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Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 26, 2008
In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data. Available as a part of the Talking with Talis semantic web podcast series, the interview (listen here) is summarized on interviewer Paul Miller's new ZDNet blog...
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Google Reader Adds Universal Sharing
via Micro Persuasion by Steve Rubel on May 04, 2008
Google Reader has added a new feature called "Note in Reader" that lets you share any item from the Web, not just RSS feed content. To share something, all you need to is is drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks to get started. Like Google Reader Shared Items, these new posts get rolled up onto a single page, which anyone can subscribe to. In addition, you can add notes, but it's not clear...
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Some Thoughts on Twitter's Availability Problems
via Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life by (author unknown) on May 22, 2008
As a regular user of Twitter I've felt the waves of frustration wash over me these past couple of weeks as the service has been hit by one outage after another. This led me to start pondering the problem space [especially as it relates to what I'm currently working on at work] and deduce that the service must have some serious architectural flaws which have nothing to do with the...
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Comic for 12 Feb 2008
via Dilbert by (author unknown) on February 11, 2008
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How 404 pages work in Google Toolbar Beta 5
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts on February 11, 2008
I thought I’d play hooky from a meeting and talk about how the newest version of the Toolbar handles 404 pages for users, because I see some people writingaboutit this morning.We tried to give a heads-up in a couple places. The Toolbar beta 5 announcement on the Google blog mentioned “You’ll get suggestions instead of error pages: If you mistype a URL or a page is down, now the Toolbar will...
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Comment of the Day: OpenSocial is a "Social Cloud" For Developers, Not Users
via ReadWriteWeb by Richard MacManus on February 12, 2008
Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks' "Social Cloud" theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Amazon WishList Widget. theharmony guy argued that both OpenSocial and Facebook are "mainly creating a cloud for developers,...
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Experience
via The Dilbert Blog by Scott_Adams on February 12, 2008
In the U.S. presidential race, Hillary Clinton is claiming more experience than Obama. I wonder how useful experience is when you are president, given that every situation is completely different from the last.I can see how experience would be useful for just about any other sort of job. If you’re getting a heart bypass, you definitely want the doctor who has done it before. But does experience...
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Cat
via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger? by ichctcf on February 25, 2008
Copy CatIz true. Ur firendz r always copying you…picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: Sherry
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Tip: Edit contacts right from your chat list
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on April 29, 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen I add a new friend to Gmail chat, sometimes my friend's email address is added as their contact name, such as hikingfan@gmail.com. I personally like to have the name of all my chat friends in my chat list so I don't get too confused as to who's who. To change this, I used to go into contacts, select the contact profile,...
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