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The Power Act
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POWER (People and Organizations Winning Economic Relief) Act was recently
announced legislation that would make NYC’s consumer and worker protections
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Google gets a patent on reading lists
Google gets a patent on reading lists: "Google will probably protest that the patent they filed on reading lists was defensive. But it's a bad patent, based on an 'invention' that was already out there, being discussed openly on Scripting News
at least a year before they filed it. If you can subscribe to a feed, why not subscribe to a collection of feeds? And when an item is removed, you no longer are subscribed to it, and when one is added, you are now subscribed to it.
Google should explain to the RSS community how they supposedly invented this and what their process was. If it turns out that we had prior art, they should tear up the patent and apologize from trying to hijack something that doesn't belong to them.
I worry about big companies doing awful things because they do them. It's dangerous to have Google control so much of the RSS infrastructure, from Feedburner to Google Reader to Blogger. They could easily pass information between those systems without sharing the information publicly. They could, right now, deliver features to users that competitors would be locked out of. All this built on ideas, formats, protocols and know-how that were contributed by others without any limits on how they could be used. And now this patent.
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at least a year before they filed it. If you can subscribe to a feed, why not subscribe to a collection of feeds? And when an item is removed, you no longer are subscribed to it, and when one is added, you are now subscribed to it.Google should explain to the RSS community how they supposedly invented this and what their process was. If it turns out that we had prior art, they should tear up the patent and apologize from trying to hijack something that doesn't belong to them.
I worry about big companies doing awful things because they do them. It's dangerous to have Google control so much of the RSS infrastructure, from Feedburner to Google Reader to Blogger. They could easily pass information between those systems without sharing the information publicly. They could, right now, deliver features to users that competitors would be locked out of. All this built on ideas, formats, protocols and know-how that were contributed by others without any limits on how they could be used. And now this patent.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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.
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“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.
Get to know Lijit: Ben Matson
Get to know Lijit: Ben Matson
Little Ben Matson has been with our company for long enough now that we can easily make jokes at his expense. That’s always the true test, isn’t it? And fortunately for us, he can laugh at himself AND he has a blog designed to document his D&D adventures. Really…what more could we want from a co-worker?
Let’s not forget that Ben is an extraordinary team player who is willing to help out anyone at any time. Since he’s been at Lijit, he’s been put in many situations of extreme pressure and has passed all the stress tests with flying colors. Of course, he has yet to experience the famed Lijit Holiday Party. We’ll see how he does with that one. In the meantime, enjoy getting to know Ben. I can honestly say that the picture he provided me of his summer internship has to be one of the best of all time.
What is your Lijit contribution?
I am one of two Publisher Support Engineers at Lijit, and we do a variety of things around here. Whenever a blogger has a technical question, or runs into a problem with something, we work to provide the answers and solutions they’re looking for. Whenever we can’t handle an issue ourselves, we track down the people that can and make sure things get resolved properly. But my job is not just troubleshooting, I also get to trick-out the special accounts we create with a bunch of custom features for the different business development deals that go on around here. One of the things I really enjoy about my particular role at Lijit is seeing all the different ways our products get used, and all the neat things our company can do.
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Little Ben Matson has been with our company for long enough now that we can easily make jokes at his expense. That’s always the true test, isn’t it? And fortunately for us, he can laugh at himself AND he has a blog designed to document his D&D adventures. Really…what more could we want from a co-worker?
Let’s not forget that Ben is an extraordinary team player who is willing to help out anyone at any time. Since he’s been at Lijit, he’s been put in many situations of extreme pressure and has passed all the stress tests with flying colors. Of course, he has yet to experience the famed Lijit Holiday Party. We’ll see how he does with that one. In the meantime, enjoy getting to know Ben. I can honestly say that the picture he provided me of his summer internship has to be one of the best of all time.
What is your Lijit contribution?
I am one of two Publisher Support Engineers at Lijit, and we do a variety of things around here. Whenever a blogger has a technical question, or runs into a problem with something, we work to provide the answers and solutions they’re looking for. Whenever we can’t handle an issue ourselves, we track down the people that can and make sure things get resolved properly. But my job is not just troubleshooting, I also get to trick-out the special accounts we create with a bunch of custom features for the different business development deals that go on around here. One of the things I really enjoy about my particular role at Lijit is seeing all the different ways our products get used, and all the neat things our company can do.
