Month: February 2006

Edgeio launches

Development of an open platform for listings continues with yesterday’s launch of Edgeio. This service picks up on blog post that are marked as a listing using a Microformat-like tag and collects them on a website for users to search through. They have some nifty interfaces in place to allow you to zoom in on listings that are close to you. One thing they haven’t addressed yet (but are aware of) is the problem of fake listings and spam.

Structured Blogging is working in the same field, but from a different angle (focussing on the bloggers, not the site that collects listings). I wrote about them earlier over here (in Dutch). The biggest challenge for the Edgeio crew is probably gaining critical mass to be able to compete with the likes of eBay.

Everyone was blogging about this yesterday, here are some of the posts:

  1. TechCrunch » Edgeio Launches
  2. Read/WriteWeb: edgeio launches with same goals as Structured Blogging
  3. WeBreakStuff » Edgeio launches
  4. GigaOM : » Edgeio Launches, Finally
  5. Russell Beattie Notebook – Playing with EdgeIO
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links for 2006-02-24

links for 2006-02-23

Crash

I finally got around to watching Crash on DVD yesterday evening and I must say it’s one of the best things I’ve seen in quite a while. The story revolves around a large group of seemingly unconnected characters whose lives get intertwined through a series of car crashes. Magnolia did this before expertly, this film does it even better perhaps – never giving you the feeling the run-ins between people are forced. The driving force and main subject of the film is racism, I’ve hardly ever seen the topic handled so thoughtfully. There’s a lot of ambiguity, no clear-cut good or bad guys and as a watcher you’re forced to constantly re-examine your preconceptions about the characters. In short – hugely enjoyable!

Michael Pena as Daniel in Crash

Remix en auteursrecht (open.info.nl)

“Onlangs verscheen een aardig artikel in het Tijdschrift voor Marketing van de hand van Ferry den Dopper, waarin een aantal web 2.0 aspecten worden uitgelegd aan marketeers. Eén van die aspecten is remix – het fenomeen waarbij één of meerdere websites worden gebruikt als basis voor een nieuwe dienst. Den Dopper staat daarbij heel kort stil bij de juridische implicaties van deze waardetoevoeging door derden. “Some rights reserved” schrijft hij en citeert daarbij het Creative Commons-initiatief.”

Lees verder op open.info.nl »

links for 2006-02-22

Opgehokte raven

Geweldig nieuws uit Groot-Brittannië – de koninklijke raven zijn opgehokt. Onlangs las ik een mooi artikel in mijn favoriete blad Fortean Times, waarin werd verteld hoe de zes raven van de Tower of London door de Yeoman raven master worden verzorgd en beschermd. Een oude voorspelling zegt dat als alle raven de Tower verlaten het Britse koninkrijk ten onder zal gaan. Nu staat de vogelgriep voor de deur, dus gaan Branwen, Hugine, Munin, Gwyllum, Thor and Baldrick op stok! Iets wat de raven master liever niet doet:

“Although we don’t like having to bring the Tower ravens inside, we believe it is the safest thing to do for their own protection, given the speed that the virus is moving across Europe.”