Technology
OAuth — a proposed Open Authentication standard — fills a significant gap in cross-application authentication. It’s common in a world of myriad web-based services for one service you use to want to access another service you use, in order to make things better or easier for you.
For example, you might keep contacts in your mail service, and you might want your photo service to see if people you’re in contact with have photos that you might share. We’ve generally done that sort of thing in one of two ways:
Manual: you go to your mail service and tell it to “export” your contacts to a file on…
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The Public Library of Science has responded to various new networks cropping up in the wake of the Scienceblogs Pepsigate scandal by recruiting keen writers and putting their brand behind them.
Advantage for those wounded by the Scienceblogs ethical quicksand - they can carry no ads because they have PLoS One (and it's projected whopping 7,000 pay-to-publish articles this year) to carry the revenue load for blogging and the rest of PLoS. Plus blogging is not terribly server heavy so the cost will not be onerous. It's just writing and people comment. Pretty simple in both…
It’s been almost a year since I wrote about how I like Skype, and I noted some legal problems between the Skype founders and eBay, which bought Skype in 2005.
Shortly after I wrote that, eBay completed the sale of the majority share of Skype to a private investment group (eBay kept 30%), and shortly after that, the investment group settled with the Skype founders: the founders got a 14% share and two board seats, and they dropped their lawsuits. With those problems sorted out, Skype continued to do well.
Now they’re looking to go public: Skype filed for an IPO (Initial Public Offering)…
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If you just looked at today's cool link, discussing why editors at Old Media don't seem to get the value of links (but their salespeople litter online magazines with paid ones) I give you this great example:
Esquire magazine interviews our own Andrea Kuszewski and it appears online (in one of those horrid slideshows that annoys everyone yet has survived for 15 years) but they don't put a link.
We still link to them. Because we are awesome like that.
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LONDON, August 31, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendeley, a media technology startup that provides software for PDF sorting of research papers, along with Nature Network and the British Library are excited to present Science Online London 2010 , being held 3-4 September 2010 at the British Library. The third annual conference will bring together scientists, bloggers, web entrepreneurs and publishers to engage in lively discussions and exchanges of ideas about how the web is changing the way scientists conduct, communicate, share and evaluate research, and how to employ these trends for the greater…
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Always wanted to fight actual hordes of locusts and see what that whole Sodom place was all about?You're in luck. The Bible Online, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, is coming this September.
Stupid me, I have spent the better part of a year planning a massively multiplayer science game, wherein you compete against a bunch of other people to discover new stuff and advance society, never considering that it might be culturally acceptable to create a game based on The Bible - but the Germans invented Protestantism so they have a long history of sticking it to organized…
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A few weeks ago, an event occurred that added another layer of drama to one of the biggest controversies in video gaming history - namely, who is the King of Kong. Donkey Kong, that is.
If you've never seen "The King of Kong", a documentary about the Donkey Kong controversy, you won't be aware of the fuzzy favoritism of the 'official' record keepers for retro video game scores, Twin Galaxies, who happen to be close friends and business associates of the record holder since the early 1980s, Billy Mitchell.
Mitchell comes off rather poor in the documentary but not as poorly as Twin…
My esteemed colleague Nathaniel Borenstein recently had an article published in TechNewsWorld, “Is the IT Pendulum Winding Down?”
Are we finally nearing a time when IT’s constant swing between centralized and distributed systems might be slowing to a stop? In the case of cloud computing, technology is now reaching the point where we can have our cake and eat it too. Cloud computing is new not because the technologies are new, but because this key combination of technologies has matured past a critical point.
I had something to say about cloud computing about a year ago on my other blog.…
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LONDON, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com ), a media technology startup billing itself as the world's largest research collaboration platform, announced that Paul Brown will join the team as Chief Operating Officer, a newly created position, effective September 6, 2010. He comes to Mendeley from Spotify, a startup that is making waves in the digital music industry, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.
"Mendeley is building a vital product that has a significant impact on the lives of…
If you watched Comedy Central last night, you may have seen a celebrity roast of David Hasselhoff and some research today is another reminder of "Knight Rider".
In the "Knight Rider" television show, which starred Hasselhoff, his supercar K.I.T.T. had a hydrogen turbo motor which allowed it to chase bad guys at over 300 miles an hour. It's no secret that hydrogen is regarded as the best alternative fuel for our transportation future but metals like steel, aluminum and magnesium - commonly used in automotive and energy technology – hydrogen is bad because it can make those metals…