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Reuters Launches Calais 2.0 - Now With Pop-Culture
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 17, 2008
Thomson Reuters' Calais, a semantic markup API that we first reviewed in February, has reached its 2.0 release. The latest version aims to fix one of the main issues with Calais -- that it was too focused on business. Because Calais has roots as Clearforest, the rules it applies while parsing text are biased toward the language of business, which meant that its utility was limited. Version...
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The Results of Reality Mining at Where 2.0
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Brady Forrest on May 19, 2008
Your cellphone and laptop leave an invisible trail. Collecting this data is know as Reality Mining. A formal definition of Reality Mining is "the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior". We had two such collection projects this year at Where 2.0. They each took advantage of the signals that our inadvertent sensors (mobile phones and laptops primarily)...
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 12, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Google to Crank Out More iPhone Apps
via ReadWriteWeb by Steve O'Hear, last100 editor on May 19, 2008
With Apple set to roll out the next major software update for the iPhone, and with it official support for third-party applications, it will come as no surprise that Google is busy prepping some new wares. “We expect to have applications at Day One”, Google’s vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, told Macworld.Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blogEven before the...
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Goodbye Borland, Welcome Embarcadero
via marcocantu.blog by (author unknown) on May 18, 2008
Shared by AlexT Optimistic, but I'd be cautious. Look like a way to graveyard...The news is floating around the web, moving from blog to blog, and sparkling newsgroup discussions... and will be like this for some time.Embarcadero Technology, the company behind database management tools like ER/studio and DBArtisan, has signed an agreement with Borland to buy CodeGear, the division focused on...
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Delphi Jumps Ship: Welcome Embarcadero
via marcocantu.blog by marcocantu on May 07, 2008
As you probably know by now, Delphi has a new owner. After 25 years of Borland Turbo Pascal and later Borland Delphi, after the Inprise fiasco and Borland ALM focus (a fiasco, as well?), two years after the announcement that Borland was trying to sell its IDE tools, at last we know what lies ahead. And the future looks brighter than it was a few days ago...After so long, the Delphi community is...
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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 05, 2008
If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your...
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Learn 35+ Languages for Free in iTunes
via LifeClever ;-) by Chanpory Rith on May 06, 2008
I was just browsing iTunes for poignant Morrissey covers when I discovered nearly a thousand free language courses on iTunes. 926 courses to be exact. Holy Moleskine, Batman!The extensive library of courses span over 35 languages, from Arabic to Yiddish. Each course comes as a convenient podcast which you can subscribe and put on your iPod or iPhone. To get the entire list of language learning...
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Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language [Wikipedia]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 11, 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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Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 06, 2008
This is an interesting story in light of the discussion yesterday about the fate of the intellectual property of failed startups. Email startup Xobni, which recently turned down a $20 million acquisition offer from Microsoft, says they have acquired the key patents around a product called Zaplets which originally launched in 2000.Zaplets was an email product that put synchronized applications...
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