From meganem at stanford.edu Tue Mar 4 09:01:52 2014 From: meganem at stanford.edu (Megan Erin Miller) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:01:52 -0800 Subject: [opensource] Last month on the SWS Blog: Multiple field search, Redirects, Sites updates, Writing for the Web Message-ID: Last month on the SWS Blog: - *Getting Started on Sites: How do I remove the "authoring information" on my page?*(2/24/14) - Caryl walks you through how to remove that pesky line "Submitted by..." from your content. - *Views Exposed Filters Multiple Field Search*(2/17/14) - Shea's first blog post is a killer tutorial on how to enable users to search multiple fields at once in an exposed filter field. - *Announcing Stanford Drupal Camp 2014!*(2/13/14) - It's that time again! Registration and session proposals are now open for Stanford Drupal Camp, happening April 18-19, 2014. - *Redirecting Links from an Old Page to a New Page*(2/10/14) - Caryl helps you use the Redirect module to manage broken links with redirects. - *Stanford Sites Updates, February 2014*(2/7/14) - A rundown of the updates performed during February to the Stanford Sites service, including several newly added modules, such as JS Injector, Views Data Export, and Date iCal. People sites were also updated this February. - *Writing for the Web #4: Lists*(2/3/14) - Linnea shares tips on how to make text more scannable using lists. The Stanford Web Services Blog features tutorials, articles, and case studies from the SWS team, and provides an avenue of communication for SWS activities, a forum for discussion around trends and technologies, and a resource to the community. 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URL: From meganem at stanford.edu Wed Mar 5 09:18:39 2014 From: meganem at stanford.edu (Megan Erin Miller) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:18:39 -0800 Subject: [opensource] UXers this Friday: Web Accessibility Hands-on Workshop Message-ID: Hi UXers and friends, This week, Jennifer Sutton and Jayne Schurick will join us, and we'll get some hands-on experience with a few web accessibility testing tools. *Hands-on Web Accessibility Workshop* *Friday, March 7, 3-4pm* *C223, Knight Management Center (GSB)* If you plan to attend, please come prepared with a page or two in mind to review. In addition, here are three items you might want to look at in advance. 1. If you use a Mac, you'll want to be sure that you've *enabled full keyboard navigation*. For guidance, take a look at this article: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200906/enabling_keyboard_navigation_in_mac_os_x_web_browsers/ 2. A good tool for *checking color contrast* is this one for Windows and Mac: Contrast Analyser for Windows and Mac http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrastAnalyser - It might be helpful to install it beforehand. 3. Finally, the *WAVE Service from WebAIM* is useful when assessing public pages. It can be found here: http://wave.webaim.org/ See you Friday, Megan Megan Erin Miller, Web Designer Stanford Web Services (650) 724-1890 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davies at stanford.edu Wed Mar 12 11:04:22 2014 From: davies at stanford.edu (Todd Davies) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [opensource] Omlet: new privace-based social network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/privacy-economy-app-031014.html Stanford Report, March 10, 2014 Stanford lab yields new privacy-based social network With rising public interest in what developers refer to as the "privacy economy," a new app allows users to control their personal data. By Andrew Myers Joel Simon Monica Lam Monica Lam, professor of computer science, is director of the MobiSocial Computing Laboratory. Amid much fanfare, word came last week that Facebook was acquiring messaging application WhatsApp for $19 billion. In the days that followed, competitors saw a flood of traffic. Industry watchers heralded the move as a bellwether of the deep public distrust of the largest of today's social networks. Against this backdrop, researchers from the MobiSocial Lab at the Stanford School of Engineering have announced a new type of social network, called Omlet, which shields users from the monetization of their personal lives by giving them total and unquestioned control of their personal data. Billions of people conduct their personal lives and house much of their personal data via such proprietary social channels, essentially giving their private data away. They offer up valuable information about their networks of friends and colleagues, their personal photos and life events and, often, their deepest desires and fears. The social media giants, in turn, claim ownership of, and profit from, this data, a practice referred to as "monetization" of personal information. Omlet's creators are heralding the release as the first venture of what they call the "privacy economy." The privacy economy is based on the premise that people will be willing to pay a modest upfront price to join social networks that guarantee the integrity of their personal data. Free of data monetization "With news of NSA eavesdropping and the ever-inscrutable, ever-evolving privacy policies of proprietary social networks, the public is increasingly and understandably concerned about where, when and how their personal information is being used," said Monica Lam, a professor of computer science at Stanford and founder of the MobiSocial lab and a startup by the same name, MobiSocial. MobiSocial was founded by Lam and three of her former Stanford PhD students, Ben Dodson, T. J. Purtell and Ian Vo. The lab was an offshoot of a $10 million grant by the National Science Foundation in 2008, specifically aimed at creating a Programmable Open Mobile Internet, or POMI for short. "At POMI, our group was concerned about privacy from the very start," Lam said. "We were looking to drive a new type of messaging and app platform that is free of monetization of data. That's what the privacy economy is all about." "Omlet is the first platform that puts control of that data back in the users' hands in an app environment that is as easy to use as any of today's most popular social channels," added Dodson. Decentralization To illustrate Omlet's ease of use, Lam described how a group of wedding guests might join a private, on-site chat at which they share a jointly created photo album in real time on their smartphones. Later, they'd be able to easily recall those photos by simply entering data about the occasion ? the name of the bride or groom, for instance. In technical terms, Omlet is a "distributed semantic file system," which means that the data storage is decentralized and, therefore, not under the control of any one network. The data exists instead as a collection of private files stored on each network member's personal cloud storage service of choice and is fully indexed for easy recall. Students at Stanford, for instance, are accorded a personal Box.net account with 25 gigabytes of storage space when they enroll. Using Omlet, all their social interactions, shared photos, likes and dislikes can be directed to this private repository, far from prying eyes. "Omlet users are not even tied into any one cloud storage service; they could just as easily choose to direct their files to Dropbox, Google Drive, Baidu Cloud or other cloud system of their choice," said Purtell. As an open-source application, Omlet is infinitely customizable by outside developers. Lam likens Omlet to a browser. How people choose to modify the browser environment is up to the programmers. Andrew Myers writes for the School of Engineering. Media Contact Jamie Beckett, School of Engineering: (650) 736-2241, jbeckett at stanford.edu ? Stanford University. All Rights Reserved. Stanford, CA 94305. (650) 723-2300. Todd Davies *** email: davies at stanford.edu Symbolic Systems Program *** phone: 1-650-723-4091 Stanford University *** fax: 1-650-723-5666 Stanford, CA, 94305-2150 *** web: www.stanford.edu/~davies USA *** office: 460-040C