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2012-02-03 18:16:01     Let's be honest, Facebook is a badly overpriced photo-sharing and gaming site | TechRepublic

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/lets-be-.../10156?...

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

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2012-01-27 09:17:52     One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/...plete-and-mostly-wrong.html

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Program...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruc ...
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is ham ...
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language th ...
1936 - Alon

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2012-01-14 15:31:07     Embedly | Creating a Facebook-like URL submission tool with Embedly

http://embed.ly/docs/tutorials/ext

One of our clients is currently using Ext and Embedly to... Facebook-like link submission tool. While writing up som... overboard and ended up coding the whole thing. It’s wo... the community as a whole, because we have seen this ques... before. Thi

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2012-01-13 13:15:17     zeroclipboard - Provides "Copy to Clipboard" functionality for your web site using JavaScript and Flash - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/

zeroclipboard
Provides "Copy to Clipboard" functionality for your web ...

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2012-01-12 13:55:40     Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/...canonical.html

Now, you can simply add this <link> tag to specify your ...
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/produ ...
inside the <head> section of the duplicate content URLs:
http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&cat ...
... e PageRank

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2012-01-12 11:40:07     Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog

http://www.datawrangling.com/...atasets-available-on-the-web

Over the past year, I've been tagging interesting data I... del.icio.us. I wrote a quick python script to pull the r... my del.icio.us export and list them at the bottom of thi... these datasets are related to machine learning, but ther...
This list i

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2012-01-10 21:12:00     Backbone.js

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Introduction

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
With Backbo

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2012-01-10 21:12:00     Backbone.js

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Introduction

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
With Backbo

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2012-01-09 16:06:10     Watson’s Next Challenge: Beating Cancer - semanticweb.com

http://semanticweb.com/...xt-challenge-beating-cancer_b25805

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2011-12-22 23:54:27     Personal data | Policies | BIS

http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/consumer-issues/personal-data

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

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2011-12-21 14:05:02     Introducing Amazon Silk | Amazon Silk

http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/.../introducing-amazon-silk/

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

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2011-12-21 14:05:02     Introducing Amazon Silk | Amazon Silk

http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/.../introducing-amazon-silk/

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

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2011-12-21 14:05:02     Introducing Amazon Silk | Amazon Silk

http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/.../introducing-amazon-silk/

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

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2011-12-14 10:03:00     Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android - MIN MING

http://minming.posterous.com/...et-another-contribution-to-t

Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ...
Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ...
Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

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2011-12-04 23:52:54     smiley slider

http://glittle.org/blog/smiley-slider/

smiley slider
11/7/11 RSS
John Horton commissioned this thing on oDesk.. I need to ...

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2011-12-04 13:51:29     Programming should take pride of place in our schools | Technology | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...al-curriculum-john-naughton?...

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
reddit this
John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

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2011-12-02 10:40:52     How content delivery networks (CDNs) work | NCZOnline

http://www.nczonline.net/...ent-delivery-networks-cdns-work/

Content delivery networks (CDNs) are an important part o... infrastructure that are frequently used without a full u... what’s happening behind the scenes. You’ll hear peop... we put that on the CDN” or “make sure static assets ... when they h

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2011-11-22 13:05:28     Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship

http://arstechnica.com/...show-predatorprey-relationship.ars

Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey...
By John Timmer | Published about 17 hours ago
You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosyst ...
The team went back to 1993 and compiled statistics on ev ...
... PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.10

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2011-11-22 08:51:29     Facebook Is Badware (and Why Google Should Warn Its Users)

http://lifehacker.com/...nd-why-google-should-warn-its-users

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that...
In this pos

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2011-11-22 06:54:22     The power of the written word | Ruth Stalker-Firth

http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/...power-of-the-written-word

Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

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2011-11-16 08:51:16     Microsoft’s Code Space project combines Kinect, touchscreens for awesome meetings | VentureBeat

http://venturebeat.com/2011/.../microsoft-code-space-kinect/

Microsoft Research is at it again: The wily folks who cr...
Dubbed Code Space, the project allows groups to collabor ...
While still a very early concept, Code Space shows the p ...
Why the need for so many input devices, when a simple wh ...
The project

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2011-11-11 19:38:29     US court verdict 'huge blow' to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide | World news | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...rdict-privacy-wikileaks-twitter

The Twitter users "voluntarily" turned over the internet... when they signed up for an account and relinquished an e...
"Petitioners knew or should have known that their IP inf ...
The fight comes amid widening concerns about online priv ...
"I want eve

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2011-11-09 16:04:06     The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in ...
The idea of representing relationships between people as ...
At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make ...
Fitzpatrick subsequently went to work for Google, and hi ...
... ith the

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2011-11-08 16:27:46     DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language - Google Code

http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata/

DSPL is the Dataset Publishing Language, a representatio...
Features
Use existing data: Just add an XML metadata file to ...
Powerful visualizations: Unleash the full capabiliti ...
... pen: Freely use the DSPL format in your own applications

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2011-11-06 09:00:57     86th Birthday Rage [very long] [first post] [hello!] - Imgur

http://imgur.com/Cpdaq

86th Birthday Rage

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2011-11-02 09:57:46     Pachube :: blog: Bringing down the barriers: Pachube service goes free!

http://blog.pachube.com/...barriers-pachube-service.html?...

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

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2011-10-23 07:58:44     BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say - The National

http://www.thenational.ae/...uts-made-roads-safer-police-say

ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

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2011-10-22 16:08:31     List of Algorithms

http://www.scriptol.com/programming/list-algorithms.php#C...

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.

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2011-10-17 12:05:25     BPS Research Digest: Are we really blind to Internet banners?

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/...rnet-banners.html

It's a line of research that Google doesn't want you to ...
Now Guillaume Hervet and his team have attempted to addr ...
The results may be of some consolation to Google and the ...
Another aspect to the results is how the participants' b ...
... ritten

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2011-10-10 12:53:50     TheyWorkForYou: Hansard and Official Reports for the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, and Northern Ireland Assembly - done right

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

TheyWorkForYou lets you find out what your MP, MSP or ML... name, read debates, written answers, see what’s coming... and sign up for email alerts when there’s past or futu... someone or something you’re interested in.

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