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MashupCamp.com has released videos of mashup classes that were held this past July. We have Ted Patrick from Adobe on Macromedia Flex 2.0, Chris Thomas with Intel on mobile mashups, and Clay Loveless giving a glimpse of Mashery.com; just to name a few of the mashup speakers.
Via Threadwatch.org, today Valleywag publishes an article from journalist student Trent Lapinski (digest version), critizing MySpace. Lapinski argues these five points:
1. MySpace is NOT a viral success.
2. MySpace.com is Spam 2.0.
3. Tom Anderson did NOT create MySpace.
4. MySpace's CEO Chris DeWolfe is connected to a past of spam.
5. MySpace was a direct assault on Friendster.com.
Every good database driven website needs a solid, scalable database backend. With bleeek.com I've decided to implement a tagging system for users to label their photos. Tagging is nothing new anymore and so the question is how are sites like del.icio.us pulling it off?
My research led me to an article by Philipp Keller who did a comparision of three database schemas for a tagging system.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) has been went in effect since April 21, 2000 and reported yesterday by MSNBC, the FTC fined Xanga $1 million for violating that federal law.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, children who wanted to open a Xanga account didn't even have to show that level of ingenuity. Children merely had to check a box confirming they were over 13, according to FTC lawyer Mary Engle -- even if they'd previously entered a birth date indicating they were under 13.
Engle would not reveal what Xanga's explanation was for the lack of obvious fact-checking.
The LonelyGirl15 story has been circulating the internet for a couple weeks now and if you haven't already heard the story the LA Times has published an updated article detailing the story. What's new is that three fans might have tracked down the people behind the YouTube videos.
With the August 4th AOL data leak and now Google releasing search data to the Brazilian government, many web surfers are up in arms.
Poisoning the Data Stream via Firefox Plugin", brought back to my attention a Firefox extension that I saw a while back that is being developed by Daniel C. Howe and Helen Nissenbaum. The extension is called TrackMeNot, and currently it works by periodically making random search queries to the popular search engines. From the site:
Okay, you are probably not asking that. You are either lost or somewhere along the line of the future of this blog I wrote something interesting and managed to ganer atleast one reader. For the truly interested I will answer the question.
If you are not aware of what bleeek.com is about then you may want to visit the actual bleeek.com website. As for the bleeek.com development blog, here you will find information about the design, programming, and marketing techniques I used, or I contemplated about using, for bleeek.com. The blog is geared toward web entrepreneurs and you should have a good basic understanding of web propgramming, web design, and the marketing strategies.