Niall Kennedy's Weblog

Tracking how syndication and emerging new businesses are changing life on the Web.

Data interchange for the social web - January 29, 2008

Data portability is only useful if outside systems can comprehend the exported data. Well-described and interoperable data sets open new possibilities for context-aware social applications, importing your friends, photos, or genetic markup from an existing system into your current tool of choice. In this post I will discuss website best practices for exporting portable, descriptive data sets in the name of data portability.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/social-data-interchange.html

Data Portability, Authentication, and Authorization - January 21, 2008

In this post I will take a deeper look at the current best practices of the social Web from the point of view of its major data hubs. We will take a detailed look at the right and wrong ways to request user data from social hubs large and small, and outline some action items for developers and business people interested in data portability and interoperability done right.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/data-portability-authentication-authorization.htm...

Upgrade your Google Analytics tracker - January 17, 2008

Google released a new version of its Google Analytics tracking code last month. In this post you will learn about the new features available to webmasters and how to move away from the deprecated libraries.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/google-analytics-ga-js.html

FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now free - January 9, 2008

NewsGator is giving away desktop clients FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, and NewsGator Inbox as part of a new plan to capture more enterprise revenue.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/newsgator-free-clients.html

Google processes over 20 petabytes of data per day - January 8, 2008

Google is currently processing over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its computing clusters.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/google-mapreduce-stats.html