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FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed
via FriendFeed Blog by Bret Taylor on March 24, 2008
We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It's designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications. You can develop a FriendFeed interface for a mobile phone, build a FriendFeed widget for your blog, or develop an application that...
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The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud
via Jonathan Schwartz's Blog by Jonathan Schwartz on March 02, 2008
I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy - and explained the Hubble looks at celestial bodies whose light is just now reaching us. But it can "only" see 12 billion years into the past - and...
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Close call for an A320
via Neatorama by Algonkin on March 02, 2008
On March 1st 2008, passengers aboard an A320 had a close call when their plane nearly crashed landed during severe crosswinds as they approached a Hamburg airport.Link: LiveLeak
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What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 26, 2008
Lots of people are asking me questions about what made me cry at Microsoft a few weeks ago.If I told you “a telescope” you’d make fun of me, right? Tell me I’m lame and that I don’t deserve to be a geek and that I should run away and join the circus, right?Well, that’s what I saw.Or, more accurately, the World Wide Telescope.Like I said, sounds lame. How could that possibly be the...
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The real reason Google's clicks are flat
via Skrentablog by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
From SEO Black Hat:Google reduced the clickable area on Adsense text ads ... Before, a user could click anywhere on the ad and be brought to thedestination. After the changes, users have to click on something that looks like a hyperlink."The CTR on text ads declined about 60% in the last 2 months with Googles changes, Image ads on the other hand stayed the same."- January 4th, 2008 Marcus of...
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Pi as music
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on February 27, 2008
pi10k converts the first 10,000 numbers in pi to musical notes. You determine which notes correspond to each integer. Just for kicks, I used the familiar five-note musical motif from Close Encounters of the Third Kind as the basis of my pi melody. Link(via easternblot)Previously on BB:• Pi gang hand symbol Link• Pi memory record broken Link
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Ancient Roman computer was used to chart the skies
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 18, 2008
Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near BritainGreece has been unravelled. The device was an astronomical calculator -- and it employed a differential gear!Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered...
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Dubai to Build the World's Largest Arch Bridge in 2012 [Architecture]
via Rizzn's shared items in Google Reader by LISA KATAYAMA on February 10, 2008
If any real city on our planet can claim an active stake in creating the urban landscape of the future, it's probably Dubai. Artificial islands arranged in the shape of the world? Check. The world's only seven-star hotel? Check. And in 2012, it will also become home to the largest, tallest arch bridge ever. Here's some info on the bridge as envisioned by New York architecture firm...
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