9/02/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
jimray : [delicious-discuss] preview: post to an MT blog from delicious - A great way to back-up, or locally cache, your delicious feed
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Paul Hammond : Open and honest communication (Signal vs. Noise) - Projects end up better when the communication channels are open and honest
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Paul Hammond : Getting Real, Step 1: No Functional Spec (Signal vs. Noise) - the interface is the functional spec
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Jason Shellen : Hewlett-Packard Ousts CEO Carly Fiorina - Engineer of the HP - Compaq merger out after 6 years at the helm. #
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9/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
Eric Meyer : Minority rule works for animals - Not a political treatise, but an interesting example of how masses follow a very few leaders. In simulations, anyway.
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9/02/2005 @ 22:56 GMT
kellan : Reverse engineering Google Maps - Wow, I use to do this stuff with QuickDraw for games. Hadn't thought about tiles in a while #
jkottke : A quick overview of how Google Maps works
jimray : Mapping Google - Under the hood with Google Maps [via /.]
philgyford : As simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google - Roughly how the client-side of Google Maps works.
Paul Hammond : as simple as possible, but no simpler: Mapping Google - XHTML Strict/CSS/etc be damned. At the end of the day, what really matters to users is compelling apps that let them get their work done quickly
Anne van Kesteren : Mapping Google - How does Google Maps actually work? #
Jeremy Zawodny : Mapping Google - Mapping Google: ther's some really smart shit going on in the google maps implementation
bmilleare : Mapping Google
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9/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: Which way do the threads on the nofollow screw turn? - PageRank is dead
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9/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music - amazing collection of 180 genres and 1,189 samples, all buried under a truly awful Flash interface
plasticbag : Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music v2 - I think having finally found a good starting niche of electronic music thanks to Mr Biddulph, I'm going to have a bit of a rapid explosion of intrest in the area. Ishkur's awesome flash guide is sure to help considerably...
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9/02/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Tecmo sues Dead or Alive modders for creating naked character skins - yet another example of a dumb company suing its biggest fans [via] [via]
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9/02/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
kellan : Installing Debian GNU/Linux on the Mac Mini - Still no drivers for the Airport Extreme #
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9/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
doug : The iPod End Game - It's was written 2 weeks ago already, but very worthwhile to read. Mike Davidson gives us a very thoughtful look into Apple's strategy with the iPod and related technology. Insightful, despite coming from an outsider to the company.
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9/02/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
ricmac : Charles Smith digs up some Mark Pilgrim stats from Dec 2003 that show how much NetNewsWire market share has declined since then - (nb Pilgrim's site was very technical and he was/is a Mac lover, so I'd expect NNW to be higher for his site) "NetNewsWire held over 43% of the overall market in December 2003. Based on Feedburner's 1/10/2005 report that number is now just south of 17%"
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9/02/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Neal Stephenson in Reason mag - [via boingboing]
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9/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Erik Benson : Some background on how the Robot Co-op got investment from Amazon - My favorite conspiracy theory so far has been that this is a stealth marketing plan by Amazon concocted in order to help self help book sales.
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9/02/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
Andy Baio : MP3 Tunes launches - DRM-free MP3s, but their server is swamped right now [via] [via]
François Nonnenmacher : MP3tunes - Cheaper than iTunes and no DRM! By the founder of Lindows
Rod Begbie : MP3tunes Locker - Michael Robertson's new site seems to be targeting itself as an "off-site backup" and synchronisation service for your music files, and therefore completely covered by fair-use. RIAA, start your lawyers. #
WillPate : Backup, Sync and Listen to Your Digital Music Collection with an MP3tunes Locker @ MP3tunes.com - $40/year to backup, synch and play unlimited number of songs unlimited times? Aweeeesoooomme.
