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Very good “fair use” opinion re Google’s cache

chao — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:04:08 -0000

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Very good “fair use” opinion re Google’s cache

A district court in Nevada has rejected the claim that Google’s cache violates copyright law. The opinion is grounded both on “fair use” and implied license. The “fair use” part of the opinion is fantastic. But interestingly, the “implied license” part of the opinion weakens any such claim in the context of Google Book Search.

IntelliTXT

chao — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:01:11 -0000

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IntelliTXT In-Text, Publisher-Side, Contextual technology. An easy to implement solution that will help you maximize the value of your content today.		Find out now if your site(s) qualifies for IntelliTXT...

What is suckingfish?

chao — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:17:01 -0000

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What is suckingfish?

Suckingfish is a collaboration site for public or private groups to work together to search their topics of interest. People can contribute to the search result of a particular topic, and the topic owner can organize the topic so only the relevant information is saved. By adding tagging and ranking, we hope the popular topics can be continuously improved by people working together.

Return to top

Clipfire

chao — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:53:13 -0000

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Find great deals from the best sites on the newest products.

Clipfire is different. It's powered by you.

About.com reviews Clipfire...

"Community-powered sites such as Clipfire are going to be the new 'it' thing in the field of Web search. I see great potential in this community-powered shopping search engine." Read the full story.

Diigo (dee'go) v.

chao — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:49:41 -0000

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Diigo (dee'go) v. , to diigo some content, e.g., a page, a paragraphs, or a picture, is to bookmark, collect and comment in situ on that content.

Diigo is about "Social Annotation", a superset of social bookmarking. We believe that the social annotation service provided by Diigo can really enhance your experience for online browsing and interactions, and for information gathering and sharing.

Diigo is currently available by invitation only. If you would like to request an account, please contact info@diigo.com. We would really appreciate if you can tell us a little about yourself and how you heard about us, and include links to your website / blog, if any. Thanks in advance!

If you come to the site through an invitation email, you should see an invitation link towards the end of the email. Click Create Account there to accept the invitation.

eHow: Current Status

chao — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:57:30 -0000

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Current Status

As of September 2005, Jack and Josh still have regular day jobs outside of their night and weekend work at eHow and wikiHow. Travis now devotes most of his work time to maintaining and improving eHow and wikiHow. In addition, a handful of people help out eHow on a part time basis. After 6 years of being in business, eHow is finally profitable, albeit on a vastly reduced cost structure from its earlier incarnations. While wikiHow is still losing money, it will continue to be fully funded by Jack and Josh. The eHow team is delighted to have brought a great website back from near death and are looking forward to continuing to make eHow more and more helpful to its readers. As eHow changes in the future, it will better fulfill its new mission of providing helpful, free instructions to solve the problems of everyday life.

Y! Trip planner

chao — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:44:03 -0000

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See a sample trip: Drive Along California Hwy 1

How it works | Trip Planner FAQ

Save all your favorite trip
ideas into a personalized,
printable travel guide.

What ideas do you have for 43 Things?

chao — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:22:41 -0000

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What ideas do you have for 43 Things?

1,701 people in 595 cities have 1,928 ideas for 43 Things including…

add a "shopping list" for getting the idea accomplished, and make each entry open for comments Make it easier to form a team New Wings wants to be able to post comments on people that have different goals than ours give a disclaimer that tags do not update immediately I want some help Offer tools to break goals down into plans and tasks (which the user may keep private or make public) Fix the 'Ajax is not defined' javascript error in IE6 Export one's list to PDAs help me figure out why my email confirmation has not worked, even though I have sent it 43 times

Simple Sharing Extension

chao — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:07:15 -0000

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Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML

Version: 0.9

Contact: Jack Ozzie and George Moromisato, Microsoft Corporation

Updated: Nov 1, 2005

1 Overview

The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating apps

to use RSS as the basis for item sharing – that is, the bi-directional, asynchronous replication of new and changed items amongst two or more cross-subscribed feeds.
to use OPML as the basis for outline sharing – that is, the bi-directional, asynchronous replication of outlines, such as RSS aggregators subscription lists

MetaWishlist

chao — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:53:51 -0000

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Welcome to MetaWishlist.com!

