“According to an engineer in digo(?), they think they could ___.”
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Update:
As the above nonsense shows, trying to blog using SpinVox is proving a little challenging. The post I left was about Google [digo?] and their attitude towards OpenSocial, as discussed in a session with one of their engineers at today’s Widgety Goodness conference.
More on this tomorrow. For now the experiment continues.
“According to 2 speakers at this morning’s session of which speaker just stopped in to Brighton. Brahm’s(?) Awareness is no longer important and a vast amount of money and magazine advertising. How will they translate it online. Will it be translated to Widget. The messages of previously in there.”
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“This is a test blog of the SpinVox voice to text system. We’re using SpinVox we’re dialling into that leaving a voicemail message and then it should appear automatically as text on our blog. We gonna be blogging a conference in Brighton tomorrow. Let’s hope it works.”
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ACAP was designed to be a system that allows content publishers to embed into their websites information that details access and use policies in a language that search engines can understand.
Over on Currybet.net Martin Belam has outlined some of the major flaws, as he sees them, of ACAP – which launched in New York last week.
Here’s a brief outline, but you have to go to his blog to get the necessary full picture:
It isn’t user centred
“On the ACAP site I didn’t see anything that explained to me why this would currently be a good thing for end users.
“It seems like a weak electronic online DRM – with the vague promise that in the future more ‘stuff’ will be published, precisely because you can do less with it.”
It isn’t technically sound
“I’ve no doubt that there has been technical input into the specification.
“It certainly doesn’t seem, though, to have been open to the round-robin peer review that the wider Internet community would expect if you were introducing a major new protocol you effectively intended to replace robots.txt”
The ACAP website tools don’t work
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“I was going to make a cheap shot at the way that was phrased, as it clearly should have been ‘there is a known bug in our script which affects Mozilla Firefox’.
I thought though that I ought to check it in Internet Explorer first – and found that the ACAP tool didn’t work in that browser either.”
Update:
Ian Douglas, on the Telegraph, seems to have similar feelings about ACAP being too publisher-centric:
“Throughout Acap’s documents I found no examples of clear benefits for readers of the websites or increased flexibility of uses for the content or help with making web searches more relevant.
The new protocol focuses entirely on the desires of publishers, and only those publishers who fear what web users will do with the content if they don’t retain control over it at every point.”
Today a committee at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will deal with calls for the ‘internet addressbook’ service WHOIS to be shut down over privacy concerns.
For those who have not used WHOIS before: the site provides access to contact details for registered owners of web addresses. A simple search of the WHOIS database by domain name brings up the info.
Its a useful tool for journalists wanting to establish who is behind online offerings and as a means of tracking down publishers details.
According to an Associated Press report, privacy groups argue that website publishers should not have to part with so much personal information just to set up a website. There are also issues surrounding the use of WHOIS by spammers.
But, as the headline of the AP article suggests, scrapping WHOIS would be a step too far. Not only is it a valuable resource for businesses, lawyers and the media, but shutting it down would be a rash answer to an ongoing debate over who is allowed access to such information and how. Best Free amateur porn . Sex and Porn Videos.
This is something that ICANN has been discussing for some time now – let’s hope they don’t give up the search for a more workable solution now.
Google News has created a Facebook application allowing users to search and share stories. Users are able to create their own news categories, as well as selecting from predefined news topics, and mail news to Facebook chums.
According to Google the application is still experimental – just in the beta phase claims the Google News blog – but so far, not so good.
It seems you have to navigate to a separate page to get all your news from Google, in addition to this annoyance (which I think will be sufficient to put a lot of people off) you can’t do anything about the Top and Most Popular stories column on the right side of the page. You can’t crush them down or remove them, the only option is to ‘read more’ which low-and-behold, opens another tab in your browser to show the Google News page.
The Google News app in its current state seems to be a way to navigate out of Facebook quickly (never really a bad thing I suppose). A wish list has been set up on the apps page so that people can recommend alterations – expect changes quickly.
I have another Google News app that I use, it’s called Goonews and was developed by a guy called Eran Shir and powered by Dapper (not sure what ‘powered’ actually means in this context). It’s a bit more rudimentary (you have to define your search term ahead of time and seem to only ever to be able to have one category of news displayed) but at least its as flexible the other apps on my profile page – at least its on my profile page.
Google extends its suite of online Office-style tools, Google Docs, with the launch of presentations.
Have a look at the demo vid below:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA]