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“Anonabox”: One-Stop-Shop for Internet Privacy?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 14, 2014 Posted in Technology, Web No Comments Tagged with privacy, private browsing, tor

According to The Verge, the “Anonabox” Kickstarter is Trying to be a One-Stop-Shop for Internet Privacy. So the hacker in me loves the idea of this, but actually I think it’s probably over-kill (and an over-promise) for most people’s web …

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Yosemite Hand-off and tel: URIs

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2014 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with ios8, Safari, yosemite

Just playing around with the new “hand off” (I guess this falls under) feature in IOS8 / Yosemite. If you have a phone number in a web page suitably marked up as <a href=”tel:…”>link</a> and visit that page with Safari, …

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How to create your own URL shortener

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on August 19, 2014 Posted in Misc No Comments Tagged with URL

This article from The Next Web is a good write-up of different options available for creating your own URL shortener. I’m a big fan of short URLs, but I think one of the draw-backs can be that they create a …

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Fun with the Nest Smoke Alarm

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 28, 2014 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with internetofthings, nest

So I get a notification on my phone today that my (relatively newly installed) Nest Protect smoke alarm is going off and there is “smoke in the hallway.” This happens to be the day we have a cleaner in in …

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Quartz

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 21, 2014 Posted in Misc No Comments

I am starting to really love +Quartz! Here is a news provider that is reporting on stuff I'm interested in, as a fantastic well-designed (responsive, #html5 ) Web site with innovative features such as infinite scrolling, links to their sources, …

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Can More Things “Just Work” in 2014?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on December 31, 2013 Posted in Technology, Web 1 Comment Tagged with IOS7 Android UX

One of my main hopes for 2014 is that things should start working better. In many ways, I feel that both iOS and Android have taken a step backward in achieving this ideal this year. One notable example I ran …

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Facebook’s Price Hike (and How to Opt Out)

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 18, 2013 Posted in Kids, Web No Comments Tagged with Facebook, privacy

This was originally posted to Facebook – now I am posting a summary post here, as it relates to a previous post I’ve made on this same issue on the G+ service (“Shared Endoresements”): As reported in the NYT over …

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What’s ‘Over the Air’? Think overnight hackathon meets developer conference | Telefónica Digital Hub

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 22, 2013 Posted in Misc No Comments

I finally managed to put together a blog post on the +Telefonica Digital blog about last month's +Over the Air event.  #blogthis   #ota13 The ‘Over the Air’ event series feels more like a festival than a tech event.

NYT: Google to Sell Users’ Endorsements

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 12, 2013 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with Google, privacy, socialweb

So – The first thing I did this morning on reading this New York Times article on Google’s new plan to use users’ data (+1s, etc…) on their own ads  was hunt around for how to opt out, which I …

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Reflections on Siri on “her” 2 Year Birthday

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2013 Posted in Mobility, Technology No Comments Tagged with Siri

Read this great article in The Verge today on the voice behind Siri. I’m finding myself using #Siri more and more these days, especially for quick tasks that would otherwise take multiple steps and involve unlocking the phone. For example, …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

For more info on my professional life, see my Linkedin profile.

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If you're curious where the nickname Torgo came from, I appropriated it from a character in the the movie Manos: the Hands of Fate via Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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