Pascal Van Hecke

Both Facebook and Myspace exploitable with flash by a too liberal crossdomain.xml on their site or one of their subdomains... - Pascal Van Hecke

"Google takes [the Google Chromium] source code, and adds on the Google name and logo, an auto-updater system called GoogleUpdate, and RLZ (described later in this post), and calls this Google Chrome. As such, everything which applies to Chromium below also applies to Google Chrome, while there are some things that apply to Google Chrome (such as the auto-updater) that do not apply to Chromium." Further: instructions on how to disable communication between Chromium and Google, such as Search Suggest, Safe browsing, Suggestions for navigation Errors and Which Google Domain - Pascal Van Hecke

"AOL sees microformats as increasingly important to its business. By properly utilizing hNews we can now clearly define which blocks of content are specific to the article content as apposed to the cross promotional content or ads also found on the page which can dilute the relevance of a particular page as seen by search engines." Sounds like a technique that will be used for seo purposes as well... - Pascal Van Hecke

"hNews extends hAtom, introducing a number of fields that more completely describe a journalistic work. hNews also introduces another data format, rel-principles, a format that describes the journalistic principles upheld by the journalist or news organization that has published the news item." - Pascal Van Hecke

Presentation (in S5 format) By: Yves Raimond Software Engineer Michael Smethurst Information Architect - Pascal Van Hecke

"the term "hybrid onboarding" refers to a technique that is used to improve the user registration rate on a website by leveraging a number of Internet standards including OpenID, OAuth and Portable Contacts. This combination has been used to increase registration rates to as high as 90%." - Pascal Van Hecke

Kim Cameron on identity selectors and OpenID: "active client software (also called an “Identity Selector”) for OpenID could solve most of its problems, given some minor revisions or additions to the protocol. By remembering the identities you use, this kind of software can address two sets of issues: * Usability: Lets you bring your identities with you to the site, rather than the site having to guess what identities you have * Security: Protects you from being sent to a malicious site impersonating a real site that would steal your password " - Pascal Van Hecke

"If you help FB spread their JS and Authentication out into the world, they will support you until their network is too big to stop. They are at roughly 20,000 publishers now. At ~200,000 publishers, watch out! Their priorities will change again and they will start taking cash out of the FB Connect network instead of providing it with free traffic." - Pascal Van Hecke

[mainly important because it uses Smush.it, the Yahoo service to compress your images without loss] "YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page's performance, summarizes the page's components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint." - Pascal Van Hecke

Not sure about the usefullness of an online business card, but the html code examples are nice to reuse. - Pascal Van Hecke

"The system being used in Takoma Park, called Scantegrity, uses cryptography to confirm that votes were counted properly. Its inventors say the system could eliminate the need for recounts and provide better assurance that an election was conducted properly." - Pascal Van Hecke

Using pictures that a user has uploaded her/himself to a site, but for which that user has given no permission for reuse, is forbidden: "Das aktuelle Urteil des LG Köln (Az. 28 O 662/08) gebietet dem Treiben der diversen Suchmaschinen nun deutlich Einhalt, indem es eine ausländische Personensuchmaschine dazu verurteilt hat, die Veröffentlichung von Bildern ohne Zustimmung des jeweiligen Betroffenen zu unterlassen." I don't see any arguments why this reasoning would not apply to Google's and Bing's face search... - Pascal Van Hecke

"Thematic mapping library for Google Maps": heatmaps, circles and graphs overlaid on Google Maps in javascript (jquery) - Pascal Van Hecke