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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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A Feed for Unread Gmail Messages
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 02, 2008
Gmail has a very cool feature not available in other webmail applications: feeds for unread messages. For example, the feed http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/ shows the most recent unread items from your inbox. Gmail also offers feeds for your labels: http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/labelname/, but it would be nice to have a comprehensive listing of all the unread messages, not just the...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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Redacted CIA document about torture almost entirely blacked out
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 27, 2008
Mary Robinette Kowal says: On the ACLU's blog, they have a PDF of a CIA redacted document about the use of torture. The page is entirely blacked out except for the phrase, "These enhanced techniques include:" and then farther down the page, "waterboard."Link
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Google Earth Browser Plugin
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 27, 2008
Google Earth can now be used from a browser, without having to install the full application. Instead of the application, you need to install a plug-in that only works in Firefox and Internet Explorer 6/7 on Windows. Google also launched an JavaScript API that lets you interact with the globe, draw markers, add layers or integrate with Google Maps. "The Google Earth Plug-in and its APIs let you...
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Gmail Labs?
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 28, 2008
Google pre-announced a mysterious new feature for Gmail. "On Thursday, June 5th we're going to be launching a new Gmail feature that we like to think of as a next evolution of 20% time. It's a change in our development process and in the way users will be able to influence Gmail's design."20% time is one of the many peculiar things about Google. "The 20 percent time is a well-known...
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Email checklist
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 04, 2008
... of, but really ask for it? So that means that if you didn't send it to them, they'd complain about not getting it? See #5. If they wouldn't complain, take them off! That means, for example, that sending bulk email to a list of bloggers just cause they have blogs is not okay. Aside: the definition of permission marketing: Anticipated, personal and relevant messages delivered to ...
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Top 10 Last.fm Mashups
via RSSmeme | Most Popular Stories From The Last 24 Hours by (author unknown) on February 17, 2008
Shared nine times TaggedProducts (106)Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. But the now CBS-owned service doesn't get nearly enough credit for its API. We've heard stories about how 90% of Twitter's use comes from its API. Well, Last.fm also has an...
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An Online Collection of Visualized Networks
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 25, 2008
VisualComplexity.com is a site that intends to be a unified resource space for the visualization of complex networks. Their main goal is to better understand the different types of visualization methods used across several different disciplines, including social networks and the World Wide Web.Why Visualizations?The VisualComplexity web site was created by Manuel Lima, an interaction designer,...
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