January 28th, 2010 — 9:00am
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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January 18th, 2010 — 9:00am
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.
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January 16th, 2010 — 9:00am
The sixteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is an idea for a technical tool to assist everyone in getting the credit they deserve and the loyalty they can expect: a copy-paste injection script. It is the very same idea that tynt.com has “created”, but they keep the technology (how simple it may be) to themselves and have even filed for a patent.
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January 10th, 2010 — 9:00am
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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July 17th, 2009 — 3:57pm
I’ve been reading up on the matter of the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom and their threatening letters to the Wikimedia Foundation about the legal status of the digitised works created by said public institution.
After reading up on UK copyright law, my judgment is unclear – but mostly in favor of the NPG and thus against Wikimedia.
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