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Finish Line
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by: Martin Gordon, Justin Yost, Phonkmeister, Joshua, Chris T, Drew Olanoff, Jrod, Chandoo, dH, Andrew Taylor, DXL, SharonG, Hugo, WindPower, Blaenk Denum, ab_aditya, adrian,
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Voyage à Cuba 2008
via Le Portail du Collège Stanislas by alain Salvagniac on May 13, 2008
Pour voir les photos du voyage à Cuba 2008 : cliquez-iciIl y a aussi 2 vidéos :video 1video 2bonne visite
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Extension Developers - Your Final MaxVersion Update
via Mark Finkle's Weblog by Mark Finkle on May 14, 2008
Extension Developers! Yeah, You!AMO has flipped the switch to support MaxVersion “3.0.*” so make those final version updates now. Firefox 3 RC1 is releasing very, very soon. Yes, “3.0.*” is the final MaxVersion you’ll need for Firefox 3, so don’t delay.Copied for your reading pleasure:What this means for you as an add-on author is that after you test with the Firefox 3 release...
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Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language [Wikipedia]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like "what is a life hack" or "paintings by Salvador Dali" and Powerset extracts those answers from Wikipedia and lays them out on an attractive page. CNET reports:Powerset's natural language search...
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Blogs Surpass Newspapers & Magazines in Popularity on Google
via TwitLinks by steverubel on May 09, 2008
Google Trends, a service that lets you compare the world’s relative interest in particular topics, suggests that blogs’ popularity have surpassed that of newspapers or magazines, at least on Google. And this gap between blogs vs newspapers and magazines is much wider in California and India.
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Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links
via Slashdot by kdawson on May 10, 2008
A number of readers are sending word that the blogosphere and Twittersphere are alight with reports of Microsoft's new block on messages containing YouTube URLs . Both MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger reportedly implement the block. One blogger sniffed the network to discover that such messages receive a NAK from Microsoft's servers. Microsoft has been blocking messages by...
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Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
via Official Google Reader Blog by dolapo on May 12, 2008
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. Sometimes we use it to kill time, other times for answering important questions that come up during brunch: What is Tyrol's first name? How...
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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub XML doesn't suck; JSON just sucks a lot less.Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved and parsed, it's probably XML. I realize that we have to use something...
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Nintendo's WiiWare Launches Today [Nintendo]
via Gizmodo by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by WindPower TadaThose of you who own Nintendo Wiis may like to know that Nintendo's answer to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network titles goes live today. Called WiiWare, the offerings are smaller, downloadable games (and applications) that currently range from $5 to $15. Formerly, Nintendo has focused on the Wii's Virtual Console downloads—ports of old Nintendo titles. The...
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Use Twitter for School [Twitter]
via Lifehacker by tamar weinberg on February 03, 2008
We've already seen many different ways to use Twitter for recreational or informational use, but weblog academhack has shown how Twitter can be extended to academic use. When assigning his students to learn how to use Twitter, Professor Dave Parry observed that class chatter went well beyond the classroom and built stronger student communities. He also mentions that since Twitter forces you...
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