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The tenth idea for my 365 social ideas is a site for mashing up Youtube-videos, playing with them across media etc. It could be done as simple as a website with a youtube player and a search field (with results). Then, when you have a video, that you like, you drag it onto your timeline, say maybe from 00:15 to 2:25 of video X, and 00:34 to 00:46 of video Y, and then you have created a new video 2 minutes and 22 seconds long.

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The eighth idea for my 365 social ideas is the first mobile app to appear here: The Appcelerator (okay, I admit, I am not good to come up with names for stuff). It is a very simple app, that will combine two of the main features of modern smartphones: accelerometer and GPS-tracking, and the result is a fun game about dominating the largest area with your phones acceleration, altitude or speed.

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The sixth idea for my 365 social ideas is more about social web principles than an actual idea. And then again, it is an idea to establish a new code of conduct and standards for a Password-friendly Website Certificate. “Certificate” should be taken lightly, as it is merely two very simple question for website owners to answer: Do you really need to ask users for a password? And if you do, do you then salt my password and then one-way encrypt it before storing it anywhere? The first is of course the better, but the latter is necessary if you do actually ask me for a password.

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The fifth idea for my 365 Social Ideas is a Twitter- and Wikipedia-mashup idea (and some maps): Find out who’s talking about what on Twitter through Wikipedia categories. There are many sites for tracking Twitter trends , but they all require that you know what you’re looking for (or where you’re looking for it geographically). But what if you simply wanted to know what movies people are tweeting about? Or what about bands, musicians, flowers, four-legged mammals, financial institutions, politicians from Guadelupe or any other arbitrarily broad or narrow category of items?

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The fourth idea for my 365 social ideas is yet another service for combining your online profiles – but in a new unobtrusive way. The idea is to let you use social media the way that you do currently but expand what you do in one place to other places. Instead of every social site you use need to integrate with all the others you simply integrate all your social profiles with one new service, the Social Subway (working secretly below the surface), and it will automatically connect any of your actions with other relevant sites.

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The very first idea for my 365 social ideas is Twitter-based. The idea actually originated some time ago, when I started using TweetDeck. The idea was to create an online service for creating and maintaining friend lists (unfortunately TweetDeck can neither import nor export lists in an open way AFAIK, but if). The idea has since expanded to the built-in Twitter Lists, which do have a public API which actually made this original idea further interesting.

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Having found an interest in the DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range specification I will try to gather information about implementations first.

Before even testing whether implementations are conformant and/or where their differences lie, I will try simply to list all implementations.

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After having read about and experimented with Digg’s MXHR concept and DUI.Stream, I have now implemented the very same thing for ActionScript 3. In my tests it really shows a performance-boost over conventional queued download.

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As I have posted recently, my (former) sharing service of choice was ShareThis. No really good reason for that choice actually, just came by their service first, and it worked like a charm. But now it doesn’t anymore (update: well it does again, but there were problems), so I looked around for alternatives.

The largest such (might even be larger than ShareThis) is AddThis. Their API is incredibly simple, as you can actually share anything by giving a simply link to their site with url and title of what to share.

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I have recently become a fan of Google’s very simple JavaScript API. The sole purpose of this project is to avoid all of us including common libraries like SWFObject or jQuery in every project we create and instead load it from a central (updated) repository. I have since used this in many projects.

However, who decides which libraries to include and how common should a library be, before Google will include it? Personally I believe they should add SWFAddress to the list of supported libraries as well.

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