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FbCal Puts Facebook Birthdays in Your Calendar [Facebook]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 27, 2008
One of the best side effects of using Facebook is knowing when your contacts' birthdays are—but you only see them if you log in. The Facebook application fbCal is out to fix that. Once you...
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Do You Follow This Man?
via Twitter Blog by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
Shared by Philou yes, I already do :-)Simply getting the word out from the Savannah is part of the challenge of protecting Kenya's wildlife. Masai tribesman Joseph Kimojino (@maratriangle on Twitter) is using Twitter as one way of raising awareness for the Mara Triangle wildlife park. For more information, read Life, Death and Twitter on the African Savannah.
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La destination France disparaît des catalogues des voyagistes de Pékin
via Aujourd'hui la Chine by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
Les tours opérateurs de Pékin ont reçu pour consigne de retirer la France de leurs destinations touristiques à partir de cette semaine.
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Jealousy
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
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Une transparence précaire
via Journal d'un Chinois by Cai Chongguo on May 28, 2008
A Chengdu, le capital de province Sichuan, un jurnaliste a dimissionné, car sa direction lui a dit que l’on doit ne parler que des “choses positives”.On sait que, depuis quelques jours, il y a des ordres de la part du dépardement de propagande du comité central du parti. Des journalistes resistent, souvent avec une délicatesse à la chinoise.A propos de l’effondrement des bâtiments...
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When You Want Something Done Right…
via Web Worker Daily by Pamela Poole on May 28, 2008
Towards the end of my last post, I talked about some of the potential advantages there could be in web workers getting together online to create local networks. In my view, since we’re still a marginal group in society, nobody’s going to go out of their way to help us, so we have to help ourselves. I’ve recently discovered a group of web workers in rural northern France who are doing just...
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Use a Ten Minute Consultation to Get More Freelance Work [Freelancing]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 28, 2008
Looking to grab more work from a client you've done freelance work for? The FreelanceSwitch blog suggests asking them to set aside 10 minutes to discuss what aspects of their business you could...
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Comic for May 26, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on May 25, 2008
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MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
Shared by Michael Really interesting development!The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting. This is the largest third party implementation of Gears and the first time a search and...
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Google Earth, meet the browser
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 27, 2008
Posted by Paul Rademacher, Technical Lead, Google Earth Browser Plug-inWhen Google Maps was launched in 2005, few could have guessed the way map mashups would permeate the online world. Online maps had been just something you used to get directions or to find the ten nearest grocery stores. Google Maps and the Google Maps API proved that an online map was actually a rich canvas on which entire...
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