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9/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
kellan : SAX: biggest regrets - By David Megginson. Frankly I'd settle for SAX 1.0 support in PHP. #
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9/02/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
kellan : SAX: biggest satisfactions - More from Megginson #
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9/02/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : MSNBC.com adds "blog this" functionality - Only works with MSN Spaces, and only in IE, which makes it pretty much dead on arrival
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9/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Wil Wheaton to appear on CSI - Zach and Nick aside, I wish more working actors would blog [via] [via]
plasticbag : Wil Wheaton finally gets a job playing a tramp on CSI and the web couldn't be happier for him - I read his book you know. I went out and bought his book and read it and I really quite enjoyed it. Just so's you know...
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9/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Image: Card Check - originally from Modern Humorist
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9/02/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Estonian TV commercials from the 1980s - supremely weird; don't miss Kanahakkliha [via] [via]
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9/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
jimray : MSNBC.com adds "blog this" functionality - Only works with MSN Spaces, which makes it pretty much dead on arrival
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9/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kaninka.net : Motörhead - Ace of Spades à blúgrassútgáfu
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9/02/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Epigoon : Feedview - Firefox plugin which makes Atom/RSS feeds less ugly when clicked on. This should be rolled into Firefox itself. #
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9/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Pac-Man Must Die - collaborative wireless Pac Man game spread across shared portable displays [via] [via]
deusx : Pacman Must Die - Collaborative, wireless gaming spread across many displays.
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9/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Smash the Tones - convert any MP3 or MIDI to a free ringtone; it's legal under fair use guidelines [via] [via]
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9/02/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : David Denby wrote a negative piece about Ben Stiller in a recent NYer and Owen Wilson wrote in to defend his pal - I've gotta side with Denby on this one...I can't watch Stiller in any more movies.
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9/02/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
jimray : Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX - Small, fast-cgi compatible alternative to Apache
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9/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Invisible Information | joeblade - looking to the future
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9/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Please, sweat the small stuff ~ Authentic Boredom - the Unsharp Mask filter
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9/02/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : The denizens of Wikipedia are discussing whether or not to delete the entry for "Jason Kottke" - As the entry stands now, I'd vote for deletion too.
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9/02/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Rod Begbie : Forthcoming shininess from the BBC - BBC opening up some of their internal toys a la Google Labs? #
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9/02/2005 @ 16:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Audacity - Free cross platform audio editor and recorder (filed under Music).
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9/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Richard Rutter : Little Snitch - ‘Application supervisor’ checks for outgoing network connections (filed under Tools & software).
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9/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
deusx : ★ The Joy of Tech! ★ - "We've chosen YOU to be sacrificed to the SALES GODS."
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9/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Zawodny confirms Mark Jen was fired because of his blog - he talked to him directly
jimray : A Chat with Mark Jen (by Jeremy Zawodny) - Zawodny on the Googler blogger firing (nice perspective)
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9/02/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : A blog dedicated to The Gates in Central Park - Almost here! Can't wait!
jimray : The Gates @ Central Park - A blog celebrating Cristo's "Gates"
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9/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : MathML News - MathML plugin updates and such. #
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9/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Mozilla Release History - Most Mozilla versions listed. #
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9/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Flowing text around an image - Very cool! #
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9/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction - Heh! #
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9/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Anne van Kesteren : Search Engine Twins - Interesting? #
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9/02/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Bus crash fine for Ayrton Senna - "Sheriff David Pender accepted Senna's name did not reflect the speed he had been doing at the time of the accident." [via] #
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9/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
Rod Begbie : flickr graph - Cool visualisation of Flickr buddy networks. [via] #
Philippe Janvier : flickr graph - marcos weskamp - Une application très chouette en Flash qui permet de visualiser un réseau de contact Flickr. On aurait bien aimé aussi Friend Of A Friend + SVG. [via] #
Andy Baio : Flickr Graph - neat Flash visualization of Flickr user networks and images [via] [via]
Jeremy Zawodny : flickr graph - flickr graph: kick ass
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9/02/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
jkottke : Open source has made the sharing of software easier and may pave the way for the sharing of other things
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9/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : WoW big boom - This seemed hysterical to me
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9/02/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : The 25 Most Inappropriate Things An Objectivist Can Say During Sex
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9/02/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
ricmac : Christina's LIS Rant: Defining Web 2.0 - "I think web 2.0 is the semantic web, social networking, folksonomy, blogs, wikis -- more what Berners-Lee talks about. There's some code involved, but it's more about the content and connectivity."
