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Google Releases AJAX Language API
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on March 20, 2008
Google today opened up the machine translation software they implemented on their own Google Translate site via a public API. The AJAX Language API allows developers to perform translations in their applications for all 13 supported languages and 29 translation pairs.As an example, Google engineer Ben Lisbakken cooked up a Google Gadget that uses the AJAX Language API to create a simple language...
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You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
via Paul Graham: Essays by (author unknown) on March 21, 2008
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Shyftr Puts Favorite Blog Posts "In Your Pocket"
via louisgray.com by louisgray on March 21, 2008
... friends and peers to make comments on RSS feeds, highlighting both the most commented items, and the most popular subscribed feeds. As with other online feed readers, you can add new feeds and view stories within your Web browser.Now, with this new addition, not only do you see how many comments are on a story, but there are buttons for "Quick Pocket", adding a story to your pocket, and also "...
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Acid Tripping, Disneyland and Special Relativity
via raganwald by Reginald Braithwaite on March 18, 2008
malcontent: …Lisp guys know all about monkeypatching and dynamism. Those crazy mofos write mind bending macros and morph the language in ways that can only be described as an acid trip inside the ‘it’s a small world’ ride in disneyland…earthboundkid: Python is a language for pedants. That’s exactly why I like it. There’s (almost) always one “correct” way of doing something, and...
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Wikihistory: sf story about the revert-wars among time-travellers -- "everybody kills Hitler on their first trip"
via Feedheads | top shared by Boing Boing on March 19, 2008
... taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote:Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before yo...
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Did ReadBurner Acquisition Cause Conflict of Interest for Mashable?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on March 17, 2008
On Friday, I was excited to announce that Alexander Marktl's excellent shared links aggregator and ranking site, ReadBurner, had been resurrected, following its acquisition by Adam Ostrow of Mashable, Drew Olanoff, and Eric Kerr. But given the social link aggregation space is a growing one with multiple entrants, including RSSMeme, LinkRiver, Shared Reader and others, some were concerned...
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Why bother having a resume?
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on March 17, 2008
In the last few days, I've heard from top students at Cornell and other universities about my internship.It must have been posted in some office or on a site, because each of them is just a resume. No real cover letter, no attempt at self marketing. Sort of, "here are the facts about me, please put me in the pile."This is controversial, but here goes: I think if you're remarkable, amazing...
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Duty Calls
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 20, 2008
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How I Found or Started Using A Dozen Web Services
via louisgray.com by louisgray on March 10, 2008
I was talking with a friend the other day about one of the Web services I use on a daily basis. When they asked about how I first learned of the site, I couldn't really remember. Did I get invited? Did I just log in? Did a friend tell me about it? No idea.So, I thought I'd take a look backward and share how I found out about some things, or what the driving reason was to join others......
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Frequently Asked Questions about the Improved Profile
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
Last week we gave you the first look at how we're changing the Facebook profile. As we expected, we received some good feedback as well as requests for more details. Today we're presenting answers to some questions that were asked. Will Facebook applications appear in the narrow column?Facebook applications won't appear in the narrow column by default, but users can add them there if...
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