My life with ActionScript, JavaScript and their families
I recently found, that vimeo.com had a cross-domain policy, that allowed anyone to connect, which was an open invitation for CSRF attacks. I alerted them to the issue, and it has now been fixed.
The twenty-nineth idea for my 365 social ideas is a classic mashup: CatScanner, a charting application and the New York Times Article Search. The charting application could very likely be the previously mentioned Infographic Charting Service for better results (it could actually be built into this service) or it could be build stand-alone using any classic charting API like Google Charts.
The twenty-eighth idea for my 365 social ideas is about the open web and about “forcing” classic websites to export their data. Imagine sites with lots of useful information, that is frequently updated, but is hidden away behind forms, in PDF’s or in hard-to-scrape tables. Then imagine a website, where you could provide this address, and give it some guidance as to how to input data in forms and how to interpret the results. And then imagine, that this website would act as a proxy with this interaction described as a simple, queryable API and then behind the scenes would fetch data from the original website.
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The twenty-sixth idea for my 365 social ideas is a new brand of charting service: A service designed for infographics, but with sharing, collaboration and synergy as an added side-effect.
The twenty-fifth idea for my 365 social ideas is a small simple idea: use Facebook notes or images combined with tags to display results of games. For instance, imagine a chess game, post the result of the game as a note on the game’s page with the final board, all moves made during the game and both players tagged. Or simply post the final board as an image and tag both players as well.
The twentieth idea for my 365 social ideas is to combine the ideas of interest group websites like Meetup.com with location-aware services like Foursquare or Gowalla: Allow people with the same interests as you to see where you are available for talking about this interest. For instance, it is far more useful to know, that one of your friends, acquaintances or a stranger is at some place nearby and willing to talk about needle point with you, than just knowing where one of your friends is without actually having anything to use that information for.
The nineteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is another Twitter idea – about being able to be a DJ over twitter. It could be done so simple, and actually @kim_bach gave me the idea and somewhat started it himself. I will however expand a little on the idea.
The eighteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is a social web principle, but it is not new in any way. It is just another voice in the choir of web enthusiasts screaming for open data. However, most people scream at public institutions all over the world to open up their data for their citizens to play around with. I would however like to extend this plea to corporations as well: if you have data, don’t know what to do with it and are allowed to share it, then please share it. Trust me, you’ll end up the winner in the long run, eventhough you’re giving assets away for free.
The fifteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is about bringing classic games to Twitter in a quite simple, straight-forward way. The same mechanic can be used for simple games like Rock-Paper-Scissor or more complex turn-based board games like Monopoly, Chess or similar.
The thirteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is about adding social connectivity to console games. But not straightforwardly, as in asking the developer of the Assassins Creed 3 to automatically tweet when you get a trophy on your PS3 (this will probably come soon, but is pretty boring). No, it should be possible to do some form of ping/trackback system, in which all games can “ping” your progress to any gaming progress ping recipients. And what happens with this ping is then out of the hands of the actual game. One obvious game progress ping recipient is a twitter bridge, that will tweet it as explained, but by building such a general system, it can be used for anything anyone else can think of, because you simply build a new website, that can receive pings and ask users to enter the url of your website in your game console’s settings.