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Boing Boing, Google, China, Art, Commerce
via John Battelle's Searchblog by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
BBtv has a thought-provoking piece on some guerilla art with regard to Google and its China policy. I've written extensively on the background (for more, here). if you want to get to the good stuff quickly (I understand folks are busy,) the piece is long-ish, head to 4.45 min or so. Discussion can be found here.
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Get Things Done Over the Phone with Jott [Feature]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on January 11, 2008
At its most basic level, webapp Jott is a voice to text transcription service: you call Jott, leave a message, and Jott transcribes it and emails you or your contacts the text. That alone can capture the big idea
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Architecture astronauts take over
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on May 01, 2008
... on the net, on Microsoft's cloud, and you would log onto everything with Windows Passport and all your stuff would be up there. It turns out: nobody needed this place for all their stuff. And nobody trusted Microsoft with all their stuff. And Hailstorm went away.I tried to coin a term for the kind of people who invented Hailstorm: architecture astronauts. "That's one sure tip-off to t...
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Use The Vi Text Editor In Your Web Browser
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 06, 2008
If you keep hearing about vi ("vee eye") from your Linux friends but never had a chance to experience this powerful text editor yourself, here’s something for you.A web hosting company called "Internet Connection" has written a clone of Vi in Javascript that lets you run Vi inside any web browser. You don’t have to install any software.This online vi-clone is known as jsvi and it supports...
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libs/string_replace.c
via www.pixelbeat.org by (author unknown) on April 30, 2008
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The power of links and the value of global knowledge
via Paul Buchheit by Paul Buchheit on April 23, 2008
Long, long ago, before Google, search engines evaluated and ranked web pages by considering each page in isolation, examining the size of the fonts, the contents of the meta tags, etc. In some cases, it was even possible to "hijack" another site's listings by simply cloning their HTML. Perhaps a few search engines attempted to improve on this with simple tactics such as counting the number of...
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Privacy made easier
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 28, 2008
Posted by Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel, and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselBecause we're strongly committed to protecting your privacy, we want to present our privacy practices in the clearest way possible. Over the past year, we've been experimenting with video to clarify and illustrate the privacy practices set forth in our Google Privacy Policy. We've used videos...
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Social Graph API: One small step for Google, one giant step for the Internet Operating System
via O'Reilly Radar by Tim O'Reilly on February 01, 2008
By Tim O'ReillyGoogle's announcement today of the Social Graph API is a major step in the development of what I've called "the Internet Operating System." In a nutshell, what the Social Graph API does is to lower the barrier to re-use of information that people publish about themselves on the web. It's the next step towards the vision that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon...
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Get GNU Tools on Windows with UnixUtils [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on February 08, 2008
Windows only: So you keep typing ls at the Windows command line instead of dir? Miss grep, wget, and tar on your PC? The open source UnixUtils project offers ports of "the most important" GNU command line utilities, including those listed as well as over 100 others. Usually we recommend using the Unix emulator Cygwin to get *nix command line goodness in Windows, but UnixUtils doesn't...
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