ClappingTree’s Web 2.0

SOMEONE SNEAKED into my blog and turned my “Insight#4: Of Alexa, Dmoz & Technorati” post private!

Who’s that? Why did s/he do that? How did s/he do that? How to stop her/him from doing the same thing again?

HAVE YOU HEARD of Nexus 2007? Organized by a local Web 2.0 startup called The Digital Movement, the one-day conference will be held at the NTUC Center (1 Marina Boulevard) on 24 March (Saturday) at a very low fee of $15 per person.

Nexus promises to be “a highly interactive conference where we discuss fundamental changes happening in business and technology, and how you can take a lead in them!” AND to make the event better, Nexus organizer is now using a WYSIWYG wiki to elicit and compile ideas (for example, on Session Discussions and Community Gatherings) from everyone.

What sets this event apart from prior local events seems to be the strong government, stat board and industry backing that this one managed to harness — sponsorship by StarHub and Accenture, partners from NTUC Youth and TiE Singapore, advisors from IDA, NUS, ISS, SMU, etc. and speakers from Microsoft, Salesforce.com APAC, Yahoo! SEA, Google, CNET Networks Asia Pacific, Intel China, IDC Asia/Pacific, Insead, etc. Local Web 2.0 representatives include Tomorrow.sg and Stomp.com.sg. Read the rest of this entry »

INSPIRED BY THE REASONING and examples of Lucas McDonnell (To Follow or Not To Follow) and Loren Baker (13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck), I’ve installed two plugins: DoFollow and ShowTopCommentators. I truly hope to encourage more meaningful discussions on my posts and at the same time reward commentators with links to their sites (and so help them improve their Google PageRank).

How is this possible? Basically, all external links in most blogs have automatic rel="nofollow" attributes. The DoFollow plugin disables these attributes and the Show Top Commentators plugin displays the names (linked to websites if desired) and number of comments that others have made recently on my blog. In other words, as Lucas put it, “…leaving a comment here gets you a followed link back to your own site through the top commentators on the sidebar.” Read the rest of this entry »

PIN TUMBLER LOCKS CAN BE PICKED through a series of taps (known as “lock bumping”) with a specially crafted bump key, according to Wikipedia. Apparently, one bump key will work for all locks of the same type. And this Action News 5 video illustrates how:

(Found this on CESBloggers.com who in turn references SlashDot.)