23/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : franklinmint.fm: No, More Discussion Will Not Be Productive - "The Web, Plain-Old-XML, XMPP, and JSON are the way forward. And I think, deep down, everyone knows it."
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23/02/2006 @ 23:08 GMT
deusx : GETSful | 2006-02-22 | BitWorking - "Any web services protocol that claims to be RESTful but only uses GET for everything."
Paul Hammond : GETSful | 2006-02-22 | BitWorking - Any web services protocol that claims to be RESTful but only uses GET for everything
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23/02/2006 @ 22:09 GMT
merlinmann : WebCron - Welcome - WebCron is a wet dream of a site. It runs any cron job reachable via a public page on a schedule you set. That's it. Awesome. [Self: stop losing this]
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23/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
gleuschk : Category Theory: an abstract setting for analogy - what is it, and what is it good for?
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gleuschk : A Mad Day's Work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich - the evolution of the concepts of space and symmetry
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23/02/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
plasticbag : "Generation Church ☆ Taking the Reality of God to This Generation" - Pretty much loving the star in the title bar, and the general CSS-elegance and stunning textural design of this site. Obviously I'm pretty much ignoring the specious religious rubbish that's written all over it, but hey...
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23/02/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : Matthew Gifford - Page Creator: Google's stealth word processor - "To me, this looks like the first iteration of a web-based word processor." Interesting thought. Great way to move into the "Office" space, so to speak.
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23/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
plasticbag : How to give Oral Sex to Bloggers in Return for PR Favors (by Jeremy Zawodny) - PR aimed at webloggers increases every day. I normally tell people that if they want to send me free stuff, they're more than welcome, but that I will on principle not write about it. That gets rid of most of 'em...
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23/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
plasticbag : Mike Butcher reports on the state of innovation and Web 2.0 in the UK at the moment - He's asking all the right questions as well as pointing out the radical disjunct between the Future of Web Apps event and the Second Chance Tuesday crew. Got a few of the BBC and Yahoo details wrong, but nothing crippling...
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23/02/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
plasticbag : Tristan Ferne posts some radio signatures he's taken of the major BBC radio stations - Wonderful, lyrical, evocative little samples of all the programmes on a BBC radio network are spliced together and cross-faded automatically. I have no idea what you'd use it for, but it's pretty sweet. Radio 4's my favourite. Radio 2 just plays Coldplay.
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23/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
Nelson Minar : Half Moon Bay tides - Unusually low tides this weekend
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23/02/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
jimray : claimID weblog - Beta goes live on Friday - can't wait
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23/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
deusx : The XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL) Resource Page - "The XML Bookmark Exchange Language, or XBEL, is an Internet "bookmarks" interchange format."
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23/02/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
Philippe Janvier : iRows - "...Web based online spreadsheets". [via] #
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23/02/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Introducing Google Pages - Introducing Google Pages: "No wonder Larry Page is going ape shit about that whole 20% time on pet projects thing."
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23/02/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
kellan : PapaScott's project Mabber - just hit Techcrunch. Congrats. #
deusx : PapaScott - Blog Archive Mabber Me - "This week my employer* launched the beta of mabber, a web- and mobile-based instant messaging service."
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23/02/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : Wiky: A Bidirectional Markup Converter - "Wiky is a clientside Wiki markup to HTML converter written in javascript."
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23/02/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Tokyo Crowd photo by Jim O'Connell
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23/02/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
joshua : SATA based RAID on Debian Linux
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23/02/2006 @ 11:09 GMT
mbertier : Artpacks from 8bitpeoples - gorgeous ! #
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23/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Silly Tube Maps - A collection of alternative London Tube Maps. [via]
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23/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Web Office Suite: best of breed products - Here I review some of the contenders for collaborative Office tools. Indeed a number of the products I mention below may well be acquisition targets this year for Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo.
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23/02/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Yahoo Mail reverses ban on 'allah' in usernames - Yahoo Mail will now let people register usernames that include the word "allah," after a ban designed to thwart prejudice went astray.
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23/02/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Linkorama : OhmyNews and Softbank Join Hands - . OhmyNews will spend the invested funds on the expansion of OhmyTV, an Internet television arm of OhmyNews, to advance citizen participation in the video journalism and the development of OhmyNews' English language edition, pushing citizen participatory
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23/02/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Paul Hammond : getAttribute href bug - For the time being I am using the old school object property method linkobj.href to return derived absolute URLs
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23/02/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : PragDave - Logging Changes when Saving ActiveRecord Objects - Here’s my save_after_edit action:
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23/02/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Paul Hammond : Particletree · Event Handlers on Disabled Inputs - just use readonly instead of disabled, and you’re good to go.
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23/02/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : jzawodn's Google Page - jzawodn's Google Page: I'm screwing around with Google's self-publishing tool.
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23/02/2006 @ 09:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Page Creator - Google Page Creator: Geocitites 2.0
Andy Baio : Google Pages - Google's Geocities 2.0 offers a simple CMS, free hosting, and 100 MB storage
kayodeok : Welcome to Google Page Creator - Google Page Creator is a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes
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23/02/2006 @ 08:09 GMT
jimray : OnlyWire: The Only BookMarklet You'll Ever Need! - Hey, cool, maybe I'll use this to comparison shop ma.gnoli and del.icio.us
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23/02/2006 @ 08:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Geeks and Greed: A Cautionary Tale - Geeks and Greed: A Cautionary Tale: "Money makes it anything but a team effort."
