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smuglispweeny: The Road to qooxdoo - Kenny Tilton - december 2008
Great article about web widget frameworks
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qooxdoo is amazing. They need help on the graphic design (never look directly at their tab control, use a mirror) but other than that the engineering is terrific. The documentation and examples are also abundant here, and the support is great.
100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
Many of these are more attractive, and some even more appropriate, than the designs I use right now.
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Hopefully some of them will save you some time in your design and development. While they are generally free for personal or commercial use, always remember to check the license first for any restrictions or guidelines.
Obama Phone! | FactoryCity
Can we do something like this for the next UK general election?
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the Obama campaign today released an iPhone app that, among other features, enables you to call your friends prioritized by their location in battleground states.
Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts • The Register
"raving madman" finally gets his message heard by the mainstream
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But for years, The Journal and so many other news outlets ignored Byrne's warnings, with some journalists - most notably a Forbes.com columnist and former BusinessWeek reporter named Gary Weiss - painting the Overstock CEO as a raving madman.
Bill Clementson's Blog: Summmary of lispvan December 2005 meeting: Lisp on Lines
Link to Drew Crampsie's Lisp-on-lines movie
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As promised, there is a movie available (warning: it is about 183MB in size).
Bill Clementson's Blog: Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for July 2008 - Web development with Lisp and UCW
Uncommon Web in real life
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Ryan Davis will demonstrate and review two UCW-based applications:
1. Gainesville-green.com: a google-maps website displaying energy usage
Apple - iPhone - App Store
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Finally, a mobile game console that responds to your movements...Applications such as Loopt use location feeds to help you find friends on the go....gaming, chatting, social networking, traveling, news, sports, finance, or business — there are bound to be iPhone applications made especially for it....download your purchases wirelessly — and in some cases, free
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Wants to Make It More Useful to Academe - Chronicle.com
Perhaps a flagged version can be mentioned in a class reading list.
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The software's there, but I don't know how the community's going to want to use it. We never have a plan, we just wing it.
ASCII by Jason Scott: Freedom, Justice and a Disturbingly Gaping Ass
The dangers of letting ordinary people make web pages.
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"Hotfreelayouts" is one of the sites that offers up these design templates for downloads (along with ads, of course), and these fellows, the pilots of the current generation if you will, were utterly unable to do anything about my "flod". Or my flodding.
Wikipedia myths debunked | Webby's World
Popular myths about Wikipedia, and some useful tips for Wikipedia newbies.
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You can use the term editor and administrator synonymously.
False. I often hear people moaning about admins reverting their edits but on inspection they are just editors.
The 101 most useful websites - Telegraph
Backpack and several other collaborative web applications are on this English paper's top 101.
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6 Backpack
www.backpackit.com
To-do lists, notes, ideas and calendar. Excellent for juggling projects and much more versatile than a ring folder.
IT Conversations | Tech Nation | Luis von Ahn
ReCAPTCHAs are used to enlist humans to digitise old books and transcribe old radio programmes. This fascinating segment is only 11 minutes.
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assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the origin of CAPTCHAs
spinvision.tv :: deals with mature themes gracefully
3D view of the globe, showing day and night side, with a live feed from YouTube (uses Flash so it is slow on Linux)
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2008 David Troy
flickrvision
This is just awesome. I could get addicted to this. A little slow on my PC though.
The Jeff Pulver Blog: MashUp Artist Dave Troy's Twittervision and Flickervision will soon be on exhibit at MoMA
Museum of Modern Art? Wow! Comments directly from the mouth of Dave Troy.
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Just as every 'net innovation has been "so cool" when it is new, it's because we hadn't been able to see/perceive humanity that way before.
Laszlo Kozma :: www.Lkozma.net
The home page for WikipediaVision - a fun mashup
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WikipediaVision is an (almost) real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits and what part of the world they come from.
The Volunteer Economy | Linux Journal
insightful
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I see something more constructive than social. It's barn-raising on a massive scale, but so widely distributed and full of noise that the constructive work is easy to miss....If Microsoft buys Yahoo and then insists that Yahoo develop software and services first or only for Windows, it will kill that goose. And not just because Yahoo employees will split. It will lose the users.
Hueniverse: Elements of API Security
This does not explain whether it is possible to encrypt the session token cookies while avoiding HTTPS for the non-critical data in the session (such as the HTML.)
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To prevent replay attacks (someone grabs the API request and use it unchanged to make API requests), the client adds a nonce to the API request before signing it. The server will only honor each nonce one time from the client, so if captured by someone else, the server will refuse the call.
Who Has a Crush on MySpace?
Remarkable. I don't think OFCOM and ICTIS are supposed to see bait and switch as legal.
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One last note, with a nod to legal - WhoHasaCrushonYou? is by all appearances a legal (if expensive) entertainment service. So far my cell phone bill does not even reflect my subscription, which I cancelled right away.
We want to alert users that Whohasacrushonyou.com and its mirror sites have been labeled as “bait and switchers” and that they should be fully aware of what they are signing up for.
Flickr Now Streaming the Library of Congress’ Pics
Interesting project by one of the world's leading public libraries.
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helping public institutions get a better online presence in regards to their images. But a very central goal for The Commons is the leveraging of the larger user base to help organize all of these photo
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