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9/02/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : VideoHelp, video conversion tutorials and DVD reviews - because I'm constantly losing this bookmark
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9/02/2005 @ 08:01 GMT
Charles Miller : Outsourcing torture - The New Yorker: Outsourcing torture. "The secret history of America's extraordinary rendition program."
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9/02/2005 @ 07:58 GMT
jimray : Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks - Instead of paying for SideTrack
François Nonnenmacher : Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks - Works fine on my AluBook :-)
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9/02/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
jimray : iRecordMusic - Record streams online - like having your own podcast
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9/02/2005 @ 05:11 GMT
kellan : Amazon invests in 43 Things/Robot Co-op #
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9/02/2005 @ 05:08 GMT
Nelson Minar : wrt54g.com - Unofficial site for hacking the mostly-open wireless router
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9/02/2005 @ 05:04 GMT
ricmac : Napsterization on search feeds - "With a finite amount of time, increasingly defined information needs, and a desire to raise the signal to noise ratio, I rely more heavily on the search feeds, than other traditional RSS feeds that send me a single blog's or legacy news feed."
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9/02/2005 @ 05:01 GMT
Andy Baio : Buffington starts super-niche topical blog to capture Adwords revenue - remember, Asbestos News for all your asbestos-related needs [via] [via]
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9/02/2005 @ 04:58 GMT
jkottke : The Repent America splash page has two buttons: "Christians enter here" and "All others enter here" - It should work like the USDA's classic Hay Net page: "Need God" and "Have God".
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9/02/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
jkottke : The Simple English Wikipedia looks like an interesting idea - "Here at this place, we only use very simple English words and simple writing structures [so] pages will be easier to read by people who do not speak English well."
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9/02/2005 @ 04:18 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Controlling your Mac mini from your Newton
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9/02/2005 @ 04:14 GMT
Nelson Minar : Disabling XP Services - simple instructions
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9/02/2005 @ 04:11 GMT
jimray : Google blogger a googler no more - Still not sure if he was actually fired for blogging or what
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9/02/2005 @ 04:07 GMT
ricmac : Master of 500 Hats picks out the Web 2.0 companies he'd buy if he had a spare $1B - His list: SixApart (TypePad, MovableType, LiveJournal), Flickr, Technorati, Feedster, Feedburner, BlogAds, FeedDemon, Topix.net, WebLogsInc
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9/02/2005 @ 04:04 GMT
ricmac : Jeff Jarvis on About.com sale: "If you were starting About.com today, you wouldn't create a centralized marketplace of cheap content." - In the comments, Anil Dash compares About to weblogsinc and gawker. Jason Calacanis agrees: "Gawker and WIN are next generation About.com's to a certain extent."
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9/02/2005 @ 04:01 GMT
ricmac : Ross Mayfield's "Impressionistic transcript of Mark Fletcher's first public talk after AskJeeves acquired Bloglines, at the Media Center's Etech" - Sounds like a very interesting session, hope someone recorded it as audio.
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Andy Baio : Superman Is A Dick - all those oddball comic covers finally given a permanent home [via] [via]
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9/02/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : I Ate iPod Shuffle, a poem - "The iPod shuffle's not a snack! Don't make me go get Wozniak!"
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9/02/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Python vs. Ruby on the c2 wiki - "So, how do Python and Ruby compare? They look more similar to each other than either does to Perl. What are the differences?" #
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9/02/2005 @ 02:34 GMT
kellan : Currently reading "Linux Server Security, 2nd Edition" - On Safari #
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9/02/2005 @ 02:31 GMT
Andy Baio : Taste for the Web - great parody of Paul Graham; if you get this, you're a geek [via] [via]
deusx : Taste for the Web - Great Paul Graham spoof.
ricmac : Taste for the Web (a Paul Graham parody) {via waxy.org} - "Languages which avoid curly braces attract hackers like a W. Somerset Maugham novel attracts thoughtful and sensitive readers, or a Brueghel painting attracts hackers who are also painters."
