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June 1 Is Regular Expression Day
via webmonkey by Paul Adams on May 28, 2008
Maybe you already had plans for this weekend, but I’m sure your significant other will understand that National Regex Day takes priority.This Sunday, celebrate the regular expressions in your life. How you do it is up to you. I plan a street-corner recitation of my favorite regexes, like the legendary seven-page monstrosity that really, truly validates e-mail addresses.Also you can enter...
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FriendFeed ‘Likes’ Index: Case Study in Value of Distributed Conversations
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by Hutch Carpenter on May 29, 2008
By keeping comments distributed, or decentralized, more than one discussion is able to take place. New ideas are likely to be heard since readers often start with a blank slate and are more likely to participate.Shey Smith, introspective snapshots, The Case For Distributed ConversationsToday, a great example of the value of distributed conversations took place. What started as a blog post here...
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Leaked Screen Shots of Windows 7 Hit CrunchGear’s Inbox
via TechCrunch by Peter Ha on May 26, 2008
If you’ve been waiting to see what Windows 7 will look like then you may want to head over to CrunchGear to check out a bevy of screen shots that hit our inbox earlier today. Of course, the release is a couple years out, but we’ve confirmed that this is what the current build of Windows 7 looks like. Coincidentally, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky was interviewed by CNET about Windows 7, but...
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Twistori: Telling a story with Tweets and Script.aculo.us
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on April 28, 2008
Twistori is a fun little site created by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs. As you would expect, design is a key part of the application, and the Prototype / Script.aculo.us combo pull off the work.The site pulls in live data on various topics (love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish) via the real-time twitter search tool summize.In related Twitter news, I created a Greasemonkey script Twitter Translate...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 08, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Tag Recommendations for Content: Ready to Filter Noise?
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by Hutch Carpenter on May 27, 2008
In a recent post, I suggested that the semantic web might hold a solution for managing noise in social media. The semantic web can auto-generate tags for content, and these tags can be used to filter out subjects you don’t want to see.As a follow-up, I wanted to see how four different services perform in terms of recommending tags for different content.I’ve looked at the four services, each...
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Cellphone In A Microwave
via The Inquisitr by Duncan Riley on May 27, 2008
Very clever, just watch it. Not suitable for small childrenShareThis
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PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 20, 2008
... remember my first experience with PHP way back in 2001. Despite my questionable pedigree in ASP and Visual Basic, browsing an alphabetical PHP function list was enough to scare me away for years. Somehow, perusing the above list, I don't think things have improved a whole lot since then.I'm no language elitist, ...
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Google Sites Available Without Google Apps
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 21, 2008
As promised when the service was launched as part of Google Apps, now you can use Google Sites without having a domain. "A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information -- team projects,...
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W3C CSS Namespaces; Now a Candidate Recommendation
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 25, 2008
The CSS Namespace Module has now been bumped up to a "W3C Candidate Recommendation", thanks to the work of Elika J. Etemad and Anne van Kesteren (who built on the earlier work of Peter Linss and Chris Lilley).The module is simple, but will be a very welcome addition:This CSS Namespaces module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default...
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