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Twine’s dual personality
via SitePoint Blogs by David Peterson on March 14, 2008
With Twine, what you see on screen tells only half the story. Pull back the curtain and it reveals a whole new side just itching to play with the other kids on the block.When I log on and view my profile page, I see this:A Semantic Web client sees this:
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Videos Posted Of Tibetan Protest Drive China To Block YouTube
via Mashable! by Sean P. Aune on March 14, 2008
It seems we can’t go very long without some country blocking YouTube. It’s so darn popular, some just can’t help but hate its user-submitted guts. This time it’s China that is putting up a barrier.Rick Martin of CNET Asia’s “Little Red Blog” is reporting a very clear 100% packet loss in seek tests for YouTube.com requests, and says that others are reporting that the site is...
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How to create shortcut/hotkey combo for safely remove hardware box
via Download Squad by Danny Mendez on March 13, 2008
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Office, Productivity, Microsoft, FreewareLike any normal human being with a computer, you probably use your USB jacks, and according to OS market-share statistics, you're machine is probably some flavor of Windows. So you're probably familiar with having to click that annoying little icon to bring up the SRH (Safely Remove Hardware) dialog box when you...
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Wundrbar: A Smart Search and Account Management Tool
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on March 13, 2008
Among the Y Combinator startups we rounded up earlier today is one that finally brings some innovation to the standard Google search bar most of us have set as our homepages.Wundrbar will remind some readers of YubNub, the so-called “social command line for the web” that we covered a long time ago. Both are smarter than the average bar and will let you prefix your search terms with commands...
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Semantic Web or: why Yahoo! resisted Microsoft’s takeover
via SitePoint Blogs by David Peterson on March 13, 2008
With the recent announcement from Yahoo and subsequentflurry of posts that followed, something became clear to me. Yahoo! didn’t accept Microsoft’s offer because it had an ace card up its sleeve. Semantic technology.With this sort of tech, who needs Microsoft or even Google for that matter? Yahoo! is positioned to leapfrog what has been possible in a Web 2.0 world. I have previously blogged...
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Why RDFa is the only Web scaleable metadata format for next-generation search engines
via SitePoint Blogs by David Peterson on March 15, 2008
Yahoo! is soon to launch their next generation Web search system dubbed SearchMonkey. This means that content developers have a powerful new tool in their arsenal. Something that was nearly impossible before. Here is a quick preview from Yahoo! No longer dependant on GoogleYou no longer have to depend on Google’s good graces (and their smart people) to make sense of the content you have worked...
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Researchers develop new robot-proof CAPTCHA
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on April 22, 2008
Filed under: Internet, Security, web 2.0CAPTCHAs are becoming both ubiquitous and useless. When you visit many web sites, you have to decipher some tough-to-read text and enter it in a box before you can leave a comment or send an email. But hackers are getting better and better at developing automated systems to crack CAPTCHAs, which means that you have to squint at the screen for nothing. But...
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