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The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

The enterprise cloud database from salesforce.com
Designed for the next generation of apps
Cloud: auto elasticity, auto security & auto backups
Open APIs & Authentication: REST, SOAP & OAuth
... Secure: Trusted by 87,000+ businesses & governme

What with the web being all about links, you would think... know about the title attribute, but I rarely see it. For... know, all links can have a title, specified by the title... <a> tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you s...
Not all lin

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs
In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ...
Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ...
At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ...
... already deployed I/O Docs for

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs
In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ...
Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ...
At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ...
... already deployed I/O Docs for

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data....
The ten main classes
000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Ph ...
Highlights
... ta is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

Silo free living.
Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnec ...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the cr ...
Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing ...
... * …and others

Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with ... Firefox extension for customizing web pages. Read it onl...

Django was invented to meet fast-moving newsroom deadlin... satisfying the tough requirements of experienced web dev...
Why Django?
With Django, you can take web applications from concept ...

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encoura... development and clean, pragmatic design.
Developed four years ago by a fast-moving online-news op ...

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The Doppelganger service translates between IDs of entit... APIs. When you query Doppelganger with an entity ID, you... of that same entity in other APIs. In addition, a persis... serves as an anchor for your application that you can us... queries.

Docvert takes word processor files (typically .doc) and ...
Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Open ...
The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted ...
The result is returned in a .zip file.
Docvert has a user-friendly inter

Event:oncontextmenu
Click a right mouse button on each layer( s11 - s14 ).

The class of the object returned by window.getSelection(... methods.

The class of the object returned by window.getSelection(... methods.

Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY, also known as Single Point o... process philosophy aimed at reducing duplication, partic... computing. The philosophy emphasizes that information sh... duplicated, because duplication increases the difficulty... decrease cl

Dopplr is a service for smart travellers. Dopplr helps y... your travels by sharing your personal and business trave... with the people you trust. Dopplr shows you coincidences...
1. Add your travel plans
Add trips on the Dopplr site or simply tell Dop

The microODRL specification descrbes a profile of the co... language for use as microformats in marking up standard ...

DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository th... underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely ... citable. Dryad has integrated data submission for a grow... journals; submission of data from other publications is ...

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

Drag’n drop generally looks hard-to-apply but it is de... using JavaScript frameworks. Here is, how it is done by ... jQuery UI:

Drag’n drop generally looks hard-to-apply but it is de... using JavaScript frameworks. Here is, how it is done by ... jQuery UI:

Switch Content Script II is a flexible script that adds ... functionality to almost any content on a page.