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“Marco Casassa Mont’s “Research on Security and Innovation in the Cloud” Blog. The focus of this blog is on trends, new technologies/solutions and innovative aspects of Security and the Cloud. I am a senior researcher at HP Labs: I am very keen to explore and discuss technical, business and social aspects of Security and Cloud Computing, also in the context of mobility, big data and information analytics. New trends are going to affect individuals and organizations in the medium/long terms. What is the next big thing in this space?”

From “Static” Personal Web Pages to a Personal and Dynamic Information Hub?

marcocasassamont| July 10, 2010
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I eventually managed to updated my personal web page …

 

Now I can see how traditional, static personal web pages are rapidly getting out of fashion, compared to the up-to-date information you can share with your personal social networking sites, blogs, etc. On the other hand, these pages still enable the owner to have degrees of control on the structure and the organisation of the information – thing that is hard to achieve with other social networking sites …

 

So, I am running an experiment i.e. exploring an hybrid approach to personal web pages, where in addition to almost “static pages” there are feeds from various “more dynamic” personal sites, such as blogs and twitter.

 

In other words a personal web page becomes the hub of various personal feeds along with some clever manipulation and mapping of the information … Of course by keeping into account basic privacy aspects …

 

From a technological perspective nothing new, but I guess the challenge is how to organise and mash-up these personal feeds to provide some sense and a controlled structure to the information …

 

For the time being, I just wanted to add to my personal web page a “blog feed widget” but so far I haven’t yet found anything satisfactory. Any link or suggestion is welcome … Of course I had no such problem to find and add a Twitter feed from my Twitter account …

 

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WH(anon) | ‎07-22-2010 09:04 AM
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Hi, I don't know which blogging software you use at HP (HP's own? I couldn't see a meta generator tag), but on your Blogpost mirror blog it's quite straightforward.

 

Use Yahoo Pipes to create a mashup of the feeds you want. See e.g. Ars Technica on creating a feed from multiple sources. Pipes enables you do a whole lot more than just combine different feeds together so you can play around and get it exactly as you want.

 

Then note your pipe's feed URL, and in the Blogger dashboard, Design > Page Elements > Add a Gadget > Feed and paste the pipe feed URL to display the mashup feed in your Blogspot sidebar. Sorted!

 

On your personal site, once you have the mashup's feed URL no doubt you'll have no problem adding the feed there.

 

Cheers

WH

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