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Submission + - 'Wildfire' brings social news to Facebook

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JohnGrahamCumming
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "My newly released Wildfire application brings social news to Facebook by exploiting Facebook's social graph. Instead of "digging" stories, or "voting up/down", stories gain credibility only if you deem them worthy of being passed onto your friends. Wildfire offers users three views of the news: the news you and your friends deem interesting, the news that the great unwashed deem interesting and a random view. Randomness means that the Wisdom of Crowds is harnessed without succumbing to mob rule. And RSS integration means you can automatically bring your feeds to Facebook and pass on a subset of the stories. Personally, I started with the Slashdot feed."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - The Long Tail of Facebook Applications

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JohnGrahamCumming
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "1,225 Facebook applications. 73,109,074 installed in profiles. Hence, the average application has 59,700 users. The problem with the average is that it hides a savage reality of Facebook applications: some have many users, most have almost none. 86% of applications on Facebook have less than 10,000 users, with 62% having less than 1,000."
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Submission + - Generating a CAPTCHA of your email address (jgc.org)

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JohnGrahamCumming
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Web crawlers that search for email addresses on web sites are a big problem. My simple and free email image generator service generates a randomized image containing your email adddress. Simply copy and paste the relevant HTML to your web site to get a human-readable image that contains your email address but hides it from web crawlers."

RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? 843

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the sky-is-falling dept.
andy753421 writes "Wired is running an article featuring Katherine Albrecht who, with her new book 'The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance', is warning that RFID tags may in fact be the "mark of the beast". Among her arguments are that in a futuristic world anyone who wishes to buy and sell goods would be compelled "to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads," as is foretold in the book Revelation. Others are skeptical saying that many new technologies, such as the printing press, bar-codes, and several others, have also created fears about the beginning of the end."
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Journal Journal: Some pointers

Journal by JohnGrahamCumming
I discovered from web logs on my server that a lot of people are clicking through from my name to my web site.

No doubt they are looking for information on who I am. Here's a quick summary:

I am...

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