Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”
Michael Arrington
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Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is ...
... t to lunch today. Either way, we’ve captured it above.

People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every ye... avatars, and bling: these virtual objects are nothing mo... of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhe... What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard e... ‘objects

Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just... PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to... their own semantic search application on top of its tech... looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search que... quality ind

In a paper presented recently at the WWW2010 conference ... group of researchers from Yahoo pointed out that before ... construct an accurate picture of a social network, resea... a better job of defining what it takes for two people to... Should two

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

Tim Godwin, the Scotland Yard acting commissioner, said ... management team at Scotland Yard discussed shutting down... networking site "a few times" as rumours about further r...

The Unicode Consortium controls the standards that gover... displayed on the world's computers, which means, of cour... define the world's emoticons. Last month, they released ... of the standard, 6.0. It features this lovely and defini...
unicode.jpg

Like many media nerds, I love Chartbeat. It lets you kno...
The second I saw this measure, my heart actually leapt ( ...
On the first day I saw it, this is how big of an impact ...
darksocial_atlantic.jpg
Just look at that graph. On the one hand, you ha

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 ...

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

Friday Poll Results Three weeks ago we asked you - what ... mean? What is it, really? No one who promotes the buzzwo... able to explain it. Even after a few mystical incantatio... intelligence" - we were none the wiser.

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect.
The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

The UK Government has decided that Open Document Format, the OpenOffice-derived file format, is the best choice for a... documents.
The Cabinet Office's Standards Hub explained its thinkin ...
“When dealing with citizens, information should be ...

A SUICIDAL teen was miraculously saved after one of his ...
The 16-year-old boy from Oxford had sent a private messa ...
The girl then alerted her mother who contacted local pol ...
UK cops then searched electoral roll websites and found ...
... ort but

STUDENTS who go on Facebook do worse in exams, it was re...
An American study revealed that most kids who use the po ...
And parents will be shocked to find that while heavy use ...
Many offices across Britain banned sites such as Faceboo ...
... a coup

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.

history of computing project

In this third part we will install an apache webserver w... different php versions. I will use php4 and php5, howeve... be used for php5 and php6 (as soon as there is at least ... candidate version) or even it can be used to install mul... php5 versio

Let me set the scene for this post by sharing a simple t... night:
Twitter: @troyhunt Passwords are stored in a secure way. ...
Ok then, that’s about as many security misdemeanours a ...

twhirl Documentation
Introduction
twhirl is a desktop client for the popular microblogging ...
There were different reasons for me to start developing ...
The decision to go the Flex way was easily made. I do XH ...

Twine it.
Don’t just share it. Twine it.
Don’t just organize it. Twine it.
Don’t just find it. Twine it.
... iscover things, and be found by others, more relevantly.

Twitlonger is a way to let you post to Twitter when 140 ... isn't enough.
With Twitlonger, you can write what you need and a link ...

The annual datasets are free to download and cover eight... period of five years. Each dataset is available for the ... just for applicants from each of the four UK countries. ... supplied in Excel version 5 spreadsheet format and can b... PivotTables

CoSign: Secure, Intra-Institutional Web Authentication
Open Source Web Single Sign-On
An open source project originally designed to provide th ...

CoSign: Secure, Intra-Institutional Web Authentication
Open Source Web Single Sign-On
An open source project originally designed to provide th ...

CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere
Mark Poster
http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/writings/democ.html
University of California, Irvine

"Life in the vault" explains why Intel's new launch (two... chips, code-named Grantsdale and Alderwood) may actually... digital landscape.