Web-Wide Data

Web-Wide Data: "When visiting and interacting with websites we share important data about ourselves: Netflix knows some movies I watch, Amazon knows some books I read, and Last.fm knows some music I listen to.

While this data enables these services to provide additional value - Amazon suggests books; Last.fm notifies me of concerts - there’s two major issues: (i) the data is not accessible by the user; (ii) the data is site-centric.

For example, despite Netflix knowing some movies I watch, they don’t know about my movie activity across other sites. And there’s no easy way for me to let them know.

Therein lies the problem to site-centric datasets that aren’t user controlled: each site represents a fraction of our total web activity within a given vertical. Increasingly our interactions within a vertical are web-wide. For movies, we read reviews on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB, watch trailers on Apple, buy tickets on Fandango, rent from Netflix, and buy discs from Amazon."

marshal sandler .com - MarshalSandler.com » Fantastic Tooltips on GetGlue.com

marshal sandler .com - MarshalSandler.com » Fantastic Tooltips on GetGlue.com
 “So excited about what we rolled out today. Been dreaming about it for years!” - Alex

New tooltips are now live on GetGlue.com. It’s another great addition to the site (earlier: one and two) that makes the experience on GetGlue even richer.

The tooltip makes it easy to explore and discover new items by presenting you with info from Glue and around the web. There’s the item’s image and summary as well as great object-specific tabs, such as:

* Books: read Amazon reviews, browse inside the book
* Movies: watch the trailer, see the Rotten Tomatoes Score
* Music: watch music videos

How-To Launch the new Tooltips:

When you mouse over any object image on Glue - like a book jacket or movie poster - you’ll see a new tooltip button in the lower right-hand corner.

Clicking the button launches the tooltip.

HowTo: Implementor's guide to rssCloud

HowTo: Implementor's guide to rssCloud
Implementor's guide to rssCloud

This document shows how RSS 2.0's element can be used to connect a loosely-coupled Twitter-like network of people and 140-character status messages.

We walk through an implementation.

By design, each of the elements can and hopefully will be replaced by all variety of tools for different platforms, commercial and open source, for desktops, laptops, netbooks, cell phones, wrist watches, car computers, whatever.

Our focus has been on simplicity, being open (subject to replacement and user choice) and scaling.

I've provided an implementation of rssCloud, running on Amazon EC2, discussed, as an example, throughout this doc.