Yahoo's Presidential 'Mashup Debate' Won't Support Mashups
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The much-touted, first-ever presidential "mashup debate" this week has its footage locked up on the eve of the Yahoo event, so there's unlikely to be much creative re-mixing involved. Instead, citizens will merely be able to choose what clips to watch on Yahoo's pages.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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Two new tools have grown out of Yahoo's Internal Hack Days, all-day events when the company's employees are encouraged to experiment with its publicly-available data services. One mashup lets users overlay their own map imagery over Yahoo's, and the other lets shoppers search for products similar in color to the one they want.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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Blog: On Monday, July 23, at 7:00 (ET) CNN will air a debate between several Democratic presidential candidates utilizing questions submitted by You Tube users. Technically the approach is a first, but is it really a revolutionary innovation or is it just anoth
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A new Yahoo service called Pipes will let regular users mix different RSS and Atom feeds and create data "mashups."
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Search giant argues Viacom's agreement to shift its ads from DoubleClick to Redmond's ad platform shows online ad competition concerns are unfounded. Microsoft, naturally, disagrees.
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Nice play on words from the Yahoo Search Marketing team as PepperJam reports on the back and forth requests for credits due to apparent &#8216;click fraud&#8217; or fraudulent clicks on a YSM contextual targeting account.  Instead of calling the mystery clicks fraudulent, Yahoo instead granted a refund of the questioned marketing spend in the name [...]
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Found in the search marketing forums: Why PR Doesn't Count Anymore; Which Comes First - Content or Design?; If Google Died Tomorrow; and more.
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Russ asks: Where's the OpenSocial container API? I love Russ because he cuts through all the BS and gets right to the core, most basic question, and he doesn't care who he pisses off. That's my kind of developer. You can't lie to the compiler, when the bits hit the road, you gotta know what garbage goes in and what garbage comes out.  (Ahh programmer's humor!) In other words, suppose I wanted to compete with Google, MySpace, Plaxo and LinkedIn, well, where's the spec that shows me how to do that? Well, of course I don't know, they aren't communicating with riffraff like me, but I have some experience with this kind of stuff, so I can hazard a guess. If they publish a spec,all kinds of projects will likely get started to enable the API in (just for the sake of argument): Drupal, WordPress, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Scripting News (why not add widgets to a random blog), CNN, The New York Times, well you get the idea. There might be lots of implementations very quickly. And that would be it for changes. It would be frozen de facto, they'd have to live with what they have, which given how quickly it was thrown together, probably isn't very good. Not the kind of stuff you'd like to support for the next decade or two. Or maybe they would break everyone, something guaranteed to make them a lot of enemies, much the way Microsoft did, and they were good at migration of APIs.  Google is good at doing AJAXy web UIs, they make users happy, but they're not very good at APIs. This one is a loser, for sure. That's the answer to Russ's question. It's probably not malice that keeps them from releasing details to everyone outside their club, it's pragmatism. They have to try to hold on to it to keep it from becoming even more of a mess than it already is. Just my opinion, for what it's worth. I've been wrong many times before.
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Social-networking site is co-sponsoring a Republican presidential debate, followed by a Democratic one, this week--but at least five candidates will likely be excluded.
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Tonight, when the CNN/YouTube Presidential Debate kicks off, politics might change forever with the Internet effectively becoming a powerful audience-participation mechanism.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt  Romney&#39;s campaign distanced itself on Tuesday from involvement  in a Web site that attacked rival Fred Thompson in the 2008  White House race.
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The PeerFear blog is built on top of a custom CMS that I wrote about two years ago.  It doesn't support Atom, trackbacks, and some people report problems when posting from IE.  I installed Moveable Type but to be honest I am less than thrilled.  It doesn't support category RSS feeds and I can't associate images for categories like I'm currently doing.  So it appears I'm stuck...   Anyone have any feedback?  Maybe I should install one of the OSS blogging tools.
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Democratic presidential rivals take part in the first online-only debate, where viewers can pick what they watch.
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CNN and YouTube will host a Democratic debate next month in which questions for the candidates will come entirely from citizens posting video clips, the latest sign of how the Internet has transformed presidential politics.
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After a plethora of user-submitted videos that served as fuel for the banter among the eight Democratic presidential candidates at yesterday's CNN/YouTube political debate at the Citadel in South Carolina, the unasked question today remains this: Is it really a debate?