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Oct. 31st, 2007
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Oct. 31st, 2007 05:08 am- 08:08 Andrew is on a bus to work to hours earlier than usual. He hopes the software release goes well.
- 10:04 Andrew is sad after saying goodbye to rachel.
- 18:33 Andrew is trying to sort out gaming food. Seems to be more complex than you might think.
Awake at 7:15 this morning, with no hope of more sleep.
Read three chapters of "A Game of You", which is actually even better than I remember - the first bit of Absolute Sandman to feel that way. It's still been very good, but clearly my tastes have changed somewhat.
Cat and kitten taking it in turns to walk back and forth across the book, occasionally purring loudly in a demanding way. I don't think they've quite got the hang of the clocks going back yet...
Tonight is Samhain, so I'm off to the royal mile to see the procession with a few friends. Hope you all have a great time.
Read three chapters of "A Game of You", which is actually even better than I remember - the first bit of Absolute Sandman to feel that way. It's still been very good, but clearly my tastes have changed somewhat.
Cat and kitten taking it in turns to walk back and forth across the book, occasionally purring loudly in a demanding way. I don't think they've quite got the hang of the clocks going back yet...
Tonight is Samhain, so I'm off to the royal mile to see the procession with a few friends. Hope you all have a great time.
and
fuckloads more here.
And that's me nearly awake, so I'm off to work. Huzzah!
(Well, after I read just one more...)
Any Americans willing to do me a favour?
Oct. 31st, 2007 08:34 amI want this t-shirt. Woot will only ship to the US.
Anyone willing to buy it and ship it over? Will happily paypal you the cash...
Anyone willing to buy it and ship it over? Will happily paypal you the cash...
Social Networking
Oct. 31st, 2007 05:14 pmGoogle are announcing OpenSocial - commentary here.
Basically, it's a standard set of APIs that mean that you can host a social networking application on a whole range of platforms rather than only one a single one (i.e. Facebook).
Which means that you'll see an explosion of applications on every social networking site that supports it. On the downside this means that you'll be suddenly dealing with people biting you, Xing you and inviting you to be a slayer all over the place. But for every few hundred completely pointless apps there'll be one which actually stands out as useful.
It's also the second step on the road towards proper social networks:
Step one - applications that work in a social network. e.g. Facebook apps.
Step two - applications that work on lots of different social networks using certain common features. This is where OpenSocial is taking us.
Step three - applications that work across multiple social networks, so that they can include your contacts from Facebook, Livejournal, Slashdot and LinkedIn.
Step four - roll-your-own sites that allow you to provide your own basic social infoamtion (using FOAF, OpenID, etc.) so that you don't need to be a member of a social site to produce or consume social network information.
We're a way off yet - but it looks like we're moving in the right direction.
Basically, it's a standard set of APIs that mean that you can host a social networking application on a whole range of platforms rather than only one a single one (i.e. Facebook).
Which means that you'll see an explosion of applications on every social networking site that supports it. On the downside this means that you'll be suddenly dealing with people biting you, Xing you and inviting you to be a slayer all over the place. But for every few hundred completely pointless apps there'll be one which actually stands out as useful.
It's also the second step on the road towards proper social networks:
Step one - applications that work in a social network. e.g. Facebook apps.
Step two - applications that work on lots of different social networks using certain common features. This is where OpenSocial is taking us.
Step three - applications that work across multiple social networks, so that they can include your contacts from Facebook, Livejournal, Slashdot and LinkedIn.
Step four - roll-your-own sites that allow you to provide your own basic social infoamtion (using FOAF, OpenID, etc.) so that you don't need to be a member of a social site to produce or consume social network information.
We're a way off yet - but it looks like we're moving in the right direction.