trying out the new google feature I became curious if I still can find the place and if so, if google took a photo too. And guess what! I can and they did!
There is only one thing missing in the puzzle - a photo of the waitress. I can’t google it, it’s neither on flickr nor on Zooomr. Anybody going there for pizza, who would send me the photo?
Připravovaná parodie na Hvězdné války mého souseda Radka a jeho kamarádů má nové stránky. Zatím neobsahují trailery, jen několik obrázků z natáčení a encyklopedii postav a vybavení. Nicméně i z obrázků je vidět, že kluci začínají dobře zvládat filmové efekty světelných mečů, mají pěkné kostýmy a hlavně pěkné poctivé kovové světelné meče. Takže já už se těším na hotové dílo.
Tak jsem zase jednou zjistil, že jsem dlouho žil v nevědomosti. Tagy znám, ale hluboké tagy? Už dávno psali na TechCrunch “All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging“. Jak mě to mohlo minout? Deep tagging není nějaká novinka ani úplná blbost, soudě podle milionových investic do společností, které se tím hodlají živit.
Takže ve zkratce: Deep Tagging je tagování částí obrázků, zvukových nahrávek a videa a odkazování na tyto části. Něco jako #relativní odkazy v HTML, které lze navíc otagovat.
Kromě veotag (výše zmíněná investice) se tímto konceptem zabývá více webů. flickr a Zooomr umožňují tagovat části obrázků. Pro video se mi zdá nejlepší služba SceneMaker, která umí otagovat scény z videí na Google Video, YouTube, Metacafe a DailyMotion, takže je možné otagovat filměčky už dávno uploadnuté bez jejich migrace na jinou službu à la veotag. Například scénu z 66 Seconds, kde hraju.
