links for 2009-12-01
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Microsoft Internet Explorer bug prevents the browser caching responses with anything but a mindlessly simple Vary: header.
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links for 2009-10-19
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Dan writes that "Greenpeace's site just refused to let me sign up, because my first name – Dan – is too short. " and lists some other arbitrary limits that sites place on user names
links for 2009-10-14
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Similar to Prezi, Jessyink is a plugin for Inkscape which allows you to design slides using SVG, and ships a javascript library inside the resulting SVG for execution.
links for 2009-09-22
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Great writeup of the recent linked data meetup
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Great advice on conference etiquette
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The new contest is going to present the contestants with demographic and behavioral data, and they will be asked to model individuals’ “taste profiles,” the company said. The data set of more than 100 million entries will include information about renters’ ages, gender, ZIP codes, genre ratings and previously chosen movies. Unlike the first challenge, the contest will have no specific accuracy target. Instead, $500,000 will be awarded to the team in the lead after six months, and $500,000 to the leader after 18 months.
links for 2009-09-14
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Linked Data RDF triples (or JSON) directly from the WPMU MySQL database. Our next step is to automate the upload of the RDF to Talis Connected Commons for use through their API
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Let me go over one of the lines that I think exemplifies this:
"I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it."
It wasn’t saying: what are we not allowed to do, nor did it talk about some kind of societal injustice. It didn’t talk about the meaning of actions or their long-term effects. Instead it asked: what must we do, not as a society, not in service of some end, but what are we called upon to do as an individual, right now, in service of the people we call friends. It didn’t allude to any sociological explanation, natural selection, economics
links for 2009-09-13
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Firefox extension for streamlining offline backup of google docs. Also has a Python version (in beta)
links for 2009-09-03
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The high-level organization of Pregel programs is inspired by Valiant's Bulk Synchronous Parallel model. Pregel computations consist of a sequence of iterations, called super-steps.
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an open service allowing people to collaboratively translate software, documentation and other types of projects.
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Free download of new book The Art of Community
links for 2009-08-26
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At the end of July the Guardian held an internal hackday at their offices in King's Cross. They invited two engineers from BBC Radio's A&Mi department, Chris Lowis and David Rogers. We teamed up with Leigh Dodds & Ian Davis from Semantic Web specialists, Talis to produce an 'Interactive-MP-Media-Appearance-Timeline' by mashing up data from BBC Programmes and the Guardian's website.
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