Steve Cook : Taste for the Web - It doesn't mention Viaweb often enough, actually.
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9/02/2005 @ 02:26 GMT
ricmac : Silicon Valley Watcher: JotSpot--one of the first of the emerging, disruptive Web 2.0 technologies...we interview co-founder Joe Kraus - "These seem to be the characteristic of the new types of applications/technologies emerging in Web 2.0: to become open platforms, able to mix and match with other applications/technologies/media."
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9/02/2005 @ 02:23 GMT
Simon Willison : Nasty Firefox vulnerability and Double Standards - In which I am accused of hypocrisy (response in the comments).
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9/02/2005 @ 02:20 GMT
Simon Willison : Google Blog: Get the picture - Image search results now sometimes appear along side regular searches.
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9/02/2005 @ 02:17 GMT
Simon Willison : Maps released - Google Maps Safari support is being worked on.
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9/02/2005 @ 02:14 GMT
Simon Willison : IDN and homographs spoofing - Good coverage of the related specs. (via) [via]
Paul Hammond : IDN and homographs spoofing - why are they able to do so?
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Simon Willison : Why Craigslist Works, by Craig - A ChangeThis manifesto.
jkottke : Why Craigslist Works - A ChangeThis "manifesto" by Craig Newmark.
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Simon Willison : UK Diaries I: Hail Britannia - Britain from an American's point of view.
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Simon Willison : Outsourcing Torture - This left me sick to my stomach.
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jkottke : A quick overview of the theory of intelligent design
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jkottke : The pirating of the 2005 Oscar DVD screeners - "The results? Out of 30 movies, all but five screener copies were leaked online by pirate groups."
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jkottke : Without Reservations: "All the best tables are booked this Valentine's Day. But for $40, you can have one of ours."
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9/02/2005 @ 01:30 GMT
doug : Automation Will Kill Us All - Jason Santa Maria, frustrated over do-it-yourself design.
jimray : Jason Santa Maria | Automation Will Kill Us All - Good design is worth every penny
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François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft's contempt will be returned
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jimray : Color Blender - [via joeweiss]
Jeremy Zawodny : Color Blender - Color Blender: handy little color pickning tool
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jimray : Writing hacks - Poynter online implements GTD for writers
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Steve Cook : How far would you go for a piece of real estate? - One man's two-year-quest for a cheap Brooklyn building took him to Spain, cost him his girlfriend, and made him a burglar.
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Steve Cook : The Secret Friend Society - Two comics (Salamander Dream and Jellaby) sharing a single URL. Vaguely reminiscent of Craig Thompson's style.
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ricmac : Andy Oram article on how classification (eg web services) and community (eg social networking sites) are beginning to come together on the Web - "Because viral marketing and new media have an excellent possibility of becoming important social movements, I think online social networks will grow in importance, and at some point somebody will make one that works."
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ricmac : Excellent overview of RSS and its future by VentureBlog (via Greg Linden) - "RSS is developing in the same order as the World Wide Web: content, browsers, plumbing, media, and finally business."
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9/02/2005 @ 01:01 GMT
ricmac : Greg Linden comments on VentureBlog post about future of RSS - "What makes RSS interesting is that machines can easily read and process news feeds. This is where the future of RSS lies."
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Paul Hammond : PrettyPrinter.de, an online pretty printer for PHP, Java, C , C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS - This is a source code beautifier (source code formatter), similiar to indent
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jkottke : The Wildlife Conservation Society is auctioning off the chance to name a new species of monkey
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Anne van Kesteren : Just Another Word - Disallowing Google to stay spam free. Hmm. #
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Anne van Kesteren : Europese wandelgangen - :-) #
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Anne van Kesteren : mozilla.org staff and Mozilla Foundation Employees - How things work within the Mozilla Foundation. (mozilla.org should be written lowercase by the way, always.) #
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Matthew M. Boedicker : OrganicHTML draws flowers based on a URL
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