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Del.icio.us Bookmarks Plug-In Now Available for Internet Explorer
via Lifehacker: Windows by Kevin Purdy on May 14, 2008
Windows/Internet Explorer only: Yahoo has released a beta version of their browser plugin for social bookmarking tool Del.icio.us for Internet Explorer. It'll look pretty familiar to anyone who's used their del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox add-on (original post), with toolbar buttons for quick bookmarking and tag browsing, and complete integration and syncing with local bookmarks. It's...
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Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month
via All about Microsoft by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble I heard last night that Google is buying 500,000 new servers a year. Is that true? If so, Microsoft is a LONG WAY from keeping up.Today’s trivia question: How big is Microsoft’s back-end services infrastructure?Microsoft officials won’t say how many servers total Microsoft has churning in its various datacenters. But Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Global...
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Clinton Camp’s Argument for Superdelegates
via America's Election HQ by Heather Nauert on May 13, 2008
“She really feels she has the chance to win the nomination,” says one Hilary Clinton advisor. “Come on,” I say in disbelief. Then I quickly figure out that Clinton backers just might be serious. “It’s the right thing to stay in the race till the end,” they...
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How to tell if your country is fucked...
via The Devil's Kitchen by Devil's Kitchen on May 14, 2008
... from The Nation of Shopkeepers, with assistance from Vindico.Simple. You look around to see if there are state agencies using draconian legislation to spy on and otherwise harass civilians, while introducing ever more authoritarian laws. You check to see if, despite large amounts of job losses, your EU masters are preparing to fuck over the city in an act of pure jealousy. Noticing increasing...
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Google Doctype: Documenting the Open Web
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 14, 2008
Mark Pilgrim has released Google Doctype, an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.This is just the beginning for the ambitious...
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Will Obama find demographic deliverance?
via The Economist: Democracy in America by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Obama's Appalachia problemJOSH MARSHALL suggests that Barack Obama may not be having trouble winning over white working-class voters as such, but rather a more narrowly defined "Appalachia problem". This sounds compelling when you look at Mr Marshall's side-by-side comparison of maps showing the Appalachian region and areas where Hillary Clinton has won with 65 percent of the vote or...
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Pundits ponder Hillary's tenacity
via BBC News | In Depth | Vote USA 2008 | UK Edition by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Some US pundits and editorial writers focus on Hillary Clinton's determination to stay in the race, others suggest the Democratic primary race is petering out.
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Terrorism as a Tax
via Schneier on Security by schneier on May 12, 2008
Definitely a good way to look at it:Fear, in other words, is a tax, and al-Qaeda and its ilk have done better at extracting it from Americans than the Internal Revenue Service. Think about the extra half-hour millions of airline passengers waste standing in security lines; the annual cost in lost work hours runs into the billions. Add to that the freight delays at borders, ports and airports, the...
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Google Friend Connect Previews Tonight
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Brady Forrest on May 12, 2008
Later today Google is going to preview Friend Connect (it's not live yet at http://www.google.com/friendconnect), a product that lets any website host OpenSocial applications. These applications will enable a site's user to interact with their social network from other sites (assuming they are logged in). Initially users will be able to see their networks from Facebook (using their...
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Internet Explorer and del.icio.us
via delicious blog by Nick Nguyen on May 13, 2008
Today, I’m happy to announce an early beta release of an Internet Explorer version of our del.icio.us bookmarks extension. For the first time our Internet Explorer users will enjoy most of the best features of our Firefox extension. We’re very excited about this release, as we have many users who use Internet Explorer as their primary browser. Since there are some differences between...
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