Context Information Security Reveals WebGL Security Risks

Context provides an excellent blog post on the Security Risks of WebGL. It is referenced by US-CERT on SECLISTS.ORG. On May 9th 2011, the date the post was written, risks included things such as DoS attacks and Cross-Domain Image Thefts.

Glorious Generalist's thoughts on Facebook's Open Graph Protocol

I just found a wonderful blog post by Margaret Heller. She gives a healthy background of the history of Linked Data and the Open Graph Protocol on Facebook. This could be something to keep in mind when developing a new platform, if it should be called that.

More Reflections in the Real World

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories seems to have some parallels. They have a College Job Fair posting that mentions a few of the technologies proposed in this blog.

"Experience with knowledge discovery, information extraction, text processing, data analysis, visual analytics, , semantic graphs, natural language processing, machine learning, image and signal processing, large-scale data management and integration." Source: Job Title: COMPUTATION RECRUITER REFERRALS - Job ID: 8226 - LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY - Computation Directorate/Computing Applications and Research Department - College Job Fair Posting

In an article in the American Libraries Magazine titled, "The newest TECH SET® offers 10 guides to today's best library technologies" the semantic web is mentioned. In the same magazine, there is an article titled "Create a Library "Tech Shop"". Could it be that a distributed economy could be focused in libraries?

In 2007, there wasn't a whole lot going on between the semantic web and social networks. Now there is quite a bit. Compare Nova Spivack's 2007 article, "Defining the Semantic Graph, What is it Really?" to the Open Graph Protocol on the Facebook Platform.

Embedding VUE Within a Webpage

This is encouraging, Tuft's VUE may be integrated into a webpage. https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/VUEUserGuide/20+Web+-+VUE+Applet
Hence, it just might be possible to integrate Friendica with VUE.

GraphGL for Network Visualization

GraphGL, based on WebGL, can be used for network visualization. In fact, it has been implemented with Gephi. Urban Skudnick describes such an implementation at gephi.org. On the web, it can be expressed in HTML5 with the canvas element.

Friendica works with Hiawatha

Thanks to members of DC405, Friendika now works with Hiawatha. Well at least to an extent. There are a few kinks to work out.

 Here is a nice banner for Friendica from
http://wiki.toktan.org/doku.php?id=friendica:promo






And another from http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/

 

It might be obvious, but Friendica and Hiawatha seem to work well together. Friendica is loaded with privacy settings, and Hiawatha has never been hacked. For those interested, I plan on posting a how to later.

Photos of Ohm Space HackerSpace/MakerSpace

These are a few photos from Ohm Space, which could be a place for Distributed Manufacturing:

Ohm Space Meeting Place:















CNC Machine:















CNC Router:














Prusa Mendel 3D printer:














A view of the west side of the space:














More information about Hackerspaces is available at: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/