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23/02/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
kellan : The fact that 20 million viewers are riveted each week - to the travails of a fictional community that feels both abandoned by the world and besieged by unseen enemies says a lot about where this country's head is at. #
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23/02/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
gleuschk : To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me - New York Times - part of it is the IM culture; the rest I don't know
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23/02/2006 @ 06:09 GMT
joshua : twill: a simple scripting language for Web browsing - mechanically walk websites
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23/02/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
jimray : A New Day on the Web in L.A. - Los Angeles Times - A cleaner look and a new entertainment section? Seriously? The new design is still way too cluttered and, I can't tell, but I think they're still using that atrocious registration firewall. Sigh.
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23/02/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Linkorama : Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Round 2 - One of the key changes we’re experiencing today is that the traditional big salesforce becomes obsolete.
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23/02/2006 @ 05:09 GMT
Linkorama : Search Across the Enterprise (Desktop) - On the other hand, we are the Enterprise team, and we understand that a company's data is more precious than gold -- and you don't go passing your gold around.
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23/02/2006 @ 04:09 GMT
merlinmann : Using Sprint PCS Vision with Mac OS X - Getting your Sprint Vision phone to work as a modem with OS X. Rock. [1MM thanks, KYu!]
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23/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!! - Eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!: A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday. Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets of Elsa after gushing from the tank, which held s
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23/02/2006 @ 04:08 GMT
plasticbag : Super Fantastic Clothing Company sells a range of medium-cool t-shirts - I've got my eye on "Why aren't we friends on MySpace" and "I {heart} Ryan Atwood"
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23/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
gleuschk : [math/0602347] The moduli space of curves and Gromov-Witten theory - nice expository article from Ravi Vakil; also, he has some interesting things in his latex template file, some of which I shall steal for my very own, oh yes
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23/02/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
plasticbag : My newish boss has just started a weblog - We're going to have to loosen him up a little, but so far it's pretty interesting stuff and relevant stuff.
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23/02/2006 @ 02:10 GMT
Eric Meyer : Quantum computer works best switched off - 'Even for the crazy world of quantum mechanics, this one is twisted. A quantum computer program has produced an answer without actually running.'
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23/02/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Metropolis - "...one of Fritz Lang's other masterpieces available for download on Internet Archive." [via] #
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23/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
gleuschk : WikyBox - easy latexhtml conversion. not perfect, but easy
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23/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Painless JavaScript Using Prototype - The missing manual, by Dan Webb.
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23/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : JavaScript slideshow fun - Nat's built a slideshow with permalinks for images.
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23/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Comic Sans - Wikipedia - The Comic Sans euro symbol has a little face.
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23/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
plasticbag : Ben Metcalfe on CoComment - A well-thought-through interrogation of the premise behind CoComment and some of the problems it engenders. Nice post.
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23/02/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
plasticbag : "Experts have uncovered a serious security hole in the way Apple software handles downloaded files." - It's more troubling conceptually rather than actually, since there are no live versions of these viruses in public. But now the hole is well-known, it's likely that people will try and exploit it...
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23/02/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
merlinmann : Best Tool For the Job - Quicksilver Abracadabra Gestures - Abracadabra enables sophisticated mouse gesture triggers within Quicksilver. This looks like some series ninja shit, especially for tablet users.
deusx : Best Tool For the Job - Quicksilver Abracadabra Gestures - "You can now create mouse gestures to do anything Quicksilver can do using a plugin called Abracadabra."
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23/02/2006 @ 01:08 GMT
Eric Meyer : Avoid a security vulnerability in Safari - You should have unchecked this option the minute you first launched Safari the first time you got your new Mac, but just in case you forgot, here's a reminder.
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23/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Amazon.com: I Hate Other People's Kids - Adrianne's book is out, and it's great. From the back cover: "They say Jesus loved the little children, all the children of the world, but he never had to dine with one. He chose the lepers." #
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23/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Rod Begbie : Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace - Excellent paper by danah boyd explaining just why teenagers are spending hours on myspace -- Parents have become to paranoid about the "dangers" in the real world, that the only place kids can be themselves unsupervised is online. [via] #
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23/02/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Jon Hicks : KAPITZA - Fonts - Blossomy - A new type foundry/design studio release 2 new wonderful ‘illustratation fonts’ – Blossomy, a collection of floral and plant illustrations, and East End, bristling with character silhouettes.
Cameron Moll : More foliage, this time in font format - More foliage, this time in font format: Blossomy by T.26. Via Hicks. [via]
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23/02/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
gleuschk : My Crowd: Part 1 (Harpers.org) - the inventor of flash mobs
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23/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Googlefasting - Googlefasting: "I'm going to live without using Google for a week..." It's not really that hard to do...
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23/02/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Kottke reviews first year as a pro blogger - 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks
plasticbag : Kottke reports on the year since he appealed to open up his site to micropatrons - It's an interesting reaction from him, but the conclusion is a bit disappointing - that he hasn't found it personally sustainable and isn't going to continue with the model. Shame.
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