links for 2008-04-23
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The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.
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links for 2008-04-16
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It's a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out there, and there ar
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links for 2008-04-10
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Lots of businesses get hate mail, but few owners react the way Heather Armstrong does. She prints out nasty emails, puts them in her driveway and drives over them with her car. "That's the attitude I have," she says, "and it's made my life a thousand perc
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links for 2008-03-03
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Lets face it, when you have an online business you’re constantly crunching numbers. Since I’m not a mathematician I’m always looking for ways to make my number crunching a little bit less time consuming. Any Ebay Seller will tell you that shipping c
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links for 2008-02-29
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Les statistiques sont particulièrement frappantes parmi les minorités: alors qu'un adulte américain blanc sur 106 est incarcéré, c'est un Hispanique sur 36 et un Afro-Américain sur 15 qui sont en prison. Dans la tranche d'âge de 20 à 34 ans, c'est
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links for 2008-02-24
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Democratic candidates, he proposes, "only prevail if they have substantial social skills."
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links for 2008-02-21
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I'm a political junkie, and as Super Tuesday neared it seemed likely that the race for Democratic nominee would extend well past that big day at the polls. I started looking around for information about the so-called "superdelegates" (the party leaders an
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links for 2008-02-16
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"Silicon Valley," he says, "is ignoring the rest of the world."
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Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which entire mountains are literally blown up -- and it is happening here in America on a scale that is almost unimaginable.
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links for 2008-02-15
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"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." Facebook PR flack Amy Sezak claims the company is doing users a favor by making it easy to come back to the site after they quit. 6,000 members of the Facebook group "How to permanently delet
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links for 2008-02-13
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Half of facebook applications have under 350 installs: There are over 16,000 applications on facebook. Over half of these applications ever get any form of even nominal traction. This screenshot from adonomics shows that a brand new application that is on
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links for 2008-02-10
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So maybe you've never heard of twitter, or maybe it's old news but you thought it seemed silly. That's what happened to me at first as well. A friend told me to check it out (with no instructions), I took a look at the home page, wondered why I cared what
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links for 2008-02-08
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Facebook is launching a platform for mobile operators, designed to improve the quality of Facebook’s services on mobile devices, starting with Vodafone subscribers in the U.K. and Germany, according to the IDG news service.
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links for 2008-02-06
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The Socialcast On-Demand platform unites traditional company intranet features with social networking functionality to create knowledge sharing, collaboration, and corporate culture enrichment.
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links for 2008-02-05
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The MySpace Developer Platform (MDP) allows developers to create applications that interact with MySpace members and their social data. With MDP you will be able to create compelling new products that integrate directly into MySpace pages and get exposure
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links for 2008-02-03
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MTV’s army of Street Team ’08 citizen journalists will cover the youth vote like no one else on Super Tuesday, delivering the first-ever live mobile-to-web broadcasts – from polling stations, caucuses, candidate rallies and everywhere young voters c
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links for 2008-02-01
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Some experts suspect that, within the next few years, smart badges won't be confined to conferences and events. "We think that eventually everyone will have a smart badge with them all the time: their cell phone," says Alex Kass, a researcher who leads re
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Does ths mean that I'm getting into producing a program on a topic that is already becoming passe? Not it all. Chris put it another way and I can restate here without checking the clip. But her key point is that social media was normalizing. It was becomi
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links for 2008-01-31
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I just got a hold of the ComScore numbers for U.S. social networking sites, and it ain’t pretty folks. (See an abridged version of the chart below this post.) After peaking in October of 2007 with 71.9 million users, MySpace, the leading social network,
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links for 2008-01-25
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Comscore has released statistics ranking the top widget providers for November 2007.
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links for 2008-01-24
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One of the main things that I’ve discovered about Twitter is that no two Twitter users are using it in the same way. Almost every Twitter user that I come across tells me that they have a different objective when it comes to using it and are benefiting
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I decided to jot down some observations and thoughts on launching successful social networking development platforms… like the one facebook launched at f8, Bebo’s clone of facebook’s, or the one MySpace will be launching, etc. This is a list of som
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links for 2008-01-23
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For high tech companies and advocacy groups, I’d argue that the ROI doesn’t matter. Not having a conversation with your customers is no longer an option. It’s like an email or the fax machine. At some point you realize you no longer care about the R
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"Some journalists _ indeed, even some entire news organizations _ have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage prov
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Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams.
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links for 2008-01-22
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MICHEL FOUCAULT seeks throughout his work to make sense of how our contemporary society is structured differently from the society that preceded us. He has been particularly influential precisely because he tends to overturn accepted wisdom, illustrating
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Languify is a translation management system for your software projects. Those who have dealt with agile software projects, which support multiple languages, know: synchronizing feature development and localization is a nightmare.
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DLD (Digital, Life, Design) is Europe's conference for the 21st century, covering digital innovation, science and culture and bringing together thought leaders from Europe, the Middle-East, America and Asia.
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Microjournalism is the latest step in the evolution of Mr. Dickerson, who worked for years at Time magazine, and has moved from print to online articles to blog entries to text messages no longer than 140 characters, or about two sentences. “One of the
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links for 2008-01-21
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Below is an email correspondence with customer service representatives at Nike iD, an on-line service that lets people buy personalized Nike shoes. The dialog began when Nike cancelled an order for a pair of shoes customized with the word "sweatshop."
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Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards - both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are
