Half-baked ideas about friendly machines and their users
Locaccino has a new Symbian client, working on Nokia phones such as N97, e51 etc. It will update your location on the server, while staying in the background, allow you to check your friends’ location, to see who has viewed you, who can view you, allow you to go offline and more.
To use it, first go to Locaccino and add the facebook application. Afterward, go to Locator and go on from there.
My search engine for semantic Web services is back online, this time on a more reliable server: http://opossumsearch.org/
Some techno-based mythical mambo jambo in a New York times article about computerized, high frequency, stock trading.
High-frequency traders often confound other investors by issuing and then canceling orders almost simultaneously. Loopholes in market rules give high-speed investors an early glance at how others are trading. And their computers can essentially bully slower investors into giving up profits — and then disappear before anyone even knows they were there.
That is a little too dramatic, maybe. One interesting question, is there a mahematical proof that high frequency can yields high revenue? Is it based just on exploiting some technical loopholes or is there something more fundamental here?
Sometimes, its funny to see how red and green color codes are used in software. As red/green schemas are basically taken from traffic lights, we can imagine that red would be used for dangerous situations (stop!) and green for safe situations (move on). Like in Microsoft’s personal firewall:
But sometimes, color codes are basically used for what’s good for the software service. For example, in Brightkite, a location-sharing application, this is how full location disclosure (posted to a public web page) looks like:
and this is how a private mode, which is “safe” looks like:
So, can people trust these color codes? Probably not.
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