Last week, on my personal site, I published On Chatter, an essay about Twitter, Facebook, and the nature of the always-on stream of noise, which I’m calling Chatter. We thought that some of it would be relevant to readers of the Gruden blog, so I’m reproducing a couple of excerpts here. Starting to Get Twitter [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Big news for the Semantic Web
The last couple of weeks has seen some big announcements in the Semantic Web. Google announced a number of new features at Searchology 2009. And Wolfram|Alpha soft-launched a new alternative to the search engine, what they’re calling a computational knowledge engine. These two represent two very different approaches to the semantic web. The web has [...]
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Flash game development 101
As part of the ongoing Gruden China training program, talented members of the interactive team – Peng, Haixia and Wenjie – are brushing up their Flex & Flash skills. This time around, I decided to move away from the training status quo and proposed a simple Flash game for development. This initiative turned out to attract some interest from another Grudenite [...]
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Viral marketing: a lot like swine flu
This morning I was reading a blog post by Dan Zarrella, a social media and viral marketing blogger I often turn to for words of wisdom in relation to web 2.0. His recent blog post, 7 viral marketing lessons learned from the swine flu virus, was no exception. Full of interesting euphamisms for the concept of viral [...]
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Infinite (code)monkeys?
If the theory goes that infinite monkeys given typewriters and infinite time can type a Shakespeare play, what would happen if you put 6 digital professionals together, under a microscope for 24 hours? On the 12th and 13th May the FullCodePress teams at this years CeBIT conference aim to find out. Australia and New Zealand [...]
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Reinventing the internet: 7 minds with 7 minutes
If you’ve been following Gruden on Twitter in recent weeks, you’ll have noticed we’ve been spruiking for the live online Videoegg event, 7 Minutes to Reinvent the Internet. It’s all about the future of the internet and the digital marketplace; finding new ways to make the digital media work harder for brand advertisers. It’s not about more [...]
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WebDU slides: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Javascript security, XSS & CSRF
Last week I delivered a talk at the fantastic WebDU conference which focused on an area that I have been becoming increasingly concerned about over the last while – security in the browser. Unlike other areas of the web platform that have well defined and effective security mechanisms (SSL/TLS, firewalls, strong passwords, access control) the [...]