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9 items tagged “tom-coates”

2010

Getting married and going travelling

Visit Getting married and going travelling

It’s been a busy month. On Saturday the 5th of June I married the wonderful Natalie Downe in a beautiful ceremony at Roedean School in Brighton. The reception had owls, cheese, a ferret, a golden eagle, amazing Turkish food, Jewish chair dancing and lovely guests. It was the happiest day of my life.

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plasticbag.org: My last day at Yahoo! Tom Coates on four years at Yahoo!

# 15th May 2010, 10:14 am / fireeagle, tom-coates, yahoo, recovered

2009

Red Dust. Tom Coates used Flickr’s new Galleries feature (which lets you build a curated collection of up to 18 photos from other Flickr users and add your commentary) to construct a stunning compilation of photos of the Sydney dust storms.

# 23rd September 2009, 2:20 pm / duststorms, flickr, photography, sydney, tom-coates

2007

A Hack for Europe! Signups are now open for Hack Day Europe, on June 16th and 17th. You need to apply for an invitation.

# 18th April 2007, 11:24 pm / bbc, bbcbackstage, hackday, tom-coates, yahoo

Social whitelisting with OpenID... (plasticbag.org). Tom’s write-up of the social whitelisting idea. Lots of sceptics in the comments.

# 26th January 2007, 1 am / openid, socialwhitelisting, spam, tom-coates

On Space Art in Sebastopol... Awesome. Our giant mosaic space invaders are going to show up on Google Earth!

# 22nd January 2007, 10:44 pm / foocamp, google, google-earth, spaceinvaders, tom-coates

Social whitelisting with OpenID

A key feature of OpenID is that it provides a globally unique identifier for every user, no matter what site or service they are using on the Web.

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2003

Managing Social Software

Moderation is a topic that goes hand in hand with online communities, but despite being a highly complex matter it is rarely given the coverage it deserves. That’s all set to change now thanks to Tom Coates’ excellent new blog, Everything in Moderation. The site’s topic is “creative ways to manage online communities and user-generated content”, and the content posted so far easily lives up to that claim. Of particular interest are the introductory post, the definitions of the four principle types of moderation and a fascinating entry about using stealth moderation tactics to deter abusive posters. Definitely one for the blogroll (at least once it starts pinging blo.gs).