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Have you given Diigo.com a try?

Direct Link: http://www.ProjectSkyway.com

How does tuple space, as discussed here, compare to something like Redis?

Good point. Maybe free market forces will help after all...

Edit: Google probably stands the gain more from this initiative than Facebook if it can cleverly integrate it with Google Me.

The trouble is who has both ownership over and is able to exercise control over your identity data? I do like your idea of using licensing as a possible mechanism.

It's one thing to say the government will host the ID data for free, for every American. (Or at least every American they deem worthy of a proof-of-online-identity certificate.)

But possession is often viewed as 9/10ths of the law. Calling it "my" data is misleading if they really mean "data about me."

Would I like to have a permanent, personal and authenticated key value store to in conjunction in some interpersonal or person-machine transactions? Absolutely.

But I don't see how having a government issued identity solves the problem of how my browsing data might be misused elsewhere.

It would seem that it only adds more personally-identifiable metadata that could be intercepted, tracked, or stolen along the way.

How would such an ID system enable the creation and enforcement of a do-not-track list? That sounds appealing, but how does my identity being tracked stop me from being tracked?

Didn't the lesser known founder of Facebook take leave and get in bed with the Obama White House?

Just curious: what troubles you about nym security?

Reassuring to know a list of chosen cities hasn't been leaked.

Yes, but all it means is part of SF is getting fiber. Could this just be a new line for added redundancy for their Stanford "beta" project?

I'm not sure what list of cities other people are referring to...in the PDFs? Or the fiberforcommunities.com list of cities that responded to the RFI?

We're all waiting for Google to make their announcement. At least everyone in Duluth is! http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/09/goog...

If we don't hear by the end of the year as Google promised, the pitchforks and torches will come out of storage.

I worked on the Google Twin Ports initiative in Duluth and am also shocked that Al is on this list. He participated in a the production of a video in support: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2i_piWVXuc

Please let me know what you hear back. If we need to raise hell about this issue I'm in and know a number of others in MN that will help...

There's something that often goes overlooked by promoters of open source licenses: The copyright holder is defining the licensing terms for others, not for themselves.

While it's true that it is culturally a faux pas to appear as though you are violating the "spirit" of your own license I think everyone needs a reminder that copyright holders are, by definition, not restricted in what they can do with their own stuff. Everyone else is a licensee bound to the terms of the license.

I realize that's not the only problem with Oracle's behavior. But I still think this point is important to acknowledge.

I'm not a lawyer, so if anyone can prove otherwise I'd love to hear the argument.

(Are there any licenses that do place limitations on the copyright holders themselves? Do we even need a mechanism for that?)

Rest in peace, Luke Bucklin. Minnesota will miss you.

When I reach the late application form I see all the same information I submitted prior to the deadline.

Clickable: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=443390892130

Clickable: http://alphalab.org/survey_overview.aspx

I've been there. Take a look at your diet. If you aren't getting enough protein you may be low on certain neurotransmitters. Even if you are getting enough, there are some harmless supplements you might try to boost them back to normal levels.

I'm the kind of person that hates taking any pills or medications for anything, but 100mg of 5-HTP (turns into Serotonin) and small amounts of L-Tyrosine turned my life around at one point.

Vitamin D is another one that people are surprisingly deficient of--even if you get enough sunlight.

I really think that sometimes a person gets into an anhedonic state first, and then misattributes the feeling to "not liking my major/career/job/friends/etc."

Pretty cool. Anyone know how they're doing this, exactly?

Awww, shucks. And here I was hoping ET checked in. That would be the first extraterrestrial check-in IMO.

"The highly stable and durable data store."

And a cluster of Tar Pits = La Brea (which is actually a cluster of tar pits)

Tar Pit

Sounds fascinating to me. But that might be because I've already started that better project to do it. :P

Why can't it be done without a browser plugin?

Thanks, man. Very helpful indeed!

If I had a nickel for every time I was at a stoplight and thought the same thing...

I believe Google's networks are going to be symmetric. For the sake of discussion let's assume 1 Gbps up.

I met someone a few months ago that preferred "Squall". Gave me a case of the chuckles.

CouchDB is not as limiting as you suggest but it is a total paradigm shift. There is more to CouchDB than map-reduce.

In my view, CouchDB is more at home as a middleware layer than a database layer.

Take your current project as an example. Why not have Apache reverse proxy to CouchDB? You'd give up zero CouchDB functionality and would gain Kerberos authentication.

Putting another web server in front of CouchDB is unnecessary, but putting web proxy servers in front of it is totally useful. In other words, adding HTTP layers on top of CouchDB means you don't have to trade-off anything.

CouchDB lives and breathes HTTP. If you choose to keep your database from talking with the outside world directly, then CouchDB is a poor choice and you're right to go with MongoDB.

Don't let the name fool you, people. CouchDB isn't simply a place to stuff and retrieve JSON data.

You just made my day when you quoted my stackoverflow answer. Thanks, man.

Just signed up and indexed a few pages. After seeing you're caching pages I started thinking about privacy/security issues. Your privacy policy isn't very reassuring. (DuckDuckGo does a great job at this: http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html)

Having the client perform the task of indexing is great, but it also means I can index pages that only I am supposed to see. Which raises the question: are you going to do anything with the index and cached pages I've built up? If I index an interior facebook page, for example, will you ever expose the cached content to other users of historious?