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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amapedia.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amapedia.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 0242fc2..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amapedia.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amazon.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amazon.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9baf817..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amazon.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Amazon has become quite the fan of wikis lately, first came the investment in Wikia and now there's a [new service called Amapedia][1]. Amapedia allows users to create and tag their own product articles. The articles are directly linked from their Amazon product pages.
Content is a bit sparse at the moment, the site launched with 800 articles and few thousand more ported over from an earlier version of the site, but for the future the content development is in the hands of users. To contribute to Amapedia you must be a registered Amazon.com shopper.
One of the potential problems facing Amapedia is of course spam from product producers touting their wares or unfairly slagging the competition. There's a note in the guidelines that puts is thusly: "Amapedia is not the wild west... only a certain type of content belongs on this site.
As for what that "type of content" is, the following guidelines are listed on Amapedia:
Do:
* write about your favorite products
* find out what others’ favorite products are
* quantify why you like or dislike a product as much as possible ("oh, I didn’t like it" without any context is not very helpful to others)
* cite your sources
* disclose if you are affiliated with the product, such as being the author of a book (or the spouse or close friend of the author)
>Do Not:
* self-promote by referring to yourself, your work, or your Web sites in an article that is unrelated to your self-promotion
* store personal photos
* create a personal home page (we may support that in the future)
* talk in the first person in the main body of product articles (that’s what the "Anecdotes, Experiences, Opinions, Comments" section is for)
* express personal opinions about things that are not products (i.e., while we are very interested in your opinion about a book about the Iraq war -- particularly so if you can calmly document specific good and bad points about it -- we are not at all interested in your personal opinions about the Iraq war itself on this site)
* accept payments or gifts from anyone to edit material on Amapedia
At the moment there's no back-end way to scrape out the data, but given Amazon's typically robust APIs it's probably safe to assume that they're working on something. I'm curious if that last item was added recently, vis-à-vis Microsoft's paid wiki-editing snafu.
[1]: http://amapedia.amazon.com/ "Amapedia"
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* Proving that social media is more than just a marketing word, Senator Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers for some ideas on how normal Americans would [improve health care in the United States][1]. In the two days since Clinton posted her question nearly, 35,000 responses have been offered up.
[1]: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070124144113AAVmBL1 "Based on your own family's experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?"
* In a move that takes hypocrisy to astounding new levels, North Korea says that South Korea's [ban of 30 pro-North websites][2] violates "freedom." We at Monkey Bites abhor all forms of censorship, but this is a bit like black calling itself a kettle. Or words to that effect.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-26T062528Z_01_SEO147382_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-INTERNET.xml&src=rss "North Korea says South's Web ban violates freedom"
* IBM will [donate][3] its new "Identity Mixer" software to the Higgins open-source project. The software is designed to let people keep personal information secret when performing online business transactions. Anthony Nadalin, IBM's chief security architect tells Cnet, "the idea is that people provide encrypted digital credentials issued by trusted parties like a bank or government agency when transacting online, instead of sharing credit card or other details in plain text."
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6153625.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "IBM donates new privacy tool to open-source"
* Pain in the Tech has a post on how you can [store your iTunes library using Amazon's S3][4] service and be able to access it from anywhere.
[4]: http://paininthetech.com/itunes_everywhere_using_amazon_s3_as_your_music_library "Using Amazon S3 as your music library"
* Yesterday in pointing out a Gadget Lab post on the possibility of new DeLoreans I made a joke about Flux Capacitors. Well it turns out someone at DeLorean has a sense of humor -- you can [order one from the Delorean parts store][5]. Just follow that link and search for "flux."
[5]: http://delorean.com/dmcstore/onlinestore-search.asp "Search DeLorean Parts for Flux Capacitor"
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Starbucks has seen the future and it [involves MP3s][1], not CDs. The coffee giant experimented with CD-burning machine in some stores last year, but later pulled them and apparently abandoned the idea.
Earlier this week, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said that the company will be adding MP3 "filling stations" later this year. "Within 12 months, probably, you're going to be able to walk into a Starbucks and digitally be able to fill up your MP3 player with music," Schultz claimed.
Though there are no details beyond that, but given that Starbucks already has its own section on the iTunes Store, Apple seems a likely partner for the venture.
The question is, will anyone want to buy music from Starbucks? Perhaps the MP3 machine will provide a way to avoid that pointless banter with the chatter-happy barista who's taking his time whipping up your over-priced coffee.
I wonder if Starbucks will list MP3 bit rates in faux Italian...
[1]: http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/personaltech/177102859 "Starbucks To Offer MP3s"
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Skrenta just posted a reminescnce of that time [on his blog][2]:
>It was a practical joke combined with a hack. A wonderful hack.
Back then nothing was networked. We had these computers in a lab, and there was software for them on floppy disks. You stick in the disk and run the software. Simple.
The aha moment was when I realized I could essentially get my program to move around by itself. I could give it its own motive force, by having it hide in the resident RAM of the machine between floppy changes, and hitching a ride onto the next floppy that would be inserted. Whoa. That would be cool.
Insight without implementation is worthless, so to work I went.
Elk Cloner was annoying, but hardly destructive. Every fifty times an infected system was booted Elk Cloner printed out the following poem
Elk Cloner: The program with a personality
>It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!
Ah the good old days!
[Trivia note for Apple fanboys: Elk Cloner was written for and infected the Apple II's operating system.]
[photo credit][3]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner "Elk Cloner"
[2]: http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/the_joy_of_the_hack.html "The joy of the hack"
[3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/42066452/ "Flickr: Snow Crash"
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