Continuing my previous post about OpenID and Vendor Lock-In, a reader of this blog named Andrew commented on the previous post about a problem he had with MyOpenID.com and Zooomr. He has some valid points here which I wanted to highlight in this post (he also had some points that I think can be easily [...]
I have Gentoo Linux on my home machine and after I’ve upgraded GCC (and subsequently the whole toolchain) I wanted to compile a perl related library – crypt-rsa. When I tried to emerge it, it failed with the following error: Could not run/locate “i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc” After searching around I found this thread on the Gentoo forums [...]
There is a lot going on about OpenID these days and a lot of claims are being raised which prevents greater adoption of OpenID by users. One of these claims is about Trust and Vendor Locking. How can I trust a certain OpenID vendor? after all, gaining access to my OpenID account will give access [...]
After reading Grant Robertson’s post – “Taming your own river of news” I’ve decided to use Yahoo Pipes to create my online life feed (it sounds better than “Eran’s river of news”, don’t you think?) You can check it out here. Basically I aggregate the feeds from this blog, my Advanced .NET debugging blog, my [...]
I’m probably the last person to talk about this but Scott Kveton posted on his blog that his company, JanRain and GNR (who manages the .name top level domain) has come into partnership to deliver a solution that encompasses a .name URL for you as well as built-in OpenID delegation support. Check the details at [...]
I think Yahoo Pipes is really cool. The main attraction is its slick user interface and ease of use. I just created a pipe of all of the Recent Questions of Yedda translated using Babelfish to French and it took less than 5 minutes. I do have a couple of ideas that I think will [...]
I’ve recently been fascinated with some aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) having worked on some of them at my day job. One of the key aspects that are very important for a computer program to understand natural language is called Part of Speech Tagging (POS or POST). Basically, in the POS tagging phase, the [...]
If you don’t already know, Jim Gray, a computer scientist and Turing Award winner has disappeared at sea on Jan 28th 2007 while solo sailing his boat on a trip to Farallon Island near San Fransisco. His friend, Werner Vogel – Amazon’s CTO, has harnessed the help of Amazon’s Mechnical Turk to get people to [...]