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... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

10 reasons Facebook’s future is uncertain
Its own users have very little trust in the company
The site’s ease-of-use is among the worst on the web
The user experience doesn’t translate well to smar ...
... atural cycle of social networks

Instead of a postal address or a recipient's name, the sender had drawn a map of where they believed the farm to be, together with the following, in English:
"Country: Iceland. City: Búðardalur. Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and th

What really matters is:–
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite cl ...
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vagu ...
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. ...
... t when you want to talk about something r

I call these boundary objects, and they are a major met...
heterogeneous problems. Boundary objects are objects ...
enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the ...
employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a commo ...
... 46-4

LibraryBox is an open source, portable digital file dist... on inexpensive hardware that enables delivery of educati... and other vital information to individuals off the grid.

What is LibraryThing?
Go ahead and take the tour.
Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's a ...
What's good?
... doesn't convince you, you cannot be convinced. Go away.

Life imitates sci-fi as contact lens displays inch close...
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... with machines is too compelling not to pay attention to.

LIFX is the smartest light bulb you've ever experienced.... wifi-enabled, energy efficient, multi-colored bulb that ... your iPhone or Android. LIFX gives you unprecedented con... lights, reduces your energy costs, lasts up to 25 years ... amazing ran

Directory structure
The protocol accesses LDAP directories, which follow the ...
* A directory is a tree of directory entries.
* An entry consists of a set of attributes.
... the other server and returns the results to the client.

LokiJS is an in-memory database which prioritises perfor... everything *
LokiJS supports field indexing for faster document acces ...

Keep your personal files safe at home. Access them from ... the beauty of the Personal Cloud.

I've been investigating the rel-tag microformat - tags, ... realised there are two fairly obvious problems with the ... I'm not the first to pick up on these, of course).
My scenario: an existing application hosts articles whic ...
So, what are the limi

Linked Data
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Linked Data is a term used to describe a recommended bes ...

In order to support data set owners to publish their dat... Data on the Web, as well as to support data consumers to... integrate Linked Data from the Web, the LATC project has... of open source toolkits that cover all stages of the Lin... publication

Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream

Programmers are well aware that many of the software pat... laughably obvious ideas. Yet the patent system's defende... that these ideas are nontrivial, obvious only by hindsig... surprisingly difficult to defeat them in debate. Why is ...
One reason

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any do... to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a des... algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScrip... either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source.

Literature Reviews
What this handout is about...
This handout will explain what a Literature Review i ...

A few things to try:
* Right-click -> copy on the orange icon next to one ...
* Single left-click one of the orange icons so that ...
* Load the page in IE and Firefox side-by-side. Copy ...
If you are interested in how this works or if you w

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve

Fossils found in some of London's most famous landmarks ... to life with the help of a north Wales technology company.
Llandudno-based Livetech are behind a website detailing ...

LMNL, pronounced “liminal”, is an experimental appro... encoding that supports, in SGML/XML terms, overlapping e... LMNL) and structured attributes (annotations in LMNL).