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Re: Please Publish Full Content in Your RSS and Atom Feeds - Chris Roos

Amit — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:04:23 -0000

I guess it's a great ideal to have that across the web. People still think that because content is in a structured format, people will steal content easily. This happens quite a lot - its funny how spam emails contain blog post content to look legitimate. Plus the republishing problem for high quality content is always around - someone steal your posts, then wraps ads around them as their own. So ideally, this would be awesome. It would also mean devices like the Kindle, etc. could actually show you the whole post without fiddling with just teasers. What we need is some kind of watermark/fingerprint to ensure content is not stolen verbatim. Having said that, if people want to - they can scrape your site. So many issues ;-)

Re: Death of the Personal Homepage

Amit — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:10:27 -0000

I think it's important to segregate static information which forms a low barrier to knowing "about you" and the stuff which is active, that forms an ambient view to yourself temporally, which is where your activity renders. Hence, I don't think the personal homepage is dead.

Far from it, what is more important is using your personal homepage as the owner of your web-wide identity. For example, my single authoritative FOAF file could be just at amitkoth.com, with other FOAF publishers being a subset of my master.

In a new age where identity is also centralised e.g. OpenID, it is also very useful to have a personal homepage to actually run your identity, if you're techie enough to do that.

In addition, a personal homepage essentially uses "live widgets" to still achieve the same purpose - tell people about yourself. While before you pasted in picture galleries our your site, you can now pop in a light FlickR widget to show your photos. In fact, if you think about it, the smart services should be attacking how to widgetise an old style personal homepage. Your professional background could easily pull in your LinkedIn profile in a widget as a replacement, and so on.

The secret sauce to a killer service for public use is to see - what used to be on personal homepages? How can each bit be widgetised? Usually, it takes the form of a rich content system, like FlickR replacing the need to have your own photo gallery.

Re: Beware of the so called “Senior PHP Developers” | Md Emran Hasan (phpfour)

Amit — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:07:10 -0000

You're completely right about the judgement of value in people you are going to hire. In a commoditised environment, the sole differentiator is skill, foresight and quality, at a good price. I think really good people who not just code, but understanding the full context of what is being achieved are worth many, many times more than mere developers. They're a rare breed that have expertise in a combination of things.

Re: Beware of the so called “Senior PHP Developers”

Amit — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:07:10 -0000

Re: Let your Confluence Tweet!

Amit — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:03:22 -0000

Great post Keith! I like your new blog, its design, etc. Keep it rocking bro!

Re: Brain Error: No space left on device

Amit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:50:20 -0000

This is a nice piece Keith. It's definitely about publish then filter at the present velocity of information coming from sources like feeds and twitter. I really love the idea of our sound pollution - makes you wonder how all our whitenoise affects Nature.

Re: Miss Chandni

Amit — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:30:22 -0000

I can see it!!!! Oh noos!

Re: Miss Chandni

Amit — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:30:59 -0000

I posted the comment on the wrong post! I can see this!

Re: Miss Chandni

Amit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:27:46 -0000

WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Miss Chandni

Amit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:51:17 -0000

setup your twitter SMS hun! You can SMS in tweets

Re: Adify Ad Networks Commits Online Suicide

Amit — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:58:08 -0000

I got this email too.

This is an utterly ridiculous thing to say and do.

The WHOLE POINT of Adify is to put together multiple ad networks with one ad tag, and serve the joint inventory.

Otherwise - why even bother with them in the middle. I'm taking my business elsewhere.

I have to say - Adify are simply retarded. Probably run my some MBA/agency idiot rather than someone who has common sense.