The social wish list repository.

MetaWishlist.com is a community built around the things you want. This is a place to gather your wish list items from anywhere on the net and keep them all in one, convenient place. Sign up, add the bookmarklet to your browser, and you'll be on your way to storing, organizing and sharing your wishes. If you'd like to just take a look around, start by browsing the Tags section.

Store. Organize. Share.

Store. Save everything you want from multiple websites all in one place.
Organize. Group your items in any number of lists, mark them with tags, or both.
Share. Send your list to family, friends, or even complete strangers.

Jeteye

chao — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:09:57 -0000

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What's a jetpak?

It's an online scrapbook that contains whatever you choose from the web and the comments you add. Jetpaks have the option of being saved, updated, shared and searched.

Why would I create a jetpak?

Research for school or work
Plan a vacation
Annotate bookmarks
Collaborate on a project
Organize and save online information
Create a shopping wish list
Share cool ideas and give opinions
...or whatever else you want to package, save and share.

Never Underestimate Fun

chao — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:38:04 -0000

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Never Underestimate the Power of Fun

AHAH

chao — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:58:49 -0000

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JAH - Ajax without XML

With all the AJAX excitement, it's worth pointing out a simple technique I call JAH - which can be Just Async HTML, or Javascript Async HTML to taste.

This works on the microformat principle that XHTML is XML, but with the added advantage that Javascript already knows how to handle XHTML DOM's so no xml parsing is required.

You just include

<script language="javascript1.3"
src="jah.js" ></script>

in the <head> and then link to dynamic pages with

<a
href="javascript:jah('kevin.html','

target');">kevin</a> where target is the id of the HTML element you want to replace.

Here's a very simple static example.

If you want an elaborate dynamic example, go see Kottke, he gets paid for this kind of thing.

Lessig on Google Book Search and Fair use

chao — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:12:33 -0000

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The AAP and AG say they believe in �fair use.� If that�s so, then they must believe that someone has a right to make money using fairly the work of others. If that�s so, then they must believe that someone has the right to fairly use the work of others without permission. And so if that�s so, then if Google Book Search is fair use. not only is Google doing nothing wrong. Google is, from the perspective of the authors and publishers, doing something extra nice � giving them the permission to opt out of the index.

So the only question is whether Google�s use is �fair.� Now anyone who knows anything about the law knows that�s a hard question. Reasonable people may differ about it. But the frustration I consistently feel with the position of the AAP and AG is that the reasons they offer for why Google�s use is not fair would mean that practically no use would be fair.

E.g., Nick Taylor�s complaint was that Google was profiting on the work of others. But that�s true with every commercial use that�s also a fair use. If Taylor�s theory were correct, you couldn�t make money from a book that fairly quoted another author. Or a film that fairly included clips from another film. That would be a radical shrinkage of �fair use.�

Or, e.g., Allan Adler complained that Google hadn�t asked permission. But again, you don�t need to ask permission to use a work fairly. If Adler�s theory were correct, that too would mean a radical shrinkage of �fair use.�

Or finally, in the part of the session closest to the actual law of fair use, Adler said the reasons this use was not fair was that there was a �potential� market that Google was just taking. What was that market? The market in licensing the use of building a fully searchable index of books. But you can always hypothesize a �potential� market. And if that�s all that it took, again, there would be a radical shrinkage of �fair use.�

Adler�s last point made me recognize something I hadn�t seen before. Both sides of this debate have their own �potential� defense. They say this is not �fair use� because they can imagine a �potential� market within which this use could be licensed � even though there�s no such market just now, and neither had anyone thought of such a market even two years ago. (And don�t start blathering about the market to search inside a book � that�s a very different functionality from what Google is offering. Google�s is an index into the book; it doesn�t give you a book to read.)

We have our own favorite �potential� defense � a technology �capable� of substantial non-infringing uses should be free of secondary liability. So we said Grokster was a such a technology, even if less than 10% of the uses were actually non-infringing. They said that�s not enough of a potential.